“I had instructed to transfer the regional offices to Surkhet one and a half years ago, but people of Surkhet have told me that it has not happened yet. I will begin departmental actions if the regional offices are not transferred to Surkhet within the next three months.”
King Gyanendra , giving instructions to the nominated presidents and vice presidents of District Development Committees (DDCs) of Bheri zone, in Kohalpur, Banke.
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“T here are two rivers flowing - republicanism and democracy. It is up to the King to decide in which to swim.”
Girija Prasad Koirala , president of Nepali Congress (NC) and former prime minister, speaking at a program organized in Kathmandu , in Rajdhani.
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“T here is no alternative to party president Girija Prasad Koirala at present.”
Taranath Ranabhat , speaker of the dissolved House of Representatives, speaking at an interaction program in Kathmandu .
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“T hey are not students, but professional hooligans.”
Tanka Dhakal , Minister for Information and Communications and the spokesperson of the government, saying that the agitation against price hike was being carried out by hooligans in the name of students .
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“W e cannot take a decision to go for republican set up until (Nepali) Congress agrees on this issue. Whether to go for republic or not depends upon the position taken by the Congress.”
Madhav Kumar Nepal , general secretary of the Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML), speaking at a function in Kathmandu , in Rajdhani
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“C ertainly, Girijababu is a history of Congress, but he is not a future. The policies he has adopted are telling this, I do not need to tell.”
Narahari Acharya , leader of Nepali Congress, in Bimarsha.
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“W hat wrong advice have I given to the King? I still say that if the political leaders try to come to power by cooperating with the Maoists, they should be declared anti-national elements.”
Satchit Shumsher Rana , former army chief and a member of Raj Parishad Standing Committee, in Jana Astha.
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“T he monarchy has always denied us a chance to correct our mistakes and move ahead with the democratic process, whether it was after the 1950 movement or 1960 election or 1990 people’s movement.”
Ram Chandra Poudel , leader of Nepali Congress, speaking at a face to face program at the Reporters’ Club.
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APPOINTED: Professor Dr. Dilli Devi Shakya , as the Dean of the Institute of Science and Technology, Tribhuwan University , by the University.
SELECTED: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Khadka, Tirtha Raj Onta, Shambhu Shumsher Rana, Mangala Karanjeet, Jaya Sharma, Badri Das Shrestha, Chandra Kanta Gyawali, Suman Dhakal, Shreedhar Gautam, Ram Raj Shrestha , and Ram Lal Shrestha, as the members of Nepal Council of World Affairs, by the convention of the council.
KILLED: Ajaya Raj Singh , coordinator of the district monitoring committee, Banke, by suspected Maoists.
AWARDED: Nagendra Thapa , senior song writer, with the ‘Devkota Kabya Samman -2061’, by Laxmi Prasad Devkota Foundation, for his special contribution to the development of Nepali modern poetry.
Bhisma Upreti and Amod Dev Bhatta, youth litterateurs, with the Youth Moti Award of this year, by the National Youth Service Trust.
Mahesh Shah , with the Lokendra Literary Award of this year, by the Lokendra Literary Foundation.
ELECTED: Kishor Bahadur Singh, as the president of Nepal Athletics Association, by the general convention of the association.
FILED : A writ petition against Gokarna Paudel, former personal assistant of congress president and former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala, on accusation of corruption, at the Special Court , by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority.
