According to District Police Office Rautahat, JTMM-J district assistant in-charge Surendra Mukhiya Win and secretary Harishchandra Sahani were killed during a clash with a police squad on patrol in Sirgaman Mukhiya area of Dharmanagar VDC.[break]
Police claimed that the securitymen had fired at them in retaliation only after the JTMM-J members attacked the policemen. Police also claimed that two guns and 10 bullets were seized from the JTMM-J cadres.
MRP decentralization
KATHMANDU: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) is likely to start collecting machine-readable passport (MRP) applications from three district administration offices (DAOs) in the Kathamndu Valley beginning Sunday. “The taskforce formed to recommend decentralizing MRP distribution is submitting its report to the Prime Minister´s Office on Tuesday,” said a source at MoFA. “We will start collecting MRP forms beginning Sunday if the Prime Minister´s Office issues directive to this effect.” MoFA formally started issuing MRP on Sunday nearly nine months after the original deadline of April 1 as set by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). MoFA has announced to gradually decentralize collection of MRP application forms and distribution of the passports.
Help Nepal seeks helping hands
KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu based office of Help Nepal Network (HeNN), a charitable network set up by Nepalese people, was inaugurated on Monday. Young industrialist Siddhartha Rana did the inauguration by embracing social worker of Mugu Birkha Bahadur Rokaya. Rana, who provided ten million rupees to run HeNN´s office, also handed over checks to build classrooms to three needy schools of Morang, Sindhupalchowk and Bajura districts. HeNN provided Rs 450,000 to the Mankot Lower Secondary School of Bajura. Similarly Thoparka Secondary School of Sindhupalchowk got Rs 450,000 and Mugu Primary School of Morang got Rs 300,000. The amount was gathered during a marathon organized by Nepalese youth in London. During the function, HeNN´s founder president Rabindra Mishra urged everyone to extend a helping hand to the disadvantaged communities.
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