Nepal unhappy due to party's unilateral decisions

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> BHAIRAHAWA, JUN 27 - <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/cpn-uml-477.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CPN-UML</a> senior leader <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/madhav-kumar-nepal-42.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Madhav Kumar Nepal</a> has expressed his dissatisfaction towards the party's operation in unilateral manner.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Nepal was unhappy after crucial decisions such as recalling ministers from cabinet and replacing them with new ones were taken without intra-party discussions. If party is to be run by personal decisions, there will be no use of a UML-led government, Nepal said.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "The trend of recalling and appointing ministers without discussions in the party is not a good sign. We have stake our claim in the government because a UML-led government will better than a NC-led government. But if this party is to be operated by unilateral and personal decisions, such government will hold no meaning," Nepal said.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Nepal was speaking in a programme to condole the death of party central member Baburam Chaudhary in <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/bhairahawa-11913.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bhairahawa</a> .</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHizyIVOlSNDB9y2V4CC8KchSZS4RzuDevZLm1nvU9WjCSOvbu_OHzWkuBzNbRKyV3Nsc5DQK0kqlIzybN5k3o3H274YpOVEEDYPmh_8ZORlfP676E-4GlKC8TbVLu1CnoEhJbafVfR0E/s1600/mkn_20150627062337.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHizyIVOlSNDB9y2V4CC8KchSZS4RzuDevZLm1nvU9WjCSOvbu_OHzWkuBzNbRKyV3Nsc5DQK0kqlIzybN5k3o3H274YpOVEEDYPmh_8ZORlfP676E-4GlKC8TbVLu1CnoEhJbafVfR0E/s1600/mkn_20150627062337.jpg" /></a></div> </div>

Nepal unhappy due to party's unilateral decisions

BHAIRAHAWA, JUN 27 -  CPN-UML  senior leader  Madhav Kumar Nepal  has expressed his dissatisfaction towards the party's operation in u...

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Pilot error caused US chopper crash: Report

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> KATHMANDU, JUN 27 - Pilot error as well as “the lack of terrain awareness” has been blamed for the causes of a fatal <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/us-285.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">US</a> Marine Corps <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/chopper-10143.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">chopper</a>crash in the Kalinchok mountain in<a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/sindhupalchok-56373.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sindhupalchok</a> district on May 12, according to a report issued by a joint Nepali and <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/us-285.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">US</a> Army Accident Investigation Board.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Thirteen people, including five civilian and two Nepal Army personnel, were killed onboard the Huey UH-1Y <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/chopper-10143.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">chopper</a> dispatched for a relief operation in Dolakha district. There was no damage to third-party property. The wreckage of the <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/chopper-10143.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">chopper</a> was found after days of intense searching.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The report submitted to Tourism Minister Kripasur Sherpa on Friday said that the pilot’s lack of understanding on the specific and severity of weather condition in Kalinchok mountain range resulted to the crash.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The pilot flew inadvertently into fast-building clouds and up-drafting winds in Kalinchok Mountain, losing situational awareness and control of the aircraft, following which the aircraft hit the terrain at an altitude of 11, 200ft, stated the report.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The nature of the crash was—Controlled Flight into Terrain (CFIT). This means, a state of flight when the pilots have full control of the flight and yet the plane hits terrain.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> According to the report, the <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/chopper-10143.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">chopper</a> inadvertently entered instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) from visual flight rules (VFR). VFR are a set of regulations under which a pilot operates an aircraft in weather conditions generally clear enough to allow the pilot to see outside the cockpit to control the aircraft's altitude, navigate, and avoid obstacles.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Flights under the VFR condition are not permitted to enter the IMC unless the aircraft gains height or clear the surrounding terrain and it is the violation of the rules, aviation experts said. “The pilot loses sight of the ground, if he/she subsequently enters into IMC from VFR.”</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The report said that while navigating along the vast terrain and adverse weather condition, the<a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/chopper-10143.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">chopper</a> hit the vertical granite face of the Kalinchok Mountain. The aircraft first sheared five inch tree trunk with main rotor blade and slammed into the ground at around 2:50pm. Had the <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/chopper-10143.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">chopper</a> been 50ft above its existing flying position, the crash should have been averted, said an official of the Tourism Ministry.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/chopper-10143.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">chopper</a> had landed at Singati at 2:35pm and evacuated five injured civilian from there. There were two <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/us-285.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">US</a> Marine photographers onboard the aircraft.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The video footage showed that besides five injured civilian, another civilian was trying to board flight, but was off loaded. The report, however, has not pointed out overloading factor for the crash. There were 13 people in the 10-seater aircraft.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Initially, the Nepal Army had refuted claims that civilian were also killed onboard. However, DNA tests and investigations by experts from both countries confirmed that five other people on the <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/chopper-10143.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">chopper</a> were local villagers.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The accident investigation board was formed on May 20 and it was carried out under the Aircraft Accident Investigation Procedure Manual of Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (Caan). “Normally, military aircraft crash is not subject to the civil aviation investigation manual; however, in the context to avoid such disaster in the future, the report has been submitted to the Tourism Ministry and the Caan. The report has recommended 10 interim safety measures to avoid such disaster in the future. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ3bVqSXIkdj7CE5klSRxk0KmfUbJ__brCxDg01tRustojtv54SVQPBM1rt6fTrxjnwF0mlCvYAv3QXUGPT4ocEv_MV0I8Q_4CSoKbSgAgaF3HUTn3BA_csDSMK662ND-_6zLHyiNK-h4/s1600/CRASH11_20150627045321.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ3bVqSXIkdj7CE5klSRxk0KmfUbJ__brCxDg01tRustojtv54SVQPBM1rt6fTrxjnwF0mlCvYAv3QXUGPT4ocEv_MV0I8Q_4CSoKbSgAgaF3HUTn3BA_csDSMK662ND-_6zLHyiNK-h4/s1600/CRASH11_20150627045321.jpg" /></a></div> </div>

Pilot error caused US chopper crash: Report

KATHMANDU, JUN 27 - Pilot error as well as “the lack of terrain awareness” has been blamed for the causes of a fatal  US  Marine Corps  ch...

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Constitution within 18 days: BRB

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> POKHARA, JUN 27 - UCPN (Maoist) senior leader Baburam Bhattarai has said that the momentum gained in the <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/constitution-writing-45158.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">constitution writing</a>task, following the agreements forged between the major political parties, should not be weighed in terms of benefit or loss to some party.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Addressing a programme here on Saturday, leader Bhattarai said, “Democracy is such a phenomenon where a full consensus is not applicable. Democracy means the consensus on majority basis. It requires adequate agreements.”</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Saying that the 16-point deal signed by the major political forces has paved the way for <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/constitution-writing-45158.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">constitution writing</a> , leader Bhattarai mentioned that if the draft of the constitution could be presented at the Constituent Assembly by Sunday, the dissenting factions could also be incorporated in further process of constitution drafting process.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “The promulgation of the constitution has been almost ensured after the 16-point pact. There is no doubt about it,” leader Bhattarai said, “The task of resolving the remaining issues among the political parties and taking the draft of constitution to people for discussions will move ahead.”</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Likewise, leader Bhattarai said the constitution will be promulgated by completing all the remaining tasks within 18 days.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaNWEA7inSRtW8TdCjgajHrTpZjSQfep3eJm8cKixDc0chO0xHlVPfUlZznzp9VAbjj0pcuPSa74-EOg0uCZZm_EtE-Am-1xY3pToq2CmpTnRyG3mPdUa5hvFXQltjlJ9VRCCHcOWvZI8/s1600/baburam-bhattarai_20150627033001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaNWEA7inSRtW8TdCjgajHrTpZjSQfep3eJm8cKixDc0chO0xHlVPfUlZznzp9VAbjj0pcuPSa74-EOg0uCZZm_EtE-Am-1xY3pToq2CmpTnRyG3mPdUa5hvFXQltjlJ9VRCCHcOWvZI8/s1600/baburam-bhattarai_20150627033001.jpg" /></a></div> </div>

Constitution within 18 days: BRB

POKHARA, JUN 27 - UCPN (Maoist) senior leader Baburam Bhattarai has said that the momentum gained in the  constitution writing task, follo...

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Nepal collecting facts to defend Lipu-Lekh pass

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> KATHMANDU, JUN 27 - The government is collecting evidence before making its official claim with <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/india-1185.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">India</a> and <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/china-2206.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">China</a> that the <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/lipu-lekh-pass-57986.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lipu-Lekh pass</a> lies within the Nepali territory.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The row over Lipu-Lekh, located on the Nepal-<a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/china-2206.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">China</a> border, erupted after a joint statement issued on May 15 in Beijing during <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/india-1185.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">India</a> n Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit read that the two of Nepal’s neighbours agreed to expand border<a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/trade-13599.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">trade</a> through the pass.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The 28th point of the joint communiqué states that “the two sides agreed to hold negotiation on augmenting the list of <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/trade-13599.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">trade</a> d commodities, and expand the border <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/trade-13599.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">trade</a> at the <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/lipu-lekh-pass-57986.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lipu-Lekh pass</a> .”</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it is in consultation with the concerned line agencies to collect facts to claim that the <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/lipu-lekh-pass-57986.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lipu-Lekh pass</a>belongs to Nepal.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The matter has already been raised by the International and Labour Committee of Parliament which urged the Foreign Ministry to take up the matter with <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/india-1185.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">India</a> and <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/china-2206.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">China</a> . Though the ministry has been refusing to divulge information on the matter, it is making “diplomatic moves quietly”.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “We are collecting evidence and information so that we can firmly put our position with both the neighbours,” said Foreign Minister Mahendra Bahadur Pandey.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Not much discussion took place on the matter in meetings with <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/india-1185.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">India</a> n and Chinese foreign ministers who were here for the June 25 donor conference.  </div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> It was agreed that PM Sushil Koirala would take up the matter with <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/india-1185.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">India</a> and Foreign Minister Pandey would discuss the matter with <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/china-2206.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">China</a> during bilateral talks on the sidelines of the International Conference on Nepal’s Reconstruction.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Since we are not prepared, it would be premature to take up the issue without solid evidence and proof. We need to do adequate homework before taking up the matter with <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/india-1185.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">India</a> and<a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/china-2206.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">China</a> ,” said a senior Foreign Ministry official.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He added that the ministry is in consultation with security agencies responsible for border security, the Home Ministry and the Department of Survey.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> PM Koirala has already raised the issue with his <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/india-1185.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">India</a> n counterpart, Narendra Modi, during his telephonic conversation on June 11 while extending an invitation to him to attend the reconstruction conference that concluded on Thursday. An informed official said Modi had replied that it was a new issue for him and he did not know that the matter would be seriously objected to in Nepal.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “The issue will be taken up by the foreign secretary-level mechanism as authorised by the two sides during Modi’s visit to Nepal last year,” said Dinesh Bhattarai, foreign relations adviser to the PM. During the <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/india-1185.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">India</a> n PM’s visit, the two countries had agreed to assign the task to settle the boundary disputes including the border areas of Susta and Kalapani at the mechanism. “This is no doubt a disputed issue but there will be no compromise on our sovereignty,” said Bhattarai. In his opinion published in the Post earlier this week, survey expert Buddhi Narayan Shrestha wrote that the <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/lipu-lekh-pass-57986.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lipu-Lekh pass</a> is part of the Nepali territory. “The historic maps of 1827 and 1856, among others published by the British Survey of <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/india-1185.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">India</a> , depict that the Western boundary of Nepal is extended up to Limpiyadhura, and the river originating from this point is named as ‘River Kalee’. Similarly, the ‘Old Atlas of <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/china-2206.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">China</a> ,’ a map published during the Qing Dynasty (1903), depicts, in Chinese characters, Limpiyadhura as the source of the Kali River.”</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ7aiGKrCLj4ztt_Dob7wz8i6a4iTAQvCCdfJuNZSNzhTY_XkecMXcRvh3NFaVjF26eK-6zB5xvcfStxe4ujxm-MF_JHjlSFUq1fGH75z0nVYf9Rv39is9NkNkXcJaGS91UICyy58V_3o/s1600/map_20150627082837.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ7aiGKrCLj4ztt_Dob7wz8i6a4iTAQvCCdfJuNZSNzhTY_XkecMXcRvh3NFaVjF26eK-6zB5xvcfStxe4ujxm-MF_JHjlSFUq1fGH75z0nVYf9Rv39is9NkNkXcJaGS91UICyy58V_3o/s1600/map_20150627082837.jpg" /></a></div> </div>

Nepal collecting facts to defend Lipu-Lekh pass

KATHMANDU, JUN 27 - The government is collecting evidence before making its official claim with  India  and  China  that the  Lipu-Lekh pa...

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Taskforce readies preliminary draft of constitution

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> KATHMANDU, JUN 27 - A cross-party taskforce formed to prepare an integrated draft of the new constitution has prepared the preliminary draft.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The draft was tabled at the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly on Friday. After endorsement, it will be presented to the CA. Taskforce members say the draft was submitted to the CA committee despite failing to resolve some of the disputes.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Some issues remain unresolved but we submitted the draft to the Drafting Committee, asking it to resolve them on its own,” said a Nepali Congress member in the panel.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The team has meticulously documented each article of the new constitution with the help of experts. Legal and constitutional experts including Purna Man Shakya, Bheshraj Sharma, Madhav Poudel and Tek Prasad Dhungana provided technical and legal inputs.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> For the new constitution, 37 parts and 296 articles have been proposed. The taskforce, led by Committee Chairman Krishna Prasad Sitaula, was mandated to resolve the disputes and prepare an integrated document on the basis of chapter-wise drafts submitted by the five subcommittees based on the spirit of the 16-point cross-party agreement.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “On the citizenship issue, we are still for the ‘and’ provision,” said Ramesh Lekhak, a CA member from the Nepali Congress. On the federal structure, the parties have agreed to keep the existing districts intact. The present structure of the local bodies will be maintained until the states are carved out and local bodies restructured as per the new constitution.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Sitaula said the debate on the issues would continue and the provisions amended until the constitution is promulgated. CA members on the panel also agreed to hold the local elections within six months. As a transitional arrangement, amid the calls for the reappointment of all the judges and constitutional body members, the members agreed to continue with the incumbent officials.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Drafting Committee is scheduled to meet at 1pm on Saturday. Sitaula has asked all the committee members to read the draft before attending the meeting. The committee hopes to present the preliminary draft to the CA by Sunday.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> When the Drafting Committee submits the draft, the CA sends it to people for feedback. CA Chair Subas Nembang has slated a meeting of the CA for Monday afternoon.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First integrated statute blueprint</strong></div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong>- Presidential and prime ministerial elections within one month of constitution promulgation</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Interim election of local bodies within six months of constitution promulgation</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Provincial Assemblies to have 60 percent directly elected representatives. Remaining 40 percent representatives to be picked under the proportional representation system</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Local bodies to have village councils, municipalities and district assemblies</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Village and municipal heads and deputies to be directly-elected; Ward chairs to be picked through indirect election</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBjJJhOhMmYw8Wnu7htMmqus8IEHc0wnEezEIv8E4xImVG_b1px3cvEMuM3GF6Q4kSKzkuJRnPch6kIVuWaYol5odB8ZyITV7LQq7OGqTN86W263wn8dZWiRH6aChdJP1HGQWX7PGB0QA/s1600/78b1e20c1ef7542634d8a0fbb98d75cd_20150627082134.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBjJJhOhMmYw8Wnu7htMmqus8IEHc0wnEezEIv8E4xImVG_b1px3cvEMuM3GF6Q4kSKzkuJRnPch6kIVuWaYol5odB8ZyITV7LQq7OGqTN86W263wn8dZWiRH6aChdJP1HGQWX7PGB0QA/s1600/78b1e20c1ef7542634d8a0fbb98d75cd_20150627082134.jpg" /></a></div> </div>

Taskforce readies preliminary draft of constitution

KATHMANDU, JUN 27 - A cross-party taskforce formed to prepare an integrated draft of the new constitution has prepared the preliminary dra...

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Demand for Nepalis workers may decrease in Malaysia

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> MALAYSIA/KATHMANDU, JUN 27 - Just weeks after the government endorsed a provision making it mandatory for employers in major work destinations to provide free visa and free plane tickets to Nepali <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/migrant-worker-20017.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">migrant worker</a> s, Malaysia has signed an agreement with Bangladesh to recruit 500,000 workers for the next six months.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The deal, signed on Wednesday, could bring decline in the demand for Nepali <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/migrant-worker-20017.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">migrant worker</a>s in the largest work destination, stakeholders have said.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Malaysian Home Minister Dato’ Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Bangladeshi Expatriates Welfare Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain signed the deal to hire Bangladeshi workers under the “Business-to-Business mechanism”. The new mechanism was set up after the government-to-government model failed. Under the previous model, aimed at promoting ethical recruitment, around 7,000 Bangladeshi workers were hired. “Under this new mechanism,</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> manpower recruitment can be run through private recruitment agencies,” Daily Star, a Malaysia newspaper, has quoted a Bangladeshi official as saying.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Stakeholders, including recruiting agencies in Nepal, claimed that the upcoming months are likely to see a significant drop in the demand of Nepali workers in Malaysia. The country has been hiring around 200,000 Nepali workers every year and around 700,000 Nepalis are said to working there at present.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Recruiting agencies said that government’s “immature” decision not to send workers abroad without free visa and free ticket is pushing the work destinations, including Malaysia, to seek alternatives for Nepali workers.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “The government should have done enough homework and consulted with stakeholders, including the governments of the labour receiving counties, before taking such decision,” said Kumud Khanal, former vice chairperson of Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> However, many others within and outside the foreign employment agencies support the government decision saying that it will lessen economic burden on workers. An Amnesty International report states that Nepali <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/migrant-worker-20017.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">migrant worker</a> s take debt paying as high as 60 percent interest to go aboard. However, many stakeholders agree that ensuring free visa and ticket will be impossible without cooperation from the destination countries.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> State Minister for Labour and Employment Tek Bahadur Gurung said the agreement would not affect the hiring of Nepali workers. “Nepali workers have cultivated a very positive image in Malaysia and other work destinations through hard work and honesty. Nobody will take that place,” Gurung said, adding that preparations are under way to sign a memorandum of understanding with Malaysia on the matter.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizxXuCSmHblKdY0lCSiXVUScSJk9DtNwZHE4_RowrgUkgZ96koH3316qLl4SZCw2_uEPRC6T8wgPY3jJ1nkx2z4vuQ_6empt_Mt35qgTejhf2cJjLVr9ZBNvWKs49gRojE6MkCNw4AF3w/s1600/nepali-workers_20150627084621.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizxXuCSmHblKdY0lCSiXVUScSJk9DtNwZHE4_RowrgUkgZ96koH3316qLl4SZCw2_uEPRC6T8wgPY3jJ1nkx2z4vuQ_6empt_Mt35qgTejhf2cJjLVr9ZBNvWKs49gRojE6MkCNw4AF3w/s1600/nepali-workers_20150627084621.jpg" /></a></div> </div>

Demand for Nepalis workers may decrease in Malaysia

MALAYSIA/KATHMANDU, JUN 27 - Just weeks after the government endorsed a provision making it mandatory for employers in major work destinat...

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Rain floods many districts in West

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> KATHMANDU, JUN 27 - Continuous rainfall since early Thursday morning has triggered floods in several parts of western Nepal.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> A man died at Barpata VDC in Doti district when his house collapsed following heavy rainfall on Thursday night, police said.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> In Darchula, rain-swollen Mahakali River swept away three houses at Api Municipality-11. No casualties were reported in the incident. Around one dozen houses in the area are at high risk of flood. Local authorities have advised the people living close to the river to stay alert.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Floods triggered by <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/incessant-rain-56474.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">incessant rain</a> fall inundated around 700 homes in Bardiya district. Police said floodwaters from Mankhola River waterlogged 100 houses in Basgadhi Municipality-5. Nearly 300 houses were also inundated in Kakaura and Dadhawar. In Gulariya, the district headquarters, nearly 15 houses were swamped. A temporary settlement for flood victims in the area was also flooded, affecting 41 families.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Gobinda Jha, the chief of the Nepalgunj-based Karnali Basin Office of the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, said Gulariya received 245 mm rainfall on Friday, the highest in the Mid-Western Development Region. Rising water levels in Karnali and Babai rivers have caused panic among the people living along the river banks. According to Bardiya District Disaster Management Committee, the water level in Karnali River rose by about 7.6 metres on Friday.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Once the water level crosses 9 metres mark, there could be a serious flood danger, officials said.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Heavy rainfall also waterlogged various places in Banke district, including Nepalgunj where floodwaters swamped hundreds of houses. Major junctions and roads including BP Chowk, Ganeshpur and Bhrikuti Nagar in the city were waterlogged.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> In Kailali, a high alert notice was issued after <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/incessant-rain-56474.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">incessant rain</a> fall increased the risk of flood in several areas of the district. The District Emergency Operation Centre has urged the public to remain safe from potential flash floods and inundation. The centre has also urged the local security agencies and the District Disaster Management Committee to remain on standby.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">  Continuous rainfall also flooded different parts of Kanchanpur district, including Mahendranagar Bazaar, Bhasi, Aithpur and Banketh.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The water level in Mahakali River, which was measured at 160,000 cusec on Friday morning, rose to 276,000 cusec in the afternoon. Vehicular movement along the Banbasa Bridge was halted after the water level crossed the 100,000 cusec mark, police said.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> In Rasuwa district, rainfall triggered landslides in several places, including the Pasang Lhamu Highway. Landslides at Mulkharka and Grang section of the highway was obstructed for several hours on Friday.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Meanwhile, meteorologists have said that with monsoon just beginning, rainfall is expected to intensify in the coming days.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> According to senior meteorologist Ram Chandra Karki, rainfall may slow down in western Nepal, but the eastern part of the country is likely to witness heavy rainfall.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (With inputs from our district correspondents)</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0SUKN-u3Z72hVhfFMFW0r9JUurcZ5OrTkLE8k6EnnI8TMMVZ0JmHuSTrHSaq_bfARPG48ppTPsrXl6JhVaPiZTUdaaOV8AJj8GauLddYW0Qb02umlux8-B3ecIIXBCTcvq-1GxLpibg8/s1600/Baradiya-flood_20150627082359.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0SUKN-u3Z72hVhfFMFW0r9JUurcZ5OrTkLE8k6EnnI8TMMVZ0JmHuSTrHSaq_bfARPG48ppTPsrXl6JhVaPiZTUdaaOV8AJj8GauLddYW0Qb02umlux8-B3ecIIXBCTcvq-1GxLpibg8/s1600/Baradiya-flood_20150627082359.jpg" /></a></div> </div>

Rain floods many districts in West

KATHMANDU, JUN 27 - Continuous rainfall since early Thursday morning has triggered floods in several parts of western Nepal. A man died ...

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Govt pins high hopes on tomorrow’s donor meet

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> KATHMANDU, JUN 24 - The government expects big aid pledges from <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/donors-20076.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">donors</a> at the International Conference on Nepal’s Reconstruction to be held in <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/kathmandu-799.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kathmandu</a> on Thursday.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Though a majority of <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/donors-20076.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">donors</a> have not spoken about their pledges, multiple sources said the government hopes aid commitments of at least $3 billion (Rs300 billion) from the development partners and neighbouring countries for rebuilding Nepal post-earthquake.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Based on our conversation with various multilateral and bilateral <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/donors-20076.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">donors</a> , we are expecting commitments around $3 billion,” said a senior government official. The same figure was briefed to Prime Minister Sushil Koirala during a high-level <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/meet-18876.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">meet</a> ing attended by ministers and senior officials in Baluwatar on Tuesday morning.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat, however, downplayed the government’s expectations. “It is being publicised that the <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/donors-20076.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">donors</a> are expected to give all the required resources. Domestic resources including internal loans and private sector investment will also be part of the required resources for reconstruction,” Mahat said during a press <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/meet-18876.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">meet</a> at the Finance Ministry on Tuesday afternoon.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The government has already set up a National Reconstruction Fund of $2 billion for post-earthquake reconstruction and rehabilitation works. “Meeting the target is our first goal but we would be happier if <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/donors-20076.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">donors</a> pledged more,” said a senior Finance Ministry official. According to the Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA), Nepal needs $6.67 billion for reconstruction.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The World Bank on Tuesday announced its pledge of $500 million (Rs50 billion) for rural housing, financial sector and other reconstruction activities. The Asian Development Bank, which has already announced at least $200 million in aid, has indicated that it could provide more.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> According to Madhu Marasini, chief of the International Economic Cooperation Coordination Division at the Finance Ministry, the WB would be investing in rural housing and the ADB would invest more in the school sector. The government expects big pledges from two immediate neighbours--India and China. “They have not yet hinted at the size of their pledges but both the countries have said there would be good aid commitments,” said Finance Secretary Suman Sharma. “We expect big announcements as foreign ministers of the two neighbours are attending the conference.”</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Finance Ministry officials said India has not made it clear where it intends to assist but the government has requested China to rebuild the roads connecting <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/kathmandu-799.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kathmandu</a> to Rasuwagadhi and Tatopani, which were badly damaged by the earthquake. “We have also requested the Chinese side to help rebuild houses in rural areas,” said an official.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Japan, which is sending its state minister for foreign affairs along with the Jica president to the event, has already pledged Rs4 billion grant to repair the damaged <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/kathmandu-799.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kathmandu</a> -Bhaktapur and <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/kathmandu-799.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kathmandu</a> -Sindhuli roads. “They have said they will announce additional amounts at the conference,” said Hari Pandey, under-secretary at the Finance Ministry.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Jica has also proposed a comprehensive package in the form of grant, loan and technical assistance to rebuild Nepal. As per its proposal, its fund will be spent on rural housing and school reconstruction, maintenance of roads damaged by the earthquake and the drafting of a comprehensive city resilience reconstruction master plan. According to the Jica proposal, its aid will be concentrated in Gorkha, Sindhupalchok and <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/kathmandu-799.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kathmandu</a> districts.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The government will seek aid primarily in the form of grants and concessional loans. “We will not take commercial loan. We have never taken it,” said Mahat.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Amid suggestions to seek loan waivers from <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/donors-20076.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">donors</a> , the government is not much optimistic about it. “There is the possibility of deferral of loan repayment schedule instead of loan waiver,” said Mahat. “We are not going to discuss the matter at the <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/meet-18876.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">meet</a> .”</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Though some friendly countries had proposed to host the conference abroad in August, the government chose <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/kathmandu-799.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kathmandu</a> as the venue to send a message across that Nepal is limping back to normal. “The delay on holding the conference means losing sympathy over Nepal. Hence, we decided to hold it early in Nepal,” said Foreign Minister Mahendra Bahadur Pandey.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbfOgYsqxv-pX69X-umtygeKDejaS34rK0yN_3foxJNnxTRsJnto5ls0Gputfsfl5Xt_1CNaWn7nQB8I6kZu9Y7OevqeS3yliZExaFMK798b0h36ZAtfm0lr0i_wmOAPLT1Z-HxiJKYrc/s1600/donor-conference_20150624081727.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbfOgYsqxv-pX69X-umtygeKDejaS34rK0yN_3foxJNnxTRsJnto5ls0Gputfsfl5Xt_1CNaWn7nQB8I6kZu9Y7OevqeS3yliZExaFMK798b0h36ZAtfm0lr0i_wmOAPLT1Z-HxiJKYrc/s1600/donor-conference_20150624081727.jpg" /></a></div> </div>

Govt pins high hopes on tomorrow’s donor meet

KATHMANDU, JUN 24 - The government expects big aid pledges from  donors  at the International Conference on Nepal’s Reconstruction to be h...

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Bhaktapur got highest pass rate in SLC exams

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> KATHMANDU, JUN 24 - Bhaktapur has achieved the highest pass rate in this year’s School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examinations with 87.71 percent students from the district passing the tenth grade national board test. Bhaktapur District Education Office had set a target to achieve 88 percent pass rate this year, according to Rama Kanta Sharma, the district education officer. Out of 5,309 examinees from the district, 4,658 secured pass marks.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> With one of the least number of students (116) sitting for the SLC test, Mustang district secured second highest pass rate with 86.56 percent.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lalitpur district came close third with 86.32 percent students passing the test while<a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/kathmandu-799.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kathmandu</a> came fourth with 85.9 percent, according to the Office of the Controller of Examinations.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/kathmandu-799.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kathmandu</a> district had the highest number of SLC exam candidates with 32,579 tenth graders sitting for the finals; 26,985 students passed. With 16.45 percent pass rate, Khotang district had the poorest overall test performance. Out of 3,653 examinees from the district, only 601 passed.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Examinations Controller Bishnu Bahadur Dware said the second lowest pass rate was in Dailekh district where out of 4,664 students taking the exams, only 934 got through.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Salyan and Saptari districts also did not fare well this year with 20.68 percent and 21.38 percent pass rates.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> According to Dware, among around 9,400 schools that had participated in the SLC exams, two percent (229 schools) got nil results, meaning not a single student from these schools passed the test. Twenty six of these schools are private-run; of them, seven are from inside<a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/kathmandu-799.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kathmandu</a> Valley. Last year the number of schools with nil results was 331.</div> </div>

Bhaktapur got highest pass rate in SLC exams

KATHMANDU, JUN 24 - Bhaktapur has achieved the highest pass rate in this year’s School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examinations with 87.71 p...

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CAN election on November 6, 7

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> KATHMANDU, JUN 21 - The Annual General Meeting of the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) has concluded on Saturday setting November 6 and 7 date for its elections in Bhairahawa.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The AGM, which was called in response to a pressure from the International Cricket Council (I</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzxbNK79AaAhgVWocES5ngLhkpIEctbLJ2CuZONcgRJlyLKr17mC-8gc7EeLhE21X21xo8S5h7PWIaQsE2SoD3_pXP9qxyiCPAbjqPhq2PKaJ0SFqgKHPcXepKtxOQ9RMMhyTt53FvIMo/s1600/Nepali-cricket-team_20150621083307.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzxbNK79AaAhgVWocES5ngLhkpIEctbLJ2CuZONcgRJlyLKr17mC-8gc7EeLhE21X21xo8S5h7PWIaQsE2SoD3_pXP9qxyiCPAbjqPhq2PKaJ0SFqgKHPcXepKtxOQ9RMMhyTt53FvIMo/s1600/Nepali-cricket-team_20150621083307.jpg" /></a></div> CC) and Asian Cricket Council (ACC), has also endorsed statute amendment proposal. The endorsement comes just few days before the four-year tenure of the current committee comes to an end.<br /> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “We will take an approval from the National Sports Council for statute amendment and if the sports governing body rejects it, we will go into the elections according to the old statute,” CAN Acting President Deepak Koirala told reporters on Saturday.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The cricket governing body has also set an October 2 deadline to the district associations for holding general assembly.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Four years back, CAN elections in Chitwan had formed a new committee under President Tanka Aangbuhang. But CAN plunged into crisis last year after 10 of its members including Aangbuhang and general secretary Ashok Nath Pyakurel were charged for corruption. The alleged members have already stepped aside until the case reaches its conclusion.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Acting General Secretary Uttam Karmacharya heads the five-member statute amendment committee that also includes acting treasurer Shailesh Kumar Chaudhary, Suresh Lal Shrestha, Pradeep Majgaiya and Hari Regmi. The AGM on Saturday approved the report from the president and general secretary apart from a budget of Rs 150.6 million prepared by Chaudhary.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The ICC and ACC had halted its grant for Nepal after CAN failed to hold the AGM. “We will soon send the report of the AGM and hopefully recover the grants from the international body that has been halted,” said Koirala. However, the governing bodies have set deadline to submit the report until Sunday.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No decision on coach’s contract</strong></div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Annual General Assembly (AGM) of the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) has failed to make decision over the extension of national team coach Pubudu Dassanayake that expires on July 15. Dassanayake was hired for a one-year contract by the government last year after CAN ran into financial crisis. But with less than one month remaining in Dassanayake’s stay, uncertainty still hangs overs his stay.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Asian Cricket Council will stop providing us grant from this December and we can keep him until that time. But we want to discuss over the issue with the government first. If the government is ready to give an extension, we can keep him for long,” said CAN Acting President Deepak Koirala on Saturday. The AGM also concluded without deciding on the working tenure for Chief Executive Officer and Finance Administrator. While CEO Bhawana Ghimire was given a three-month extension, Finance Manager Prakash Maharjan had  already resigned soon after his contract expired two months ago.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “The CEO still has one month left at the office. We are thinking of giving her continuity. We will probably address about the issue in another meeting,” he said.</div> </div>

CAN election on November 6, 7

KATHMANDU, JUN 21 - The Annual General Meeting of the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) has concluded on Saturday setting November 6 and ...

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Govt extends coach Dassanayake’s tenure for 6 months

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> KATHMANDU, JUN 23 - The Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) on Tuesday extended the contract of national cricket coach <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/pubudu-dassanayake-55374.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pubudu Dassanayake</a> for six months. Coach Dassanayake signed the contract paper today, according to which he will continue to serve as the national cricket team’s coach till December 31.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Dassanayake’s tenure was ending on July 15. He signed the contract at a ceremony held to bid farewell to the national cricket team that is set to head for UK and other countries, to play the world cup qualifier match.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ministry of Youth and Sports had been providing remuneration to Dassanayake last year. But his pay for the extended period would be borne by Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN). CAN will provide his remuneration from Asian Cricket Council fund, it is learnt.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Nepal got hold of Division 2 status under the direction of Dassanayake. Sri Lankan-born Canadian Dassanayake is coaching Nepali national cricket team since August 2011.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He had signed the previous contract on September 1, 2014. Dassanayake is drawing a monthly salary of $8,000, apart from an additional Rs 200,000 each month for his general expenses.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBIs95_gYG_T5dJ_LWpUwlhIkGs2EsaBfcnYky9wW3cGX4cz8nN6ck6IM_gb-X5f00cATVVm6koNnAbb3cDsXr3Fez2PWQ-pSuOTiKpr2Td_8TF4UIaXJC9W6xNkV5LY0HLCabhDkxW9g/s1600/maxresdefault_20150623063429.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBIs95_gYG_T5dJ_LWpUwlhIkGs2EsaBfcnYky9wW3cGX4cz8nN6ck6IM_gb-X5f00cATVVm6koNnAbb3cDsXr3Fez2PWQ-pSuOTiKpr2Td_8TF4UIaXJC9W6xNkV5LY0HLCabhDkxW9g/s1600/maxresdefault_20150623063429.jpg" /></a></div> </div>

Govt extends coach Dassanayake’s tenure for 6 months

KATHMANDU, JUN 23 - The Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) on Tuesday extended the contract of national cricket coach  Pubudu Dassanayake ...

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Oli decries SC order to halt constitution writing

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> KATHMANDU, JUN 23 - Dismayed with the Supreme Court's interim order to halt constitution writing process and President Ram Baran Yadav’s recent activities, CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli on Tuesday warned both the institutions to stay away from politics.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">  Oli, who returned from Bangkong after a follow-up health care, argued that the recent order of apex court halting the constitution writing process was an ‘objectionable move’.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “The court’s order is an objectionable move. It is the duty of Constituent Assembly to write constitution, not any other bodies,” Oli told reporters at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu upon his arrival from Bangkok.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">  In a different context, Oli also expressed his dissatisfaction over President Ram Baran Yadav’s statement in response to the court order. “The post of president is a ceremonial one, perhaps he is also aware about this,” said Oli, suggesting the President Yadav to stay away from politics.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">  President Yadav has been expressing his dissatisfaction over the 16-point pact signed by four major political parties in which they had agreed to federate the country eight provinces and promulgate the new constitution at the earliest.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The political parties have also reached an understanding to share the key positions namely president, vice-president, prime minister, speaker and deputy speaker among major parties to form a national consensus government including all major parties.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">  In his meetings with the senior leaders of major parties and Speaker Subas Nembang, President Yadav had reportedly expressed his dissatisfaction over agreement reached among parties.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">  Yadav, who was elected as president in 2008 for two years is holding office till the date with the protraction of constitution writing process due to differences among political parties.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">  When asked about the fate of constitution writing in the wake of apex court order, Oli said the constitution writing process would not be halted despite court order.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKylKsgWQR7AcYd8UDGqgYpXWY3lYDoOF46Y1nzI-McaIZrNL0vG6rlBFi-BB3zLxcx14AdBtJZu8G7utWpiJ3ehpZ4OwLKXvDRnJfImoKNWhrfU2o8F9_a_sFwFpAif_1BzNZM-e1ieg/s1600/kp_UML_20150623055635.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKylKsgWQR7AcYd8UDGqgYpXWY3lYDoOF46Y1nzI-McaIZrNL0vG6rlBFi-BB3zLxcx14AdBtJZu8G7utWpiJ3ehpZ4OwLKXvDRnJfImoKNWhrfU2o8F9_a_sFwFpAif_1BzNZM-e1ieg/s1600/kp_UML_20150623055635.jpg" /></a></div> </div>

Oli decries SC order to halt constitution writing

KATHMANDU, JUN 23 - Dismayed with the Supreme Court's interim order to halt constitution writing process and President Ram Baran Yadav...

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KMG hands over Rs 44.31 million to PM Relief Fund

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> KATHMANDU, JUN 23 - The Kantipur Media Group (KMG) handed over Rs 44.31 million collected to contribute to the relief and rehabilitation of the earthquake -affected people through the Kantipur National Crisis Assistance Fund, to the Prime Minister Disaster Relief Fund on Tuesday.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Chairman and Managing Director of KMG Kailash Sirohiya handed over the cheque to Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, today, amid a programme organised at PM residence in Baluwatar.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Kantipur Media Group’s non-profit charitable organisation had established the fund in the wake of the Great Earthquake to support earthquake survivors. As many as 1,755 individuals and organisations contributed money to the fund. The Nepali community in the Gulf, Malaysia and other countries also chipped in significant amounts.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “We deposited Rs 1 million and appealed others to contribute to the fund,” said KMG Chairman Sirohiya during the handing over of the fund, “We have collected funds ranging from Rs 100 to Rs 500,000.”</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> During the occasion, PM Koirala thanked KMG, Kantipur Foundation and Century Bank among other contributors. He further assured that the government was vigilant towards any misuse of relief fund.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Century Bank, Asia News Network, PEA Association, <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/kathmandu-799.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kathmandu</a> Fun Valley, Sarbottam Cement, NIST Foundation, Business Universal Development Bank, International Development Bank and Sunrise Bank were associated with the fund as partners. The foundation had made them partners in philanthropy for their contribution of more than Rs1 million.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Minister for Information and Communication Minendra Rijal, Editor-in-Chief of Kantipur daily, Sudhir Sharma and Editor-in-Chief of The <a href="http://www.ekantipur.com/en/related-news/kathmandu-799.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004f8b; font-size: 14.828893661499px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kathmandu</a> Post, Akhilesh Upadhayay including officials of Century Bank and KMG were present during the handover programme.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPHD196wcNJMtlG_ANfyOu1ta8MaJzISHDBKkB62v0BsgDBQgwkI8Lgw-Q9Zcw6qSDpFZT4hlhCQ47xtib6oSkAeDdu_DqNnfypQyciP33Kgof6T1l6KEzhfbIMhlOtGpw59IlEzTEkT4/s1600/kantipu_20150623012934.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPHD196wcNJMtlG_ANfyOu1ta8MaJzISHDBKkB62v0BsgDBQgwkI8Lgw-Q9Zcw6qSDpFZT4hlhCQ47xtib6oSkAeDdu_DqNnfypQyciP33Kgof6T1l6KEzhfbIMhlOtGpw59IlEzTEkT4/s1600/kantipu_20150623012934.jpg" /></a></div> </div>

KMG hands over Rs 44.31 million to PM Relief Fund

KATHMANDU, JUN 23 - The Kantipur Media Group (KMG) handed over Rs 44.31 million collected to contribute to the relief and rehabilitation o...

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Hollywood stars DiCaprio, Lumley to attend donors' conference

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> KATHMANDU, JUN 23 - Hollywood film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Joanaa Lumley will participate in the International Donors' Conference on Nepal's Reconstruction to be held here on Thursday.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Shankar Das Bairagi, officiating secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Xinhua on Tuesday, "Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio and British film star Joanna Lumley have confirmed their participation in the conference."</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The international conference is called by Nepal to gain financial assistance for the rebuilding process of the quake- ravaged country. Nepal needs 669.50 billion rupees (6.7 billion U. S. dollars) for the post-quake reconstruction, according to latest Post Disaster Needs Assessment Report.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> More than 8,700 people were killed and hundreds of thousands left homeless by a 7.9-magnitude earthquakes, which jolted the Himalayan nation on April 25.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "It's a good news that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is also participating in the conference," Secretary Bairagi said. These celebrities will visit the quake-damaged world heritage sites, including the Durbar squares, and some worst-hit districts.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 41px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said around 300 people will take part in the one-day conference at Hotel Soaltee on Thursday.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJLOnP5ctBLD7gKqSNT9d4-4p7XgcmM1lKEphO0w23zFkYFJbqQoILWEsB7haCgiv_QjJM014uZ8_BF7yqu_IKjsGoK6Cd4O4593IcZbAlX6pfXpV6nA7HdXgTmBhimjrMwLEO1wQbXAw/s1600/1_20150623015649.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJLOnP5ctBLD7gKqSNT9d4-4p7XgcmM1lKEphO0w23zFkYFJbqQoILWEsB7haCgiv_QjJM014uZ8_BF7yqu_IKjsGoK6Cd4O4593IcZbAlX6pfXpV6nA7HdXgTmBhimjrMwLEO1wQbXAw/s1600/1_20150623015649.jpg" /></a></div> </div>

Hollywood stars DiCaprio, Lumley to attend donors' conference

KATHMANDU, JUN 23 - Hollywood film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Joanaa Lumley will participate in the International Donors' Conference ...

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