BIRGUNJ: President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Thursday inaugurated the ‘daughter education insurance’ fixed deposit bank account under the ‘Beti Padhau, Beti Bachau (Educate the Daughter, Save the Daughter)’ campaign in Birgunj.

The program has been introduced by the Province 2 government. The provincial government has allocated Rs 890 million for the campaign for the fiscal year 2018/19.
On the occasion, President Bhandari lauded the campaign emphasizing the need of accelerating the ‘daughter education’.

“Since today’s daughters are tomorrow’s responsible citizens, educating them is the need of the day,” she said.

She also stressed the need to educate daughters to establish a strong foundation of culture.

BHOJPUR: The District Administration Office (DAO) of Bhokpur has destroyed date-expired foodstuffs stored in different shops and hotels in Bhojpur district. Upendra Neupane, Assistant Chief District Officer informed that the team has destroyed food stuff worth around Rs 100,000.

The team from the DAO monitored the food condition and seized a huge quantity of date expired biscuits and soft drinks from various shops and hotels.

They have seized the stuff from Pradhan Hotel, Sajina Grocery, KFC Hotel, Usha Hotel, Binita Hotel and Sumnima Guest House of Bhojpur. Neupane said that action would be taken against the shop and hotel owners if they continue to sell date-expired foodstuffs .

BIRGUNG: Province-2 is set to launch the ‘Daughter Insurance Program’ as part of ‘Save Daughters, Educate Daughters’ campaign. Narayan Prasad Bhattarai, chief district officer of Parsa, informed that that the province government had allocated around Rs 890 million for the campaign in the Fiscal Year 2018/19.

The province-2 government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Prabhu Bank for the daughter insurance program. The first phase of the campaign includes cycle distribution, construction of girl-friendly toilets in community schools and awareness raising activities. The target is to distribute cycles to 4,000 girl students of all eight districts of the province-2.

The campaign is taken as an important measure to avert several anomalies pervasive in the Province-2 such as discrimination between sons and daughters, dowry system and female infanticide.

KATHMANDU:  The first regional conference of the Women in Power Sector Professional Network (WePOWER) has kicked off in Lalitpur today. The two-day conference is being organized to send a message that South Asian women are competent to take up responsibilities in challenging fields as their male counterparts on an equal footing by breaking the four walls.

The event organized with the objective of encouraging women’s participation in power sector on the initiation of the World Bank was inaugurated by WB country director for Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, Idah Z Pswarayi-Riddihough.

On the occasion, she said every woman in South Asia is competitive and is ready to take up any chhallenging responsibility if given the opportunity.

A total of 250 women engineers associated with the government and non-government organizations from the SAARC countries are attending the seminar, which will go through discussions about women entrepreneurship in energy, participation of women/female engineers in it and guarantee of retention of them, opportunities for career development of junior engineers, energy and gender balance and women’s contribution to the renewable energy sector.

BIRENDRANAGAR: The Human rights violation by the state side and other actors is alarming in Karnali Province.  Around 453 incidents of human rights violations have occurred in the Province during the past one year.

Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) shared women have been more affected by the anti-human rights incidents. According to the Human Rights Year Book-2019, 343 women and 149 men were found affected in different human rights violation incidents.

Narayan Subedi, Karnali Province Coordinator of INSEC, informed the incidents of women rights violation topped the list in Karnali this year. It includes 257 related to women’s rights, 87 related to child rights and 47 related to manhandle.

BALEWA:  Four people have been killed in a jeep accident that took place at Jaimini Municipality-8, Chhisti of Baglung on Tuesday .

Tulsi Pun, accountant at Janakalyan Secondary School, Elina Pun, Priyanka Pun and Jyoti Pun, students of the same school, died when the jeep (Dha 1 Ja 791) met with an accident at Rapungabhir of Chhisti.

Injured Dhana Shrish, Bishna Shrish, Sangam Shrish and Samjhana Pun are undergoing treatment at Western Regional Hospital, Pokhara, shared the District Police Office.

Likewise, Krishna Pun, Sabina Thapa, Nandakali Shrish, Nirmala Pun and Puja Pun are undergoing treatment at Dhaulagiri Zonal Hospital.

Shanker Thapa Chhetri, a police constable at Police Post Belbagar, informed that the jeep was carrying 30 passengers.

The jeep carrying students and guardians met with the accident while returning home after attending the anniversary function of the school, shared Leela Rana, deputy mayor of Jaimini Municipality.

KATHMANDU: Controversial Justice of the Supreme Court of Nepal Deepak Raj Joshee has tendered his resignation on Tuesday.

Joshee submitted his resignation to President Bidya Devi Bhandari through Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana.

“I have resigned from the post effective from today since I did not get conducive work environment at the office and felt often humiliated,” Joshee told Khabarhub.

Senior-most Justice Deepak Raj Joshee had assumed the responsibility as acting Chief Justice after Judicial Council Secretariat handed Gopal Prasad Parajuli a retirement letter on 14 March 2018.

Justice  Joshee had been on leave after the Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee (PHSC) did not endorse his name as the Chief Justice on August 3, last year.

He had resumed office on September 11, the same year.

CHITWAN: A pedestrian died on the spot when a car knocked him down at Bharatpur Metropolitan City-23.
Police said the deceased has been identified as Jit Bahadur Sarki, 75, of Krishnachowk, Bharatpur.

The Bharatpur-bound car bearing registration plate — Ba 15 Cha 4926 — from Jagatpur hit the pedestrian on Monday. Police took the car under control. The driver is absconding.

KATHMANDU: Chief District Officer (CDO) of Bara district, Ganesh Prasad Bhattarai, who had sustained critical injuries in a road accident on January 26, passed away.

CDO Bhattarai succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at the TU Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj. He was returning home from Sarlahi after a picnic program on a jeep bearing registration number Na 1 Jha 1633, when it met with an accident.

SP of the Armed Police Force, Balaram Pokharel died on the spot in the accident.

KATHMANDU: A secretariat meeting of the Ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) held in Baluwatar has ended without making any concrete decisions.

The party’s secretariat meeting dwelled on the long overdue party unification issue.

Talking to journalists after the meeting, Narayan Kaji Shrestha, spokesperson of the NCP, said, “Today’s meeting discussed the report presented by the task-force. However, it could not make any concrete decisions. The next meting will be held including all the task-force members.”

Earlier, NCP had claimed that it would complete party unification process at the local level within three months of the announcement of the party merger held on May 17, last year.