Saturday, February 23, 2013

Armyman killed bike accident


SANTOSH SINGH

SARLAHI, Feb 24: A Nepal Army soldier was killed in a motorcycle accident at Laxminiya, Mohottari on Sunday morning.

Bhuwan Bahadur Chingring of Chandranigahapur-based Amardal Battalion was killed when his motorcycle (Ja 5 Pa 2018) lost control and rammed into a bridge in Laxminiya-5 along the East-West Highway.

The armyman, who hailed from Bardibas-1, Mahottari, was killed on the spot, police said.

Madhes leaders want 2008 voter list if polls by mid-June


GANI ANSARI

KATHMANDU, Feb 24: At a time when top leaders of the UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress (NC), CPN-UML and United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) are trying to forge consensus on fresh polls, second-rung Madhesi leaders have warned that the latest voters´ list, in which about 11 million voters have been included so far along with their photos and biometrics, will not be acceptable to them if Constituent Assembly (CA) elections are to be held by mid-June.

They maintained that the fresh polls, in case they take place by mid-June, should be conducted on the basis of the voters´ list prepared for the CA election in 2008.
Altogether 17.6 million voters were registered during the 2008 CA election.

“There is no point accepting the latest voters´ list in which millions of eligible voters are not registered,” Rameshwor Raya Yadav, senior vice-chairman of the ruling Madhesi People´s Rights Forum-Democratic (MPRF-D), told Republica.

General Secretary of Sadbhawana Party Manish Suman claimed that two million eligible voters across the Tarai are yet to be registered in the new voters´ list as they do not have citizenship certificates.

“How can polls be accepted when a large number of voters will be unable to cast their ballots?” he asked.

Meanwhile, Spokesperson and General Secretary of Tarai Madhes Democratic Party (TMDP) Sarvendra Nath Shukla stated that the voters´ list prepared during the CA election in 2008 should be updated if fresh polls are to be held by mid-June.

“Even if fresh polls are not conducted by mid-June, the new voters´ list should be completed,” he added.

Asked if fresh polls could be conducted on the basis of the previous voters´ list as the authorities are already working on a new list, EC Spokesperson Anil Thakur said, “The EC will take a decision on how to conduct polls under special circumstances.” He maintained that eligible voters should not be deprived of their voting rights.

Paras’ condition deteriorates further


KUALA LUMPUR, FEB 24 -

The health condition of former crown prince Paras Shah , who suffered a major heart attack last Tuesday in Bangkok, has deteriorated further and remains critical, doctors involved in his treatment have said.

A medical update issued by the Samitivej Sukhumvit Hospital, where Shah has been undergoing treatment, said that the patient has developed bleeding in his stomach and undergone endoscopies.

“He [Shah] has been on ventilator and his medical condition remains very critical,” said a statement signed by four doctors involved in his treatment.

Doctors started ‘therapeutic hypothermia’ from Friday to bring down his fever so that they can perform a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of his brain. However, doctors have not been able to conduct an MRI as Shah’s temperature had not normalised till Saturday evening. MRI reports could shed further light on the state of the former crown prince and determine the approach of treatment, according to the doctors. The patient’s heartbeat and blood pressure seem stable but his brain remains non-responsive.

Shah’s wife Himani and Dr Rajiv Shahi, former prince Dhirendra’s son-in-law, were allowed to meet the patient on Friday night.

Anti-corruption protesters rearrested at KATHMANDU

KATHMANDU, FEB 24 -

Police arrested four anti-corruption campaigners from Shanti Batika, Ratnapark, in the Capital on Sunday.

Anti-corruption campaigners Shyam Lal Sah, Sharada Bhusal Jha, Sangita Thapa and Binod Mandal were arrested at about 9 am from the Batika where they had launched fast-unto-death campaign.

The campaigners had also been arrested on Friday in front of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority where they had launched fast-unto-death campaign. They were released from the Kamalpokhari police station this morning.

The campaigners had staged the fast-unto-death campaign after the national anti-corruption body paid no heed to their demand of beginning an investigation into the corruption complaint filed four years ago. The campaigners had filed a complaint against the Banauli Damauli and Laharpatti VDCs at the CIAA, claiming that the concerned VDC secretaries had misused millions of rupees allocated for local bodies.

Norah Jones excited about Oscar performance


Jazz singer Norah Jones, the multiple Grammy winning daughter of sitar legend Ravi Shankar, is all excited about performing at the upcoming Oscars ahead of her first India tour in March.

The 33-year-old is set to perform the song Everybody Needs A Best Friend from the soundtrack of Ted at the Academy awards ceremony on Sunday.

The track was co-written by Norah and Seth MacFarlane, the director of 'Ted', and has been nominated in the Best Original Song category.

Norah also featured in the film Ted, and in the past has acted in movies like My Blueberry Nights.

Incidentally Seth is hosting the 85th Academy Awards this year in Los Angeles. "I'm excited. I think it'll be really fun. It's a really cool, unique experience for me to get to perform the song at the Oscars because Seth is hosting and he's my friend. To get to be a part of his film is super fun, but for him to be hosting and for me to still get to go and perform with my buddy hosting, that's super fun! I'm excited," Norah said in a statement.

The nine-time Grammy winner will begin her the three-city tour in India with a headlining performance at the new music festival A Summer's Day in Mumbai on March 3, followed by concerts in New Delhi on March 5 and 6 at Siri Fort Auditorium and Bangalore on March 8.

"I'm very excited to be playing in Delhi, and I'm excited to be adding a second show. I hope that we'll have a lot of fun at the shows, and that everyone else is as excited as I am!," said Norah.

WiMAX :: Wireless Broadband Internet Service


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NT as a market leader in Wireless Internet, will enhance its service, coverage and quality by delivering next generation technology to the subscribers. We will deliver high quality data and internet services and utilize the technology to encourage social and economic growth.

NT WiMAX enables broadband wireless anytime, anywhere using any WiMAX enabled devices, whether it is a laptop, desktop modem, digital phone or even a game device. Mobile WiMAX creates a seamless broadband enviroment at home, in the office and on the move.
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Registration Fee: Rs 200 (one time)
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Data Rate : 1 Mbps or Above

S.No.
Description
Package 1
Package 2
Package 3
1
Service Charge
8,700.00
12,900.00
15,570.00
2
Promotional Discount(50%)
4,350.00
6,450.00
7,785.00
3
VAT(13%)
565.50
838.50
1,012.05
4
Grand Total
4,915.50
7,288.50
8,797.05


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S.No.
Device type
Manufacturer
Price(Rs)
Remarks
1
Outdoor Unit(ODU)
Airspan N/w
16,910.00
VAT(13%)
2,198.30
Total
19,108.30
2
Indoor Unit ( IDU)
AWB Tech
11,570.00
VAT(13%)
1,504.10
Total
13,074.10


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Data Rate: 1 Mbps or Above

S.No.
Description
Package 1
Package 2
Package 3
1
Service Charge
34,800.00
51,600.00
62,280.00
2
VAT(13%)
4,524.00
6,708.00
8,096.40
3
Grand Total
39,324.00
58,308.00
70,376.40


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Note
Package 1: 32 GB data volume per Month
Package 2: 48 GB data volume per Month
Package 3: 60 GB data volume per Month


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Free health camp in Gulmi


GULMI, Feb. 23: Thousands of service recipients have thronged a free health camp at Ranibas of Gulmi district.

The specialist health camp is being organized by the Civil Servant Women´s Association, Kathmandu. People from Baglung, Palpa and Arghakhanchi districts have also thronged the free health camp.

According to General Secretary of Association Urmila Bhusal, services on heart, maternity and gynecology, ENT, pediatrics, teeth, mental health, eye and others diseases have been provided for free.

Nephrologist Rishi Kumar Kafle, psychiatrist Mahendra Neupane, cardiologist Diwakar Sharma and Yadav Bhatta, among others are providing services in the three-day-long health camp.

Secretary at the National Planning Commission Yubraj Bhusal and Deputy Director at the Department of Health Service Dr Gunaraj Lohani had inaugurated the health camp.

Ministry of Health and Population, Sahid Gangalal National Heart Center, National Kidney Treatment Center, Universal College of Medical Sciences, Lumbini Medical College, National Academy of Medical Sciences, Bir Hospital and other organizations have extended supports to run the health camp

Class IX girl gang-raped in West Bengal


A class IX student was gang-raped inside a tea garden in Jalpaiguri district and the accused were arrested, the police said today.

The victim girl, along with her friends, were going from Kalchini to Hamiltonganj on cycles when they were chased by three men.

While others managed to flee, one failed and the accused picked her up and raped her inside Kalchini Tea Garden last evening, Alipurduar SDPO Biswachand Thakur said.

Later her friends returned with more people and took her to hospital and a complaint was lodged to the police.

The police arrested the three accused who were tractor drivers of the tea garden today, the SDPO said.

Brokers offer to show flats to 17-year-old girl, rape her


Two real estate agents raped a 17-year-old minor in a hotel on the pretext of showing her property in Kandivli late on Thursday. After receiving a tip-off about their location, the police arrested the duo from Virar yesterday.

The victim has been living alone in a rented apartment on Kandarpada, Dahisar (East), ever since her family returned to their hometown. Since she wanted to purchase a flat, she contacted two real estate agents operating in Kandivli on Wednesday morning. She got their numbers from a common friend Mohammad Saddam (22) who lives in the same colony as the victim.

Of the two agents, one has been identified as Krishna Mastud (25). Promising to show her some apartments in Kandivli Complex, they asked her to meet them near a mall on Akurli Road in Kandivli (East) on Thursday evening. The three met and went to a restaurant in Kandivli to talk. The accused then spiked the cold drink that the victim was sipping on. She lost consciousness. She regained her senses around 1.30 am yesterday, to find herself lying on the WEH in Kandivli (East).

She told the police that her clothes were torn and there were nail marks on her body. She felt pain in her private parts. She called one of her friends and went to Bhagwati hospital where she sought treatment. According to police sources, the accused confessed that they had raped her in a hotel in Virar when she was unconscious. Pravin Tiwari, assistant commissioner (Samta Nagar division), said, “We registered a rape case against the duo and sent them to Nagpada hospital for medical examination.

We arrested Krishna Mastud and his accomplice. They work as real estate agents.” The two have been booked under Sections 328 (poison), 376 (rape) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC. They were produced at Borivli court and remanded in police custody.

Five years on, no justice for British teen raped in India


AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE

NEW DELHI, Feb 23: The mother of a British teenager who was raped and left to die on a Goa beach five years ago has blasted India´s "rubbish" legal system over the stalled trial into her daughter´s death.

Scarlett Keeling was only 15 years old when her bruised and half-naked body was found on a beach in the Indian resort state of Goa in February 2008.

Two men were arrested and charged with homicide several weeks after the attack on the popular Anjuna beach in the coastal state which has long been a haunt for Western tourists.

But five years on, their trial has come to a standstill and the pair are out on bail in an echo of a wider malaise in the notoriously sluggish Indian justice system.

In an interview with AFP, Scarlett´s mother Fiona MacKeown expressed her exasperation at the delay, saying she will not be at peace until she has secured justice for the youngster.

"The system is just rubbish," she said by phone from her home in the county of Devon on the west coast of England.

"It´s ridiculous that it´s now five years and we are still waiting."

The delay is another embarrassing example of India´s failure to deliver timely justice for victims of sex assaults, with anger still smouldering over the deadly gang-rape of a 23-year-old student in Delhi in December.

Scarlett´s death also attracted international headlines, highlighting the dark side of a tourist destination still seen by many as a hangout for hippies.

Since the trial began in 2010 at the children´s court in Goa´s state capital Panaji, proceedings have hit numerous obstacles.

The court has not had a full-time judge since 2011 and the public prosecutor withdrew from the case two years ago saying he did not have enough time to devote to it.

Since 2012, the court has met just once a week as it struggles to clear a massive backlog of cases.

Police initially dismissed Scarlett´s death as an accident but opened a murder probe after MacKeown piled pressure on local authorities, pushing for a second autopsy which proved that she had been drugged and raped.

But the two defendants, Samson D´Souza and Placido Carvalho, were not charged with rape or murder after officers from India´s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said they lacked sufficient evidence to indict them.

Instead they were charged with culpable homicide, using force with "intent to outrage her modesty" and administering a drug with intent to harm.

Police allege that Scarlett was given a cocktail of illegal drugs and dumped unconscious in shallow water where she drowned, a theory MacKeown dismisses.

"I don´t believe for a minute that she was left to die," she said.

"Someone was brutal with her and held her face down hard in the water to kill her."

The family was on a six-month holiday to India when MacKeown and her other daughters went on an excursion to the southern state of Karnataka, leaving Scarlett in the care of a Goan family.

MacKeown came in for heavy criticism back home for leaving her daughter without parental supervision.

Victim of India´s "rape culture"

Five years on, MacKeown is back home in Devon, with her remaining children and her "happy, nurturing" daughter never far from her thoughts.

"She loved life, she had so many dreams. She wanted to study art, she wanted to play in a band," she said.

"We miss her so much, she was my oldest girl and she was so good with her younger brothers and sisters."

She buried her daughter´s body only six months ago, when it was finally returned to her by Indian authorities after a long bureaucratic wrangle.

MacKeown´s Goa-based lawyer, Vikram Varma, told AFP the ongoing Delhi gang-rape trial which is taking place in a fast-track court held important lessons for the rest of India´s police and judicial establishment.

"In Delhi, police arrested the culprits within days, not weeks. And the court has promised a verdict soon. So clearly when we set our minds to it, we can deliver justice within a reasonable time frame," he said.

In Devon, MacKeown says she watched footage of the anti-rape protests in India with a sense of hope.

"I think it´s great that the younger generation is standing up and saying they have had enough. All women in India face the threat of this rape culture," she said.

"My daughter was a victim of this too and it´s time to put a stop to it. I won´t be at peace until someone is punished for what they did to her."

Traffic police to clean road every Saturday


KATHMANDU, FEB 23 -

The Traffic Police on Saturday launched a campaign of washing and cleaning the roads in the Capital.

The Metropolitan Traffic Police Division will undertake the campaign every Saturday. Under the campaign, some 300 personnel under the Valley Traffic Police Division will clean the roads for about two hours.

As part of the campaign, the Division today carried out road cleaning work on the Maitighar-Putalisadak section from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. today.

Deputy Inspector General of Police and chief of the Division, Upendra Kanta Aryal, led the road cleaning in which some 300 police personnel were involved.

As part of the road cleaning works, the traffic police personnel washed the road, cleaned it and also arranged the dividers and stuck stickers with various traffic signs on the dividers.

Launching the campaign, DIG Aryal said that the campaign has been started with the objective of reducing the risk of road accidents by cleaning the roads and keeping the different road furniture like signs, railings, dividers, islands and other structures systematic.

The Division plans to carry out the road cleaning works on selected road stretches in the Kathmandu Valley in the coming days.

Task force to hash out legal issues related to CJ-led govt


CHIRANJEEVI DHUNGANA
The task force will meet at 2 p.m. this afternoon
KATHMANDU: The major political forces have come to an understanding to let the eight-member task force to deal with the nitty-gritty of apparent legal and constitutional hurdles related to the proposed election government that the parties are mulling over to form under Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi.

The meeting of UCPN-Maoist, Nepali Congress (NC), CPN-UML and United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF), held on Saturday at the secretariat of Special Committee for army intergration in New Baneshwor, also entrusted the four-party panel to recommend ways to resolve the legal and constitutional differences among the four parties.

The task force comprises of two members each from the four forces.

Emerging from the meeting informed that the task force, the leaders informed that the task force will meet at 2 p.m. this afternoon.

Talking to the media, UDMF Chairmain Bijay Kumar Gachhadar stated that the meeting of task force and senior officials at the Ministry of Law called for this afternoon will finalise the possible ways to overcome the legal and constitutional barriers in the formation of CJ-led government.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha told THT Online said that the parties do not differ on forming the election government now. "But there are legal and constitutional hitches, and they will be resolved by tomorrow,” he added.

Though the parties have, in principle, agreed to form the new government to hold the Constituent Assembly elections, they are yet to agree upon some thorny issues like the preparation of voters' list and distribution of new citizenship along with the formation of Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

The task force is expected to prepare its report by tommorrow and brief the top leaders of the parties.