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Police organization reaches at all local levels

Posted by | Sep 1, 2018 | ,

Kathmandu–  The reach of Nepal Police organization has expanded to all the 753 local levels. The police organization has expanded to all the local levels now with the establishing of police outposts in 30 local levels where there was no police presence before. There was no police post in four municipalities and 26 rural municipalities. Nepal Police central spokesman, Senior Superintendent Shailesh Thapa Chhetri said that the police administration has set up outposts in all the local levels in the country for consolidating law and order, and security at the local levels in line with federalism. “We have assigned 1,065 police personnel to the four municipalities and 26 rural municipalities,” he said....

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One arrested with a pistol

Posted by | Sep 1, 2018 |

Biratnagar–  Police here have arrested a person with a pistol who was involved in robbery at a jewellery shop. Thirty-two years old Gopal Dahal (BK) alias Roshan of Dingla-2 in Bhojpur district was arrested on this charge on Friday, police said. BK had been staying in a rented room at Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City-15. He is accused of looting money and gold from the Thapa Gold and Silver Shop at Biratchok in Sundarharaincha Municipality-10. Police confiscated an automatic pistol, two rounds of bullets and a gold bracelet from him....

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‘One District-Two Agriculture Pocket Areas’ programme launched in Karnali

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Birendranagar– The Ministry of Land, Agriculture and Cooperatives Management of the Karnali province government has made preparation for implementing the One District-Two Agriculture Pocket Areas Programme in all the districts of the province. The Ministry has planned to construct a cooperatives complex in Surkhet, the capital of the province. It has also envisaged operating various programmes for increased marketing of agriculture produce in the province. Province Minister for Land, Agriculture and Cooperatives Management, Bimala KC shared this information organising a news conference here on Friday. On the occasion, she said that her ministry has spent around 65 per cent of the total budget allocated to it for the fiscal year 2017/18. The province gobernment had allocated Rs 100 million 777 thousand to the Ministry for the current fiscal. Of this budget, the Ministry has spent Rs 65 million 475 thousand so far, she added. Minister KC claimed that the programmes launched by her ministry have started showing results and the farmers have benefitted from these programmes. The Ministry has implemented scores of programmes like construction of cooperative buildings, milk refrigeration facilities and small and cooperative irrigation projects in the province. The Minister also said that the ministry was preparing to introduce 10 bills related to the agriculture sector....

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Narcotic drug users increasing in Banke district

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Banke– The number of narcotics drug users and those involved in its trafficking is found increasing in Banke district over the last few years, police said. The District Police Office, Banke states that the sheer number of people arrested in connection with drug trafficking and abuse, the number of related cases registered in court and the volume of such drugs confiscated by police vindicated to this trend. As per the statistics of the last three years, the number of drug users and traffickers is found increasing instead of decreasing. Moreover, teenage girls are also found involved in substance abuse and its trafficking. According to police, the banned drugs are easily available in the Indian border town Rupaidiha, which is close to the district. It is said that some of these teenage girls who are involved in drug abuse and trafficking due to the influence of their peers are into prostitution also. Teenage girls from the district as well as those from other districts who are living here in course of higher studies or for any other works, are found involved in these illegal activities. Police stated that 11 teenage girls were arrested on the charge of drug peddling or abuse in the district in fiscal year 2017/18. They were caught up in this bad habit due to their association with their male friends, Police Inspector Rana Bahadur Bista said....

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Work procedure on tourist search, rescue, medical treatment and monitoring enforced

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Kathmandu– The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has enforced the Work Procedure on Search, Rescue, Medical Treatment and Monitoring of Tourists, 2018. The work procedure is implemented with the goal of making the search and rescue of tourists in case of natural disaster decent and systematic. Ministry’s joint spokesman Prakash Sharma Dhakal said the work procedure has been implemented with the objective of making the works related to search, rescue and treatment of tourists prompt, easy and smooth whenever disaster hits the tourists in course of trekking, river rafting, mountaineering and other adventure tourism activities. The goal is also to lessen the impact of such disasters as far as possible. The work procedure requires that the tourism agency concerned has to immediately carry out the search and rescue if any tourist or their assistant workers are lost or go missing after hit by natural disasters or any other causes in course of adventure tourism activities. It is also the responsibility of the agency and the tourist guide concerned to take and bring back the tourist to the destination in a safe manner. It stipulates that it would also be the responsibility of the agency concerned to conduct and have other related bodies conduct the search and rescue works taking the help of experts, other organisations, agencies and speedy means like airlines and helicopters in case the on-site...

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