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.

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: Securities Board of Nepal (SBN) has  made an arrangement for general people so that one can apply for minimum 10 units of shares, reversing the earlier decision to apply for minimum 50 units of shares.

The decision has been made in a bid to encourage the participation of all the people in the investment under the inclusive decision system , said the SBN.

SBN is hopeful that this decision will help achieve the goal of ‘one citizen one demat’ by providing access to all students to house wives and those with little money in the capital market.

JAJARKOT: Dolpa In-charge of Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’-led group, Bir Bahadur Khadka, has been apprehended on Wednesday afternoon.

Police arrested Khadka from Jajarkot and investigation is underway by keeping him at the District Police Office.

KATHMANDU: The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a charge sheet against office-bearers of a local users’ committee and the technicians of Barahathawa municipality.

The anti-graft body filed a case against them at the Special Court on Wednesday.

The CIAA has chargesheeted Barahathawa municipality’s engineer Sanjiban Yadav, sub-engineer Anil Kumar Yadav and chairperson of users’ committee, Nepal Saha, secretary Pramod Kumar Raya and treasurer Kalapati Kumari Devi for embezzling amount by using low-quality construction materials while constructing RCC road.

According to CIAA Spokesperson, Pradeep Kumar Koirala, the charge sheet was filed, demanding the recovery of the loss equal to Rs 463,000 from each.

KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has handed over a check of Rs 4.031 million to Prime Minister Disaster Relief Fund.

Mayor Bidhya Sundar Shakya and KMC Chief Administrative Officer Yadav Prasad Koirala jointly handed over the check to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli at his office in Singha Durbar.

KMC on Thursday had decided to provide an assistance of Rs 2.5 million from the municipality adding one day’s salary of the KMC’s staffs and the people’s representatives.

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.

CHITWAN: Chairman of Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) Pushpa Kamal Dahal has claimed that the party unification process will end by April 22. He added that preparations were underway to announce the completion of the unification process by that date.

On a separate note, he pledged to allocate Rs 10 million to build a memorial park at Bandarmudhe.

Pledging to address the issues of landless people soon, the former prime minister said the government was working to provide land ownership certificates to the landless.

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.