President visiting India 15 Feb.

Kathmandu, 11 Dec: President Dr Ram Baran Yadav will visit India in the second week of February on a three-day state visit, The Himalayan Times reports.
It will be Dr Yadav’s first foreign trip since he assumed office one- and- a half years back.
A source close to the President told The Himalayan Times that Dr Yadav would visit India on February 15 and return two days later.
“His meeting with his Indian counterpart Prathibha Patil has been fixed for February 16. President Yadav will return on February 17 to participate in a democracy day function here,” a source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs disclosed.”
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UN sends Nepali army officer from Chad

Kathmandu, 11 Dec: The United Nations is sending back Maj. Niranjan Basnet from a Nepal Army peacekeeping team in Chad.
He is expected back from the West African state this week.
UN says Basnet is being sent back after a civilian court implicated him in the murder of Maina Sunwar in February 2004.
But a military court has cleared him.
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TRADE, COMMERCE, ECONOMY

Kathmandu, 11 Dec: Nepal’s inflation in Q1 of the current fiscal year dropped from 14.1 percent inn the same period last year to 9.3 percent, Nepal Rashtra Bank (NRB) said.
But food and beverage prices increased 15.6 percent while prices of non-food item fell.
Price of sugar jumped 42 percent and prices of fruits and vegetables increased 37.5 percent.
During Q1 of the current fiscal year ending mid-October, NRB purchased IRs. Rs 30.31 billion selling $630 million to meet Indian currency shortage with widening trade deficit with the southern neighbour.
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MEDIA GOOGLE

“Who attacked journalist Tika Bista? An investigation can pinpoint find out who are those powers. This can be easily assumed. Even then, there are some in the Federation of Nepalese Journalists attempting to spread the canard the issue is a personal matter and not professional.”

(Senior journalist Yubaraj Ghimere, Rajdhani, 11 Dec.)

“Nepal’s participation [in Denmark climate change summit] has turned into a Gaijatra. The Danish embassy in Kathmandu also cautioned the ministry [foreign] that such a huge participation could create accommodation problems.”

“A foreign ministry protocol officer on seven ministers, prime, ministry and 80-plus delegates attending the Copenhagen summit, The Kathmandu Post, 11 Dec.)
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