KATHMANDU: Sashastra Seema Bal, the Central Armed Police Forces of India, has arrested a Nepali national with a huge amount of explosives being smuggled into Nepal on Monday, Indian media reports said.
According to United News of India, the Seema Bal arrested 26-year-old Charan Roka of Ruma Rural Municipality, Myagdi, in Siliguri of West Bengal, India with gunpowder, detonators and other ingredients used for making bombs while on a petrol.
Roka was held in possession of 205 packets of neogel and 355 sticks of powergel, said police. It indicates that Biplav outfit may be importing explosives from India to carry out its violent activities in Nepal.
INRUWA: A fire gutted four houses at Bhokraha Narsingh Rural Municipality-2 on Sunday. Property worth Rs 1.2 million was destroyed in the incident.
The inferno destroyed houses of locals, including Ram Prasad Sharma, Deep Narayan Sharma, Budh Narayan Sharma and Satya Narayan Sharma, according to Gyanendra Prasad Phuyal, deputy superintendent of police (DSP) of Sunsari.
The flame was contained with the help of locals, police and fire engine.
NEPALGUNJ: Number of blackbuck found in Khairapur of Bardiya district is depleting in an alarming manner. Blackbuck is a rare species.
Blackbuck population was 600 some 32 years ago which has now declined to 184. Blackbuck, also popularly known as Krishnasar, is among other 16 wild species banned for hunting in Nepal.
Growing population density and increasing incidents of poaching are posing challenges to the efforts in conserving the wildlife, shared Tilak Sharma Himal, a parliamentarian from State-5.
Only five blackbucks, two male and three female, were found at Gulariya municipality-2, Patahakhairapur in 1976. The then Royal Karnali Hunting Reserve was protecting the wildlife.
Now the area of 708 bighas has been arranged for blackbucks. Around 18 million was spent for the arrangement of habitat for the rare species.
The Global Environmental Facility (GEF) has been providing support in the conservation effort of blackbucks in Bardiya.
KATHMANDU: The government is announcing foreign investment in 50 projects under public private partnership.
Investment Summit Nepal, 2019 slated for this Friday and Saturday shall be attended by total 650 foreign investors and their representatives from around 40 countries.
“An agreement paper for investment between both the parties can be signed within the summit period itself,” said Balaram Rijal, the spokesperson at the Nepal Investment Board.
KATHMANDU: At least 41 rhinos in Chitwan National Park died due to causes other than poaching in the past eight months.
Some rhinos had natural death whereas others died in accidents, according to Gopal Bahadur Ghimire, conservation officer at the park.
This is the highest rhino death rate owing mostly to natural causes. In the year 1999/2000 total 28 rhinos had died of natural causes.
In the series of rhino death, the latest incident occurred last Sunday when a female rhino died at Bharatpur Metropolitan city-23. The rhino died after a septic tank cover of a hotel it was stepping on collapsed due to its weight.
Other reasons of the death including natural are, due to delivery complications of female rhinos, fight involving two rhinos, attack by a tiger etc.
KATHMANDU: Doctors attending to Nepali Congress Former General Secretary Krishna Prasad Sitaula have said the leader is recovering. He is receiving treatment for various health issues at the Kathmandu-based HAMS Hospital.
The NC leader was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at the hospital, and his health is improving, according to the statement issued by Dr. Bhashkar Raj Panta and ICU in-charge Dr. Sabin Koirala.
Sitaula was rushed to the hospital on Friday evening after his hemoglobin level went down, and his blood pressure level lowered.
CHITWAN: Poaching is a major reason that dwindled wildlife including rhinoceroses around the world. However, the case differs for the rhinos in the Chitwan National Park (CNP).
The national park has been celebrating the zero-poaching of rhinos for a few years. However, it has been witnessing deaths of the endangered animal due to ‘preventable causes’.
According to a record maintained by CNP, a total of 39 rhinos died so far in the current fiscal year due to some preventable and natural causes.
During the armed conflict in the country, poachers had killed 37 rhinos in 2058 BS. Since then, the poaching had gradually dropped and come under control.
According to the CNP Chief Conservation Officer Bed Kumar Dhakal, they are trying to identify the real factors leading to such preventable deaths.
Fights between male rhinos), falling from a mound of earth, attacks by a crocodile and tiger, health complication while giving birth to a baby, illness, and aging are the factors reported for multiple rhinos deaths in this period here.
PARSA: The Secondary Education Exam (SEE) kicked off from Sunday. In Parsa district, 19 offenders including 16 inmates from Birgunj prison appeared in the examination.
Likewise, three others from child rehabilitation center sat for the exam. They sat for the exam in the prison premises. In the district, a total of 7,857 students are appearing the exam as regular students while 350 are attending for second or further attempts.
CHITWAN: Nepali Congress leader Dr Shekhar Koirala has said the culture of factionalism will affect smooth functioning of the party.
Even though it is natural within a democratic party, it can harm the party functioning. Koirala, however, said the party will go astray if mafia culture dominates the party.
Speaking at a program in Chitwan on Sunday, Koirala said the culture of factionalism is not unusual since it helps make the party strong.
On the occasion, he reiterated that republic and federalism have been the party’s agenda, and that the party was committed to the agendas. He also alleged the government of interfering in all sectors, including education and health.
GAUSHALA: Three persons, including two teenage girls and an adult committed suicide yesterday.
Sangrila Yadab, 13 of Samsi Rural Municipality-4 and Kunjan Kumari Mahato-13 of Mahottari district committed suicide, according to Ishwor Karki, a police sub-inspector at the District Police Office.
Likewise, Surya Dev Mukhiya, 60 of Ramgopal Municipality-5 succumbed to burn injuries. Mukhiya had set himself ablaze by pouring kerosene over his body. The police is investing the cause of suicides.