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Bridge over Bheri almost in final stage of construction

Posted by | Aug 22, 2018 |

Birendranagar– The construction of a bridge over the Bheri River in Surkhet, the capital of the Karnali Province, has come to a final stage. Almost 90 percent of the construction of the bridge linking Jamu of Panchapuri municipality and Takhakuna has complete. The contract for the construction was awarded to Lumbini Himdung JB Construction. The bridge has the length of 350 metres. Though the timeline served for the construction was five years according to the agreement the bridge will be ready for operation even earlier, shared engineer of construction company Dinesh Kumar Shrestha. “We will complete the construction of bridge on time”, he said, adding that the enthusiastic support and participation from locals, political parties and employees contributed much to speed up the construction. The final construction of the bridge is likely to be carried out within 16 September, he shared. It may be noted that the Bheri River had seen massive flooding in 2014 which also had swept away a suspension bridge in Panchapuri municipality-10. The flooding had rendered 93 families displaced. Since then, boats have been used to cross the river, putting lives at risk....

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Bakar-Eid being celebrated in Pokhara

Posted by | Aug 22, 2018 | ,

Pokhara– The Islam religious people are celebrating their grand festival, Bakar Eid, with much fanfare today. The festival which is to be continued for three days from today is also known as ‘Eid-Ul-Juha’. The Muslim community considers this as a festival of devotion. Ali Miya Literary Foundation, Pokhara Chairperson and religious preacher Hanif Miya informed that the festival marked the beginning with the recitation of Islam scripture Nawaz at Idgaha of Pokhara in the early morning today. The Muslim people who are almost 10,000 in number in Pokhara alone are marking the festival with much excitement, he added. The Muslims visit the mosques, offer prayers to Allah, perform the Namaj prayers and exchange greetings each others on the occasion....

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Chepangs of Dhading without land certificate, deprived of housing grant

Posted by | Aug 22, 2018 |

Dhading – Chepang communities residing at Parlak, Bhainse, and Bangkurti of Benighat Rorang rural municipality-2 in Dhading have been disappointed as they were deprived of housing grant announced by the government for earthquake survivors. Despite having their names in the list of beneficiaries of National Reconstruction Authority (NRA), the government body formed to carry out post-quake reconstruction works, they have become ineligible to make the house reconstruction agreement. The Chepang people here had been rendered homeless as other villagers as the 2015 April quake ravaged the entire settlement. Though a technical team from the NRA had already been here to conduct a survey of the affected settlement before recommending survivors for the grant, the Chepangs do not have land registration certificates and under this condition, they are disqualified to make an agreement with the NRA to rebuild house as well as draw the announced monetary assistance. complained one Purna Bahadur Chepang. “Though our names have been in the list of beneficiaries and the NRA team had already made a housing grant agreement with us, the further process has got stalled as we do not own the legal land ownership certificates,” he said. Hasta Bahadur, Sukara, Suka Ram, Som Singh, Chandra Bahadur, Deep Lal, Som Bahadur, Shukram, Lal Bahadur, Dil Bahadur, Bir Bahadur, Sher Bahadur, Bikram, Aaita Singh, Jagat Bahadur and Rup Bahadur have the similar stories as of Purna...

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Erdogan vows Turkey will not be cowed by US

Posted by | Aug 19, 2018 |

ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared Saturday that his country would not be cowed by the United States, his latest broadside in the bitter feud between Ankara and Washington. The two NATO members are at odds over Turkey’s detention of an American pastor, which has triggered a trade row and sent the local currency the lira into a tailspin. “We will not surrender to those who present themselves as a strategic partner while at the same time trying to make us a strategic target,” Erdogan said at a congress of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). “Some people threaten us with economy, sanctions, foreign currency exchange rates, interest rates and inflation. We know your shenanigans and we will defy you.” Last week, US President Donald Trump said he had doubled the tariffs on aluminium and steel tariffs from Turkey, prompting Ankara to sharply hike tariffs on several US products. And Turkey on Friday threatened to respond in kind if Washington imposed further sanctions, while a court rejected another appeal to free pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been held for almost two years on terror charges. The lira has nosedived against the dollar, dropping as much as 20 percent on one day last week. It sunk to a low of well over seven to the dollar earlier this week but was trading at just over six to...

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Minister requests for lifting ban on NOC plots of land

Posted by | Aug 19, 2018 |

Kathmandu – Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies, Matrika Yadav, has requested the parliamentary committee to lift legal restrictions on the land the Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) earlier purchased for the storage of petroleum products. At a meeting of the Industry, Commerce, Labour and Consumers Interest Committee under the House of Representatives today, the Ministry made this request. Legal restrictions were put following disputes in the procurement processes. “The NOC needs the removal of restrictions on the land it had purchased for the specific purposes,” he said, pledging to discontinue syndicate imposed by petrol pumps and tankers involved in the distribution and transportation of petroleum products. A lottery system, if necessary, could be practiced to make the process of granting permission to operate tankers and pumps transparent. According to him, efforts are on to remove misconducts long existing in the industrial sector. Prior to this, the committee members drew the attention of ministers towards the issues of embezzlement of funds in the purchase of plots of land by the NOC and monopoly by dealers and tankers associated with the distribution and transportation of petroleum...

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