MAOISTS HOLDING TEA RECEPTION Kathmandu, 16 Nov.: Maoists leading the government are holding a tea reception Friday on the capital to celebrate the festive season Opposition NC and UML held such receptions festival season. Nnnn NO MONEY, NO TIHAR FOR RAUTES Kathmandu, 15 Nov.: Raute families living in Mataina of Bhimdutta municipality-9 could not celebrate Tihar festival owing to financial constraints, RSS reports fromKanchanpur.. The Raute family could not observe Laxmi pooja and Dipawali due to lack of expenses require for it. Tihar was not a festival for us this year as we could not celebrate it because we did not receive the elderly citizen´s allowance on time, said Lalbir Raute, who lives on a tent in the Siddha Community Forest. Even ensuring two meals a day for my family is difficult, forget about celebrating Tihar, he said. Likewise, Bhawani Singh Dhami of Mataina said they have been borrowing from villagers to make their ends meet. Nnnn BIMSTEC PERMANENT SECRETARIAT IN BAGLADESH;NEPAL MEMBER OF REGIONAL GROPING Kathmandu, 15 Nov.: The Sixth Joint Working Group Meeting on establishment of BIMSTEC permanent Secretariat is to be held in Tangail city of Bangladesh on coming Sunday., RSS reports, A two-member Nepali delegation led by Joint-Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Arjun Bahadur Thapa and Under-secretary Rambabu Dhakal, who looks after the Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) desk at the Ministry is leaving for Dhaka tomorrow to take part in the meeting to be held from November 18 to 19. The meeting shall focus on the establishment of the Secretariat, its structure, appointment of staff and financial and physical support from the member countries, according to Joint Secretary Thapa. The decision to establish the permanent secretariat was taken by the 13th ministerial level meeting of BIMSTEC held in Nay Pyi Taw of Myanmar in 2011. The Government of Sri Lanka has recommended Director General of Economic Affairs Division of the Ministry of External Affairs, Sri Lanka, Sumith Nakandala to the post of BIMSTEC General Secretary. Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal are members of BIMSTEC founded in 2008 nnnn