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NC to support govt by its merits, demerits: Leader Thapa

Posted by | Sep 24, 2018 |

Palpa – Nepali Congress central member and former minister for health Gagan Kumar Thapa asserted that the NC would support the incumbent government by its merits and demerits. He also clarified that the NC would support the implementation of the new constitution. The NC would play its part in helping the government to make necessary laws within the set deadline, he said at a press conference organised by the Nepal Press Union, Palpa. Meanwhile, the newly elected office bearers of the Press Union assumed office...

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Vast majority of Susta folks have neither citizenship nor land

Posted by | Sep 24, 2018 |

Parasi – The people of Susta in Parasi, the district in Province 5, have been denied citizenships and it means that they have been deprived of state facilities as well. The Susta rural municipality-5 (then Triveni Susta village development committee -4) is home to 3,133 populations; but only 256 individuals have the Nepali citizenship and most of them have acquired it on the basis of descent. Under this situation, their children have also become the stateless because they have no legal ground to pass citizenship to their offspring. These people who have been residing here since years and years and a limited number of people took the citizenship while a government mobile team had been there in 2063 BS to distribute the citizenship. A large majority of Susta people could not visit the camp to seek the citizenship as their struggle for territorial right with the Indian side had already begun. Their days were spent in fighting for territorial rights against the atrocities of the Indian side. “We got no time to proceed for the citizenship when our right to land and housing was under threat due to the high handedness of the Indian side. At the time the Indian side started to seize our land,” said Save Susta Campaign treasurer Nurja Begam (Laila). “Protection of our land from the encroachment on by others was our first priority, we...

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Chinese company gets Budhigandaki hydel project

Posted by | Sep 24, 2018 |

Kathmandu, September 23 – Nearly a year after the Sher Bahadur Deuba led government scrapped the contract with China Gezhouba Group Company Ltd for the construction of the 1,200-megawatt Budhigandaki hydropower project, a national pride project, a Cabinet meeting on Friday decided to award the contract for the project to CGGCL again. The Deuba-led government had rescinded the contract with CGGCL on November 13, stating that the bidding process was not competitive and the deal lacked transparency and flouted the Public Procurement Act requirements. Earlier, the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government had awarded the contract to construct the Budhigandaki project to CGGCL on May 15, 2017, nine days before he was to resign from the PM’s post. Speaking at a press briefing today, Minister of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Barshaman Pun, said the Cabinet meeting had granted the contract to build the project worth Rs 300 billion to CGGCL. However, the Dahal-led government had awarded the contract to CGGCL to build the project at a cost of Rs 260 billion as per a study carried out by a French company, Tractebel Engineering. In a recent development, CGGCL had submitted a proposal and a new memorandum of understanding to build the project to the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers on July 15. “The Chinese firm has proposed to construct Budhigandaki under the engineering procurement construction and...

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UN chief expresses concern over cease-fire violation in Libya’s capital

Posted by | Sep 24, 2018 |

TRIPOLI – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed concern over the continued violation of the UN-brokered cease-fire agreement in the Libyan capital Tripoli. “The secretary-general is alarmed by the increasing number of violations of the cease-fire agreement signed by armed groups in Tripoli … under the auspices of his Special Representative Ghassan Salame,” said a statement by the Secretary-General’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric. Guterres called on the warring parties to “respect the cease-fire and refrain from any actions that would increase the suffering of the civilian population,” the statement added. He also warned that violators of international humanitarian law and international human rights law “must be held responsible.” Earlier in the day, the Libyan Ministry of Health announced that fierce fighting in southern Tripoli on Friday killed 10 people and injured 59 others, including civilians. The death toll of the violence has increased to 106 since the beginning of the fighting on Aug. 26. Violent clashes continued in southern Tripoli between forces allied with the UN-backed government and the “7th Brigade” militia from the city of Tarhuna, some 80 km southeast of Tripoli. The Libyan government later on Friday called on the international community and the UN to “take more firm and effective practical actions to stop the war and protect civilians.” Earlier in September, the UN Support Mission in Libya brokered a cease-fire agreement between the warring parties. However, the agreement...

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Five years plan be set for country’s development: CPN Chair Dahal

Posted by | Sep 24, 2018 |

Chitwan – Communist Party of Nepal Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal today said a five-year plan should be set for the development of the country. He also urged all to come together to make the district a model one in terms of development. The former Prime Minister was speaking at the second district assembly of the Chitwan district coordination committee. Likewise, lawmaker and former Minister for Finance Surendra Prasad Pandey underscored the need for moving ahead after holding consultations on the development model, while lawmaker Krishna Bhakta Pokharel called for the district to lead its drive of development and prosperity. On the occasion, Chief of the coordination committee Krishna Kumar Dallakoti presented the committee’s new policies and programmes for the fiscal year...

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