SUPRENE COURT STOPS RECRUITMENT AT TU Kathmandu, 18 Sept: A single bench of the supreme court Tuesday issued a stay order against a process to appointment professor and assistant professors at Tribhuvan University (TU). The bench issued the in order in response to a writ petition filed Monday seeking nullification of calls to fill vacancies for the posts. Advocates Sunil Ranjan Singh and Dipendra Jha filed the petition arguing calls to fill vacancies under open competition, without setting aside seats under reservation quota violated provision in the interim constitution and the Civil Service Act, 2049. nnnn STALEMATE WILL END IN A WEEK SAYS SUSHIL KOIRALA Kathmandu, 18 Sept.: Nepali Congress President Shushil Koirala has expressed the confidence that the political stalemate will end within a week, RSS reports. At a press meet organized here today by the Nepal Press Union Dhanusha, he said concrete attempts will be made for the same in a couple of days. On one query, he said there is no difficulty within Nepali Congress in leading the government. Saying that end of stalemate is possible from fresh elections; he said the restoration of CA will add constitutional, political and legal complexities. It is natural for the president to express worries or to discuss as it is constitutional and any party to warn the president terming it as interference is anti- constitutional, said Koirala. He also accused the UCPN-Maoist of publicizing falsehood when the country is headed towards being a failed state. nnnn SUJATA KOIRALA URGES PRESIDENTIAL INTERVENTION Kathmandu, 18 Sept.: Nepali Congress (NC) central member Sujata Koirala has said the President should end the current crisis by choosing Prime Minister if political parties failed to find out a meeting point to remove deadlock, RSS reports from Kkadvitta.. At a press conference organised by Nepal Press Union, Jhapa Chapter at Birtamod on Tuesday, leader Koirala said the President should bail the country out of crisis even by taking a leap ahead reasoning that the nation should not be put on hostage for long. Expressing grief over the widening mistrust among the parties, she noted that failure to give way out to the problem would be political incompetence. Koirala, who was also the Deputy Prime Minister, argued that the country should be federated into six provincial states in maximum while restructuring the state. She also blamed own party for floating impractical idea of federating the country into 11 states and warned that she would come up with agitation if more than six provinces are carved out. Holding another election to the Constituent Assembly (CA) would make no sense citing failure of the CA that completed 95 per cent of its works. The incumbent government has no moral strength to hold election, she claimed, adding that the parliamentary election should be held by forming national unity government under the NC leadership. nnnn