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Thursday, December 13, 2012


CONSTRUCTION OF BHAIRAHAWA SEZ TO BE COMPLTED THIS FISCAL YEAR Kathmandu, 13 Dec.: : The government has forwarded construction works of the under construction Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Bhairahawa in a speedy manner with an objective of completing the works within the current fiscal year 2069-70 BS, RSS reports.. Secretary at the Ministry of Industry, Krishna Gyawali told RSS that construction of the Special Economic Zone will be completed within this fiscal year at any expense. Gyawali said they have directed the Special Economic Zone Project to move ahead by making action plan to complete the works at any expense. According to Senior Engineer at the Project, Saroj Kumar Baidya, infrastructure building of road network, drainage management, electricity, telephone, among others at the under construction Special Economic Zone have reached in final phase. The SEZ is being constructed in around 34 hectares of land. The Project has continued feasibility study for constructing economic zones in Panchkhal, Biratnagar, Nepalgunj, Nuwakot and Kapilvastu and has completed demarcation at Simara. Similarly, the Project has also completed feasibility study in Dhangadhi and Jumla. Some 200 industries of medium scale would be run in the Special Economic Zone in Bhairahawa. Nnnn NASA CONFIRMS ERROR IN OUTTING EVEREST IN INDIA Kathmandu, 13 Dec .:: The world´s highest mountain should not be hard to spot but American space agency NASA has admitted it mistook a summit in India for Mount Everest, which straddles the border of Nepal and China, AFP reports from Kathmandu.. The agency said on its website that Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko´s snap from the International Space Station, 230 miles (370 kilometres) above Earth, showed Everest lightly dusted with snow. The picture spread rapidly via Twitter and was picked up by media around the world, including the US-based magazine The Atlantic, astronomy website Space.com and US cable news channel MSNBC. But Nepalis smelt a rat and voiced their suspicions on social media. Journalist Kunda Dixit, an authority on the Himalayas, tweeted: "Sorry guys, but the tall peak with the shadow in the middle is not Mt Everest." NASA confirmed on Thursday that it had made a mistake and removed the picture from its website. "It is not Everest. It is Saser Muztagh, in the Karakoram Range of the Kashmir region of India," a spokesman admitted in an email to AFP. "The view is in mid-afternoon light looking northeastward." He did not explain how the picture from the space station, a joint project of the US, Russia, Japan, Canada and Europe, had been wrongly identified. Everest, which is 8,848 metres (29,028 feet) high, is an sought-after photographic target for astronauts in orbit but is tricky to capture, according to astronaut Ron Garan, who lived on the International Space Station last year. "No time is allotted in our work day normally for Earth pictures. So if we want to capture a specific point on the ground we have to first know exactly when we will fly over that spot," he told The Atlantic. Nnnn NURSE IN BRITISH ROYAL HOAX CASE FOUND HANGING Kathmandu,, 13 Dec.: : A nurse at the hospital treating Prince William´s pregnant wife Catherine was found hanging in her room after being duped by a hoax call from an Australian radio station, an inquest heard Thursday, AFP reports from Lndon. Jacintha Saldanha, 46, who was found in nurses´ quarters near the private King Edward VII´s Hospital in central London on Friday, left three notes before she died, a police officer told the hearing. The Indian-born mother-of-two also had injuries on one of her wrists. Police said there were "no suspicious circumstances" surrounding her death. Detective Chief Inspector James Harman told the opening of the inquest: "Jacintha Saldanha was found by a colleague and a member of security staff. Sadly she was found hanging. There were also injuries to her wrist. "The London Ambulance Service was called to the scene." Two notes were found in her room and another was among her possessions, Harman told the hearing at Westminster Coroner´s Court, without revealing their contents. Police are also looking at telephone calls and emails to see if they shed more light on her death, he said. Scotland Yard will "in the very near future" be in contact with Australian police to ask them interview witnesses there, he added. Saldanha´s husband Benedict Barboza and two teenage children did not attend the hearing. The full inquest -- which could record any one of a number of possible verdicts including suicide or misadventure -- will be held in March 2013 after toxicology tests and further investigations. In England, inquests are held to examine sudden or unexplained deaths. They set out to determine the place and time of death as well as how the deceased came by their death. They do not apportion blame. Setting a provisional date of March 26 for the next hearing, coroner Fiona Wilcox told the court: "I would like the police to pass on my sympathies to her family and everybody who has been touched by this tragic death." Australia´s media watchdog on Thursday opened an investigation into the prank call. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) said its probe was into the broadcaster, 2Day FM, and not presenters Mel Greig and Michael Christian who have borne the brunt of worldwide anger. The station´s right to broadcast could either be cancelled, restrictions put on its licence or it could be fined. Saldanha, a nurse originally from near Mangalore on the southwest Indian coast, was found dead Friday. Three days earlier she answered a prank call to the hospital made by two Australian radio presenters impersonating Queen Elizabeth II and her heir Prince Charles, William´s father. Saldanha put the call through to a nurse who divulged details of Kate´s condition as she recovered from acute morning sickness. The radio station has pledged at least Aus$500,000 (US$523,600) to help the grieving family, but British lawmaker Keith Vaz, who has been acting as their spokesman, said the broadcaster had not done enough. "There has been no written apology, no request for a meeting with the family, and no attempt to travel to the United Kingdom to express contrition," he said, according to ABC radio which interviewed him. He also questioned how the network arrived at the figure of $500,000. British Prime Minister David Cameron told parliament on Wednesday that the death is a "complete tragedy." "There will be many lessons that need to be learned," he said, adding that the family should be given "the time and space to grieve". Kate is continuing to rest and William attended the British premiere of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" on his own on Wednesday. The royal couple, who are expecting their first child, have said they were "deeply saddened" by her death while their spokesman said that the palace had at no stage complained to the hospital about the hoax call incident. The hospital has also said that it gave Saldanha its full support. nnnn

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