CA meets Wednesday

Kathmandu, 3 March: The constitutional assembly (CA) meets Wednesday after a month-long recess; the assembly adjourned without an agenda.
The CA will for the 10th time set a new schedule for promulgating a constitution by the 28 May deadline.
The Nepali Congress has issued a whip to lawmakers to be present at Wednesday’s session.
The CA is expected to vote on the number of commissions in the proposed constitution.
The assembly has to send reports with suggestions of 10 subject committees to the main constitution drafting committee to draft a constitution.
The committee meeting has been adjourned without an agenda.
The committee has received only one report from a subject committee.
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HLPM meets for second time

Kathmandu, 3 March: The high-level political mechanism (HLPM) meets for second time in two days Wednesday.
A meeting of the mechanism assisted by the task forces of the country’s three larges parties was inconclusive Tuesday.
Coordinator Girija Prasad Koirala, Chairman Prachanda and Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal didn’t attend Tuesday’s meet.
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Another attempted murder in capital


Kathmandu, 3 March: Indian national Dr Nagendra Pampati escaped an assassination in the capital overnight in the northern outskirts of the capital.
He escaped without injuries.
No arrests have been made so far.
Assassins, who sped away in a motorcycle, fired at him as he was entering his house in a car.
Dr Pampati is associated with Bharatpur Medical College.
The fresh murder attempted comes after the assassination media tycoon Jamin Shah by an Indian criminal gang.
The gang penetrated Nepal Police and with the help of a sub-inspector shot dead Shah.
The sub-inspector was liaising security between Nepal Police and the uS embassy as well.
The attempted murder comes one day after Arun Shinghaniya was, a newspaper publisher, was shot dead in Janakpur.
Journalists came out of the streets Wednesday to protest the publisher’s murder.
Government has come under fire for failure to provide security to citizens.
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Tenure of army integration technical committee extended

Kathmandu, 3 March: The tenure of the technical committee for army integration was Tuesday extended until mid-May by the army special integration special committee headed by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal.
The tenure expired 27 February.
There was no agreement at the special committee to the prime minister’s proposal to integrate and rehabilitate 19,000 Maoists by 30 April ahead of the 28 May deadline to promulgate a constitution.
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Even Prachanda govt. imported arms: PM Nepal

Kathmandu, 3 March: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal told parliament’s state affairs committee Tuesday arms and ammunition for Nepal Police and Armed Police were imported even during the nine-month tenure of the Prachanda government.
Nepal told the committee logistics was imported even by the government under Girija Prasad Koirala.
Nepal said this as the Nepal government brought in fresh consignment of weapons from India for APF.
The committee directed the premier to furnish details of all imports following the April 2008 constituent assembly elections in one week.
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Measles outbreak in Bajura kills a child

Kathmandu, 3 March: An outbreak of measles has killed an eight-year-old at Kailashmandu VDC in Bajura in the far-West this week.
Sixty students have fallen sick as well.
A medical team is being rushed to the VDC with medicine Wednesday.
The village is a day’s trek from district headquarters.
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Girija’s request

Kathmandu, 3 March: Coordinator of HLPM asked other political leaders to manage politics as he was nearing the end of his life, Janaastha reports.
The meeting of the HLPM is not being held at his residence after he told leaders Thursday he wouldn’t be able to attend meetings of the mechanism.
He has been saying nothing would happen to him until the promulgation of a constitution but said he will take rest after the promulgation of the new constitution.
(Note: The meeting of the HLPM was held in Godavari for the first time Tuesday.)
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“I has earlier assured of timely elections, fall of the monarchy and that Nepal would be declared a republic. That happened., I am now saying that the constitution will come with the same confidence.”

(Controversial Indian communist leader Sitram Yechutri, The Kathmandu Post, 3 March)