Curfew slapped in Ramechap

Kathmandu, 13 Sept: A curfew continued Saturday morning in Ramechap district headquarters Manthali following clashes with Maoist YCL and Youth Force of CPN-UML Friday.
A CPN-UML activist was injured in an attack after a Youth Force unit was formed in the district.
The curfew was slapped Friday night.
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Kiran takes over organization of CPN (Maoist)

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 13 Sept: Mohan Baidya ‘Kiran’ has been appointed chief of the CPN (Maoist) organization department by the party headquarters Friday.
Kiran took over responsibility from Ram Bahadur Thapa ‘Badal’ who has joined government as defence minister.
Nanda Kishore Pun has been appointed chief of PLA after the resignation of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda.
Post Bahadur Bogati has been appointed chief of parliamentary affairs and CP Gajurel continues to look after the foreign department.
Prachanda continues to be party chairman.
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Army briefs PM, ministers

Kathmandu, 13 Sept: The Nepal Army Friday evening briefed Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda and several ministers at army headquarters.
Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Bamdeb Gautam, Finance Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai, Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav and Defence Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal were present at the dinner briefing.
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Govt. promises a probe

Kathmandu, 13 Sept: Government has promised a probe into the death of Congress youth leader Pradip Khadka this week in the capital.
The party said Khadka died in a police battering.
Half a dozen vehicles were smashed in the capital during a transport strike.
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Two Nepalis released in New Delhi

Kathmandu, 13 Sept: Two Nepalis, Krishna and Raj Kumar, were released on bail Friday in New Delhi after Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) found no evidence to prove murder charge against them.
They were charged for the murders of Arushi Talwar, a teenager, and Nepali domestic helper Yagya Prasad Banjade.
Rights groups said the charges were framed up.
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Record rainfall

Kathmandu, 13 Sept: A record 84.03 mm rainfall was recorded Thursday in the capital—the highest in 23 years in Bhadra, according of weather expert Rajendra Prasad Shrestha.
A woman was buried alive and two others were injured in Budhanilkantha in a house collapse following a heavy downpour.
A section of bridge over Bagmati river at Shinamangal sank.
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Foreign ministry efforting Prachanda, Bush meeting

Kathmandu, 13 Sept: The foreign ministry is efforting a meeting between Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda and President George W. Bush in the sidelines of the UN general assembly meeting in New York later this month, Annapurna Post reports.
Foreign advisor Hira Bahadur Thapa said Nepalese missions in New York and Washington are making the effort.
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Child sacrificed to please goddess

Nepalgunj, 12 Sept: According to preliminary police investigation, a eight-year-old child was sacrificed by tantriks to please a goddess in Nepalgunj, Rajdhani reports.
The decapitated body of Bijaya Balmiki was found Friday in the town; the boy had gone missing from home Thursday.
Pujaiya festival was observed Thursday.
Two suspects have been arrested.
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Bada guruju reinstated

Kathmandu, 13 Sept: Government will reinstate Bada guruju Janardhan Raj Pandey and his deputy Dr Madhav Bhattarai suspended by former prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepal Samacharpatra reports.
Letters are being sent reinstating them.
The action follows a consultations between Pashupati Bhakta Maharjan, chief secretary of former King Gyanendra , and the government.
Government has already sent a letter to chief priest Shekhar Pandit reinstating him.
Koirala suspended the three persons when they absented themselves from Basanta shrawan at Hanuman Dhoka on the instructions of the king.
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Prachanda proposing new treaty with India

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 13 Sept: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda said Saturday he is carrying a draft on a new treaty to replace the 1950 India, Nepal Peace and friendship treaty.
The new treaty will be discussed during his five-day ‘goodwill, working visit’ of India beginning Sunday.
“The sentiment of the Nepalese is such that they have been deceived to some extent because of the signing of the treaty,” Prachanda told The Rising Nepal in an interview.
Prachanda said ‘it would be sensible to replace it with a new treaty’.
Prachanda said: ‘Concrete decisions of this issue [replacing treaties] will not be arrived at but a particular process will be identified for the same.”
He added: “I am confident that India would extend its all possible support to our endeavours to form a new Nepal and further milestone would be added in the annals of Nepal-India friendly ties.”
The prime minister said trade, transit, Kosi, border and other issues will be discussed.
“I am going to India with a high level of confidence that the suspicions would be cleared in the political context,” he said.
Prachanda defended his first foreign visit to China to attend the closing of the Beijing Olympics calling criticism of the China visit ‘meaningless’.
“At a time when such a big event like the Olympic games were being held in our next door neighbour, it would have been embarrassing not to attend it neither at the opening function nor at the closing function,” Prachanda said.
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Indra jatra festival begins

Kathmandu, 13 Sept: Indra jatra festival began Friday.
The festival began with the erection if the lingo.
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RPP-Nepal general convention begins

Kathmandu, 13 Sept: RPP-Nepal general convention began in the capital Friday with Chairman Kamal Thapa charging democracy had been ‘ambushed by extreme leftist forces’.
Charging Nepali Congress, Thapa said,” I am hearing from the same leaders who pushed the nation into this state, about the threat to totalitarianism in the country.”
Thapa warned ‘there’s a possibility of he nation’s disintegration’.
He said ‘extreme leftist forces’ could overrun the country.
King Prtihvi Narayan Shah the Great, the founder of Nepal, was declared an adshara [great ] personality before the convention began.
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