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Power-sharing efforts hit a hitch, CA stirred into action Amid the tug-o-war between the Maoists and Nepali Congress (NC) over the Defense portfolio in the new dispensation, the ... Govt talks of increasing oil prices With the shortage of petroleum products continuing in market despite rise in the prices some months back, the ... NC, Maoists cling on to their demands on Defense portfolio The meeting of the senior leaders of Nepali Congress (NC) and Maoists could not reach to any fruition, Sunday evening,... Nepali garment exports to US continues to decline Nepal's readymade garment has witnessed a whooping fall in export by 76 percent to the United States during the month ... Maoist CC meeting: Most Maoists want 3 conditions met POST REPORT KATHMANDU, July 31 - A majority of central leaders of the CPN (Maoist) has urged the party leadership to lead the next government only if the party's three 'conditions' are fulfilled. Deliberating Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal's political proposal during the party's central committee meeting Thursday, the party leaders said the party won't be able to function effectively in government if its conditions for forming the government are not fulfilled. The party called its central committee meeting to discuss strategy after President Dr Ram Baran Yadav invited the Maoists to form the next government. Dahal in the proposal sought the central leaders' views on whether or not to form the next government under Maoist leadership. He has however stressed that the party now has a historic opportunity to take leadership of the next government. The proposal is open on forging alliance with any political party to form a government. While presenting the proposal, Dahal said the next government can be formed only through a political consensus. "The three-party alliance must break up for the Maoists to lead the next government," senior Maoist leader Mohan Baidhya told the Post. He said the Maoists shouldn't take the initiative in forming the government until there is a conducive atmosphere. "Currently, we don't have a majority to claim the right to form the government," he said. He said the party will prepare a common minimum program and lead the next government if a favorable situation is created. Another senior leader, CP Gajurel, said the party will seek consensus with other political parties as the people's mandate is for a consensus government. "We are open about the ways for forming the next government," Gajurel said, adding, "The situation may require alliance with any political party." The meeting realized the party's weakness in its failure to elect its candidate to the presidential post. The party secretariat meeting had recently set out three conditions for forming the government under Maoist leadership. The conditions were --I. The recently forged alliance between the NC, UML and Madhesi People's Rights Forum (MPRF) must be broken up. II. A common minimum program (CMP) of the 25 political parties represented in the Constituent Assembly (CA) should be prepared to reflect major Maoist agenda, and III. A written commitment stating that the next government will continue unhindered for at least two years should be given by all the political parties. Eleven central leaders including Top Bahadur Rayamajhi and Sunil Poudel presented their views on the party chairman's proposal today. The secretariat members will make their cases Friday morning. "We will reach a conclusion on whether or not to form the next government only by tomorrow," Gajurel said. Nemwang elected CA chairman unopposed; urges parties to work together Former Speaker and CPN (UML) leader Subas Nemwang has been elected unopposed as the chairman of the Constituent... Maoists start consultation The largest party in the constituent assembly, CPN (Maoist), which has refused to take the leadership of new government... First day at his job, Vice Prez Jha sparks protests after swearing in Hindi There were minor demonstrations across the country against the newly elected Vice President Parmananda Jha for taking... Race is on to form new govt Following the election of president and vice president, the race to form the new government has started. Presedent The newly elected president Dr. Ram Baran Yadav is all set to be sworn in as the first president of republic Nepal on .. PM Koiralas resignation Today Outgoing Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala is all set to tender his resignation to newly elected President Dr Ram... Crash Truck fall on trishuli and 3 dead Student organisations obstruct transport movement due to discount dispute Eight student organisations affiliated with various political parties have obstructed public transport movement in ... Foreign Ministry to start working from Narayanhity from next week The Foreign Ministry is set to start working from a building within Narayanhity Museum complex from Sunday.

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POKHARA, Dec 30 - Five people have been reported dead across the country in different winter related incidents. At Palikhe square in Pokhara Sub Metropolis, two members of a family died when they left a coal stove burning throughout the night . Two other family members are in coma, the police said. The dead have been identified as Rajan Ranabhat, 35 and his four-month-old son. Ranabhat’s wife and another son are in a critical condition, the police said.In the Terai, the cold wave has paralysed normal life as three more deaths have been reported from Rautahat, Siraha and Sarlahi districts. In Chandranigahapur VDC-7, Rautahat, Dal Bahadur Gurung, 70 died of cold wave. Two unclaimed bodies have been found in Sarlahi and Siraha districts today. A dead body was found in a farm in Sandaitha VDC in Siraha, and in Harkatuwa VDC in Sarlahi another dead body was found. Both the bodies did not bear any bruise marks. Police said that the deaths were due to cold. On Monday four people were reported dead in Dhanusha while one death was reported in Mahottari. Since the start of winter this year, the death toll due to cold has reached ten. APF personnel gang-rape 16-yr-old BY RUDRA KHADKA BAIJAPUR, Banke, Dec 30 - A 16-year-old Tharu girl of this village was gang-raped at gunpoint by two personnel of the Kusum-based Armed Police Force (APF) about two weeks ago. Regular menstruation cycle of the girl, whose identity has been kept secret, has been delayed by two weeks since the incident and her parents suspect that she might have become pregnant. Even though two weeks have passed since the incident took place, the poor and illiterate Tharu family hesitated filing a complaint for fear of further intimidation by the policemen, who had threatened them with dire consequences if they disclosed the matter. "She did not even tell us about the matter for some days fearing social stigma," said the father of seven children, "How can I complain to the police about the crime committed by the police themselves?" The girl was gang-raped by two policemen on the evening of December 15, when she left her home for attending the wedding party of her friend-cum-relative Geeta Kumari Oli. "She has been weeping ever since the incident," lamented her mother. Locals said the policemen, who were strolling around the bride’s house, forced the girl at gunpoint to move with them towards the banks of the Rapti River for "interrogation" on whether she had any links with the Maoists.APF Superintendent at Kusum Khoj Bahadur Gurung admitted that the policemen were "guilty" and they had already been sacked. But an APF source revealed that the "process of departmental action" against the culprits was on. Gurung refused to comment when asked of providing compensation to the victims. "They are free to go to court if they are not satisfied," Gurung added. Police thrash KTV lensman PR KATHMANDU, Dec 30 - The police deployed during the students’ protest at Ratna Park today, kicked Shyam Shrestha, a cameraman of the Kantipur Television, when the latter was filming a protestor being beaten by the police.Eyewitnesses said the police besieged the cameraman from two sides and then kicked and beat him with batons. . Eyewitnesses also said that the police shouted, "Why did you take pictures of the students being beaten?" and tried to snatch away the scribe’s camera.The protestors criticised the police personnel’s action against the scribes. Gagan Kumar Thapa, general secretary of the Nepal Students Union said, "Our struggle cannot be stopped by suppression." "From Thursday onwards, we will launch our protests on a larger scale." Get set for a date with dazzling Saturn By Suvecha Pant KATHMANDU, Dec 30 - Tonight is the night to gaze at the skies! The night holds a special treat this New Year’s Eve as the Saturn planet will show its rare splendour.Today, Saturn will be closer to Earth than at any time in the last three decades. In August we experienced the Summer of Mars - with a close encounter with the red planet - now, this will be the Winter of Saturn. The ringed-planet will be 1.2 billion kms from the Earth. Saturn will appear at 5:13 pm in the northeastern sky and set at 6:50 am in the northwestern sky. It can be seen by naked eye throughout the night as the weather is expected to be clear. Bijay Kumar Baidya, chief of the Weather Forecasting Division, said that the weather is likely to be clear tomorrow night. "There are no systems developing to bring clouds on New Year’s Eve," he said.So, for those who want to catch the sight of the ‘lord of the rings’, it will be brighter than at any time in three decades. Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, is the telescopic showpiece of the winter night sky, thanks to its great ring system in all of its icy, glimmering elegance.According to Dr Deepak Raj Pant, academician at the Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (RONAST), Saturn will be seen in the night sky in the constellation Gemini as a very bright yellowish-white "star". "There is no object in orbit around the sun whose appearance is more beautiful than Saturn," said Dr Pant, "The planet system of rings puts it visually in a class by itself." Tonight, even Saturn’s largest moon Titan, and the second largest moon Rhea can be seen with even the smallest telescope. Scientists view Titan, slightly bigger than the planet Mercury, as the most interesting moon in the Solar system.It is the only known moon with a fully developed atmosphere. Titan’s atmosphere is very much like that of the Earth’s atmosphere four billion years ago.According to Dr Pant, if humans cannot find life on Mars then the next target would certainly be a visit to Titan to search for life. However, the planet Saturn or Shani graha (as called by astrologists) is normally considered unlucky by the astrologists. According to the religious books, shani is a black horrifying man who has two wives and rides a vulture. He is considered an ill omen and bad luck while at its strength. Dr Purna Prasad Adhikary, a noted astrologist, said that for those whose graha (luck) is strong, the planet cannot do any harm. He also claimed that the red light, which is so strong at the moment, from the planet Saturn was the reason for its bad effects. Dr Adhikary blamed the planet’s red rays for the bloodshed in the country. "The continuous bloodshed and conflict in the world is the effect of shani," he said. Police subdue students’ protest Post Report KATHMANDU, Dec 30 - Hundreds of students assembled at the Ratna Park for a protest rally were injured and made even more defiant as the police escalated its action to suppress the demonstrators from taking out to the streets today. Outraged students reacted by torching two government vehicles in front of the Saraswati Campus soon after the incident. They had gathered at the Ratna Park at around 2 p.m. to mount a road blockade for about an hour and a torch rally as part of their last round of protests against what they describe as "tyrannical monarchy". Riot police, who thronged the area in large numbers, retaliated by lashing them with batons and prevented them from moving any further. Students retreated to the Bagbazar enclave, near the Padma Kanya Campus, and dispersed later. It took sometime for the traffic flow to resume through the Ratna Park, which was littered with broken bricks. The police action left a dozen students wounded today. They did not spare even journalists, stated a press release issued by the Nepal Students’ Union (NSU).Pradeep Poudel, vice president of NSU, Gajendra Thapaliya, a member of the All Nepal National Free Students’ Union, Niraj Labaju of Nepal Revolutionary Students’ Union and Bil Bahadur Tamang of Ratna Rajya Campus were seriously injured, it added.Police "intentionally" kicked Shyam Shrestha, a cameraman of the Kantipur Television, when the latter was taking pictures of a protestor being beaten by the police. Eyewitnesses said the police also shouted "filthy words" at the cameraman for taking the pictures. "Our struggle cannot be stopped by suppression," said Gagan Kumar Thapa, general secretary of NSU. "From Thursday onwards, we will launch our protests on a larger scale." Wintry fluctuations in Nepal, South Asia POST REPORT KATHMANDU, Dec 30 - The cold wave that has been gnawing Nepal’s western and central plains for the past couple of days is likely to continue for "some time" before possibly moving on to the eastern Terai belt, according to Weather Forecasting Division (WFD) at the Tribhuvan International Airport."The chilly spell resulting from cold wave in the western and far-western Terai will continue for some time, a few more days, and may move to the eastern Terai," Krishna Bhakta Manandhar, a senior meteorologist at the WFD, told The Kathmandu Post this evening. Manandhar also added that the cold wave, which is an after-effect of the westerly disturbances that had brought cloudy and rainy spell across the country for the past couple of days during the weekend, is likely to move towards the eastern plains as it has the tendency of shifting eastward. As a winter phenomenon in the plains of Nepal, India and Bangladesh since 1997, cold wave is the condition of the decrease in temperature for a prolonged period due to fog accumulation accompanied by the flow of cold breeze. Consequently, more than 60 people died of the bone-chilling one-month-long cold spell in Nepal whereas about 2,000 people had died in South Asia last year. According to WFD reports today, there was no respite from the cold and foggy condition in the western and far-western Terai belt, with temperature about 7 degree Celsius less than the normal. Dhangadi, Nepalgunj, Bhairahawa, among other places in the western Terai to the west of Simara, had a foggy day even today. The mercury there was around 12 to 13 degrees Celsius at noon today. The places normally register 18 to 20 degrees Celsius around afternoons in winter. Meanwhile, places above 10,000 feet are receiving heavy snowfall due to westerly disturbances. Refugees tell govt: We won’t go POST REPORT BIRTAMODE, Jhapa, Dec 30 - Bhutanese refugees today wrote the government saying that they cannot go to Bhutan in the light of harsh and objectionable conditions, unilaterally announced by Bhutanese JVT officials on December 22 at Khudunabari camp. This was mentioned in the letter written by Bhutanese Refugee Representative Repatriation Committee (BRRRC) to Nepal’s Ambassador-at-large Dr Bhekh Bahadur Thapa today. The refugee representative body’s letter said that the conditions announced by the Druk officials in the Joint Verification Team (JVT) cannot be met and as such the refugees find it difficult to go back.Some of the conditions include compulsorily speaking of Dzongkha (language of the dominant Ngalung community), refugees replacing labourers working at road sites, staying in camps as aliens for a two-year period in Bhutan, during which they will have no freedom of movement and proving loyalty to Bhutanese king, history and culture. The letter draws attention to Dr Thapa’s meeting with Bhutanese refugee representatives some time ago during which the latter had committed to ensuring voluntary, safe and dignified return of the refugees to Bhutan. Now, the conditions put forward by Bhutan go against such a commitment, said the letter.Meanwhile, the refugees have also reiterated their long-standing demand of involving the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the repatriation process. Although Nepal is willing to accommodate this demand, Bhutan has strongly opposed it. Court order to five Maoist leaders POST REPORT KATHMANDU, Nov 30 - The Patan Appellate Court today issued orders to five senior Maoists leaders to appear before the court in person within seven days for the cases filed against them under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Control and Punishment) Act 2002. The Maoist leaders to whom the court issued the summons today are Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Rabindra Shrestha, Bamdev Chhetri, Barsaman Pun and Dilip Kumar Sijapati. In the cases filed against them today, the Maoist leaders have been accused of being involved in extortion and terrorist activities. The bench also ordered the police to arrest them and present them in person before the court if they ignore the court’s orders. Preserve achievements of 1990: Koirala PR KATHMANDU, Dec 30 - Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala has appealed to all to realise the norms, spirit and message of the national reconciliation and move ahead to preserve the achievement of the historical movement of 1990. Issuing a press statement on the occasion of the National Reconciliation Day today, Koirala urged everybody to think over the measures to give a way out to the nation already battered by violence. He has also said that it is essential to strive for maximum utilisation of democracy and human rights. The first elected Prime Minister late B P Koirala and his colleague late Ganesh Man Singh had returned from India to the country with the proposal of national reconciliation on December 30, 1976. Nepali Congress, since then, has been celebrating the day as National Reconciliation Day. No action against army chief, hints PM Dahal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has indicated that he will not take any action against the Nepali Army chief ... DPM Gautam reaches Koshi to inspect flooded area Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Bamdev Gautam has reached Koshi flood-affected areas to inspect the latest ... Constitution making process likely to begin next week With the completion of the government formation process, the constituent assembly now is prepared to take up the task of ... 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