CPN-UML central committee considering action against top party leaders

Kathmandu, 9 Sept: A continuing meeting of CPN-UML central committee Tuesday is considering a recommendation of disciplinary action against three standing committee members, including former Education Minister Pradip Nepal, party sources said.
Disciplinary has been recommended by a party committee against Nepal for participating in the Beijing Olympics even as all ministers of party withdrew from the government headed by Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala following humiliating performance in the 10 April CA polls.
Nepal, the also leader of the Nepali as education minister, abruptly returned from Beijing in the middle of the Games, following a controversy raised by his participation.
Action has also been recommended against former Foreign Minister Sahana Pradhan and Bhim Rawal for airing anti-party views in public.
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Editor of The Rising Nepal ousted amid controversy

Kathmandu, 9 Sept: Yubanath Lamsal, editor of The Rising Nepal, a government-owned English language newspaper, has been sacked.
Lamsal was replaced by the Maoist administrators of Gorkhapatra Sansthan by Pushkar Mathema,editor of Yuba Manch.
Lamsal’s supporters have protested his replacement by a person from a vernacular publication of the Sansthan.
There’s a precedent.
Magsaysay Award winner Bharat Dutta Koirala was appointed editor of Gorkhapatra, Nepali language Nepal’s oldest newspaper, another Sansthan publication.
Koirala was appointed Gorkhapatra editor even as he was editor of The Rising Nepal.
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Callousness of Indian engineers endangers Nepali lives: Indian report

Patna , Bihar, 7 Sept: Even as north Bihar districts continue to be ravaged by the strong currents of Kosi rushing downstream through the breach in its eastern embankment, engineers and contractors working to plug the cut at Kusaha in east Nepal do not seem to have taken the Herculean task seriously, Times of India reports.
‘The flood-fighting work is meager…Engineers and contractors leave the site before sunset…Work is being carried out only during daytime even as round-the –clock work is required to prevent the entire exercise from going in vain,” says a report of the special committee headed by retired engineer-in-chief N Sanyal, which visited the breach site on August 31.
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