BIG THREE AGREE ON A PACKAGE DEAL, MEET AGAIN TUESDAY Kathmandu, 3 Dec.; The Big Three agreed Monday to develop a ‘consensus through a package deal” UCPN Maoist leader Amik Serchan said after the tripartite talks Monday. The package deal is not a new proposal. The parties will resume talks Tuesday. Nnnn NC AGAIN REJECTS CONSENSUS GOVT. UNDER BHATTARAI Kathmandu, 3 Dec.: A meeting of NC office bearers and central members Monday decided not to accept a consensus government led by Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai who sought cooperation from President Sushil Koriala to continue in office assuring other parties will be included in a new government. Only three days remain for parties to meet a presidential Thursday deadline to assemble a consensus government by Thursday. nC has laid claim to form a consensus government. nnnn POKHRA FIRE KILLS ONE. INJURES TWO OTHERS Kathmandu, 3 Dec.: A seven-year-old child was killed and two others were injured in a fire Saturday at Patneri, Pokhara. They were members of a family. A candle light ignited the fire. Nnnn CITIZENSHIP FOR A 105-YEAR-OLD FALEBAS: A 105-year old elderly woman of remote village in Parbat district has received citizenship on Monday, RSS reports from Falebas. . A team led by Chief District Officer (CDO) Bhim Prasad Tiwari reached Pakhapani VDC -5 and handed over citizenship to 105-year old Krishna Kumari Khatri . Some 150 people from Lunkhudeurali, Pakhapani and Balakot VDC s of Parbat also received citizenships. “The mobile team was deployed from the District Administration Office as people in remote VDCs are unable to reach district headquarters to get citizenship”, said CDO Tiwari. Nnnn UKRAINE GOVT.ASKED TO STAY ON AFTER RESIGINING Kathmandu, 3 Dec.: Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich on Monday accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and his government and told the cabinet to stay on in an interim capacity, according to a decree published on the presidential website, Reuters reports from Keiv.. A number of government members, including Azarov, were elected to parliament in an election on October 28 and had been expected therefore to resign from their cabinet posts. In his two and a half years as prime minister, Azarov has sought to revive an indebted economy which was hard hit by recession in 2009. But growth rates have fallen again this year as markets for main exports, such as steel, have shrunk. He has also been at the forefront of tough - and so far unsuccessful - negotiations with Russia, Ukraine's main energy provider, to try to persuade Moscow to bring down the price of strategic supplies of natural gas which the government says are way above market price and are a huge drain on the economy. Yanukovich now has the option of re-appointing Azarov and individual ministers if he chooses. If he decides to discard Azarov, he might choose to replace him with central bank chief Serhiy Arbuzov, with whom Yanukovich is personally close, commentators say. nnnn