Author: Himalaya Post

Khotang  –  Thirty-eight Nepali migrant workers including 13 from Khotang, who had been stranded in Saudi Arabia, will be taken back to work. An agreement has been reached for the same between the foreign employment agency and the relatives of the workers in Kathmandu, after the issue came to light in the media through the National News Agency or RSS. As per the agreement, the workers will be getting salary and other facilities as promised in the earlier contract with release of due payment, while those willing to return home will be provided air tickets from the company. The Employment Services and Empower Services in Mitrapark, Kathmandu are accountable to enforcing the agreement in Saudi Arabia. However, the concerned workers are still not happy with the agreement, according to Buna Biswakarma of the Safe Migration Information Centre in Diktel. The Embassy needs to assure us before we resume work, as we had fulfilled all due process to arrive here, Sheshan Shrestha of Jalapa in Khotang said over telephone from Saudi Arabia. The workers have been left stranded in Damam of Saudi for the past one month. They were working for an advertising company in Sonmar Almamalakha of Saudi Arabia and stopped going to work after they were not paid. However, in mid-July earlier this year, they were forcibly evicted from their quarters and left stranded in an isolated place....

Lahan – Body of one of the three children who were feared drowned in the Kamala river has been found this morning. Two are still missing. Manjaya Mahara,15, Rahul Mahara,14 of Golbazaar municipality-4 and Krishna Mahato,14, of Aurahi rural municipality had gone to the Kamala river in Utrayani yesterday evening to collect water to be offer in the Shiva temple in Gol bazaar. However, they did not return and were feared drowned in the river. Of them, a police team found the body of Krishna Mahato this morning, according to DSP at the Area Police Office Mirchaiya, Dipendra Shaha. An effort is underway to find the remaining two boys, but heavy current in the river is hampering the...