Promotions in Nepal Police

Kathmandu, 15 Sept: Four DIGS of Nepal Police have been promoted by the government Sunday.
Rabindra Pratap Shah, Deependra Bista, Ramesh Shrestha and Ramesh Chand Thakuri were appointed AIGs.
Hem Bahadur Gurung has been appointed IGP.
Five top officers will be formally installed Wednesday.
The tenure of IGP Gurung could be short as he is expected to retire in six months.
In an assertive decision, Deputy PM Bamdeb Gautam decided to go for a massive overhaul of the police set-up, asking IGP Om Bikram Rana and five DIGs to pack off, newsfront reports.
Gautam declined to accommodate PM Prachanda’s advice not to take such a drastic step and allow IGP Rana to grant discretionary two years extension.
Rana was hand-picked by KP Shitaula and had been charged with turning the police headquarters onto a Congress-Maoist led fort.
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Govt. condemns Indian explosions

Kathmandu, 15 Sept: Hours before an official visit of India, a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda Sunday condemned the deadly serial New Delhi bomb blasts that killed 24 persons and injured 90 others.
“The explosions are condemnable. Government expressed its sadness over the incidents,” government spokesman Krishna Bahadur Mahara said.
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Mahanta Thakur elected

Kathmandu, 15 Sept: Mahanta Thakur has been elected leader of the parliamentary party of Tarai Madesh Loktanrik Party (TMLP).
The chairman of TMLP is a defector from the Nepali Congress.
Hridesh Tripathi has been nominated deputy leader and Brajesh Kumar Gupta chief whip.
Thakur earlier nominated Tripathi, Ram Chandra Kushwaha and Brikhesh Chandra Lal party vice-chairmen.
Mahendra Prasad Yadav, Govinda Chaudhary and Sarvendra Nath Sukla have been elected general secretaries of the fifth largest party in the CA.
Sukla has been appointed party spokesman.
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PM Prachanda holding talks with Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 15 Sept: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda launches the substantive part of his India visit Monday by talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress (I) President Sonia Gandhi.
Prachanda is carrying a draft of an agreement he hopes to sign with India to replace the 1950 treaty of peace and friendship with New Delhi.
But no agreements are being signed during the current visit.
The visiting prime minister will also hold talks with President Prathiva Patil, leader of the opposition LK Advani and Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon Sunday briefed Prachanda on the agenda India will present at the bilateral talks to spread over two days.
Prachanda held talks with Indian business leaders shortly after arriving in New Delhi Sunday night.
Prachanda will also formally address a meeting of the business leaders asking them to investment in Nepal assuring the protection of investments even in a Maoist-led government.
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Maoist killed in clash with CPN-UML

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 15 Sept: Maoists continued to clash with activists of coalition partners in government as one activist died Sunday in clashes with CPN-UML workers in Taplejung.
Laxmi Benam was killed at Tellabung in a khukri fight.
Maoist YCL and CPN-UML Youth Force earlier clashed in Ramechap prompting Jhalanath Khanal to warn Maoists the coalition government could collapse if such violence continued.
Curfew continued in Manthgali,Ramechap, for the fourth consecutive day Monday to separate rival Youth Force and YCL.
Khanal is general secretary of the CPN-UML.
Meanwhile, curfew continued for the ninth consecutive day in Siraha Monday to facilitate the movement of vehicles.
MJF, another coalition partner of the Maoists, have been holing an indefinite transport strike demanding Maoists return the seized assents of Dilip Shah.
A dozen Maoists and police were injured overnight in the district as police raided hutments to evict settlers on Shah’s property.
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Two secretaries appointed

Kathmandu, 15 Sept: Secretaries have been appointed in the newly formed ministries of commerce and supply and youth and sports.
Purusottam Ojha has been nominated secretary at the commerce and supply ministry while Shankar Pandey has been appointed secretary at the ministry of youth and sports.
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Integration of Nepal Army and PLA

Kathmandu, 15 Sept: CPN (Maoist) has started its homework to integrate its fighters in the Nepal Army, Shekhar Dhungara reports in Deshantar.
CPN (Maoist) has started work by distributing rank and insignia to its combatants who are under UNMIN observation.
But leaders of prominent parties say Maoists won’t succeed in their endeavour.
Such integration will destroy national unity and integration.
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KP Oli challenges Prachanda to call India and USA expansionist, imperialist

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 15 Sept: CPN-UML leader KS Sharma Oli, a firm critic of Maoists, has thrown a gauntlet at Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda challenging the prime minister to now call India and expansionist and USA an imperialist.
“’Dahal never considered himself a socialist. He was a hardcore communist leader. Can he do so now. Does he think that he can be an ultra-leftist?
“I want to listen to Chairman Dahal of the CPN (Maoist) calling India an expansionist or calling America an imperialist. He did in public when he was out of power. Can he do so now,” Oli asked in an interview with The Kathmandu Post Monday.
“How does he feel now himself in front of giant India or China?” Oli asked further.
Oli recalled Maoists considered China a socialist and not a communist state and again said,” Pushpa Kamal Dahal visited China to attend the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. I want to know what Dahal saw in China.”
“When you are not in the government, you can be a communist. Once you are in power, you cannot act like a communist,” Oli said.
‘Don’t think this is a communist government. There are others in government,” he added.
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