DEPUTY PREMIER GACHEDHAR PROMISES TO UPGRADE POLICE FACILITIES

DEPUTY PREMIER GACHEDHAR PROMISES TO UPGRADE
FACILITIES FOR POLICE

Kathmandu, 26 Oct.: Deputy Prime Minister Bijaya Kumar Gachedrar Wednesday promised to upgrade facilities for Nepal Police and Armed Police Force (APF) and bring it at par with perks for soldiers of Nepal Army.
The facilities will be upgraded in five days, he promised in Nepalgunj.
Gachedhar is home minister as well.
The home ministry looks for two police units.


SABIMA BIKASH BANK RECIVED NRB APPROVAL TOTO OPERATE AS A COMMERCIAL BANK

Kathmandu, 26 Sept.: Sanima Bikash Bank (SBB) received Nepal Rashtra Bank (NRB) approval to upgrade to a commercial bank—the country’s 32rd commercial bank.
The central bank‘s board gave the permission Tuesday.
SBB has been launched by NRNs.
Annnapurna Finance Company also received NRB permission to
upgrade to a development bank after merging with Infrastructure Development Bank and Swastik Bank and Merchant Finance Company.
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LEOPARD CLAIMS THIRD VICTIM OF SAME VILLAGE IN FOUR
MONTHS IN NEIGHBOURING KAVRE
Kathmandu, 26 Oct.: leopard dragged away and killed a four-year-old boy in Kavrepalanchok district, police said Tuesday, the third victim from the same remote village in just four months, AFP reports from Kavre.

Local officers fear that one killer cat may be stalking Bela village in the mountains of central Nepal and could be responsible for all three deaths.

"A leopard took away a four-year-old boy from his house on Sunday," said Surendra Prasad Mainali, the deputy superintendent of police for the district of Kavre, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) east of Kathmandu.

"He was playing inside his house. The police and locals conducted a search until midnight and found his dead body inside a forest."

Mainali said leopards had attacked numerous villagers in recent months and were increasingly targeting children.

A group of 15 Nepali villagers, including a 14-year-old child, were arrested last month for eating a leopard in the belief that the meat could guard against gout, a painful joint disease.
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Most of Nepal's leopards are found on the sub-equatorial plains of the southern Terai and in forested hill regions.
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