PRESIDENT LAUNCHING 6TH NATIONALGAMES IN DHANGADI SUNDAY

PRESIDENT INAUGURATING 6TH NATIONAL GAMES
SUNDAY IN DHANGADI

Kathmandu, 25 Feb.: President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav launches the
6th National Games at the Dhangadhi Stadium Sunday in the far-West.
mony at the Dhangadhi Stadium from 26 February to.4 March.
Some evens will be conducted in Mahendranagar and Tikapur in the region as well..
"The preparation works are almost complete.” National Sports Council (NSC) Member Secretary Yuvaraj Lama said.
Olympian Deepak Bista will light the games torch at the stadium.
A group of Nepali Olympians led by veteran athlete
Jeet Bahadur KC is carrying a relay torch lit Friday at Lumbini
to Dhangadi
Olympians Krishna Basnet, Raj Kumari Pandey, Bimala Rana Magar, Hari Bahadur Rokaya, Bishnu Bahadur Singh and
Dambar Dutta Bhatta are in the relay team.
Altogether 3381 athletes are participating in the opening
ceremony.
With Maoist PLA Club participating, Nepal Army is staying away frm the Games.
Thirty-two games will be staged , including Taekwondo Union
as a promotional game.
Some events will be staged in Kailali, Kanchanpur, Kavre, Birgunj, POkhara and Kathmandu.
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MEDIA GOOGLE

“A man in Dadeldhura lived with a small pair of scissors in his stomach for 6 months until the tool was removed by doctors in India. During treatment, Team Hospital in Dadeldhura had left a 5 cm long scissors in 42-year old Dev Bahadur Sarki´s intestine.

As he did not recover even after 6 months of surgery at Team Hospital, Sarki went to India for further treatment where he came to know about the scissors in his stomach.”

{A report in Republica from Dadeldhura, 25 Feb.)
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