URLABARI: A biker has died after being hit by a car, Ba 3 Cha 7962, belonging to former king Gyanendra Shah.

The deceased has been identified as 22-year-old Prkash Chaudhary of Itahari Sub Metropolitan City-8 . Similarly, Hem Chaudhary, 22, who was riding pillion, has sustained  injuries. He is receiving treatment at Biratnagar-based Nobel Hospital, informed Area Police Office, Urlabari.

The car hit the motorbike at Sundarharaincha Municipality-4 when it was returning home after dropping Shah at Biratnagar airport on Wednesday night, according to police.

Police said they are investigating the case after taking the car and its driver under control. Former King Shah had used the same car during his visit to the eastern districts of Nepal.

GULMI: Two persons, including former lawmaker Rudra Mani Sharma Bhandari, died in a jeep accident in Gulmi.

The other deceased, an eight year-old, has been identified as Waskar Biswakarma, police said.

Eight passengers travelling in the jeep have been injured, three critically when the ill-fated jeep bearing registration number Lu 1 Ja 1957 skidded some 100 meters down the road at Paudaimrai-1 of Musikot municipality this morning.

The vehicle was heading towards Malika rural municipality of Gulmi from Butwal, police informed.

Police said that the injured are undergoing treatment at Tamghas District Hospital.

LAHAN: Indian Ambassador to Nepal Manjeev Singh Puri has inaugurated Chandranarayan Yadav Memorial Maternity Hospital constructed with the Indian government’s assistance of Rs 2.69 billion.

The 25-bed maternity hospital operated its service from Wednesday. According to the Chandranarayan Yadav Memorial Trust, the hospital has started its service delivery with the principle based on quality motherhood and child health.

The maternity hospital is equipped with medical instruments such as blood bank, emergency, ultrasound, x-ray, minor OT, ICU, CCU, and major operation theater, among other facilities.

URLABARI: A youth  died being hit by a car at Sundar Haraincha Municipality-4  along the East-West Highway in Morang district on Wednesday night.

The deceased has been identified as 22-year-old Prkash Chaudhary of Itahari Sub Metropolitan City-8 . Similarly, Hem Chaudhary,22, who was riding pillion, has sustained  injuries. He is receiving treatment at Biratnagar-based Nobel Hospital.

The car, Ba 3 Cha 7962, coming from the opposite direction, had hit the motorcycle.

Police said they are investigating the case after taking the car and its driver under control.

KATHMANDU: Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal (RJPN) has decided to hit the streets demanding to unveil the report prepared by the commission led by former judge Girish Chandra Lal.

A meeting of the presidium decided to organize various protest programs including demonstration, mass meetings on Friday, informed presidium coordinator Sarat Singh Bhandari.

The RJPN has already informed its party rank and file to this effect, a report in Naya Patriya said.

Earlier, the party had disrupted the parliament demanding to unveil the commission’s report, constitution amendment, release of its cadres including lawmaker Resham Chaudhary, withdrawal of cases filed against them and granting citizenship by descent among others.

KATHMANDU:  A total of Rs 2.2 billion is found to have been embezzled in the long overdue Melamchi drinking water project. Of the total 25 billion rupees spent in the project so far, Rs 2.2 billion is found to have been misappropriated, according to the Office of Attorney General.

The Attorney General is  preparing to submit an audit report to the President. Rs 266 million has been spent for consultation service alone, said the audit report. Similarly, Rs 17.98 billion has been spend for construction while 725.4 million has been spent for administrative work.

Likewise, the project has spent Rs 1.87 billion has been spent in the name of improving the social status of the local people.

In a breakthrough achievement, astronomers have taken the first ever image of a black hole, international media report said. The black hole is located in a distant galaxy.

The black hole is 500 million trillion km away from the earth and was photographed by a network of eight telescopes across the world, BBC reported.

It has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun and it is one of the heaviest black holes that astronomer think exists.

KATHMANDU: Nepal has started a process to evacuate Nepal Army (NA) personnel guarding the headquarters of the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Libya.

The government started the process to move Nepali peacekeepers out from the African country as UN officials left the headquarters after Libyan National Army (LNA) attacked Tripoli, the country’s Capital.

“Attempts were underway to evacuate Nepali peacekeepers following security threats,” NA Spokesperson Brigadier General Yam Prasad Dhakal told Khabarhub.

The headquarters is currently housing Ghassan Salamé, special representative to UN secretary general and Nepali soldiers are deployed to guard him.

According to him, the rebellious group has declared the Tripoli-based international airport as ‘no flying zone’. However, there is no obstruction on road connecting to Tunisia and some of the staffs of the UN mission are being taken to Tunisia by road.

Spokesperson Dhakal said 231 NA personnel have been deployed in the mission and all of them are safe and sound.

KATHMANDU: The government is establishing a trauma center in each state. The Ministry of Health and Population has started necessary preparations for that.

Presently, it is working on projects of establishing at least one medical college in every state. Similarly, works are on the progress to build health post buildings at 1,200 wards; and a 15-bed health facility at 640 local levels.

Ministry’s joint-secretary Dr. Bikash Devkota shared information about this today during the inaugural session of the fifth summit of health and population scientists organized with the theme of ‘equity in the federal system and research for development’.

KATHMANDU: The Supreme Court (SC) has refused to release Hemanta Prakash Oli, an influential leader of Nepal Communist Party led by Netra Bikram Chand alias Biplav.

Hearing a habeas corpus petition on Wednesday, the apex court denied to release him and annulled the petition.

Chand’s daughter had filed a habeas corpus petition claiming that the arrest was illegal.

Earlier on March 28, a single bench of Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana had ordered the government to present Oli and other arrested leaders of the party before the court.