Nepali students prevent screening of first Warner Brothers’ Indian movie (URGENT NEWS)

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 21 Jan: Angry Nepali students Wednesday stoped in the capital the screening of ‘Chadani Chowk to China’ – the first Hollywood studio Warner Brothers’
first Indian movie.
Students were angered by depicting the birth of Lord Buddha in India and not in Nepal.
The Buddha was born in Lumbini, Nepal.
Jaya Nepal Cinema Hall stopped the screening indefinitely after students tore down a poster advertising the movie.
Students asked public to boycott the movie as they demanded Nepal’s Maoist-led government take up the issue with the Indian government.
The first Hindi film shot on location in China was released this week.
The action comedy is about anIndian chef who is mistaken as a reincarnation of a famous Chinese warior.
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Unified CPN (Maoist) to strengthen unity

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 21 Jan: The first two-day central committee meeting of the Unified CPN (Maoist) ended Wednesday after distributing responsibilities and to manage merger, party sources said.
The central committee adopted the slogan: Unity, National Awareness and Development Campaign.
The expanded politburo will have 16 politburo members and 138 central committee members
Mohan Bidya Kiran has been confirmed as organization boss of a 11-member committee and Dinanath Sharma will be the spokesman of the party.
Chairman Prachanda has been given sole responsibility to establish party headquarters or the unified party’s top powerful governing body.
No decision was taken by the two-day central committee meeting.
Dr Baburam Bhattarai heads a 13-member internal committee to draft a constitution.
Narayan Kazi Shrestha Prakash of disbanded CPN (Unity Center/Mashal) and Deb Gurung head a committee to monitor government activities.
Shrestha has also been given responsibilities to manage the organization and parliamentary affairs.
Fourteen state committees were reorganized.
Post Bahadur Bogati is chief whip and Jayapuri Gharti whip.
Dinanath Sharma has been appointed secretariat member while a five-member committee has been formed to merge class organizations.
The central committee discussed appointing Dr Bhattarai deputy prime minister, Sharma said.
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Maoist, CPN-UML students clash in Pokhara

Kathmandu, 21 Jan: Nearly three dozen students and policemen were injured Wednesday in clashes between students supporters of ruling Maoists CPN-UML Wednesday in Pokhara’s Prithvi Narayan Campus.
Six of the injured are serious.
Maoist students charged CPN-UML students of corruption in managing a campus union whose office was damaged.
CPN-UML supporters retaliated by attacking the Maoist Kaski district office.
More than one dozen motorcycles were destroyed.
The fresh clash will rock relations between Maoists and CPN-UML whose top leaders have demanded a change in government leadership.
They said CPN-UML and not Maoists should lead the coalition government.
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Poultry farming banned for three months after bird flu hits Nepal

Kathmandu, 21 Jan: Poultry farming has been banned for three months in 26 of Nepal’s 75 administrative districts adjoining the Indian states of West Bengal and Sikkim where the dearly contagious disease was reported.
Those defying the ban will be prosecuted, officials warned Wednesday.
Traces of the disease were detected in Nepal in Jhapa where an emergency has been declared.
Altogether 18,000 plus birds have been culled until Wednesday and 1,500 more birds will remain be slaughtered, officials said.
Farmers obstructed culling demanding compensation.
The outbreak of the disease in the world’s 66th country has put Nepal’s poultry in crisis as sale of chicken meat fell drastically,
But chicken and eggs are still being consumed.
A photograph of a government official eating tandoori was published in newspapers Wednesday to create public confidence by spreading the feeling eating chicken was not hazardous.
There’s very little the country can do to stop migrating from as far as Siberia from flying into Nepal.
Birds from there fly to Nepal to escape the winter in cold Siberia.
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Shribhadra Sharma dead

Kathmandu, 21 Jan: Shribhadra Sharma who held top ministerial posts in the panchayat regime died Wednesday of a heart attack at his home.
He was 83.
He left behind two daughters and a son.
He defected to the panchayat from Nepali Congress of which he was general secretary.
He rejoined the party after King Gyanendra introduced direct rule.
His body was put for public view at the Nepali Congress office before cremation.
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Deputy prime minister Gautam readmitted to hospital

Kathmandu, 21 Jan: Deputy Prime Minister Bamdeb Gautam was readmitted to a hospital after development fever Wednesday, Radio Nepal said.
He had been discharged after undergoing angioplasty.
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Foreign ministry moves to Narayanhiti

Kathmandu, 21 Jan: Foreign ministry Wednesday moved to the office of ousted King Gyanendra at Narayanhiti from Shital Niwas the official residence of the president.
President Dr Ram Baran Yadav is moving there shortly from his private home.
The building donated to government by Krishna Shumshere JB Rana after 2007 is presently being used by the president as his office.
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Local development minister Jha threatens resignation


Kathmandu, 21 Jan: Local Development Minister Ram Chandra Jha of CPN–UML threatened to resign accusing PM Prachanda and Home Minister Bamdeb Gautum also of obstructing lifting the capital’s garbage for the last 18 days.
Jha charged his own party cadres were obstructing lifting the garbage to a dumping site in neighbouring Dhading district.
Tons of filth have been filing up on the capital’s streets endangering public health.
Jha said he raise the issue of his party general secretary Jhalanath Khanal.
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Independent lawmaker Baban Singh released

Kathmandu, 21 Jan: Independent lawmaker Baban Singh was released on bail by Parsa district court Wednesday, January 21, 2009.
Ailing Singh was presented at the court after his three-day remand for investigation into two alleged murders ended Wednesday.
His supporters forcibly again closed down Birgunj Wednesday protesting his arrest.
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Girija, Indian envoy hold political discussions

Kathmandu, 21 Jan: Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala Wednesday held political discussions with Indian Ambassador Rakesh Sood.
Details of their discussions weren’t immediately available.
But the discussions follow last Tuesday’s discussions Koirala had collectively outgoing US Ambassador Nancy J Powell and ambassadors from Great Britain and Fracne.
They told Koirala PM Prachanda was threat to the world and he was compared to Venezuelan President Huro Chavez for irresponsible public statements, a published report said Wednesday.
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