PRACHNDA-LED TASK FORCE MEETS FOR LAST TIME

Kathmandu, 10 Dec.: Chairman Prachanda-led high-level task force to settle differences of 230 contentious issues on a proposed constitution to institutionalize a republic meets for the last time Friday before submitting a report to Chairman Subash Nemwang Saturday.
The task force Thursday didn’t agree on replacing a unique double triangular flag with the sun and moon—a Hindu symbol.
NC and UML opposed replacing the unique flag opposed by Maoists as a symbol feudalism and the past.
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal who returns after a fortnight’s visit of Cambodia ad Europe Friday said in Qatar the tenure of the constituent assembly that ends in less than six month’s won’t be ext4ended again.
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DEUBA CONVENES MEET OF DISTRICT PRESIDENTS

Kathmandu, 10 Dec.: NC leader Sher Bahadur Deuba is convening a meeting Friday of nearly two dozen district presidents who support him in the party against President Sushil Koirala.
Deuba Thursday called off a meeting of lawmakers and central leaders supporting him at the instance of the newly elected president.
Deuba opposes Koirala’s plan to appoint Ram Chandra Paudel and Krishna Prasad Shitaula vice-chairman and general secretary.
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