Author: Himalaya Post

Bangladeshi gov’t approves draft Road Transport Act

Posted by | Aug 7, 2018 |

DHAKA – Bangladesh’s government on Monday approved the draft of Road Transport Act 2018 with provisions for stringent punishment to the traffic offenders. The draft was approved at a cabinet meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam told reporters. The proposed law stipulates that the traffic offenders will risk being sentenced up to 5 years in non-bailable jail. The country’s existing transport law entitled the maximum penalty of three years behind bars with the provision of bail. The move comes in the wake of the countrywide student protests that erupted after two students died on the spot, while another nine of the Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College were injured after they were run over by a bus in a reckless driving incident on the highway linking Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport with the center of Dhaka on July...

Read More

Man arrested with 457 grammes gold

Posted by | Aug 7, 2018 |

Kathmandu – The Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu has arrested a person for possessing 457 grams of smuggled gold. A team of the Metropolitan Police Circle, Gaushala held 28-year-old Faizad Alam of Sunsari on Monday after being tipped-off that gold was being smuggled in from Tribhuvan International Airport using Nepali migrant workers returning home from foreign employment as carriers. The police paraded Alam holding a press conference today. Spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police Range, Deputy Superintendent Mohan Kumar Thapa, said that Alam was arrested from in front of the main gate to the Airport when he was loitering around in a suspicious manner. Police confiscated seven gold bangles and five rings from him. They are worth Rs 2 million 194 thousand 57 in the current market price. Alam has been sent to the Tribhuvan International Airport customs office for necessary...

Read More

Dhaka protests: 8 journalists assaulted

Posted by | Aug 7, 2018 |

Dhaka [Bangladesh] – As many as eight journalists have been allegedly beaten up by activists of the ruling Bangladesh Awami League (AL) party, while they were covering the student protests on road safety in Dhaka. The eight journalists also include – Prothom Alo’s staff correspondent Ahmed Deepto, Associated Press (AP) photo-journalist AM Ahad, Daily Banik Barta’s Palash and freelancer Rahat Karim. The wounded journalists are undergoing medical treatment at various hospitals in the Bangladeshi capital, Prothom Alo reported. The activists of AL’s front organisations – Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and its youth wing Awami Juba League physically attacked the journalists while they were reporting on the attacks on the students protesting at Science Lab and Jhigatola areas in Dhaka. Prothom Alo’s Deepto said that a group of journalists were covering the protests at Dhanmondi-1 area when a large number of BCL activists started chasing the students. Deepto added that as the journalists and the students started to run for safety, he was brutally hit in his leg by a BCL activist with an iron rod. “As much as 20-25 activists beat me up mercilessly,” he alleged. Depto further said that during the assault, his helmet was broken. For those unversed, two students of Dhaka’s Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College were killed when a speeding bus ploughed through a crowd on July 29. The bus was attempting to overtake another...

Read More

Nawaz Sharif’s wife conscious, still on ventilator

Posted by | Aug 7, 2018 | ,

London [UK] –  Kulsoom Nawaz, wife of jailed Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has regained consciousness but she is still on ventilator, said Sharif’s son Hussain Nawaz. Hussain informed that his mother was able to recognise family members and could now communicate with them through gestures. However, she was unable to speak, Samaa TV reported quoting Hussain Nawaz. Kulsoom is undergoing treatment for cancer at the Harley Street Clinic in London. On July 13, Hussain announced that his mother opened her eyes after a month-long coma. He requested people to remember his mother in their prayers. Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz were in London to attend to ailing Kulsum Nawaz. However, they had to leave for Pakistan to serve their respective sentences in connection to the Avenfield reference case. On July 6, Sharif and Maryam were convicted in absentia in the Avenfield reference case by the Accountability Court. While the former was given ten years of imprisonment and slapped with a fine of eight million pounds, Maryam was awarded eight years in jail and fined two million pounds. Upon their arrival at Lahore on July 13, the father-daughter duo was taken to Islamabad by a chartered flight, from where they were taken to Adiala jail in Rawalpindi....

Read More

Violent tiger held captive

Posted by | Aug 7, 2018 |

Ratnanagar – The Chitwan National Park (CNP) took control a tiger which attacked and killed a woman in west Chitwan. CNP Chief Conservation Officer Bed Kumar Dhakal informed that a team of animal doctors with eight tuskers deputed from the national park brought the wild cat under control on Monday evening. The tiger has been kept in confinement at the national park. It may be noted that the jungle cat had bounced and killed Sushila Dumre, 25, while she was collecting fodder at the Raptidun Buffer Zone Community Forest in Bharatpur Metropolitan City-25 on Monday. Dhakal further informed that the tiger which was spotted around the dead body was made unconscious and taken under control with entire daylong effort. The CNP source said the tiger aged around 10-12 might have come out of its ring for not being able to struggle to hold own territory. Some days earlier, a wild cat that was held captive from east Chitwan after series of attacks on human being died due to wound infection. The growing incidents of conflict between human and wild beast have posed a serious threat to the country’s efforts for conserving endangered big...

Read More

Like us on Facebook

Himalaya Post