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BAIDHYA BLAMES MECHANISM SUPPORTING GOVT.

Kathmandu, 2 Aug.: Chairman of the CPN-Maoist, Mohan Baidhya has said the party’s boycotting of the election is due to the High Level Political Committee's treatment to them and the four-party syndicate in the national politics, RSS reports from Lalitpur..

Inaugurating the first Council Meeting of the All Nepal Teachers' Organisation in Lalitpur, today, he blamed that the CPN-UML barred the Ashok Rai's party, Gachchhadar barred Upendra Yadav's party and UCPN-Maoist barred his party from sitting in talks.

He said "The new constitution is a must to institutionalise the achievements of Maoist’s people's war and the second people's movement.”

He also held the four parties in the HLPC responsible for the dissolved CA’s failure to promulgate a constitution. “Thus there is no hope that they would promulgate constitution from the next CA as well,” he added.

He said that their proposal for the roundtable conference was for determining the contents of the constitution and to forge consensus among all regarding nationalism and independence.

At the programme, CPN-Maoist Secretary Dev Gurung, said the external interference was increased as the education sector has become a victim of privatisation.

Chairman of the Association, Gunaraj Lohani, chaired the inaugural function.

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TWO KILLED IN KALIKOT TRACTOR ACCIDENT

Kathmandu, 2 Aug.: Two persons including tractor driver died and one other injured in a tractor accident at Timure of Jubitha VDC in Kalikot district on Thursday
Night, RSS reports from Kalikot..
Tractor driver Santosh Chaudhary ,35, of Tulsipur Municipality Ward No.8 from Dang district and Rajendra Neupane ,45, of Hamshapur VDC-3, Kaski district, died when the tractor Dha 1 Kha 457, which was heading for Jumla from Surkhet met with an accident, according to District Police Office, Kalikot.=
The tractor was fallen-off some 50 meters down from the road after it failed to pull the load in the highlands and lost control, said Meghnath Chapagain, Police Inspector at District Police Office.
Neupane was a teacher at Kalika Higher Secondary School, Shreenagar, in Mugu district.
Similarly, assistant driver, Raju BK, was critically injured in the accident. He is undergoing treatment at District Hospital, Kalikot.
As many as 131 people have lost their lives in dozen of accidents occurred in the Karnali Highway, stated District Police Office, Kalikot.
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TWO ARRESTED FOR SUSPECTED MURDER OF US WOMAN TREKKER

Kathmandu, 2 Aug.: Police in Nepal said Friday that have arrested two men suspected of being involved in the 2010 disappearance of a 23-year-old American
Woman, AP reports from the Nepalese capital.

Aubrey Sacco of Greeley, Colorado, has been missing since she failed to return from a solo hike in the Langtang area of northern Nepal in April 2010. It was the end of the trekking season and few other backpackers were in the area.

The two suspects were arrested Thursday in Rasuwa, near where Sacco went missing, and were being questioned, police official Raj Kumar Shrestha said.

Nepal has been under pressure to investigate the case. It’s the first time suspects have been arrested.

Since Sacco disappeared, local authorities and family members have made several searches of the area, but have failed to find any trace of her.
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COUPLE INJURED IN CAPITAL HOUSE COLLAPSE
Kathmandu, 2 Aug.: A couple was  injured Friday in a house
collapse triggered by rain in the capital Friday.
They were injured at Galkopakha in KMC-29.
Madan Shrestha,40,. and his wife Laxmi Shrestha ,27, were injured, police said.
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