BIRD FLU DETECTED IN NUWAKOT AS WELL Kathmandu, 2 Jan. Bird flu has broken out in neighbouring Nuwakot as well at Chauvada VDC. Avian flu broke out at the house of Dhruna Rai A team is going Thursday to cull the birds and adopt other preventive measures to contain disease. Rapid response teams of District Animal Health Office (DAHO), Kathmandu on Wednesday culled over 2,600 chicken ad destroyed eggs at Sitapaila in the city outskirts. Flu of H5N1 strain was detrected in Ramkot and Sitapail. nnnn. VDC SECRETARY ARRESTED FOR RECOMMENDING CITIZENSHIP TO BHUTANESE REFUGEE Kathmandu, 2 Jan: A Bhutanese citizen who acquired Nepali citizenship and the Nepali VDC Secretary who recommended it have been Arrested, RSS reports from Rautahat. Bhutanese citizen Thakur Prasad Neupane had acquired Nepali citizenship from the Basbitti Jigadiya VDC of Rautahat on April 5, 2007. A refugee living at Beldangi refugee camp in Damak of Jhapa, Neupane had been recommended as permanent citizen of Basbitti Jigadiya-5 by then VDC Secretary Rambrikshya Chaudhary. His citizenship number 323082-46 was signed by then citizenship distribution team leader Nawaraj Chapagain. An investigation into the alleged act of forgery has been initiated following the arrested of Bhutanese citizen Nepal and VDC Secretary Chaudhary, police inspector at the District Police Office, Rautahat, Hari Nandan Chaudhary said Nnnn WOMEN GIFT HANDCUFFS TO PM Kathmandu, 2 Jan.: Women rights activists in the district have, in a symbolic protest against the failure of the government to arrest the perpetrators of violence against women in various parts of the country, gifted a pair of handcuffs to the Prime Minister, RSS reports from Dhading.. They handed over a handcuff to Chief District Officer Bed Prasad Pokharel after staging a sit-in in front of the District Administration Office here on Wednesday. "If it is because the state has run out of handcuffs, we are sending these handcuffs so that the perpetrators of violence against women are arrested and punished", reads a memorandum handed along with the handcuffs. A large number of people including human rights workers, media persons and civil society leaders had taken part in a candle procession organized on Tuesday evening by women rights defenders of Dhading to ´search for justice´ Nnnn CPN-MAOIST GENERAL CONVENTION TO RECOMMEND POLICY Kathmandu, 2 Jan.: CPN-Maoist Chairman Mohan Baidya has said that the party would take a clear policy to wage a new people´s revolution after the party´s general Convention, RSS reportd.. Addressing the convention of party´s publicity state committee, intellectual state committee and cultural state committee at the party headquarters on Wednesday, Baidya said the party´s jamboree to kick start next week would introduce a work plan to complete the remaining part of the revolution. He said the party would move ahead by preparing for popular revolt on the basis of people´s war. Baidya reasoned that they formed the new party after Prachanda betrayed despite galore possibilities for a revolution. He also alleged the UCPN-Maoist leaders of submerging into the parliamentary system against the spirit of the people´s war. On the occasion, CPN-Maoist secretary Dev Gurung said the imperialist and expansionist forces were working through their agents, not directly, in Nepal. The Chunwang meeting of the then Maoist party took the strategy of democratic republic just for establishing republic Nnnn DEMOLITION OF ILLEGAL STRUCTURES IN JAJARKOT AS WELL Kathmandu, 2 Jan. Locals in Jajarkot Wednesday shut down Khalanga bazaar Maoists were protesting demolition of illegal structures by encroaching forest. nnnn