14 june, Chitwan- Former Education Minister Dhaniram (DR) Poudel has passed away this morning. He died due to cardiac arrest at his home town, Madi, of Chitwan.

According to Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Chitwan district chair Yam Bahadur Pariyar said that former minster Poudel died at 7.00 am at this home.

Poudel who suffered a cardiac arrest at his home at Madi municipality-5, Ramailodanda was taken to Madi-based Baghauda Hospital at 7.00 this morning. Hospital doctors confirmed his death.

Poudel was the member of the Constituent Assembly. He had also served as a central chair of ANNISU (Revolutionary) – a student wing of the CPN (Maoist).

He was also a writer and journalist. His spouse Ganga Belbase is also a central member of NCP. He is survived by two daughters.

NCP chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Pracahnda’ along with other central leaders of the party are scheduled to attend the final rites of Poudel today, shared NCP Chitwan chair Pariyar. (RSS)

14 june, Darchula- Apple farming of Jeet Singh Bohora, a local of Byas rural municipality-1, Chhangaru, Gaga, turned to be a loss business for not finding market.

Bohora, who had started apple farming since 2060 BS, has suffered a big loss in lack of apple market. His apples now are being rotten in farm with no market outlets for sale.

The local apple produce is being rotten at home and farm since there is no market point nearby and there is no road connectivity to take the apples to distant market.

It involves huge cost to take apples to close Indian market. The local apples are being sold to Indian Army and border security personnel.

This year around Bohora produced around 30 quintal apples and he roughly sold only 20 quintals to Indian security personnel. Remaining 10 quintal apples went rotten.

“There is no market nearby and also no road to take apples to another market area”, he said. Though the apple produce was high in the soil of Darchula, we have to suffer loss due to unavailability of market, he further said. “I had suffered loss amounting to Rs 1 million for not being able to sell remaining 10 quintal apples”.

In the beginning, Bohora had cultivated only 250 apple plants which has now expanded to around 1000 plants in his farm. He is doing apple farming in around five ropanis of land.

“Our produce will get market outlet if trail road at least is constructed”, he said urging the government to pay attention on road connectivity for the promotion of apple farming in Darchula. (RSS)

14 june, Bhaktapur- A two-day national conference entitled ‘Role of management in economic development’ is taking place in Bhaktapur today.

Kwopa College Bhaktapur is organizing the event with the assistance of University Grant Commission. Rupak Joshi, principal of the host college, shared that it is the first-ever conference on the topic aiming to contribute to the overall economic development of the country.

Total 34 working papers would be presented on several topics in the conference. The areas include accountancy, finance, marketing, financial market, labour relation, international trade, economic growth and development, human resource management, production and operation management, entrepreneurship development, banking and insurance and other topical subjects of management. As many as 100 participants are taking part in the conference, informed event coordinator Rajan Fanju. (RSS)

13 june, New delhi- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has left for Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit meeting, India’s External Affairs Ministry said Thursday.

This would be Modi’s first multilateral engagement after being re-elected as prime minister for the second term last month. This would also be the second occasion when India will be attending SCO summit as a full-fledged member.
Last year Modi attended the SCO summit held in China.

“Strengthening India’s presence on the global stage. For the first multilateral engagement post re-election, PM Narendra Modi embarks on a two-day visit to attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Council of Heads of State meeting on June 13-14 in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic,” tweeted the official spokesman of External Affairs Ministry Raveesh Kumar. On the sidelines of the SCO summit, Modi will also hold bilateral meetings with heads of governments of some countries. (RSS)

13 june, kathmandu- Nepali Congress Vice-president Bimalendra Nidhi left here today for Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark for a study tour of a democracy fair. Nidhi is leading a four-member delegation to attend the event that began today and will run until June 17.

Others attending the fair at the invitation of Danish Institute for Parties and Democracy are leaders Dr Minendra Rijal, Chitra Lekha Yadav and Binod Bhattarai.

The NC leaders will also been attending a training programme of the NC-affiliate Nepali Liaison Committee to be attended by general convention representatives of the party from 33 countries. (RSS)

13 june, lamahi- Two persons died and four others were injured in motorbikes collusion at Haripur municipality in Sarlahi last night.

Anil Chaudhary, 30, of Isworpur municipality-15, and Ashok Chaudhary, 35, of Isworpur municipality-14 lost their lives when two motorbikes (Na 25 Pa 6922) and Ja 2 Pa 7886) collided at Haripur municipality-7, Chitai at around 10.30 pm.

Both the deceased are motorbike riders. Each bike was carrying three people. The pillion riders of both the bikes sustained injuries in the accident, shared Pratit Singh Rathor, spokesperson and DSP of Sarlahi Police.
The injured are Achhelal Chaudhary, Rambabu Chaudhary, Dhirendra Chaudhary and Santosh Chaudhary. (RSS)

13 june, Khalanga- The Jumla in-charge of Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav)-led group has been arrested here. He is Chandra Bir Tiruwa (Rabi Kiran).

Police raided the house of Tiruwa located at Sinja rural municipality-2 on Wednesday night and arrested him when he was sleeping, according to Deputy Superintendent of Police at the District Police Office, Sitaram Rijal. He has been kept in the custody of the District Police Office. (RSS)

13 june, kathmandu- Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli reached Paris for a three day formal visit to the French Republic.
The Prime Minister is accompanied by his spouse Radhika Shakya, Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, Prime Minister’s advisors and other high ranking officials of the Government of Nepal.

Upon his arrival at Gare Du Nord Station in Paris, Prime Minister Oli was welcomed by the Ambassador of Nepal to France Dipak Adhikari, Ambassador of France to Nepal François-Xavier Leger, French Protocol officer and officials from the Embassy of Nepal in Paris.

Prime Minister Oli addressed a programme which was attended by representatives from French Business Community, reads a press release issued by Nepali Embassy in Paris. The programme was organized by the Federation of National Chambers of Industries and Commerce of France (MEDEF) at MEDEF Headquarters in Paris on Wednesday.

Following the event, he had separate meetings with the representatives of the selected French Companies. In both interaction programmes and separate meetings, the Prime Minister highlighted investment opportunities available in Nepal and invited the French Companies to invest in Nepal, reads the statement.

In the evening, the Prime Minister and his delegation attended the reception organized by Ambassador Adhikari in honour of the Prime Minister and his delegation. (RSS)

13 june, Hetauda- An army man was killed when a Kathmandu-bound car (Ba 7 Cha 3848) collided head on with a motorcycle (Ba 41 Pa 5381) he was riding near Samari bridge at Bhimphedi rural municipality, Makawanpur district on Wednesday night.

Lance corporal Bibesh Tamang, 30, died at a hospital in Kathmandu, said the police. (RSS)

13 june, Hetauda- The State 3 government is scheduled to table the budget for the fiscal year of 2019/20 in the State Assembly meeting scheduled for June 16, according to the private secretariat of the State government Minister for Economic Affairs and Planning, Kailash Prasad Dhungel.

The budget has focused on various projects like national pride projects, poverty alleviation programme,development of tourism sector, biodiversity, environment improvement and the tunnel that link Hetauda Kulekhani project, said the minister. The SA’s fourth session is scheduled to take place at 2pm on June 14. (RSS)