NC CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEET UPDATE Kathmandu, 16 .Aug.: Sher Bahadur Deuba faction in main opposition NC may present three alternatives for an outlet to a present deadlock if the establishment doesn’t present its suggestions at Thursday’s central working committee meeting, a Deuba faction leader said. The meeting has been convened to discuss national and party issues. President Sushill Koirala has been criticized for not announcing a date for a general convention since it last met three years ago. The committee meet comes amid deep differences in the party. President Koirala ‘illegally’ formed 42 party departments unilaterally, Deuba charged. Nineteen Deuba supporters have resigned from the party policymaking body. nnnn KHUM BAHADUR KHADKA TO PRESENT HIMSELF BEFORE COURT MONDAY FOR ARREST Kathmandu, 16 Aug.: NC leader Khum Bahadur Khadka convicted by supreme court for corruption this week will surrender Monday before the court. Khadka has been sentenced to 18-months in jail along with confiscation of unaccounted wealth. nnnn, . KFC, PIZZA MAY CLOSE DOWN PERMANENTLY Kathmandu, 16 Aug.: Due to the rising insecurity witnessed in recent times, Devyani International Nepal that manages international food chains KFC, Pizza Hut and Cream Bell Ice Cream Parlor in the country said that it could pull down its shutters permanently, The Himalayan Times reports. "The current situation has become violent and complex, and outsiders as well as some wayward working staff could create chaos as well as vandalise the property leading to an irreparable loss to the restaurant, and the management could be compelled to close the company permanently," Devyani International Nepal said, adding that the company cannot operate under such a chaotic and anarchical environment. The international food chain that has downed its shutters since yesterday for an indefinite period of time due to the misbehaviour of working staff has also said that the company cannot pay any kind of salary, allowance or facility for the period of the shutdown as per the principle of 'No Work, No Pay'. The dispute between employees and employers at the international food chain started after workers tried to register a union. Yesterday, the workers manhandled human resource manager Krishna Prasad Sharma at the Bagmati Zonal Labour Office and assaulted him, bringing him down from his motorcycle and has to be rescued by the police, said the company that employs some 180 Nepalis. However, All Nepal Revolutionary Hotel and Restaurant Workers Association vice chairman Tika Subedi, who is associated to the CPN-Maoist led by Mohan Baidhya 'Kiran', claimed that the management has unilaterally padlocked the outlets, falsely implicating the union for manhandling the manager to avert the registration of the union. "After the incident, senior managers of the company have been receiving threatening calls," said Devyani International Nepal that brought KFC and Pizza Hut to the country in November 23, 2009, as the first multinational food chain and opened their outlet at the city's posh Kingsway. The company also opened Pizza Hut Delivery (PHD) at Blue Bird in Tripureshwor, in October 2011, to provide free home delivery service. Devyani International is an associate company of RJ Corp that has interests in Pepsi — in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Mozambique and Morocco, — beer — in India, Nepal, Mauritius — milk — in Uganda — Cream Bell Ice Cream, stem-cell banking and education. nnnn