SOLDIER KILLED IN RUKUM VEHICLE ACCIDENT Kathmandu, 12 June: An army man of the Nepal Army (NA) died on the spot and four others were injured in an NA jeep accident at Ranikot in Rukum district this [Tuesday] morning, RSS reports from Rukum. Asha Lal Tamang, NA Constable, of Kavre district died on the spot in the accident. Tamang was a member of the NA's team deployed to construct the Musikot-Burtibang road section, according to the District Police Office, Rukum. The accident took place after the jeep (Ba 1 Ja 6306) bound for Rukumkot from the temporary camp of the NA located at Sankh VDC in the district fell 100 meters off the road. Junior Warrant Officer of the Nepal Army, Kumar Bhandari, 40, of Nuwakot district, Nabaraj Thapa, 38, of Sankh Ghorkhadi and his wife Dhansari, and Motiram Thapa, 56, were injured in the accident. Of the injured, condition of three is serious. Injured have been brought to the district headquarters after primary treatment at Rukumkot. Nnnn UML LEADER OLI CALLS FOR NATIONAL CONSENSUS Kathmandu, 12 June: Leader of the CPN (UML), KP Sharma Oli has said that there was no alternative to consensus among the parties, RSS reports from Bhaktapur.. Speaking at a talk programme organised by Rafat Sanchar Club, Bhaktapur, today, he said that the nation has gone through political crisis due unilateral moves of UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, and Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai. He also alleged the Maoist leaders of violating past agreements. He alleged that Bhattarai-led government dissolved the Constituent Assembly (CA) not for the cause of people's fresh mandate but with the ill-intention of remaining in power. Oli also ruled out the possibility of fresh elections until political consensus was forged. The UML leader blamed that some persons have been challenging ethnic and communal harmony by giving the slogans of ethnic rights as they were making the foreign currency a good source of their income. Oli also claimed that the political way out under the Maoist-led government was not possible. "Other parties should take government leadership to pave away for the current political impasse," he added. Nnnn FURTHER 320 GURKHAS BEING RETRENCHED FROM BRITISH ARMY Kathmandu, 12 June; A further 320 Gurkha soldiers are being retrenched from the British army eing restructured, the British embassy said.. “Around 320 Gurkhas have been selected out of the 2900 jobs to go. The Brigade of Gurkhas has been growing in size since modernisation in 2007, which also allowed them to serve for 22 years instead of 15,” the statement said. “This reduction in numbers has therefore been anticipated for some time.” nnnn UNHCR SENIOR OFFICIAL ARRIVING Kathmandu, 12 June; Deputy High Commissioner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), T. Alexander Aleinikoff, arrives Tuesday To take of a scaled down operation that began nearly two decaled ago to manage more than 100,000 Bhutanese refugees in seven camps in east Nepal. He will take talks with senior officials, including Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, during a four-day visit. “He will also be observing UNHCR’s activities for the refugees, including the resettlement programme,” the UNHCR said. More than 50,00 refugees have been resettled in USA. nnn