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Dhungana appointed NSU president

Posted by | Jan 30, 2020 | ,

Rajiv Dhungana of Sunsari has been appointed the central president of Nepal Students Union (NSU), the sister organisation of the Nepali Congress. Nepali Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba nominated him to the post and also constituted the NSU central ad-hoc working committee today. Deuba nominated Dhungana as per the decision of the party’s central working committee meeting on February 13, 2019. Dhungana had started student politics as the NSU district president in 1991. He has served as NSU central member, treasurer and vice-president before this. Similarly, Deuba has nominated Manoj Baidya of Kathmandu and Maheshwori Kunwar of Palpa as the general-secretary of the ad-hoc committee, chief secretary at the party office Krishna Prasad Poudel said. The Ad-hoc Committee has been assigned the responsibility of conducting the 12th central convention of NSU within six months from today. It is stated that the office-bearers and members on the Ad-hoc Committee cannot stand in the election to be held in the NSU’s forthcoming 12th general convention. Students who have not crossed 32 years of age on February 12, 2019, the date when the erstwhile NSU central working committee was dissolved, can however participate in the 12th general convention. The party office has stated that the remaining office-bearers and members of the NSU Ad-hoc Committee would be nominated at the...

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Foreign Minister of Luxembourg meets PM Oli

Posted by | Jan 30, 2020 | ,

Minister for Foreign and European Affairs of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Jean Asselborn has paid a courtesy call on Prime minister KP Sharma Oli at latter’s official residence at Baluwatar this afternoon. During the meeting discussions were held on enhancing economic cooperation, including trade, investments, tourism and transfer of technology and continuing EU support to Nepal, said joint secretary Nirmal Raj Kafle. On the occasion, PM Oli urged the Luxembourg Foreign Minister to encourage invest in Nepal as environment conducive was made after promulgation of new constitution. He stressed on co-work on uplifting Nepal from least developed country to developing country and achieving sustainable development goal. Foreign Minister Asselborn shared that they were ready to co-work with Nepal in common issues. Minister Asselborn who had arrived yesterday morning in Kathmandu for a two-day official visit of Nepal has met with foreign minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali yesterday itself. During the meeting, the both had reviewed a wide range of matters of mutual interests. Foreign minister Jean is scheduled to return home today...

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2019 AD is a year of shrinking freedoms in Nepal: Amnesty International

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Amnesty International Nepal has said the situation of human rights in Nepal was not satisfactory in 2019. Freedoms came under attack in Nepal in 2019 as the government proposed laws to restrict the right to freedom of expression and subject civil society organizations to greater restrictions, Amnesty International said as the human rights organization released its annual report on events in the Asia-Pacific region. ‘Human Rights in Asia-Pacific: Review of 2019’ published today by Amnesty International delivers the most comprehensive analysis of the state of human rights in the world’s largest continent. “Over the past year, we have seen the country increasingly resort to repressive methods to restrict freedoms. Journalists were arrested simply for doing their jobs, singers were imprisoned solely for the content of their songs, and civil society came under greater pressure,” said Biraj Patnaik, South Asia Director at Amnesty International. “The government has also failed to deliver on truth, justice and reparations for thousands of victims of crimes under international law and other serious human rights violations committed during the decade-long armed conflict. Migrant workers, a source of prized remittances, were not protected from abusive recruitment practices. And many people who lost their homes during the 2015 earthquake were no closer to finding permanent shelter.” Freedom of expression under attack In Nepal, laws like the Electronic Transactions Act 2006 were used to arbitrarily arrest journalists and...

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Special campaign in place against alcohol, drugs and gambling

Posted by | Jan 30, 2020 |

Chandragiri municipality has put in place special campaign against alcoholism, drug abuse and gambling. A meeting of the community police and municipality committee held at the municipality office on Wednesday decided to place special campaign against alcoholism, drug abuse and gambling under the coordination of municipality mayor Ghanashyam Giri. The meeting also has decided to check the production, transportation and sale of illegal domestic alcoholic products take action against drunk-driving. Metropolitan Police Circle Thankot In-charge Deputy Superintendant of Police (DSP) Ghanashyam Shrestha lauded municipality initiative to take leadership for law and order. “Thankot police circle will also extend all possible support in municipality’s campaign for law and order”, he pledged. The meeting also decided to run special sweep operation against drug abuse, take legal action against those involved in drug smuggling and conduct routine psychosocial counseling to drug abusers and their parents. Municipality spokesperson Haribhakta Maharjan said action will be taken against anyone driving vehicle under the influence of drugs and alcohol in line with the Drug Prevention...

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Corona health desk set up at Tatopani checkpoint

Posted by | Jan 30, 2020 | ,

A health desk has been set up at northern border checkpoint Tatopani to prevent possible outbreak of Novel Corona Virus infection, which was fast spreading across China. Sindhupalchowk Chief District Officer Goma Devi Chemjong informed that the public awareness creation followed by setup of health desk was carried out in coordination with Bhotekoshi rural municipality. Arrangement has been made to provide health check-up at the desk and immediately refer the patients to Kathmandu hospital if detected with the features of corona virus, said District Public Health Officer Durga Dutta Chapagain. Import of goods from China has been closed for the past one week due to Lhosar festival as well as road disruption in Tibet following heavy snowfall, said Information Officer at Tatopani Customs Office Keshab Wali. According to the Immigration Office, Chinese doctors have been providing health examination service in Khasa region from the very beginning of the outbreak of corona virus infection and also preventing people with minor fever from moving to Nepal. The border checkpoint which was completely halted after the 2015 earthquake has come to resumption on 29 May 2019. Despite having a daylong entry pass, the Chinese side has stopped Nepali workers from going beyond Khasa as a precautionary measure....

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