PRISONER SERVING LIFE TERM ESCAPES Kathamandu, 7 Aug.: An inmate at the Kailali District Prison here serving a term for murder escaped from the prison on Monday, RSS reports from Dhangadi.. Deepak Singh, the inmate, escaped while he was being taken for regular eye check-up at the local Paneru Optical Centre. Singh was escorted by police guards but somehow he managed to escape by deceiving them, said Jailor Hemraj Bhatta. Police is searching for the absconding inmate Singh. Nnnn WOMEN MIGRANT WORKERS GOING ABROAD INCREASES Kathmandu, 7 Aug.: The number of women workers going on foreign employment has increased drastically, RSS reports. The number of women going for foreign employment has doubled compared to their number in the previous year. According to the figures made available by the Department of Foreign Employment, 22,988 women had gone for foreign employment in the last Fiscal Year and 10,416 the year before that. The largest number of women has gone to Kuwait for work in the last four years. As per the statistics, 21,000 women have gone to Kuwait. Similarly, the number of women going on foreign employment to the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Qatar and Saudi Arabia has also increased significantly. Spokesperson at the Department of Foreign Employment, Buddhi Bahadur Khadka said now the Nepali women have started going on foreign employment from the country after the government encouraged the women to go on foreign employment to the Gulf countries only through the legal channel and not illegally via India. Before this, 60-70 Nepali women used to go the different countries of the Gulf in a day via Mumbai and New Delhi of India. Nnnn FOOD SCARCE IN JUMLA Kathmandu, 7Aug.: The remote mountainous district Jumla is facing food crisis from the start of the new fiscal year, RSS reports from Jumla. The food shortage is due to the transporters' inability to supply food grains to the area. The traders in the market here have started selling food grains at exorbitant prices. Long queue of people can be seen at the Nepal Food Corporation (NFC) from early morning waiting for their turn to buy food grains at subsidized rate. Twenty-five kilogrammes of Sina Mansuli brand fine rice now costs Rs 1,800. NFC Jumla branch chief Rana Bahadur Budhathoki said it has only 450 quintals of rice in stock and it would not last until the end of this month. nnnn