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WOMAN COOK AT BHAKTAPUR SCHOOL COMMITS SUICIDE IN

PREMISES

Kathmandu, 3 Aug.: A woman cook who worked for 15 years at

Mount Valley School in Bhaktapur committed suicide by hanging in the

school premises on Saturday.

Tulasa Shrestha;s body was found hanging at the main entrance of the

school.

Reason for the suicide hasn’t been ascertained.

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INDIGENOUS DEMAND INCREASED REPRESENTATION IN

ASSEMBLY

Kathmandu, 3 Aug.: Leaders of indigenous communities have taken to the exception to the downsizing of the upcoming Constituent Assembly (CA) by decreasing the seats under the proportional quotas, RSS reports from Lalitpur..

They have also said that decreasing the seats under the proportional quotas would curtail the rights of the marginalised communities, sex, class and region.

Speaking at an interaction programme organised by the Council of Indigenous Nationalities Legal Practitioners, Vice-chairman of Indigenous Nationalities Promotion National Foundation Jhag Bahadur Thapa Magar said that numerical representation should be increased along with leadership capacity.

Likewise, former chairman of Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities Raj Kumar Lekhi said they were compelled to take to the streets as their rights were not raised effectively in the House.

Council's Vice-chairman Krishna Angdembe said that the indigenous communities and marginalised communities and groups should pile pressure to increase the seats under the proportional quotas.

Council's General Secretary Kansang Yonjan presented a working paper on relevance of CA, its duties and responsibilities and effect.

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LIGHTNING KILLS ONE IN DHADING

Kathmandu, 3 Aug.:: Jagat Bahadur Adhikari (60) of Gumdi VDC-1 in Dhading district, died when lightning struck him on Friday night, RSS reports from Gajuri..

According to the police, Adhikari had gone to daughter's house as a guest when the accident happened.

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INDEFINITE DARJEELING BANDH FOR SEPARATE STATE

Kathmandu, 3 Aug.: Normal life was disrupted in the Darjeeling Hills on Saturday due to an indefinite strike called by the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) to press for the demand for a separate Gorkhaland on the lines of Telangana, PTI writes from Darjeeling..

All shops, markets, schools, colleges, government and private offices, banks, post offices remained closed in the towns in Darjeeling hills and vehicles remained off the roads.

There was no report of any fresh violence since the beginning of the strike at 6 am as one battalion of CRPF was posted in various parts of the town.Women CRPF personnel were also deployed.

GJM workers were seen checking all vehicles that plied with emergency signs pasted on them.

The sources said normal work was, however, on at tea and cinchona gardens in the Darjeeling Hills.

Meanwhile, the six-member GJM team that is in Delhi contacted several MPs and apprised them of the Gorkhaland statehood demand, which has gained momentum since the UPA's nod to the creation of Telangana.

They also tried to meet AICC general secretary Ambika Soni, party sources said.

Meanwhile, GJM assistant general secretary Binay Tamang blamed the ruling Trinamool Congress for the death of the party's trade union leader Saroj Tamang yesterday.

"TMC wants to tarnish GJM's image in the Darjeeling Hills," he said.

Tamang's body had been found on a road, 8 kms from Darjeeling town, yesterday.

TMC leader in Darjeeling, Rajen Mukhia, said the party never wanted violence in the hills. "We are peaceful," he maintained.

Darjeeling Superintendent of Police Kunal Agarwal said one person was arrested for his alleged involvement in the Pokhriabong fire incident in which a police outpost was set on fire and a homeguard injured on Thursday, taking the total number of those arrested in the Hills to six.

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