Dr Mahat says ‘criminals’ are protected in India

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 5 March: Minutes after stepping on Nepali soil after high-level discussions with top Indian officials, including foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee, finance minister Dr Ram Sharan Mahat said Tuesday ‘criminal’ elements were sheltering in India after committing crimes in Nepal.
He was referring to armed groups of Jwala Singh and Jai Krishna Goit conducting separate movements in the south bordering India which has refused to hand-over activists even as they conduct operations across the border from India.
Dr Mahat said government will begin a crackdown and ‘suppress’ them ahead of the 10 April assembly elections.
Dr Mahat revealed foreign minister Mukherjee, during a meeting with him, assured ‘criminal elements’ won’t receive shelter in India.
Sujata, daughter of prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala, implicitly confirmed the deep involvement in bringing the government and terai rebels together for elections.
Sujata flew to New Delhi Monday to deliver her father’s personal thank you message to Mukherjee for his ‘crucial role to resolve the tarai problem” and ‘ to honour him for his role”, The Himalayan Times reported Wednesday quoting Sujata.
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Five billion rupees outflow to UK every year

By Bijaya Ghimere in Kantipur

Kathmandu, 5 March: A flight of capital to the United Kingdom is adversely affecting the Nepali economy.
Ambassador Murari Raj Sharma, in a ‘ preliminary’ report to the finance ministry a fortnight ago, said there’s a flight of five million rupees to Great Britain every year.
Sharma was a coordinator of a high-level foreign affairs review committee formed some months ago.
There are now 75,000 permanent Nepali residents in Great Britain and they are contributing to the capital flight.
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UN staff mistreat journalists

Bethani, Ramechap, 4 March: Staff of UN that advocates freedom of speech mistreated journalists covering the UNMIN helicopter crash, Kantipur reports.
A group of journalists reached Lubhughat, Ramechap
midnight Monday and took rest.
They boarded booked vehicle Tuesday morning to leave for the accident site.
UNMIN staff forced them out of the vehicle and themselves proceeded.
Even when foreign UN staff misbehaved with journalists again at the accident site, journalists Kosmos Bishwakarma raised his finger at reporters.
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Pappu Yadav attacks inmates in jail

Biratnagar, 4 March: Notorious Indian criminal Pappu Yadav has attacked and injured other inmates at Morang jail, Bishnu Pokhrel reports in Naya Patrika.
His group Monday night and Tuesday afternoon made two assaults as the jail administration kept silent.
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Dr Mahat says ‘criminals’ are protected in India

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 5 March: Minutes after stepping on Nepali soil after high-level discussions with top Indian officials, including foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee, finance minister Dr Ram Sharan Mahat said Tuesday ‘criminal’ elements were sheltering in India after committing crimes in Nepal.
He was referring to armed groups of Jwala Singh and Jai Krishna Goit conducting separate movements in the south bordering India which has refused to hand-over activists even as they conduct operations across the border from India.
Dr Mahat said government will begin a crackdown and ‘suppress’ them ahead of the 10 April assembly elections.
Dr Mahat revealed foreign minister Mukherjee, during a meeting with him, assured ‘criminal elements’ won’t receive shelter in India.
Sujata, daughter of prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala, implicitly confirmed the deep involvement in bringing the government and terai rebels together for elections.
Sujata flew to New Delhi Monday to deliver her father’s personal thank you message to Mukherjee for his ‘crucial role to resolve the tarai problem” and ‘ to honour him for his role”, The Himalayan Times reported Wednesday quoting Sujata.
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Five billion rupees outflow to UK every year

By Bijaya Ghimere in Kantipur

Kathmandu, 5 March: A flight of capital to the United Kingdom is adversely affecting the Nepali economy.
Ambassador Murari Raj Sharma, in a ‘ preliminary’ report to the finance ministry a fortnight ago, said there’s a flight of five million rupees to Great Britain every year.
Sharma was a coordinator of a high-level foreign affairs review committee formed some months ago.
There are now 75,000 permanent Nepali residents in Great Britain and they are contributing to the capital flight.
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UN staff mistreat journalists

Bethani, Ramechap, 4 March: Staff of UN that advocates freedom of speech mistreated journalists covering the UNMIN helicopter crash, Kantipur reports.
A group of journalists reached Lubhughat, Ramechap
midnight Monday and took rest.
They boarded booked vehicle Tuesday morning to leave for the accident site.
UNMIN staff forced them out of the vehicle and themselves proceeded.
Even when foreign UN staff misbehaved with journalists again at the accident site, journalists Kosmos Bishwakarma raised his finger at reporters.
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Pappu Yadav attacks inmates in jail

Biratnagar, 4 March: Notorious Indian criminal Pappu Yadav has attacked and injured other inmates at Morang jail, Bishnu Pokhrel reports in Naya Patrika.
His group Monday night and Tuesday afternoon made two assaults as the jail administration kept silent.
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