LEFT: Keshav Sthapit, mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan Corporation, for Shanghai, China, to take part in a meeting of mayors from the Asia Pacific region.

RETURNED: Murali Manohar Joshi, Indian Union Minister for Human Resources Development, after a short visit to Nepal.

ARRESTED: Hem Narayan Yadav, UML MP, by police, on charge of manhandling the district education officer of Siraha district and vandalizing the office.

SUCCEEDED: A seven-member expedition team of the Indian army, in scaling Mount Everest.

DEPLORED: His Majesty’s Government of Nepal, the Taleban rulers of Afghanistan, for enforcing the minority Afghan Hindus to wear yellow identification marks, saying that would trigger further communal discrimination.

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