UPDATE NO LAGREEMNT AT MEET OF BIG THREE AND MADESH FRONT

UPDATE NO AGREEMENT AT BIG THREE, MADESH FRONT MEET
Kathmandu, 21 Nov. There was no agreement at the meet of the Big Three and a front of six Madeshbadi parties of launching a state restructuring commission and appointing its members.
Members of the ruling coalition had differing opinions, said main opposition NC leader Dr. Ram Sharan Mahat.
The meet resumes at for in the afternoon.
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WOMAN DEPORTD FROM KUWAIT, ARRESTED
Kathmandu. 21 Nov.: Anjali Moktan of Makwanpur, who travelled to Kuwait on a forged passport for work April 2010, was deported from the Gulf emirate; she was immediately arrested Saturday on landing at TIA.
She broke law by going there for work without government permission while only 16 years of age; workers below 21 years need government permission to work in the Gulf.
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KMC CHIEF DEFIES GOVT.
Kathmandu, 21 Nov.: Ganesh Rai, who was recently transferred to the Ministry of Local Development from the executive chief of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, has not only defied the decision of Cabinet, but the directives of the Prime Minister as well, Santosh P. Pokhrel writes in The Himalayan Times.

After finding that KMC has not been functioning well under Rai’s leadership, PM himself had come up with the idea of replacing him with another official.

Following the Cabinet decision on the first week of November, Rai was transferred to the MoGA reserve pool, however, he rejected the order and kept working at KMC, saying he had not received the tranfer letter.

According to PM Baburam Bhattarai, after learning about the case, he himself had directed the Chief Secretary to hand him the transfer letter.

Even after that, Rai has been on a foreign trip in the capacity of KMC chief at the Risk Sensitive Land Use Planning meeting in Ecuador. “I am shocked to hear that he has been on a foreign trip with a leader of my own party,” Bhattarai said.

Rai has been widely criticized for misusing funds during his two-year tenure at KMC.
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