773 NEPAL POLICE INSPECTORS TRANSFERRED IN TWO DAYS FRIDAY, SATURDAY

BIGGEST EN MASSE TRANSFER OF 773 NEPAL POLICE INSPECTORS IN TWO DAYS

Kathmandu, 20 Nov.: Nepal Police Headquarters Saturday transferred another group of 253 inspectors, Nagarik reports.
The second group was announced after controversy in the en masse transfer of 420 inspectors the first day Friday.
Altogether 773 inspectors were transferred in two consecutive days.
The transfers have come at a time when the home ministry is managed by Bijaya Kumar Gachedhar who is also deputy prime minister.
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INDIAN FINANCE MINISTER PRANAB MUKHERJEE ARRIVES 27 NOV. TO SIGN DTAA AGREEMENT

Kathmandu, 20 Nov.: Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will visit Nepal on November 27 and sign the new Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA), an accord which will enable Indian investors and traders enjoy tax credit in India once they pay taxes in Nepal, Republica reports.

"It will be a daylong visit. Mukherjee will arrive in the morning and leave in the afternoon after signing the DTAA,”
said a source.

Once signed, the agreement will supercede similar Treaty on Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion in Respect to Taxes on Income that the two countries signed in 1987.
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