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PM Oli warns against misleading publicity about Civil and Criminal Codes

Posted by | Aug 16, 2018 |

Kathmandu – Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has urged all not to make misleading publicity regarding the the Country Civil Code and the Country Criminal Code which will come into effect from tomorrow. The Prime Minister was addressing a programme to welcome new entrants to the Communist Party of Nepal at the party’s central office at Dhumrabarahi today. “Much misleading propaganda has been spread around the implementation of the Country Civil Code and the Country Ceiminal Code. But this is the law which had been passed by the parliament last year only after much discussion,” Prime Minister and party Chair Oli said. He urged against spreading rumour about both the codes that the doctors would be subjected to life imprisonment if a patient died in course of treatment in hospital. Stating that it takes time to become used to new laws since there are new provisions in the new laws, PM Oli said there were no such provisions in the codes which would affect the people in negative way. He stated that the government has been working in a way to give impetus to the development and construction works, to raise the living standard of the poor, to pay attention to social security, to maintain peace and national unity while remaining within the parameter of the constitution and the laws, urging one and all not to carry out activities...

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Sixteen thousand hectares of forest land used for development infrastructure projects

Posted by | Aug 16, 2018 |

Kathmandu –  Complaints of the Ministry of Forest and Environment not cooperating in the construction of development projects aside, the Ministry has provided 16,716 hectares of forest land to various such projects. It is stated that the Ministry has provided the forest land to 516 various bodies for 12 different purposes. The Ministry has provided the largest area of forest land to 164 bodies for construction of hydropower strictures and power transmission lines. Similarly, it has made available forest land to 92 government bodies, 67 security units, 57 physical infrastructiure projects and 38 social service projects. This is stated in a report prepared by the Ministry. This includes the figures of the forest land the Ministry has provided to different bodies over the last 33 years. The Ministry has been providing the government forest land especially for the purpose of ecotourism, forestry development, transmission of power cables, setting up herbs processing industries, construction of government offices and projects, building physical infrastructures, developing wildlife farms, setting up cement and limestone factories, settlement of the freed Kamaiyas and landless squatters, construction of telecommunication structures, building bases of the security bodies, social service and other purposes. It has provided 4,690 hectares of forest land for forestry development (tree plantation, rubber cultivation), 2819 hectares for the purpose of settlement, 1726 hectares to the security bodies, 1689 hectares for construction of physical infrastructures as...

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Darchula-based woman activist bags Darnal Award

Posted by | Aug 16, 2018 |

Kathmandu –  This year’s “Darnal Award for Social Justice” was presented to Baitadi-based social activist Saraswoti Nepali. The award has been established in commemoration of prominent social activist Suvash Darnal who had specially fought for the rights, social justice and dignity of the Dalit community. Darnal’s mother Sarita Nepali honoured Sarawswoti with the award carrying a purse of Rs 500,000 amidst a programme here Wednesday organised by the Jagaran Media Center and Samata Foundation. Nepali has her significant contributions to the land rights education and towards social justice for the Dalits. The award is presented every two years on August 15, the death anniversary of Darnal who had passed away in 2011 at the age of 31. On the occasion, other social rights activists- Kalawati Bhand (Dadeldhura), Arun Sada (Siraha), Parbati Kumari Bishunkhe (Dailekh), Dilip Gandharva (Bardiya) and Dr Rupchandra Bishwakarma (Bajura)–were...

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Search for survivors after deadly Italy bridge collapse

Posted by | Aug 15, 2018 |

GENOA, Italy – Italian rescuers searched through the night Wednesday for any survivors under the shattered remains of a motorway bridge in Genoa as investigators probed what could have caused such a catastrophic collapse. More than 30 people were killed on Tuesday when a vast span of the Morandi bridge collapsed during a heavy rainstorm, sending about 35 cars and several trucks plunging 45-metres (150 feet) onto railway tracks below. Rescuers spent the night within the tangled remains of the bridge under floodlights and there are fears the toll could rise in what the Italian government has called an “immense tragedy”. The collapse came as the bridge was undergoing maintenance work and as the Liguria region, where Genoa is situated, experienced torrential rainfall. “Unfortunately there are around 30 dead and many injured in a serious condition,” Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Wednesday, vowing that those responsible would “pay, pay everything, and pay dearly”. On Wednesday morning, sources in the interior ministry quoted by Italian media estimated that the death toll had risen to 35, including three children aged from eight to 12 years old. Sixteen people are also wounded, including 12 in serious condition. Italian President Sergio Mattarella said a “catastrophe” had hit Genoa and the whole of Italy.”Italians have the right to modern and efficient infrastructure that accompanies them safely through their everyday lives,” Mattarella said in...

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10 including Nepali Professor selected for ‘Xian Friendship Award’

Posted by | Aug 15, 2018 |

Kathmandu – The Xian Government of China has decided to honour Nepali Prof Dr Rajib Kumar Jha with the “Xian Friendship Award” for the year 2018. A total of 10 people from different countries including Jha have been receiving the biannual award along with the ‘Xian Excellent Foreign Expert Award’ to be presented by the Xian Government of Shaanxi Province in China. Other awardees are from Germany, Malaysia, Brazil, the US, Japan (two), Yemen and Croatia. The award carries a purse of Rs 50,000 RMB and Jha is the first Nepali to bag the award that has been being presented since 2009. The award is presented to foreign talents on the recognition of their special contributions to the China’s economic, social and international relations by residing in Xian, according to Dr Jha. The ten are selected for the award from among around 10,000 University teachers, researchers, doctors and business community in Xian. The Xian provincial government has set up the China Nepal Friendship Medical Research Center of Professor Rajiv Kumar Jha four years back in Professor Jha’s name. Dr Jha is a professor at the Xian University. He completed PhD and Post-doc on reducing the effect of bile duct cancer. The university has also been facilitating the experience exchange among the doctors from the two countries. Prof Jha has been living in China for the last 22 years. He...

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