No nominations filed

Kathmandu, 20 July: No candidate filed nominations for the post of prime minister until noon Tuesday.
Candidates were asked to file nominations from 11 in the morning.
Only Nepali Congress candidate Ram Chandra Paudel has announced his candidacy.
Other parties are still lobbying and considering options.
Nominations have to be filed by five in the afternoon for Wednesday’s election.
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Quadruplets dead

Kathmandu, 20 July: All quadruplets died after Kalabati Pujara, 21, gave birth at a health clinic Monday at Tribhuvanbasti in Kanchanpur, Annapurna Post reports from Mahendranagar.
She gave birth to two sons and two daughters in five minutes.
Three children weighed 700 grams while one child weighed 300 grams
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Govt. prepares damning report on UNMIN activities

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 20 July: Government has also prepared a non-paper soon after UNMIN prepared a 60-week roadmap for the integration and resettlement of Maoist fighters, Nepal newsmagazine reports.
Defence ministry with the coordination of Nepal Army (NA) has prepared the non-paper questioning the UNMIN’s need saying it has gone beyond its mandate and attempted to take on a political mandate charging its work is unilateral.
This is a government answer to the UNMIN paper.
“Such non-papers may have been prepared in the past. A review report has been prepared on where the peace process has reached and what the situation is,” said Defence Minister Bidya Bhandari. ‘This was prepared on my direction. That’s why it is based on reality and logical.”
The government non-paper raises the gave question on the need of UNMIN.
It mentions the wrong briefing at the UN meeting of military recruitment and the monitoring of Maoist violations of the peace agreement.
The report which has been sent for study to the prime minister, defence minister, peace minister and Nepal Army, will be sent to UN headquarters.
UNMIN has been charged for attempting to impose its own laws bypassing Nepalese constitution and laws and creating obstacles in the transport of lethal weapons as per national needs arguing the country is in conflict-ridden.
The peace agreement has been wrongly interpreted by UNMIN and has kept the army under watch while not attempting to bring Maoists under the special committee.
Argument has been presented in the non-paper UNMIN’s monitoring isn’t needed for both the army and fighters. It’s mentioned the army and the fighters can be managed by the country’s laws saying the army which has to be kept at a state of readiness if a captive to indecision even as the peace agreement had to be completed in six months.
Government has been even more angered by a report to the secretary general the army has violated the peace agreement by recruiting technicians.
IN a show of dissatisfaction, the prime minister didn’t meet Landgren for 13 days after she returned from the UN briefing government
Caretaker Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal wanted to take a clarification of UNMIN Chief Karen Landgren for ’lobbying’ by proposing a 15-month roadmap with only three months remaining for its tenure to end. But contact couldn’t be established as both the chief and deputy were out of town.
“At a time when Maoists themselves proposed a three-month plan to complete fighter resettlement and integration in three months, for the UNMIN to lobby for a 15-month roadmap confirms the allegation UN doesn’t want to get out of a country once entering it,” said Rijan, press advisor to the prime minister.
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