Jamin Shah murder case report presented

Kathmandu, 13 May: A high-level judicial commission headed by Gobinda Prasad Parajuli submitted a 115-page report on the murder media tycoon Jamin Shah to Home Minister Bhim Rawal Wednesday.
The commission took three months to complete the report.
The commission concluded an international criminal gang was behind the murder.
The report will be presented to the cabinet.
Two persons shot dead Shah in Maharajgunj 7 February 2009.
Five Nepalis and seven Indians were involved, the Annapurna Post said quoting an unidentified source.
Among the chief plotters were Bablu Shrivastav, Dipak Shahi and former police officers Jagdish Chand,Praakash Chetri and Skrikrishna .
The report says the plotters first attempted to kill National Television Channel Chairman Yunus Ansari who was behind bars.
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Three killed in Dhading truck accident

Kathmandu, 13 May: Three persons were killed in a truck accident in Dhading Wednesday.
Fifty others were injured in the accident.
Twenty-five injured are undergoing treatment at Bir Hospital after being rushed to the capital.
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Nepali butler inherits millions in New York

Kathmandu, 13 May: Years of loyalty and service have paid off in a big way for a former butler in New York City, The Himalayan Times reports quoting agencies.
For 35 years, Indra Tamang cooked and cleaned inside the Upper West Side’s venerable co-op The Dakota.
Today, he owns the very same apartments in which he laboured, gifts from his grateful former employers, writer Charles Henri Ford, who died in 2002, and his sister, actress Ruth Ford, who passed last year at age 98.
‘I’m grateful. I’m honoured. I’m humbled by their generosity,” Tamang said.
The estate, valued at close to $10 million, includes, two apartments, as well as a Russian surrealist are collection hanging inside.
One 1937 painting alone of a young Ms Ford sold last month for close to $1 million.
Tamang left rural farming village in Nepal when he was 22-year-old.
He said his friends, the Fords, made his American dreams come true-receiving the staggering wealth he can now call his own.
Tamang received the estate in favour of Ruth Ford’s biological daughter, who was disinherited for unknown reasons.
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TRADE, COMMERCE, ECONOMY


Shortfall in grain production

Kathmandu, 13 May: There’ll be a shortfall of 7.76 million tons in grain production this year because of a bad monsoon, the agriculture ministry said.
The shortfall has to tackled with imports or international food assistance..
Total grain production fell to 7.76 million metric tons this fiscal year.
Nepal produced only 4.2 million metric tons of paddy—a decline of 11 percent to the previous year.
Maize, the second staple diet after rice, fell four percent to 1.85 million tons.
But wheat production increased 16 percent to 1.56 million tons following good winter rain.
Millet production increased two percent to 293,000 tons while barley production increased 19 percent to 27,500 tons.
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300 products to get duty free access to China

Kathmandu, 13 May: Nepal and China are signing an agreement Friday for duty free access of Nepali products to China, Kantipur reports.
About 300Nepali products will get access to the Chinese market.
The facility is being extended to least developed countries, including Nepal.
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SPORTS

Nepal participating in 14 disciplines at14th Asiad

Kathmandu, 13 May: Nepal is participating in 14 disciplines in the 16th Asian Games (Asiad) in Guangbou, China, from 12 to 28 November.
Nepal will compete in karate, taekwondo, wushu, boxing, archery, judo, table-tennis, badminton, athletics, weightlifting, chess, wrestling, shooting and cricket.
Asian Games Preparatory Committee took the decision Wednesday.
Altogether 73 players have been selected.
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MEDIA GOOGLE

“There’s no basis to support or admire the political culture that’s emerged in Nepal now. It can only be criticized. There’s no reason to emulate the honesty, commitment and the democratic processes adopted by the Nepali politicians who should keep their eyes and mind open.”

(Kirtinidhi Bista, Rajdhani, 13 May)

“I’ve been saying without mincing words Indian ambassadors and , diplomats are very cautious and serious while visiting small countries in Europe and Americas. But when they visit Nepal, Bhutan or Bangladesh their body language, talk are extremely light; they act as if they aren’t in a foreign country.

{Maoist nominee for ambassador to India Ram Karki, Rajdhani, 13 May)
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