4 june, Banepa- A pillion rider died on the spot in a road accident at Namobuddha municipality of Kavrepalanchowk this morning.

The deceased has been identified as Amin Sathir, 18, of Inaruwa of Sunsari district, according to the District Police Office, Dhulikhel.

The accident took place when a truck (Ba 4 Kha 5237) coming towards Kathmandu from Ramechhap and a motorcycle (Ba 95 Pa 7686) en route to Sunsari from Kathmandu collided with each other.

Similarly, the motorcyclist, Nazir Sathir, 25, of the same place was injured in the incident and he is receiving treatment at Mithankot Hospital,Naubise, said Assistant Sub Inspector at Katunje Police Post, Maheshwor Dahal.
Police have arrested the truck driver and impounded the vehicle. (RSS)

4 june, Nepalgunj- President Bidya Devi Bhandari has today arrived in Nepalgunj to participate in Iftar ceremony of the Muslim community. President Bhandari, who landed at Nepalgunj airport at 2 pm, is scheduled to take part in the ceremony slated to take place at 5 pm at Siddhartha Cottage.

The President currently is staying in a hotel in Nepalgunj, said Dipa Sharma, undersecretary at the Secretariat of the President.

The Muslim community here is happy as the President is participating in the ceremony, said Abdul Wahid Mansuri, coordinator of the Muslim Society, Banke. Security has been managed following the arrival of the President, said Deputy Superintendent of Police Arun Poudel.

Following her participation in the ceremony, President Bhandari will participate in the 50th anniversary and the unveiling ceremony of a monument of Prabhat Secondary School at Baijanath rural municipality-5 in Banke on Wednesday, said Sharma. (RSS)

4 june, kathmandu- Sudurpaschim State defeated Gandaki State by four wickets in today’s match of the Prime Minister Cup National One-Day Men’s Cricket Tournament at Mulpani Cricket Stadium in Kathmandu. Elected to bat first after winning the toss, Gandaki State posted a 90 runs target against Sudurpaschim State.

Chasing down the target, Sudurpaschim State achieved it in 29.2 overs losing 6 wickets. Gandaki State was limited to only 89 runs in 20.4 overs losing all wickets.

For Sudurpaschim State, Akash Chand and Narendra Saud remained unbeaten on 29 and 23 runs respectively.
Similarly, Kishor Mahato, Bipin Khatri and Dipesh Shrestha took three, two and one wickets respectively for Gandaki State. For Gandaki State, Rahul Sharma hit highest 41 runs, while Kishor Mahato and Akash Thapa 14 and 12 runs. Binod Lama took five wickets alone for Sudurpaschim State. (RSS)

4 june, Bhaktapur- The Prime Minister Employment Programme is to be initiated from Bhaktapur. Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is scheduled to inaugurate the programme from here on June 7.

A total of 24.6 million rupees has been allocated for the programme in Bhaktapur district, comprising four municipalities—Changunarayan, Bhaktapur, Madhyapur Thimi and Surya Binayak, according to MP Mahesh Basnet.
To be enrolled under the programme, 400 have applied from Surya Binayak, 910 from Changunarayan and 76 from Madhyapur Thimi. (RSS)

4 june, Tokyo- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 struck Japan’s Torishima Island region, the weather agency said Tuesday.

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the temblor struck at 1:40 p.m. local time at a latitude of 29.1 degrees north and a longitude of 139.8 degrees east.

The offshore quake occurred at a depth of 440 km the JMA also said. On Japan’s seismic scale which peaks at 7, the quake registered 4 in Ogasawara and a village in the subprefecture that is governed by Tokyo on the mainland more than 1,000 km away.There have been no immediate reports of major damage or injuries as a result of the offshore quake, and no tsunami warning has been issued by the JMA. (RSS)

4 june, Tripoli- A lone gunman killed four members of the security forces in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli overnight before blowing himself up, officials said Tuesday.

“The shooting spree resulted in the deaths of two members of the Lebanese army and two members of the internal security forces,” a security official told AFP.The army confirmed it had lost two of its men and the national news agency confirmed the overall toll of four.

There was no immediate claim for the shooting and the gunman’s motives were unclear but two security officials at one of the scenes of the attack told AFP that he was a militant recently released from prison.The gunman sowed panic in the streets late Monday, as Lebanon’s second city prepared for the first day of Eid al-Fitr, the feast marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

He first opened fire on a branch of the central bank, a security official said.A large number of security force personnel were deployed and the gunman also opened fire on a police station and on a military vehicle in the ensuing manhunt.The attacker was eventually cornered in a residential building and killed himself by detonating an explosives vest he was wearing.

Lebanon, including Tripoli and areas around it, was affected by a spillover of violence from the conflict in neighbouring Syria but the security situation has been quiet in recent years. (RSS)

4 june, Geneva- Some 7 million people die prematurely every year from air pollution, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment said Monday ahead of World Environment Day, noting there are also success stories.

David Boyd, the Special Rapporteur, urged nations to beat air pollution to fulfill their human rights obligations. “Air pollution is a silent, invisible and prolific killer that is responsible for the premature death of 7 million people each year, disproportionately affecting women, children, and poor communities,” said Boyd in a statement here.

He also said: “There are numerous success stories of drastically reducing air pollution from across the world, including China, who is hosting World Environment Day this year. These stories prove that air pollution is a preventable problem.”

Boyd said that every five seconds, a premature death is caused by air pollution and that an estimated 90 percent of the world’s population breathe polluted air, while among the 7 million who die each year, 600,000 are children.
“Failing to ensure clean air constitutes a violation of the rights to life, health, and well-being, as well as the right to live in a healthy environment,” said the UN expert.

He asserted that states must take urgent action to improve air quality to fulfill their human rights obligations.Boyd said clean air is a core component of the right to a healthy environment, together with clean water and adequate sanitation, healthy and sustainably produced food, non-toxic environment, healthy biodiversity, and a safe climate.

The Special Rapporteur said the right should be globally reaffirmed to ensure the enjoyment of this right by everyone, everywhere while upholding the human rights principles of universality and non-discrimination.
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02- 20 terrorists killed in multilateral operation in Nigeria: military
spokesperson

LAGOS, June 4 (Xinhua) — At least 20 terrorists were killed following a joint operation by forces from Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, and Niger, a Nigerian military spokesperson confirmed on Monday.

Timothy Antigha, a Nigerian army officer who is also the chief spokesman for the multinational forces, said in a statement reaching Xinhua that the terrorists were killed by troops operating around Arege, Malkonory and Tumbum Rego general area.

He said the operation was part of the ongoing offensive operations to clear Islamic State (IS) terrorists from the Lake Chad Area. “Unfortunately, four personnel of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) were wounded during the firefight and have been evacuated for urgent medical attention,” he said.

The Nigerian officer said the MNJTF remains committed to delivering the mandate of the force and called for continuous support and solidarity of the good people of the Lake Chad region. MNJTF, in February, launched a new operation to push back Boko Haram insurgents to the Lake Chad fringes. (RSS)

 June 3  ,JAKARTA: A 6.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Indonesia’s western North Sumatra province on Monday, but was not potential for tsunami, the meteorology and geophysics agency said here.

The quake hit at 12:57 p.m. local time (0557 GMT), with the epicenter at 30 km southwest of Nias Selatan and the depth at 19 km under sea bed, an official in charge at the agency, Slamet Wijaya, said.
“There is no threat of tsunami from occurring, so that we did not issue warning for that,” he told Xinhua over phone.

The intensity of the quake was felt at 3 MMI (Modified Mercalli Intensity) in Padang Sidempuan and Gunungsitoli, Wijaya added.There were no preliminary reports of damage or casualty, he said.

An aftershock of 5.5-magnitude rocked the province seven minutes after the main shock, the official said. Indonesia is prone to quakes as it lies on a vulnerable quake-impacted zone called “the Pacific Ring of Fire.” Enditem
—  Xinhua

June 3 ,LONDON: US President Donald Trump lashed out at London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Monday as he arrived for a three-day state visit to Britain, reviving a long-running enmity between the two politicians.

On landing, he sent out a tweet calling Khan a “stone cold loser” for criticising his red carpet treatment, which includes a private lunch and state banquet hosted by Queen Elizabeth II.

Khan, “who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly ‘nasty’ to the visiting president of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom”, he said.   “He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me,” Trump wrote, likely referring to a spike in fatal stabbings in the capital which is causing widespread public concern.

Trump and Khan have long clashed on Twitter but Khan wrote a newspaper article on Sunday in which he compared the president to European dictators from the 1930s and 1940s.

Khan, a Muslim whose parents arrived in London from Pakistan, lashed out at Trump’s “deliberate use of xenophobia, racism and ‘otherness’ as an electoral tactic” and his travel ban efforts on mostly Muslim countries.
In a second tweet, Trump compared Khan to New York York’s liberal Mayor Bill de Blasio, with whom he has also clashed, writing that the difference between them was that London’s leader was “only half his height”.

 London is bracing for two major protests on Monday and Tuesday, with organisers planning to fly a blimp of a baby Trump dressed in a diaper, with an angry expression on his face.
—  AFP

2 june, Afghanistan – A suicide car bombing killed eight Afghan police officers and wounded seven others after targeting a police station in the country’s eastern Ghazni province, an official confirmed Sunday.

The blast happened at about 9:50 p.m. Saturday, when a hijacked military vehicle packed with explosives struck to provincial Reserve Police Force station in Esfandi area, some 6 km to the provincial capital Ghazni city, killing eight police personnel and wounding seven others, Adam Khan Sirat, provincial police spokesman, told Xinhua.

“Unfortunately, eight personnel of Police Reserve Force unit were martyred and seven others suffered injuries, when a Taliban hijacked Humvee vehicle full of explosives slammed the police military unit building, in the provincial capital Ghazni,” the spokesman confirmed.

Few weeks ago, an explosive-packed Humvee also went off near a police checkpoint on outskirts of the city, killing two police officers and wounding 15 people. (RSS)