RARE ACT OF HONESTY; GIRL RETURNS RS.9.1 MILLION AND DIAMOND NECKLACE

LAWMAKERS BEING PRESENTED AT COURT

Kathmandu, 20 April: Lawmakers Gayatri Sah and Bishwanath Prasad Yadav arrested Tuesday for misuse of red or diplomatic passports are being presented at Kathmandu district Wednesday.
They were arrested outside parliament premises in Naya Baneshwor even as the legislature is meeting for a winter session.
Police said they acted after collection of firm evidence of misuse by selling the travel document.
Buyers attempted to fly to Australia via Abu Dhabi with the forged passports.
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AFC PRESIDENT’S CUP GROUP C MATCHES BEGIN

Kathmandu. 20 April: Nepal Police Club (NPC) play Pakistan’s WAPDA of Pakistan Wednesday in the first match of the AFC President’s Cup Group C qualifying match.
FC Balkan of Turkmenistan face Taiwan Power Company in another encounter.
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RARE ACT OF HONESTY

Kathmandu, 20 April: A woman returned Rs 9.1 million in cash and a diamond necklace to an owner after tracing him, Harsha Subba reports in Kantipur from Dharan.
Purusottam Paidel, 65, of Sitapaila in Kathmandu sent money through IME to Itahari.
He collected the money the next day and got on to a bus for Dharan to deliver the money to his elder daughter to purchase a house.
He didn’t know he left the bag in the bus when alighting
Anuja Baniya, 22, of Bhojpur, currently living in Dharan found the bag.
Nobody claimed it when she called out aloud: Whose bag?
She walked off with it and came to know of the contents only at home.
Anju decided to return the bag.
Baniya traced the owner and returned everything and didn’t accept a Rs 200,000 reward or the necklace.
‘I’m just an ordinary educated girl,” he said.
“I got back my entire property. What can I say? Nobody will believe it,” Paudel said.
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PROBLEM OF COBLESS CORN AGAIN SURFACES
Kathmandu, 20 April: When farmers last year were up in arms complaining that the government-recommended maize seeds were a fiasco, the government took it like a can of corn. But the poor maize farmers, who had betted their farm hoping that they would get a good harvest this year, didn’t realise that the same problem would crop up this year again, Shankar Shrestha reports in the Himalayaan Times from Malangawa..

Thousands of farmers here in the region are now in a fix, as despite using the government recommended maize seeds they have failed to get corncobs.

“I am still deeply in debt due to the sub-standard maize seeds I used last year. Now I am facing the same problem again,” said Mahadev Chaudhari of Hajariya, Sarlahi. Last year, Chaudhary had used maize seeds recommended by District Agricultural Development Office.

The harvest season is just round the corner, but farmers in Sarlahi are a worried lot as not even a single maize plant has cob on the corn. “Last season V2 Hybrid sowed the seed of our downfall and this year the seeds recommended by DADO played foul,” said Chaudhary.

Farmers in the areas, including Shankarpur, Rajghat, Murtiya, Janakinagar and Hariwan, this year used 30 B11 seed recommended by DADO. Its data suggests that farmers have planted maize seeds in around 4,000 bighas of land in the district this season.

Crop Development Officer at DADO Kamalakanta Mishra conceded that the farmers this year were recommended 30 B11 seed. “We have sent samples of soil and maize plants to regional agriculture office in Hetauda to carry out a detailed laboratory test and find out what went wrong,” said Mishra.

The farmers, on the other hand, accuse the government of not monitoring the sale of seeds that reach the market without proper lab tests. Sub-standard seeds caused Ram Prasad Wagle of Janakinagar to wax wroth at the government. “The state is cheating us of our rights; it must compensate the farmers who have fallen victim to the sub-standard seeds,” he said.

Last year, the government had provided compensation worth millions to those who had planted maize in nearly 46,000 hectare of land in the districts, including Bara, Parsa, Rautahat and Sarlahi.
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NEW KATHMADU SP RIJAL VOWS TO ADDRESS LAW AND ORDER PROBLEM





Kathmandu, 20 April: The newly appointed chief of Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Range, Hanumandhoka, Superintendent of Police Kedar Rijal, has vowed to address the deteriorating law and order problems in the capital city by bringing criminal activities under control.
Talking to the The Rising Nepal, SP Rijal said work hard to bring under control criminal activities as asked by his seniors.
He said he would need support from all sectors, mainly from the Nepali press, public and concerned stakeholders, to make the Kathmandu Valley a safer and more peaceful place.
Owing to an increase in criminal activities in the valley, chief of the Metropolitan Police Range, Hanumandhoka SP Puskar Karki was replaced by SP Kharel. Karki has been shifted to the Interpol section of the Nepal Police.
SP Rijal is given responsibility as the chief of Kathmandu Police by the Metropolitan Police Commissioners’ Office, Ranipokhari in the decision made from the Police Headquarters.
SP Rijal earlier was deputed at office employee section at the Nepal Police Headquarters, Nava Raj Dhakal, DIG and spokesperson of the Police Headquarters said.
DIG Dhakal said that new SP Rijal of Kathmandu Police would assume the office from Wednesday.
A week ago, a businessman Anajani Kumar Chachan, alias Pappu, was gunned down at Ganabahal, an armed attack was carried out on Minister for Energy Gokarna Bista on April 11, and a Pakistani national and an employee of the Pakistani Embassy, Mehaboob Asif was shot at on April 14.

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