GAIGHAT: The state-owned Udayapur Cement Factory has made a leap forward in cement production in the last one-and-a-half years.
The factory is producing 18,000 sacks of cements a day with the smooth supply of power since a week.
According to Nawal Kishore Saha, factory’s acting general manager, the production output of the factory had gone down due to unstable power supply from Dhanusha-Dhalkebar transmission center during the period from mid-January to February-end this year.
He further shared that the factory is producing over 800 metric tons of cement on a daily basis following the smooth supply of power. With this, the factory is making annual transaction of billions of rupees.
As the power went smooth, the factory was daily producing cement worth amounting to Rs 30 million, the administration shared.
DHARAN: Morang Police has made four murder-accused public after arrest. Police arrested them for their alleged involvement in the murder of Nimesh Tamang at Bagainchaline in Dharan Sub Metropolitan City during Holi festival.
The arrested are Sushanta Limbu, 18, of Dharan Sub Metropolitan City-9, Manish Lawati Limbu, 18, of Dharan-7, Nishchal BK, 17, and Sharan Rai of Sunsari, said DSP Gyan Prasad Phuyal.
They had gone into hiding after murdering Tamang in cold blood with a sharp knife over minor dispute that erupted while celebrating Holi.
Police said they have started investigation after filing a murder case against them.
INARUWA: A fire gutted four houses at Bhokraha Narsingh rural municipality-2, in Sunsari, police said.
According to the police, properties worth Rs 1.2 million were burnt. The fire destroyed houses of locals, including Deep Narayan Sharma, Ram Prasad Sharma, Satya Narayan Sharma, and Budh Narayan Sharma, police said.
The fire was doused with the help of police, locals, and fire engine.
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.
At a time when Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias ‘Prachanda’ last week was flying to the US for the treatment of his spouse, Sita, speculations were rife in Nepal that Prachanda, who led the decade-long Maoist insurgency in Nepal, could face legal hurdles over alleged human rights violation in the US.
The party — once labeled as a ‘terrorist’ outfit by the US government – was delisted from the list of the global terrorist group in 2012.
The US government “makes its terrorist listings based on facts and unless the group is actively engaged in terrorism that is a threat to US interests, it won’t be re-added to the terrorism list”.
Khabarhub talked exclusively to Jason M. Blazakis, former Director of Counterterrorism Finance and Designations Office, Bureau of Counterterrorism, at the U.S. Department of State, to know whether there would be any change on the US position if Dahal assumed the Prime Ministerial post here. Jason ruled out any change on the US policy now. “This is very unlikely to occur in my view,” he said.
According to him, the US government “makes its terrorist listings based on facts and unless the group is actively engaged in terrorism that is a threat to US interests, it won’t be re-added to the terrorism list”.
Jason was the Director of Counterterrorism Finance and Designations Office, Bureau of Counterterrorism, at the U.S. Department of State when the US government removed the Maoist party from the list of the global terrorist group.
In his former role, he was responsible for directing efforts to designate countries, organizations, and individuals as terrorists, also known as State Sponsors of Terrorism, Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
Jason, who is also a terrorism expert, and devises strategies to prevent terrorists from gaining access to money and publicity, said the State Department “removed CPN-Maoists from its listing as a terrorist group pursuant to Executive Order 13224 because the party had begun the process of political reform”.
Currently, Professor of Practice at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, USA, Jason stated that at the time of delisting, there were “no recent acts of violence that could be directly attributed to the group”.
Regarding Dahal’s visit to the US, Professor Jason, who is also the President of Riptide Threat Mitigation Group, Inc., a geopolitical risk consultancy, said he “did not have any concerns if the trip was made in accordance with U.S. law”.
“The decision to delist the group should be not be viewed as US acceptance for the group’s terrorist past and violence misdeeds,” he told Khabarhub adding that the delisting was about encouraging the group to become part of a legitimate political process.
Regarding Dahal’s visit to the US, Professor Jason, who is also the President of Riptide Threat Mitigation Group, Inc., a geopolitical risk consultancy, said he “did not have any concerns if the trip was made in accordance with U.S. law”.
“The Maoists are no longer labeled as a terrorist group,” said Jason, who previously held positions in the Department of State’s Political-Military Affairs, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Intelligence and Research Bureaus, and at U.S. Embassy Kabul.
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: Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) had announced vacancies for the posts of 50 pilots. The vacancies had been announced for the post of captain, junior captain, senior co-pilot, and junior co-pilot on February 22.
However, the national-flag carrier received only 26 applications by the deadline, a source at the NAC said.
According to Nawaraj Koirala, deputy spokesperson of the NAC, the corporation had announced the vacancies for 13 senior captains but only one candidate applied for the post.
The cause behind receiving fewer applications could be attractive salary and pay perks being offered by private airlines, NAC sources said.
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.