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spotlogo2.jpg (6318 bytes) VOL. 22, NO. 07, AUG 09 - AUG 15, 2002.

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NOMINATED: Royal Nepalese Ambassador to Qatar Shyamananda Suman as chairman of the Asian Ambassadors Group. 

INSTITUTED: Rajdhani Badepa Journalism Award, by Utsarga Publications Pvt. Ltd, in memory of the late chief editor of Rajdhani, Bal Mukunda Dev Pandey. The award will be given to best writers and journalists each year on the anniversary of the daily. 

FILED: Pro-Public Forum for Protection of Public Interest, a writ petition in the Supreme Court seeking nullification of the condition of taking parents' permission for women above 35 years to go abroad. 

ADMINISTERED: Prime Minister and Chairman of National Defense Council Sher Bahadur Deuba, oath of office to Secretary of Defense Madan Prasad Aryal as a convener of the council. 

RESIGNED: Executive Chairman of the Rastriya Banijya Bank Ganesh Prasad Adhikary. 

SIGNED: An agreement between the Ministry of General Administration and the Chinese  Embassy on the survey and design contract of the Civil Servants Hospital proposed to be constructed with assistance from China. 

CANCELLED: The Ministry of Culture and Civil Aviation, operation licenses of Himal Airways, Air Lungta, A.T.S Aviation, Everest Sherpa Airlines, Bamjan Airlines, Thakali Airlines and the Everest International Airlines. 

PASSED AWAY: Wife of former prime minister late Tanka Prasad Acharya, Rewanti Kumai Acharya, at the age of 85. 

AWARDED: Teesta Stealvad, a prominent journalist, writer and human rights activist of India, Prakash Kaphley International Award. 

FELICITATED: Two students, Himal Bhandari and Kamala Dahal, both from Gulmi, for having excelled in the SLC examination of 2002. 

RELEASED: Senior actor and chairman of the Film Development Board Nir Shaha, cassette of the film Basai, based on the most popular novel of all times of Lila Bahadur Chhetri. 

ELECTED: Tolaram Dugar, Kumud Kumar Dugar and Chandra Krishna Karmacharaya as president, vice-president and general secretary of the Annual General Meeting of Nepal Rice Oil Industries Association.


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