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KING GYANENDRA MET WITH BRITISH SECRETARY
OF state for foreign and commonwealth office Jack Straw in London on Thursday
(September 4). Straw called on King Gyanendra at Royal Nepalese Embassy, London. Royal
Nepalese Ambassador to the United Kingdom Prabal SJB Rana was also present on the
occasion. THE ROYAL NEPALESE ARMY (RNA) ORGANIZED a health camp in
Doramba, Ramechhap on Sunday (September 7). More than 500 local people sought medical
check-ups at the camp, the RNA states. Likewise, medicines were also distributed. Doramba
is the same place where 19 rebels were killed by the RNA even as the peace talks was going
on in Hapure, Dang. The RNA has claimed that they were killed in clashes. The report by
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), however, has alleged that the killings were
orchestrated and not encounter. A NEPALESE TELEVISION ANCHOR WAS CROWNED World Miss
University 2003 title in a beauty pageant held recently in Seoul, South Korea. Ayusha
Shrestha, 19, a student and a music show host at Channel Nepal, was crowned the title.
Shrestha said that she would work for the promotion of peace in the days ahead. She is a
college student. THE ROAD OFFICIALS HAVE ESTIMATED that the total cost of
complete repairing and maintaining a crucial section of the Prithvi Highway would run to
the tune of Rs 120 million. This cost is for the repairing of the Mugling-Narayangarh
section of the highway which has been worst hit by the series of landslides this year. The
repairing would take one year, officials said. The reconstruction project is about to
begin from the first week of October, according to Guru Prasad Dhakal, chief of the
divisional road office, Bharatpur. Prithvi Highway is the major road linking Kathmandu
valley with rest of the country. Obstruction in the highway had led to scarcity of
essential items in the valley during monsoon this year. PAKISTANI FOREIGN MINISTER KHURSHEED MAHMOOD Kasuri is to visit Nepal on September 12. Kasuri is coming to Kathmandu to extend formal invitation to Nepalese prime minister to attend the forthcoming SAARC summit to be held in Pakistan on January next year. THE OFFICIALS AT THE TRIBHUWAN UNIVERSITY (TU) have
postponed the suspended examinations of the bachelor level to early November. The
officials had agreed to fix new dates for suspended examinations after there was all-round
pressure to resume the examinations that was earlier suspended. The decision to suspend
the examination in view of increasing violent interruption from the student organizations
affiliated to the agitating parties, had come under fire from students and general people.
THE GOVERNMENTS OF NEPAL AND JAPAN HAVE agreed to extend
technical cooperation between the two countries. An agreement to that effect was signed on
Wednesday (September 3). The agreement aims to strengthen mutual technical cooperation and
pave the way for simplifying and improving the process under a single umbrella framework.
Japanese technical cooperation covers such activities as dispatch of Japanese experts,
Japan Overseas Volunteers, senior volunteers, study missions as well as project type
assistance, development study and acceptance of trainees in Japan. According to the
agreement, the Japanese government, through Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA),
will carry out at its own expense such cooperation activities. Nepal will accord
JICA experts, volunteers and staff of JICA office in Nepal, privileges, exemptions and
benefits necessary for their technical cooperation activities. THE 15TH MINISTERIAL MEETING BETWEEN NEPAL AND BHUTAN has
been postponed yet again for indefinite period. The meeting was to begin on second week of
September in Thimpu, Bhutan. According to Madan Bhattarai, spokesperson of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, the meeting was postponed with the consent of both sides and new date
will be fixed soon mutually. He added that before the 15th meeting, the two sides will
discuss the refugee repatriation issue informally on the sidelines of general assembly of
the UN in the last week of September in New York. THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT HAS AGREED to provide a grant
assistance of US$ 340,000 to Nepalese government on anti-corruption and law enforcement.
Under this agreement, two projects on police professionalism will be implemented. The
grant will be used to foster discipline and reduce corruption in law enforcement
personnel, promote a spirit of public and community service, and increase the
effectiveness of the judiciary by increasing its efficiency in adjudicating cases in
remote areas. THE UNITED TELECOM LIMITED (UTL) – a joint venture
Indian company – is set to inaugurate its wire-less telephone service for Kathmandu
valley on Wednesday (September 10). The company will begin to sell the service
professionally from September 17 onwards. The UTL is a joint venture between leading
Indian telecom players like Mahanagar Telecom Limited (MTNL), Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited
(VSNL), Telecom Services Consultant Limited (TSCL) and Bishal Group, a Nepalese partner.
The UTL had been awarded the license of operate WLL by the Nepal Telecom Authority a year
ago. The company has the strength to distribute 60,000 telephone lines in the Kathmandu
immediately. The company expects favorable response from the people as it will attract
those people who had been waiting for long to get line from Nepal Telecommunication
Corporation (NTC). Besides, being a wireless service, the UTL line can easily be shifted
from one place to another. The company will expand its services to major Nepalese cities
within next five years. |
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