UML ready to include insurgency in unified party statute
CPN (Maoist Center) chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal has stated that CPN (UML) is ready to include the term 'people’s insurgency' in the statute of a unified party. Briefing about the progress of the unification process at the meeting of party’s secretariat, chair Dahal informed that the UML has accepted to include the term people’s insurgency lead by Maoist Center in the statute of the unified party.
More than 90% of air pollution deaths occur in poorer countries
Air pollution is involved in the deaths of around seven million people every year, with the vast majority of fatalities taking place in poorer countries. The latest figures released by the World Health Organisation(WHO) show that nine out of 10 people are breathing air containing dangerous levels of pollutants.
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200 hooligans enter Mugu village to steal Yarshagumba
Around 200 burglars illegally barged into the flat terrains of Mugu village of Karmarong rural municipality -2 to steal yarshagumba. The hooligans threatened to set the entire village on fire if residents tried to send them back home. Locals have turned to the District Administration Office for security after the border police post manned by 15 security personnel failed to take the hooligans under control.
37-yr-old held with Rs 2 m Nepali bank notes
Nepal Police has arrested Ramesh Sapkota with Rs two million illegal Nepali bank notes from Soltimode, Kathmandu today. The Nepal Police team deployed from Metropolitan police beat, Kalimati has seized Rs two million from a Scorpio (BA 3 CHA 1602).
Transport entrepreneurs ready to talk to end syndication
Two transport entrepreneurs associations have welcomed and committed to support the government’s decision to end syndicate in public transport. However, they kept reservations on government’s decision to register old vehicles as new company and not renewing transport committees after this year
Doctors prepare for spike in Rohingya women giving birth after sexual attacks
Doctors are preparing for a spike in Rohingya women giving birth amid claims many were subjected to sexual violence nine months ago. Myanmar security forces were accused of a systematic campaign of sex crimes against Rohingya Muslims as hundreds of thousands fled the country last year. Almost nine months after the exodus, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said it had witnessed an increase in the number of pregnant Rohingya women in Bangladesh refugee camps.
