New Year 2065 calendar approved

Kathmandu, 15 March: Calendars published for 205 BS include information about festivals of all religions, castes and creeds, RSS reports.
According to new calendars, there would be partial solar and lunar eclipses and two Chaite dasains next year.
Astrologers predict there would be plenty of rain next year; problems faced by the country would be resoled; production of food grain and agro products would be increased; religious and ritual activities would be extended and foreign business and external relations would be enhanced.
Nepal Calendar Determination Committee has approved calendars prepared by different organizations.
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Security enforced for vote; voters don’t know reason for election; other details

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 15 March: Government Friday reinforced security in 145 of 240 electoral districts in 27 terai districts, Lila Raj Khanal reports in Rajdhani.
A security meeting at the home ministry decided to deploy an additional 266 units of Armed Police in the districts.
Sources said security in terai is being reinforced after new threats from Jwala Singh, Goit and Bishpot Singh armed groups.
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Meanwhile, parties have nominated prominent traders and industrialists in their closed list of candidates to be elected through proportional representation; 335 assembly members will be indirectly elected.
Among those nominated by CPN-UML are Binod Chaudhary, Tek Chand Pokhrel and Niranjan Tibdewal.
Dibakar Golcha, Ananda Raj Mulmi, Prakash Sharma, Birendra Kumar Kanaudiya and Himalaya Karmacharya are Congress nominees.
Arun Chaudhary, brother of Binod Chuadhary, has been nominated by Rashtriya Janasakti Party.
Bimal Kedia, Kabindra Thakur and Shital Agrawal have been nominated by Rerai Madesh Loktantrik Morcha and Moti Dugad, Bijaya Shah and Chiranjibi Sarabagi Nepal have been nominated by NSP.
Voters still don’t know what CA election is all about.
“Nobody has come to us to talk about polls yet. We don’t know how and why the polls are being held,” said Prem Raji of Bardiya.
‘Projects and programmes conducted were fake,”
Jayaendra Shrestha of member-secretary of Social Welfare Council that oversees activities of NGOs and INGOs.
These organizations were conducted election-related programmes like voter education spending millions of rupees in unaccounted money which has been wasted.
Maoists continue to disrupt electioneering activities of other parties.
Nepal Majdoor Kishan Party (NMKP) also accused Maoists of disrupting its election campaign.
CPN-UML supporters, irked by a Maoist campaign against their chief and the party, Friday beat up a newspaper delivery boy in Kaski selling copies of Maoist daily the Friday’s editions of Jandisha carrying apicture of Madhav Kumar Nepal paying his respect to King Gyanendra after ascending the throne in June 2001 with a toss of a coin at the newly crowned king’s feet.
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