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FNJ draws attention of Sudur Paschim State government

Posted by | Feb 17, 2020 | ,

The Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) has drawn the attention of the Sudur Paschim State government, calling it to correct the Bill Designed to Make Provisions for Radio, Television and FM Broadcasting. The state government has recently introduced the bill in the State Assembly. A team comprising FNJ central general secretary Ramesh Bista among others met with Sudur Paschim State Assembly speaker Arjun Bahadur Thapa, minister for internal affairs and law Prakash Bahadur Shah and State Assembly Legislation Committee president Nepalu Chaudhary on Sunday and submitted a memorandum to that connection. Journalists have been opposing the bill citing that it has provisions imposing restrictions on press freedom and the freedom of expression. They have called for removing the provision in the bill which states that the Minister shall be the chairperson of the Media Board, demanding that an independent person should be appointed the chair of the Board and also removing the provision on penalty and punishment. The bill is currently under discussion at the Legislation Committee of the State Assembly....

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World Nepali Literature Festival to be held in Dhangadhi

Posted by | Feb 17, 2020 |

The World Nepali Literature Festival is going to be held in Dhangadhi, the capital of Sudur Paschim State, from February 26 to March 3. Coinciding with the Literature Festival, a food festival is also be organised here. The Sudur Paschimanchal Literary Society is organising the literature festival while Hotel Entrepreneurs Association Kailali is hosting the food festival. Preparations for the literature festival have been stepped up. President of the Sudur Paschim Literary Society, Ram Lal Joshi said the festival is being organised to familiarize all about the literature, art and culture of the Sudur Paschim (Far-west) region as well as to learn about the same from other places. More than 200 litteratuers from within the country and Siliguri, Darjeeling, Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur of India, Bhutan, Burma, America, Bangladesh, among other countries will participate in the literature festival. The food festival will feature 25 stalls offering local dishes. Preparations are also on to cook the phado soup, a specialty of the Sudur Paschim region, in a 1,000 litres capacity pot, said Kamal Bom, the Hotel Entrepreneurs Association Kailali...

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Sculptors gather at historic Galkot for international workshop

Posted by | Feb 17, 2020 | ,

Sculptors from India, China, Japan, Israel, Ukraine Italy, France, Canada and Brazil have arrived here to participate in the International Sculptors’ Workshop being held at Galkot, the historical place in Baglung district. The workshop will commence at Teuwa of Galkot municipality-5 from today. It will run until March 4. Jun Ichiro Sugimoto from Japan, Liu Yang from China, Bitino Franceni from Italy, Javiers Gonzalez from France, Taw Lin Li Len from Taiwan, Julie Glaspie from Canada, Tutu Patnaik from India, Tanya Preminger from Israel, George Luiz from Brazil and Ludmel from Ukraine have arrived here. Nepali sculptors Prabin Kumar Shrestha, Om Khatri, Rajan Kafle, Buddha Chaudhari and Raju Pithakote will join them in the workshop. Baglung municipality mayor Janak Raj Poudel, representatives of the Kalika Bhagawati Guthi Management Committee, the district administration and the Galkot locals welcomed the sculptors at the Kalika Temple premises. They were taken around the temple. The artisans will be carving out statues on historical and cultural themes as well as that which are especially useful in human life, Capt Purna Bahadur Rana, president of Galkot Art Academy, said. The Academy is hosting the workshop. In course of the workshop, sculptors will work to revive sculpture art and also make sculptures related to the fine arts and human sentiment in the world. Boulders weighing from five tonnes to 10 tonnes have been kept at the...

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Minister Gyawali leaves for Bangladesh

Posted by | Feb 17, 2020 | ,

Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali has embarked on a three-day official visit to Bangladesh this morning at the invitation his Bangladeshi counterpart, Dr AK Abdul Momen. Foreign Secretary Shanker Das Bairagi, Joint-Secretary at the Foreign Ministry,Yagya Bahadur Hamal, Joint-Secretary at the Commerce and Supply, Nabaraj Dhakal, and Joint-Secretary at the Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Prabin Aryal, are also in the delegation led by Minister Gyawali. Delegation-level meeting would be held under leadership of Minister Gyawali in Dhaka on Tuesday. Minister Gyawali told Rastriya Samachar Samiti that they would review overall aspects of the bilateral relation and exchange views on various matters of mutual interest such as energy, trade, transit, connectivity, tourism and cooperation on regional and multilateral issues. Saying that attempts would be made to transform relations between the two countries for economic prosperity, he said that he would take initiative to increase partnership between the two countries in regional, international and multilateral forums. Similarly, Minister Gyawali would deliberate speech on ‘Nepal-Bangladesh Relation and South Asian Cooperation’ in a programme organised by Bangaldesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies. The Nepali delegation would return home on...

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China is against Democracy

Posted by | Feb 16, 2020 | ,

KATHMANDU: A treaty signed by China and Nepal in October 2019 that manages border controls between the two countries poses significant threats to Tibetans fleeing their homeland to escape Chinese rule, Tibetan advocacy groups and other sources say. The agreement on a Border Management System, signed during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit last year to Nepal, commits both countries to hand back, within seven days of being detained, persons found crossing the border illegally, the Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) said in a report this week. “This could result in Tibetans who try to escape to freedom being sent back to the repressive rule of the Chinese Communist Party,” ICT said. Meanwhile, a Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal Matters signed in October may expose Tibetans living in Nepal to danger for exercising their freedoms, already sharply restricted in Nepal, to express their distinct cultural identity or voice political views opposed by China, ICT said. “Given China’s influence on the less-developed Nepal and the obvious power imbalance between the two countries, there are worries that Nepal may disregard legal protections for Tibetans while responding to Chinese requests under this treaty,” the rights group said. Details of the two agreements were recently brought to light when Nepal’s foreign minister Pradeep Gyawali offered written clarifications on their provisions to members of the country’s parliament, ICT said. Meanwhile, many fear...

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