FOREIGN TREKKERS HAVE STARTED
VISITING KANGCHENJUNGA AFTER REPAIR OF APPROACHROAD DAMAGED BY QUAKE
Kathmandu, 11 Oct. : Foreign trekkers have again started pouring into the Kangchenjunga area and the base camp of the world’s third’s peal after repair of approach road damaged during the September earthquake.
The road was repaired with local initiative.
East Nepal districts were hit hardest by the worst quake in 78 years.
The epicenter was on the Taplejung/ Sikkim border 300km northeast of the capital.
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UML LEADER DEAD
Kathmandu, 11 Oct.: Former UML central advisor Mohan Lal Acharya
died Sunday in Butwal, the party said.
He was 77.
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MUSLIM ASSOCIATION DEMANDS ACTION AGAINST MURDER IN CAPITALOF ITS LEADER; TWO KILLERS STILL AT LARGE;SUSPECTS ARE HIRED KILLERS
Kathmandu, 11 Oct :A team of Nepal Muslim Association Monday met with CPN-UML chairman Jhalanath Khanal at his residence in Dallu and demanded action against the murder of its general secretary Faizan Ahamad Falahi, The Rising Nepal reports.
The team complained that the government was indifferent towards punishing the culprits behind the murder.
It requested Khanal to raise voices for the immediate investigation into the case.
In his response, Khanal assured that his party would raise the issue in the parliament and help bring the assailants to book.
The Muslim community has blamed the government for inaction to implement the seven-point deal signed between the Association and the government on the case.
Falahi was shot dead in front of Ghantaghar on September 26.
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ROAD ACCIDENTS DECREASE IN DASAIN
Kathmandu, 11 October : Road accidents in the Kathmandu Valley during main Dashain period decreased this year in comparison to last year, a senior traffic police officer said Monday, The Rising Nepal reports.
Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MTPD) spokesperson, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Jagat Man Shrestha, said during the Dashain day, the valley witnessed just a single serious road accident in which one person at Satdobato, Lalitpur was killed.
During four days from October 3 to 6, 10 road accidents took place in the valley, whereas last year, 46 serious road accidents took place during the same festive time, SSP Shrestha said.
Similarly, last year two persons had lost lives in road accidents in the Kathmandu Valley.
Spokesperson Shrestha said this time a total of 111 vehicles were involved in different types of minor and major road accidents. Of the total numbers, 72 motorcycles were involved in road accidents.
SSP Shrestha said most of these accidents occurred because of reckless driving habits and in intoxication.
When asked about reason behind the fall in road accident, SSP Shrestha said this time, MTPD put more focus on ‘driver’s memory fit’ strategy which led to the fall in the number of accidents. Under this strategy, high number of traffic policemen on the road is deployed so that the "accident prone" driver becomes alert and conscious about their reckless driving.
Apart from this, he said, "This year we have mobilized 25 per cent more traffic policemen in the valley roads. MTPD has a total of 965 traffic policemen at present.
"We brought more traffic police personnel from outside the Kathmandu Valley to maintain the dense presence of traffic policemen on the road," he said. The hour of duty of the traffic police personnel were also increased this time. "Our traffic policemen worked extra two hours along with their regular 12-14 hours of duty during the Dashain time," Shrestha said.
He said MTPD gave stress on creating awareness among the reckless drivers rather than carrying out check ups of vehicle documents and drivers’ licenses. "This helped us in lowering road accidents in the valley this year," he said.
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7 EXTORTIONISTS JAILED IN MORANG
Kathmandu, 11 Oct.: The District Administration Office (DAO), Morang has sent seven persons of a criminal gang to jail for their involvement in forcibly collecting donation from businesspersons in the name of various underground outfits, RSS reports from Biratnagar.
A single bench of the Morang Chief District Officer (CDO) on Monday issued order to remand them to judicial custody.
Those sent to custody are Ramchandra Mukhiya known to be Satyanarayan of Aurabani VDC-1 of Sunsari, Rameswor Mandal known to be Toofan of Itahari-6, Shyam Babu Kamat and Santosh Sharma of Biratnagar-16, Sunil Sahani, Niraj Mallik and Badal Mallik of Biratnagar-15.
A case of arms and ammunition was registered against them. CDO is chiefly responsible to look after such case.
Earlier too, the group had arbitrarily demanded donation by placing bomb at Drug Emporium of Hasraj Agrawal in Biratnagar-12.
Morang police was able to nab the racketeers after an investigation carried out acting on the complaint lodged by Agrawal.
Firstly police arrested Sunil Maharjan based on the mobile number used to issue threat to Agrawal and later brought other to its net
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NEPAL MAYGET MEMBERSHIP OF EGMONT GRIUP MEMBERSHIP
Kathmandu, 11 Oct.: The representatives of Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) is coming Nepal for a three-day long visit to carry out study on whether to grant it membership or not, according to central bank, The Himalayan Times reports.
“Nepal has already applied for the membership of the group,” an official at the central bank said, adding that the group will carry out groundwork whether Nepal is eligible to receive membership or not.
Nepal will benefit from the membership through multiple ways, he informed, adding that it can expand and systematise international cooperation in the reciprocal exchange of information and increase the effectiveness of FIUs by offering training and promoting personnel exchanges to improve the expertise and capabilities of personnel employed by FIUs after obtaining membership.
The Egmont Group is an organisation established with the goal to provide a forum for FIUs around the world to improve cooperation in the fight against money laundering and financing of terrorism and to foster the implementation of domestic programmes in this field.
The Egmont Group provides a forum for FIUs around the world to enhance support to their respective governments in the fight against money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crimes. They expand and systematise international cooperation in the reciprocal exchange of financial intelligence information, increase the effectiveness of FIUs by offering training and personnel exchanges to improve the expertise and capabilities of personnel employed by FIUs, foster better and secure communication among FIUs through the application of technology, presently via the Egmont Secure Web , and promote the establishment of FIUs in those jurisdictions without a national anti-money laundering/terrorist financing programme in place, or in areas with a programme in the beginning stages of development.
Nepal is currently a member of Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering and committed to fight against the flow of dirty money. It is developing its anti-money and combating financing of terrorism laundering system. Nepal has also amended Anti-Money Laundering Act apart from ratifying two key UN Conventions.
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The beginning
Recognising the benefits inherent in the development of a FIU network, in 1995, a group of FIUs met at the Egmont Arenberg Palace in Brussels and decided to establish an informal group for the stimulation of international co-operation. Now known as the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units, the FIUs meet regularly to find ways to cooperate, especially in the areas of information exchange, training and the sharing of expertise to fight against the flow of dirty money.
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