President concerned

Kathmandu, 15 Jan.: President Dr Ram Baran Yadav is concerned.
The concern was expressed at a hour-long meeting between the president and Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Friday.
Nepal briefed president on the peace process, the drafting of the constitution integration and current political situation.
The meeting comes at a time when the ceremonial president has come under fire for his public assessment of the consequences if a constitution isn’t promulgated within the28 May deadline.
Dr Yadav said only the president will continue if the constitution isn’t drafted by 28 May.
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Makkar shangrati celebrated

Kathmandu, 15 Jana.: Devotees took a holy bath at rivers Friday and offered prayers to observe Makkar shangrati which marks the end of winter.
A partial solar eclipse also begins 12.24 and will last 3 hours and 19 minutes—the longest of the third millennium
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Democratic panel sweeps NBA polls

Kathmandu, 15 Jan.: The democratic panel supported by Nepali
Congress swept polls of Nepal Bar Association (NBA).
Pren Bajadur Khadka was elected president and Bijaya Prasad Mishra general secretary.
Congress candidates defeated lawyers supported by UML
and Maoists.
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Koirala rejects Ban assessment

Kathmandu, 15 Jan.: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday expressed the peace process is nearing collapse.
He said this as the security council meets to discuss the extension of UNMIN which ends 23 January.
“The major disagreements that have brought the pace process close to a standstill remain unresolved, increasing risk of collapse
“Positions have hardened at the opposing ends of the political spectrum which has seriously eroded the common middle ground that had from the outset, defined the peace process and remained the driving strength. There is growing and worrying risk of the political discourse being dominated by extreme voices and the focus shifting away from the peaceful and democratic path,” Ban said.
But Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad KOirala said a day later the assessment is not based on reality.
He told this at a collective meeting with ambassadors of EU countries
Thursday.
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MEDIA GOOGLE

“The prime minister was careful not to name names. Although Nepal’s premier conservation agency was named for King Mahendra, the royal most associated with the color green was his second son who would go onn to become the last king. In one pithy comment, Premier Nepal praised the two most reviled kings. Was he truly overcome by that visceral approbation of the two men even the most rabid republicans cannot really conceal anymore?”

(Maila Maje, People’s Review, 15 Jan.)