PRESIDENT LAUNCHES 11TH NATIONAL CENSUS

11th. NATIONAL CENSUS LAUNCHED

Kathmandu, 17 June: National Planning Commission Secretary Yubaraj Bhusal and Director General Secretary Bureau of Statistics (CBS) Uttam Narayan Malla collected personal and family details of president Dr. Ram Baran Yadav Friday morning to launch the 11th. National Census 2001 conduced every 10 years.
President asked all countrymen to cooperation in the national effort.
The event was broadcast live by radio and television from Shital Niwas.
Details will be collected from Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal and Vice-president Parmananda Jha as well Friday.
Altogether 46,500 enumerators and 8,500 supervisors will collect family and personal in two forms details in a 10-day operation as the monsoon broke over east Nepal.
Nepal’s population was 23.151 million in the last census.
Fourteen family and 84 personal details will be recorded.
The census follows a household survey recorded that
The current population is estimated at 28.5 million; population was 5.639 million in the first census 100 years ago.
Results will be announced in three months.
Religion, cast, ethnicity, economic status third genders and other details will be collected in a 30-minute effort.
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UML BANDH DISRUPTS NORMAL LIFE; OTHER DETAILS


Kathmandu, 17 June: Normal life was disrupted Friday by a Nepal bandh called by Youth Force-- -the youth wing of the UML leading the communist majority government even as the strike was withdrawn Thursday evening following government, UML youth leader talks with Home Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara.
Authorities ordered the immediate release of central Chairman of the Force Mahesh Basnet who refused to come of his detention center in Biratnagar Thursday night: demanding reason for his arrest
A 12-hour prohibitory order was extended on the industrial until six in the evening Friday following violence one day earlier when dozens of vehicles were vandalized
The youth wing of the UML came out on the street in a show of muscle power after it was accused for a murderous attack on a journalist in the town.
DSP Sahakul Bahadur Thapa of the eastern regional police office. Biratnagar was relived of his duty Thursday.
Thapa is accused of shielding Morang Youth Force Chief Parshuram Basnet who is suspected of masterminding the attack on a reporter in Biratnagar nearly two weeks ago.
Basnet is still in hiding amid charges administration and his party are protecting him.
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FOUR BHUTANESE REFUGEES HELD

Kathmandu, 17 June; Four Bhutanese refugees suspected of murdering their colleague at Belgandi camp in Jhapa one day were arrested one day later Thursday.
Nabin Rai, Hiralal Darji, Dambar Biswas, Bhanubhakta Adhikari and Madhav Kumar Limbu were arrested to investigate the murder of Ram Kumar Gurung.
Gurung was shot dead
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