NATION IN PERIL SAYS KAMAL THAPA Kathmandu, 7 Sept.: Chairman of Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal Kamal Thapa has said that intellectual community should not back only a particular political party in context that nation, nationality and democracy is in peril, RSS reports. Speaking at a programme organised on the occasion of 33rd anniversary of the Dillibazar Kanya Multiple Campus here today [Friday] , leader Thapa stressed that one and all should be serious towards the present political situation in the country and work accordingly. "The role of this campus in the development of women's education is significant and praiseworthy," he said. On the occasion, University Grant Commission's Chairman Prof Dr Ganeshman Gurung praised the campus for its role in the development of education sector. Former CA member Sabitri Bhusal, general secretary of Nepal University Teachers' Association Rameshwor Upadhyay, campus management committee chairman Nripendranath Rimal, campus chief Bholanath Regmi and chairman of campus works execution committee Jayantanath Khanal highlighted the role of the campus in the development of women's education. Nnnn UML’S SHANKER POKHREL CALLS FOR PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AMID DIFFERING POSITIONS OF PARTIES Kathmandu, 7 Sept.: sCPN (UML) General Secretary Ishwor Pokhrel has said that the political parties should go for parliamentary elections to end the ongoing political crisis. Addressing the ninth district convention of the CPN (UML), Makawanpur, Pokhrel said that the UCPN (Maoist) was wishing to reinstate the dissolved constituent assembly with an intention of imposing authoritarianism in the country. He said that the UML would move ahead by joining hands with other parties too in a bid to stop increasing interference of different foreign forces and end the country's political crisis. As many as 470 UML party cadres are present in the programme. Nnnn TWO INJURED INMATES CRITICAL Kathmandu, 7 Sept.: The health condition of two of the five prisoners who sustained serious injuries after a clash broke out among the prisoners at the Rajbiraj jail Wednesday night is said to be critical, RSS reports from Rajbiraj.. Critically injured Ansarul Miya of Kalyanpur-2 who underwent operation of his head is still unconscious while Umesh Yadav of Sakarpura-8 has been kept at the ICU at the Neuro Hospital, Biratnagar. Satya Narayan Mandal of Lohahara-4, Prashant Khanga of Pipra Purbah-6 and Dambar Sharma of Baladhuwa-1 who were injured in the clash have returned to the prison on Thursday alone after receiving treatment. All the injured have serious injuries on their heads. Injured prisoners said that the incident took place over the issue of running a shop and a mess situated at the west block of the jail. It is said that the incident took place after a plan was made to give another prisoner Jaya Prakash Yadav to run the shop in place of prisoner Ramananda Khawas. The clash broke out between two groups of prisoners—one from the West Block and the other from the East Block of the prison-- at 9 p.m. on Wednesday. Nnnn ISRAEL PM BLOWS UP AT US AMBASSADOR WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blew up at the U.S. ambassador last month because he was "at wits' end" over what he sees as the Obama administration's lack of clarity on Iran's nuclear program, a U.S. congressman who was at the meeting said. Reuters reports from Washington.. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, a Republican, made his first public comments about the late August meeting in Israel in an interview with Michigan's WJR radio on Tuesday. Continued controversy over the meeting comes as President Barack Obama on Thursday night will accept his party's nomination at the Democratic National Convention, where the level of the Obama administration's support for Israel was a contentious topic. "Right now the Israelis don't believe that this administration is serious when they say all options are on the table, and more importantly neither do the Iranians. That's why the program is progressing," Rogers said. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful energy purposes. Israel is facing growing international pressure not to unilaterally attack Iran's nuclear infrastructure and the United States has made clear it opposes any such strike. Rogers said if the United States does not show Israel more clarity on where it draws "red lines" on Iran's nuclear program, then Israel might conduct a strike. "If I were betting my house today, I would guess that they probably will do it if we don't have a change in more clear red lines from the United States," he said. A spokesman for Israel's embassy in Washington declined to comment. The State Department would not comment on private diplomatic meetings but spokesman Edgar Vasquez said, "We have a rock solid relationship and an ironclad commitment to Israel." The spat between Netanyahu and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro appears to confirm a deep chasm over how to deal with Iran, which the two allies have tried to play down publicly. Obama has vowed to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, but says there is still time for sanctions and diplomacy to work. The White House says it has brokered international oil and banking sanctions that are far tougher on Iran than previous administrations achieved. The original purpose of the meeting was for Netanyahu and Rogers to discuss intelligence cooperation and other matters. But it "devolved" into a sharp exchange in which Netanyahu confronted Shapiro with a lot of frustration about the lack of clarity on the administration's position on Iran's nuclear program, Rogers said. "The uncertainty about where the United States' position is on those questions has created lots of problems and anxiety that I think doesn't serve the world well and doesn't serve peace well," Rogers said. In an interview with an Israeli television station on Sunday, Shapiro dismissed an Israeli newspaper account of the heated closed-door exchange as "a very silly story" that did not reflect what actually happened in the meeting where the conversations were "friendly and professional." Netanyahu has not commented on the exchange, which was first reported by the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. Israel has its own undeclared nuclear arsenal that is believed to contain as many as 200 warheads. Rogers said the Israeli and U.S. timelines differed on how quickly Iran could put a nuclear weapon on a missile, if it decided to move in that direction. Netanyahu believes "if they decide to do the dash it could be four weeks to eight weeks," while U.S. intelligence analysts believe it would "take a little longer than that," Rogers said. "But the problem is nobody really knows for sure." nnnn