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DIPAK MANANGE PRESENTED AT SPECIAL COURT’ HEARING

CONTIUES MONDAY UPDATE

Kathmandu, 18 Aug.: A three-member bench of the special court will

continue hearing the case of Dipak Mannge arrested Friday for money laundering.

The hearing that began Sunday cod not completed.

He continues to be under police custody.

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CONSTITUTION DRAFT IN SIX MONTHS SAYS SUHSHIL KOIRALA

Kathmandu, 18 Aug.:The major political forces including Unified CPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress (NC), CPN (UML), and United Democratic Madhesi Front have agreed to prepare the draft for the new constitution within the six months of the Constituent Assembly (CA) election, RSS reports.. Addressing a tea reception programme organized by the Democratic University Teachers´ Union Nepal on its eighth anniversary day, here Sunday, he said the NC has joined the electoral process with a view to maintaining peace and prosperity. Similarly, former Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, said the new constitution from the first CA was not promulgated as the NC was not in the decisive position. Leader Deuba said the current government has been making unnecessary interference in the education sector, claiming that NC had never interfered on the appointment of the Vice-Chancellor, Rector, Dean and other senior level posts of the universities. Other participants of the programme said that there should not be government and political interference in the education sector. Chairman of the University Teachers´ Union, Bashudev Ghimire, said the national development was only possible through democratic system of rule.

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ARMY HAS NEW SPOKESMAN

Kathmandu, 18 Aug.:: Brigadier General of the Nepal Army (NA), Jagadish Chandra Pokhrel has been given the responsibility of the Spokesperson of the NA, RSS reports. Brigadier General Pokhrel, who will be the Director of the NA Directorate of Public Relations, had been working at No. 1 Brigade Office, Balaju. Pokhrel assumed this responsibility today itself. Brigadier General, Suresh Sharma, who had been NA Spokesperson earlier, is transferred to the Directorate of the Chief of the Army General.
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