NEW DIRECTORS OF RBB Kathmandu, 27 June: Dr.Jitendra Prasad Upadhaya, Gyanendra Raj Koirala and Batuk Nath Dhakal have been appointed directors of Rashtriya Banijya Bank (RBB), the country’s biggest commercial bank. They replace Bal Chandra Shrestha, Bushnu Das Dangol, Pashupati Bhakta Pokhrel and Laxman Neupane. The finance ministry took the decision. Nnnn SHADY BABURAM BHATTARAI GOVT. LAND LEASE FOR POLITICAL AIDE UNCOVERED Kathmandu, 26 June: The government of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai leased government land worth one billion rupees without even fixing land rent for 60 years to a new NGO run by his political aide, Dipendra Bista writes in Kantipur. More than 77 ropanis government land was lesed to :Maxiya Gurukul registered as an NGO as recently as 31 Ashad 2069 [today 26 June is 1313 Ashad 2-70] A cabinet decision transferred the land at Bhadrakali VDC to the NGO registered under the name his political aide Devendra Paudel, his wife Balabati Sharma, uCPN Maoist leader Swanam Sathi and Ghananath Sharma. nnnn