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NA reschedules election date for thematic committees

Posted by | Aug 16, 2018 |

Kathmandu – The National Assembly (NA), the upper house in the federal parliament, rescheduled the date for the elections of its four thematic committees at 11:00 am on August 29. Earlier, the election had been fixed for August 19. In a meeting of the NA today, its chair Ganesh Prasad Timilsina said the election date had to be postponed due to a special reason. The four thematic committees formed under the NA are Sustainable Development and Good Governance; Legislation Management; Delegated Legislation and Government Assurance Committee; and National Concern and Coordination...

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Religious fair in Taudaha on Naag Panchami

Posted by | Aug 16, 2018 |

Kathmandu – A religious fair has begun at Taudaha in Kirtipur Municipality on the occasion of the Naag Panchami festival today. Naag Panchami is the festival dedicated to Naag or the serpant deities. It is ovserved on the fifth day of the bright half of the Nepali month of Shrawan as per the lunar calendar. Devotees from the Kathmandu Valley and surrounding areas have thronged the place which is famous as the abode of the Karkotak Naag (one of the eight serpant deities). People worship the Naag and make special offerings of the dubo grass, flower and rice grains mixed with red vermillion powder to the Naags on the occasion. Milk, fruits and sweets made of milk are also offered with the lighting of incense sticks and lamp in homage to the serpant deities. Naag is taken as the god of water and rain, and as per the religious belief, it is said that the house where the Naag deity resides is bestowed with wealth and prosperity. Ot is believed that the worship of the snake goes back to the time beforethe ancient Vedic era. Kiran KC, a local said that devotees visit Taudaha until the evening to pay homage to the Naag. Some people also observe fasting on the occasion and only take food in the evening after making offerings to the snake god. Religious fairs are also...

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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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