Nepal Highlights

Police have arrested one Rajesh Hamal and his girlfried Pratikshya Shah for trying to extort Rs 10 million from former Princess Prerana Singh by sending a mobile text message on Tuesday.

Chairman of the UCPN (Maoist) Pushpa Kamal Dahal, aka Prachanda, called on Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala at a hospital in Singapore, Tuesday afternoon. Prachanda had suddenly left Kathmandu for Singapore, where NC president Koirala is undergoing treatment.

Industrialist Mahendra Golchha has passed away at the age of 53 in Bangkok Tuesday. Golchha was suffering from lungs cancer. He is the son of Hulas Chand Golchha and a senior board member of Golchha organisation.