Home minister leaving for China for talks

Kathmandu, 6 Feb.: Home Minister Bhim Bahadur Rawal left Saturday for talks with Chinese officials to reinforce the Nepal-Tibet border and assistance for the police.
China has asked Nepal to deploy Armed Police Force (APF) along the border to curb anti-China activities by exiled Tibetan exiles.
Beijing has helped assistance for the police.
Rawal is accompanied by chiefs of Nepal Police, APF, National Investigation Department and officials of the foreign and home ministries.
Rawal held consultations with his Indian counterpart in New Delhi two weeks ago.
The Nepali team will arrive in Beijing Sunday via Lhasa.
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RPP and RJP to announce unification

Kathmandu, 6 Feb: RPP and Rashtriya Janasakti Party (RJP) will announce their merger later Saturday at a news conference.
The parties of former panchas will be named Rashtriya Shakti Prajatantra Party.
The two parties that previously supported monarchy has adopted a
republican agenda.
The unified party will have 11 lawmakers in the 601-member parliament.
The parties split five years ago.
RPP-Nepal which also split from RPP led by Pashupati Shumshere
JB Rana still supports constitutional monarchy even after abolition of
monarchy.
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Two Dalit women killed, nine injured in Phidim fire

Kathmandu, 6 Feb.: Two Dalit women were killed in a fire in Phidim overnight and nine others were injured.
The women died in their sleep at a lodge.
People were injured when home jumped out of houses.
Police and army personnel demolished houses at Teherathum district
Headquarters to same the town.
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Girija sick

Kathmandu, 6 Feb.: Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala
Fell sick Friday.
A meeting of the HKPM of which he is coordinator couldn’t be held
Saturday morning.
Prime Minister Madhav Kmar Nepal, an invited member, had
gone to Koirala’s residence for the meeting after skipping six rounds of
discussions in the mechanism.
The premier is dissatisfied with the mechanism where his ouster was earlier discussed.
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British army chief arrives

Kathmandu, 6 Feb.: British Army Chief Gen. Sir David Julian
Richards arrives for a delayed visit Saturday as guest of Army Chief
Gen. Chatraman Singh Gurung.
The visit was to begin Thursday.
The visit was delayed following technical a snag in Dragon’s Air’s
flight from Hong Kong to Kathmandu.
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Terai rebel killed

Kathmandu, 6 Feb.: Nawal Yadav, an activist of United Jajatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha was killed in a shootout with police at a village in Dhanusha Thursday night.
The shootout started after a police patrol was shot at.
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German paraglider missing in Phewa Lake

Kathmandu, 6 Feb.: Veteran German paraglider Phrichri
Stoph Satler, 26, has gone missing on Phewa Lake since Friday in front of friends who were filming his stunt.
Statler freed himself from the glider 20 meters above the lake.
He was attempting his 200th dive.
The tourist arrived in the country early January.
Reports said the German didn’t have official government permissin needed for the feat.
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MEDIA GOOGLE

‘So, ultimately, it may not matter which language [Hindi, mother tongue or Nepali] Jha [vice-president] uses. Didn’t someone say language always keeps pace with the social development of its users?”

(Maila Baje, People’s Review, 6 Feb.)

“As chiefs of three major parties are in the HLPM, the mechanism has enough political capacity to make a change of the government to
achieve its objective for peace, constitution writing and end
deadlock. There is a need of a national government and if such a
situation comes up, our party chief will lead it.”

(Maoist Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya Kiran, The Rising Nepal,
6 Feb.)
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