Reduced health budget will hamper MDG efforts: Experts

KATHMANDU: Reduction in health budget could create obstructions in meeting the Millennium Development Goals’ (MDG) target, health experts warned today.Babu Ram Marasini, chief of Health Sector Reform Unit at the Health Ministry said the budget cut will adversely affect efforts to meet the MDG target.Although the country is showing progress in so far as child mortality rate and maternal mortality...

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Displaced journos return to Dailekh

KATHMANDU, JAN 29 -A group of Dailekh-based journalist s, who fled to Surkhet following threats from the Maoist party workers, some six days ago, returned to the district on Tuesday.Twenty-two journalists affiliated to various local and national media houses fled the district and reached Surkhet after UCPN (Maoist) activists threatened them with their lives for reporting and pressurizing the government...

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Egypt in show of defiance against Islamist leader

ASSOCIATED PRESSCAIRO, Jan 29: Protesters battled police for hours in Cairo on Monday and thousands marched through Egypt´s three Suez Canal cities in direct defiance of a night-time curfew and state of emergency, handing a blow to the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi´s attempts to contain five days of spiraling political violence.Nearly 60 people have been killed in the wave of unrest, clashes,...

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Drive against plastic bags during Swasthani fest

KATHMANDU, JAN 28 -In a bid to control pollution in Sankhu’s Shalinadi, a campaign has been launched to limit the excessive use of polythene bags during the month-long Swasthani festival, which begun on Saturday.Under the campaign, a joint initiative of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC), the Nepal Scouts, Force Nepal and other stakeholders, environment-friendly bags will be distributed to...

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NEA recovers dues in Birgunj

BIRGUNJ: After the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) Distribution Center, Birgunj started leakage control campaign, it could recover remarkable amount of dues.It raised Rs. 25.6 million after cutting the power lines of 533 customers in the first six months of the current fiscal year 2012/13.The Centre said that last year, the NEA had recovered some 96.46 percent of the dues which was 15.86 percent...

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No chance‚ baby!: Maoist chair to NC‚ UML

SHREERAM SIGDEL & HARI SHARMAPM BOYCOTTED: Local and Indian journalists walked out when Prime Minister Dr. Bhattarai went to dais to address the functionPARASI: Unified CPN-Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Monday stated that the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML cannot make it to the power for a decade, and offered a suggestion to the parties to give up their longing for the government...

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