Nepali Congress general convention from 10 March

Kathmandu, 29 March; Nepali Congress 12th general convention will be held for five days from 10 March 2010, according to a decision of the central committee.
The venue will be decided by the committee Sunday.
The convention is once every three years; but it has been delayed one year.
The mahasimiti meeting will beheld for three days from 1 November.
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Bomb defused near vice-president’s residence

Kathmandu, 29 March: A bomb was defused near the residence of Vice-president Parmananda Jha Saturday.
Police defused the strong bomb.
Four suspects have been arrested.
A woman was injured in a blast one day earlier near the house in Gaurighat,
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Indian embassy gives lowest priority for Maoist integration in Nepal Army

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 29 Aug: Indian embassy has suggested nearly 19,000 Maoist combatants should be integrated in police and Nepal Army in last preference.
Maoists ‘integration/resettlement ‘ should be ‘done in civil society, new security forces like CICF, BSF, civil government offices, police and Nepal Army in that order of preference,” the embassy said in a secret comment on a report of a study center.
The comment was published by Maoist mouthpiece Janadisha Saturday; fM radios broke the suggestion Friday.
The newspaper said Indian embassy attempted to blackout the publication of the suggestion.
“No unit/sub-unit should be integrated” while integration should also be done on the ‘qualitative requirement of each security unit’.
There should be ‘no integration at the leadership level’, the embassy suggested.
Indian embassy has suggested Maoist combatants should be ‘resettled’ in jobs of ‘direct protective value’ rather that in ‘armed bearing jobs’.
Comments of the defence and political wing of the embassy were obtained, the suggestions said.
The suggestions come as Maoist seek integration in Nepal Army while India has also decided to resume suspended arms supplies to Nepal since 2005.
The suggestions will anger Maoists.