Bardiya Congress leader shot, injured

Kathmandu, 0 June: Bardiya Congress leader Kittu Yadav, who was shot and injured overnight, has been rushed to Lucknow for treatment.
Yadav was a vocal anti-Maoist.
Three persons have been detained for questioning.
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House captured by YCL demolished amid clash

Kathmandu, 30 June: A house captured in Maoist YCL in Teku was demolished Tuesday on order of the court and with the assistance of police and metropolitan authorities amid clashed between Maoists and police.
YCL captured the hose and established its office in the building owned by Shobakar Neupane.
YCL continued the building’s occupation even after Neupane won custody of the house after a long court battle.
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20 civil servants scale Yala peak in Langtang region

Kathmandu, 30 June: Twenty government officials preparing to scale the 8848 meters high Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak in 2011, climbed Yala peak in Langtang region Monday, an official announcement said.
The team is led by Lilamani Paudel, secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers.
Paudel was previously secretary at the ministry of tourism that gives out permits to foreign expeditions to scale Nepal’s Himalayan peaks.
The first team of Nepali officials to collectively attempt a Himalayan peak at home trained for three days before setting off for Yala from the capital.
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Petrol shortage in the capital

Kathmandu, 30 June: Vehicle owners have been inconvenienced for several days in the capital with long hours of wait at filling stations to fill up tanks in cars and motorcycles.
There’s been a shortage of petrol in Nepal following a hike of prices in India from where Nepal imports POL products.
Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) says India has halved exports to Nepal following the price rise.
NOC says it will still take several days for the supply to normalize.
Although NOC says shortage is the result of supply disruption, the oil importing monopoly uses alibis like its loss and leveling of cross-border prices to increase fuel price in Nepal.
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Naxalites kill 26 Indian policemen

Kathmandu, 30 June: In a major Naxal attack, 26 CRPF personnel were today [Tuesday] shot dead and seven were injured in an ambush in a remote area of Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district, PTI reports from Raipur.
Heavily-armed Maoists opened fire with automatic weapons from a hilltop when a 63-member security contingent was returning from road opening duty on foot, Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said in New Delhi.
The attack which also left seven personnel including four special police officers of the Chhattisgarh police injured, took place at Daurai Road area, about 300 km from here at around 3 PM.
It comes nearly three months after the worst April six Dantewda massacre by Maoists which left 75 personnel of the force and one Chhattisgarh police dead.
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Trees worth Rs 600 million felled illegally

Kathmandu, 30 June: About two million cubic feet of trees—double the amount sanctioned by Banke district forest office—have been felled, Gorkhapatra reports from Nepalgunj.
A parliamentary sub-committee of parliament’s natural resources committee, also consisting of journalists, conducted a study of community and natural forests in Banke.
Officials were involved in the racket.
Trees, not ready for felling, and khair were illegally cut.
(Note: A team of parliament’s natural resources committee with Shanta Chandhary left for the terai Wednesday to study the unbridled destruction of forests.)
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MEDIA GOOGLE

“We surrendered to someone to teach a family member a lesson forgetting that tiger will also devour us. The tiger named Delhi is today trying to devour Maoists and especially Prachanda. Sooner or later, if they don’t behave like slaves, Nepali Congress and UML leaders will be kicked out, like Gyanendra and Prachanda.”

(Rabindra Mishra, Nagarik, 30 June)

‘There’s no dispute in the chairman leading the government but the party is ready to also search for an agreement.”

(Maoist Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya, Nagarik, 30 June)

“There’s no environment to work; secretaries can be killed anywhere, anytime.”

(Central Chairman Bhawani Ghimere of VDC Rights Manch, Kantipur, 30 June)

“If any country feels insecure, it can check goods coming through its territory for its interest. Editors of other newspapers visit me regularly. But newspapers of your publication don’t come frequently to me.”

(Indian Ambassador Rakesh Sood telling Publisher of Kantipur Publications ,Janaastha, 30 June)
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