DHANGADHI: The cadres of Netra Bikram Chand aka ‘Biplav’ led Nepal Communist Party torched a passenger bus  here in the district on Thursday morning.

The incident occurred in the Rajipur jungle of Kailali district.

A total of 12 members playing musical instruments for a marriage ceremony were travelling in the bus. All the passengers as well as bus driver and helper are safe. The bus was heading towards Bhimduttanagar from Bhajani.

Superintendent of Police at the District Police Office, Kailali, Aabhushan Timsina said that an unidentified group comprising nine people torched the bus (Ma 1 Kha 441) by sprinkling diesel on it at 4 am.

MORANG: Suspicious objects resembling a bomb has terrorized locals at Rural Municipality Kanepokhari ward no – 2. The locals upon spotting two objects that looked like pressure cooker bomb had informed the police.

Similarly, a suspicious object was also spotted at Gaindakot Municipality-9.

JANAKPURDHAM: The deal sealed between the government and CK Raut deal is as per the spirit of the constitution, said Lal Babu Pandit, Minister for Federal Affairs and General Administration.

Addressing a press conference here today Minister Pandit clarified that the essence of the word people’s opinion mentioned in the agreement does not mean the referendum whereas it rather means general election.

He added that such issues would be resolved through election and democratic practices.

On another note, he said that the government did not want war with Biplav-led party. He also shared that the civil servants adjustment process will be completed within 15 days.

KATHMANDU: Total 23 Nepalis were rescued from various places in Malaysia by the Nepali Embassy in Malasiya.

The embassy arranged for the safe return to the home country by providing air tickets.

The embassy sources have stated that the embassy was working seriously to return back the workers who were stranded and were facing difficulties to return home.

KATHMANDU: President Bidya Devi Bhandari attended a reception hosted in her honor on in New York Wednesday evening.

Arjun Kumar Karki, Nepal’s Ambassador to the United States and Amrit Kumar Rai, Nepal’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, jointly hosted a reception to honour the President.

She is in New York in the course of attending the 63rd session of the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW-63)

Also present on the occasion were diplomatic community based in New York, UN office-bearers, business community people and representatives of Nepali community.

In the meanwhile, Dhnmaya Thapa, Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizen, delivered her speech in the CSW session.

On the occasion, Minister Thapa presented the progress Nepal has made in the area of gender equality and expressed Nepal’s further commitment to that end, according to New York-based Nepal’s Permanent Mission to the UN.

Informing that Nepal has made necessary amendments to relevant laws for ending gender discrimination, she expressed Nepal’s readiness to work in collaboration with international organizations for the empowerment of women and adolescents towards attaining Sustainable Development Goals.

Likewise, Nirudevi Pal, lawmaker and President of Women and Social Committee of the House of Representatives, stressed on the need of the full implementation of the Beijing Declaration.

POKHARA: Public transport and learning institutions are affected by the strike called by Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’-led Communist Party of Nepal today.

Also most of the shops in the city have remained closed. Suspicious objects were found at Shavagriha Chowk and Bhandardhik of Pokhara this morning.

A bomb disposal team disposed the suspicious materials, said Spokesperson of Kaski Police, Rabindraman Gurung.

KATHMANDU: World Kidney Day is a global awareness campaign aimed at raising awareness on the importance of our kidneys.

850 million people worldwide are now estimated to have kidney diseases from various causes. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) causes at least 2.4 million deaths per year and it is now the 6th fastest growing cause of death.

PM Oli in rally. Photo: Krishna Poudel/Prime Minister Secretariat

Hence, 2019 theme is, “Kidney Health for Everyone Everywhere,” aiming to highlight the growing burden of kidney disease and kidney health disparity and inequity worldwide. As the World Kidney Day (WKD) is approaching, the kidney organizations and the nephrology community are getting busier to make the best out of the next WKD.

Photo: RSS

Photo:RSS

Photo:RSS

KATHMANDU: Almost 76 percent of the youths heading for foreign unemployment are unskilled, reveals a study by the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security.

Though the government aims at ending compulsive out migration for work in coming five years over 40,000 Nepali youths leave the country for foreign employment every month, according to the statistics maintained by the Department of Foreign Employment.

While around 5, 30,000 Nepali left for foreign employment in the past 25 years, only 2.5 percent of them were skilled, 21.5 percent of them were semi-skilled and 75 percent of them were unskilled.

“The country is suffering a great loss in its inability to develop skilled human resources and create job opportunities in the country,” said Mahesh Dahal the Department of Foreign Employment. Nepali youths have been migrating for work abroad, mostly as unskilled workers for the past three decades.

Devastating earthquake in 2015 caused damage in the agricultural and industrial sector. As such, many youths employed in these sectors are forced to go for abroad employment, according to a survey by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies.

Even the returnees are found migrating by obtaining labor permit as unskilled workers. “Government’s inattention towards exporting skilled manpower is unfortunate. This has caused loss to the workers themselves and the nation,” said Madhubishal Pandit, an expert on foreign employment.

Number of workers going for foreign employment is on the rise since the fiscal year 2006/2007. Around 1,00,000 Nepali youths left for foreign employment in the seven months of the current fiscal year alone. However, this figure is low compared to the number of youths going abroad by obtaining labor permit last year.

KATHMANDU: Nilamber Acharya, in the capacity of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Nepal, presented his letters of credence to the Indian President, Ram Nath Kovind at Rastrapati Bhawan, New Delhi, this afternoon.

President Kovind welcomed and congratulated Acharya. On the occasion, Ambassador Acharya conveyed cordial greeting and best wishes on behalf of the President, Bidya Devi Bhandari and Prime Minister, K. P. Sharma Oli as well as from the people of Nepal for the personal health and happiness of the President and continued progress and prosperity of the people of India, reads a press release issued by Nepali Embassy in New Delhi.

LATITPUR: Jailbirds languishing in prisons across the country have been found with psychiatric problems in different forms. Mental Hospital located at Lagankhel said that the number of jailbirds visiting the hospital for treatment from Nakhkhu Prison have psychiatric problems and the number of patients is growing.

Ananta Adhikari, chief psychiatric consultant of the hospital, said the jailbirds are approaching the hospital for treatment almost every day.

The jailbirds from the prisons across the country have been shifted to Nakhkhu Jail once they developed psychiatric problems.

Daily 10-15 inmates are coming to the Out Patient Department while three to five are found to be admitted at Internal Department of the hospital. “The trend of inmates being transferred to the central jail has increased lately with the construction of a special hospital targeting jailbirds of Nakhkhu prison gaining pace”.

According to Adhikari, the patients with depression hit the highest number visiting the hospital from prison.
Some have been found with mild psychiatric problem while some others are diagnosed with acute types, he added.
Total 150 to 200 patients with psychiatric problems are coming to the OPD for treatment. The 50 beds of the hospital are always occupied by the patients, the hospital sources said.