NATIONAL COOPERATIVES POLICY IN OFFING Kathmandu, 30 Nov. : The government is to bring a national cooperatives policy soon to run cooperatives sector in policy wise manner, RSS reports from Lalitpur.. The government is going to bring the policy soon in the context that every sector has demanded the policy to make the cooperatives systematic and transparent in policy level. Inaugurating the 18th anniversary of the Lalitpur District Saving and Credit Cooperatives´ Association Limited, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Narayankaji Shrestha, said that the Ministry of Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation has prepared a national policy and added that the Council of Ministers will approve it soon. Minister Shrestha said the government was committed to making cooperatives sectors transparent and for the uplift of overall cooperatives through proper policies. On the occasion, Chairman of the Central Saving and Credit Limited, Minraj Kandel, said that cooperatives sector should be made systematic and transparent. Similarly, Hari Dahal, Lalitpur In-charge of the UCPN-Maoist and Lalitpur Chairman of the CPN-UML, Madhusudan Paudel discussed about the importance and utility of cooperatives. Nnnn ________________________________________ LAST INDIAN PM TO VISIT NEPAL DEAD Kathmandu, 30 Nov.: The last Indian prime minister to visit Nepal died Frdiay at in a hospital in New Delhi. Friday. IK Gujral, who headed a rickety coalition government in the late 1990s, died on Friday after a brief illness, PTI reports from New Delhi. The Indian news agency adds: . The agency adds: Gujral, 92, breathed his last at 3.27 pm in a private hospital after a multi-organ failure. He was admitted to the hospital on November 19 with a lung infection, family sources said. The former prime minister, who was ventilator support, had been unwell for sometime. He was on dialysis for over a year and suffered a serious chest infection some days ago. He will be cremated in nearby Delhi on Saturday. Gujral, who migrated from Pakistan after partition, rose to become the prime minister with a big slice of luck after he came up through the ranks - starting as vice president in NDMC in the ´50s to later become a union minister and then India´s Ambassador to the USSR. Gujral, an intellectual who propounded the ´Gujral Doctrine´ of five principles for maintaining good neighbourly relations, left the Congress to join the Janata Dal in the late-1980s. He became minister of external affairs in the VP Singh-led National Front government in 1989. As the External Affairs Minister he handled the fallout of the Kuwait crisis following Iraqi invasion that displaced thousands of Indians. Gujral had a second stint as external affairs minister in the United Front government under HD Deve Gowda, whom he later replaced as prime minister after the Congress withdrew support in the summer of 1997. He emerged as the consensus candidate after serious differences developed among the UF leaders including Lalu Prasad Yadav, Mulayam Singh and others as to who will become the Prime Minister. It was another matter that his government survived only for a few months as Congress again became restive in the wake of Jain Commission report on Rajiv Gandhi´s assassination. Nnnn TANKER DRIVER KILLED Kathmandu, 30 Nov.: Tankr driver killed Uddav Katudal died en route to hospital for treatment following an accident at Kolbung on Mechi Highway Friday He hailed from Tanki Sinuwari, Morang, nnnn