BUTWAL, April 4: A suicide note left by Bishnu Hari Acharya, undersecretary of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Forestry of Province-5, cited 27 years of mental stress as his reason to commit suicide.

KATHMANDU, April 8: United Nations Under Secretary General and Nutrition Program Coordinator, Gerda Verburg paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal at the latter's official residence at Baluwatar today.