73-YEAR-OLD JAPANESE WOMAN BREAKS PERSONAL RECORD RETAINING RECORD AS OLDEST FEMALE TO SCALE EVEREST Kathmandu, 19 May: A 73-year-old Japanese woman has climbed Mount Everest, smashing her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world´s highest mountain, AP reports from the Nepalese capital.. Ang Tshering of the China Tibet Mountaineering Association says Tamae Watanabe reached Everest´s 8,850-meter-high (29,035-foot-high) summit from the northern side of the mountain in Tibet on Saturday morning with four other team members. Tshering says Watanabe and the other team members are in good condition and are on their way back to the base of the mountain. Watanabe had climbed Everest in 2002 at the age of 63 to become the oldest woman to scale the mountain. nnnn ________________________________________ 13 INJURED IN BAGLUNG JEEP ACCIDENT Kathmandu, 19 May: Thirteen jeep passengers were injured, three seriously, near Deuraku Chowk, Baglung, Saturday. The jeep was plying between Damek and Deurali Chowk. in critical condition and have been sent to Pokhara for further treatment. nnnn. PRAKASH MAN SINGH OF NC SAYS AGREEMENT TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN LETTER AND SPIRIT Kathmandu, 19 May: General Secretary of the Nepali Congress, Prakash Man Singh, stressed on implanting the agreements signed by major political parties regarding the state-restructuring, forms of governance and other issues, RSS reports. Addressing a program on Saturday, he said leaders of the political parties should not deliver any speech going against the agreement, adding there was no alternative to talks and consensus among the political parties as they need to promulgate the constitution in the slated timeframe of the Constituent Assembly. General Secretary Singh said NC would lead the next consensus government which would promulgate the new constitution. Adding, his party has joined the current national unity government to create the environment to promulgate the constitution in the slated timeframe. Similarly, NC Kathmandu district President Bhimsen Das Pradhan said NC should lead the unity government to way out the transitional politics and promulgate the new constitution. Nnnn ________________________________________ GOVT., MUSLIM TALKS INCONCLUSIVE Kathmandu, 19 May: Extended talks between representatives of Muslims, seeking official recognition and rights as a major minority group, and government was iconclsuve Saturday. The government team was ked by Deputy Prime Minister Krishnaa Prasad Shitaula who held dialogue with representatives of National Muslim Struggle Alliance (NMSA). Alliance negotiators sought talks top party leaders in government. Nnnn