SLC result Friday or Saturday

Kathmandu, 29 June: This year’s SLC result will be published Friday or Saturday.
“We are planning to publish the results on Friday or Saturday,” Chitra Debkota, Controller of the Office of the Controller of Examinations told The Rising Nepal.
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National Paddy Day celebrated

Kathmandu, 29 June: National Paddy Day was celebrated Tuesday coinciding with Ashad 15 by eating beaten rice with curd and planting paddy, the country’s staple food.
Nepal, once a rice exporting nation, started observing National Paddy Day from 2004.
Rice production this year fell to 4 million tons from 4.5 million tons the previous year—a 11 percent fall.
Production declined mainly because of bad monsoon and non-availability of fertilizers especially during the planting season.
Paddy has been planted this year only in 14 percent farmland so far with inadequate monsoon, Gorkhapatra reports.
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Maoist extended central committee meet in November

Kathmandu, 29 June: An extended central committee meet of main opposition Maoists will be held sometime in November,
The party’s standing committee which met Monday following a politburo meet took the decision.
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BJP leader LK Advani arriving next month

Kathmandu, 29 June: At the invitation of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani is arriving here next month, The Kathmandu Post reports.
According to sources, the date of his proposed visit to Kathmandu is around July-end.
(Note: Advani, had in the past, expressed a desire to visit Nepal for a darshan of Pashupatinath.)
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PM’s love for publicity

Kathmandu, 29 June: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal
has established a new record for his personal publicity, Kantipur reports.
Ten books in Nepali and English have been published of his speeches, photographs of his meetings and achievements during his tenure.
All his predecessors didn’t do this on government expense.
In the panchayat era, only the royal palace published publicity books.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s first address was published in booklet form.
Three books have been published of his visits; their English editions have also been published.
A booklet was earlier when the government completed 100 days.
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TRADE, COMMERCE, ECONOMY

Muscat Bank opening representative office

Kathmandu, 29 June: Dubai-based Muscat Bank has applied to Nepal Rashtra Bank (NRB) to open a representative office in Nepal, The Kathmandu Post reports.
It presently maintains a liaison office.
Citibank had opened a representative office in Nepal which was closed a few years ago.
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MEDIA GOOGLE

“Learnt the king without a crown is en route to view the bhoto…That’s why the traffic jam.”

(One stranded cyclist tells a stranded motorcyclist, cartoon in Nagarik, 29 June)

‘I’ll not resign even in the next for one year if Maoists their threats and bickering.”

(PM Nepal, Annapurna Post, 29 June)