DIED: Former Royal Nepalese ambassador to Japan and ex-vice chairman of the National Planning Commission, Dr. Bharat P. Dhital, 68, in a road accident along the Hetauda-Narayanghat section of the East-West highway last Tuesday.

RETURNED: Jaswant Singh, Indian Minister for External Affairs, after completing a three-day goodwill visit to Nepal.

APPOINTED: Jaya Prakash Prasad Gupta, Minister for Information and Communication, as the spokesperson of the government, by the cabinet.

FORMED : A talk team under the convenorship of Minister Chiranjivi Prasad Wagle, by the government, to initiate dialogue with the Maoists.

A three-member talk team headed by Krishna Prasad Mahara, politburo member and including central members Agni Prasad Sapkota and Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, by the Maoists, to talk with the government.

LEFT: Sarat Singh Bhandari, Minister for Health, for Maldives, to take part in the 19th meeting of health ministers from South Asian countries.

INDISPOSED : Sindhu Nath Pyakurel, President of Nepal Bar Association, after suffering a heart attack. He is now hospitalised at Escort Heart Research Center, New Delhi.

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