NEPAL BASED ORGANIZATIONS COULD BE BEHIND TWO BLASTS AHEAD OF ROYAL WEDDING IN BHUTAN

NRNA LEBANON OFFICE BEARER KILLED IN CAR HIT

Kathmandu, 11 Oct.: Mohan Parsai, Vice-chairman of NRNA Lebanon was killed instantly Thursday night when a car hit him in Lebanon, Kantipur reports.
Parsai , 58,had been living in Lebanon for 18 years.
He hailed from Birtamodh, Jhapa.
It will take one week to airlift his body home.
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TWO KILLED IN DANG MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT
Kathmandu, 11 Oct.: Two persons died in a motorbike accident in Dang this morning [Monday], RSS reports from Dang.

Chitra Bahadur Sarki of Dhanauri-7 and Sunil Kumar Thapa of Liwang-6, Rolpa were killed when a Tulsipur-bound motorbike (Ba 25 Pa 855) from Nepalgunj hit a stationary truck in Tarigaun-1, according to Area Police Office, Tulsipur.

Thapa died on the spot and Sarki breathed his last while undergoing treatment in Rapti zonal hospital, informed Sub-Inspector Shiva Kathayat.
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MAOIST RIFT IS BETWEEN PRO AND ANTI-PEACE ELEMENTS: CLAIM
Kathmandu, 11 Oct.: Constituent Assembly (CA) member Sudarshan Baral has stated that the current rift within the UCPN-Maoist is between the side standing for peace and constitution and those standing against them, RSS reports from Dhurkot.

Lawmaker Baral, who arrived home district on the occasion of Dashain, made this remark on Monday while talking to journalists at the district party office.

The dispute has come to the fore due to misunderstanding among some of the responsible leaders of the party on the issues of peace and constitution, he claimed.

He further said the party has also witnessed differences on views over whether to promulgate the new constitution by November 30 and to keep the existence of both the armies in the country.

Legislator Baral claimed that the incumbent government will issue the draft of new constitution within November 30 and will bring the country to the situation where there will be no existence of both the armies.

He added, as the relief programme announced by government are not found reached at grassroots level, it will be made effective by giving recommendation to the government to this effect.
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NEPAL BASED BHUTAN ORGANIZATIONS SUSPECTED BEHIND TWO BLASTS IN BHUTAN AHEAD OF ROYAL WEDDING
Kathmandu, 11 Oct.: Two low-intensity bombs exploded Monday in a border town of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, injuring two people, just days before the country celebrates the wedding of its king, AFP reports quoting an unidentified official.

The twin blasts in the town of Phuentsholing, on the border with India, occurred in the early evening. One was near a cash machine and the other just the other side of the border gate, a government spokeswoman said.


"There were small blasts from two home-made bombs. There are two Indians with minor injuries," she said, asking not to be named, adding that investigations were ongoing and police were unable to suggest a motive.


In 2008, Bhutan was targeted in a string of minor explosions as it prepared to shift to democracy by holding its first national elections after a century of absolute monarchy.


Police at the time said they suspected one of three militant organisations based in Nepal -- the Bhutan Tiger Force, the Bhutan Maoists Party and the Communist Party of Bhutan.

More than 100,000 ethnic Nepalese fled Bhutan for Nepal in the early 1990s, claiming ethnic and political persecution after Thimphu made national dress compulsory and banned the Nepalese language.

Bhutan claims the refugees were illegal immigrants. The Hindu refugees, who have no legal right to work or own land in Nepal, insist they are citizens of mainly Buddhist Bhutan.

Some of the numerous separatist groups active in northeast India once used Bhutan as a territory to plan attacks until a crackdown in the early part of the last decade.


On Thursday, the much-loved 31-year-old fifth king of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, is set to marry student Jetsun Pema in an occasion seen as a watershed moment in the history of the country.


Bhutan, famed for its invention of "Gross National Happiness" to measure progress and its citizens' well-being, is one of the most remote and insular places on Earth.


It had no roads or currency until the 1960s, allowed television only in 1999 and continues to resist the temptation of allowing mass tourism -- preferring instead to allow access to only small organised groups of well-heeled visitors.
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