ANNOUNCED: Awards to individuals and organizations that have played key roles in establishing peace in the country, by the Birendra Peace Academy, on late King Birendra's birth anniversary on December 29.

TERMINATED: The three-decade trolley bus service, after the government decided to dissolve its operator, the Nepal Transport Corporation.  

ARRESTED: Two Nepalis, suspected Maoists, along with large quantity of explosives, by the New Delhi Police in old Delhi railway station.

KILLED: Three army men, one on the spot, after an army truck fell to the ambush set up by terrorists in Lamjung. 

LEFT: Sahana Pradhan, President of Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist), for Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, in connection with heart treatment.

RELEASED: Bandhu Thapa, publisher of Deshantar weekly, and Gopal Budhathoki, editor of Saanghu weekly, after brief arrest by the authorities.

NOMINATED: Komal Shah, former minister, as the treasurer of the Bal Krishna Sama Foundation, by a meeting of the foundation.

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