Nepal Highlights

Finance Minister Surendra Pandey has suggested three persons, vice chairman of National Planning Commission Yuv Raj Khatiwada, deputy governor of NRB Bir Bikram Rayamajhi and secretary at the finance ministry Rameshwar Khanal as the governor of Nepal Rastra Bank. He tabled the list on behalf of a panel under his coordination at a cabinet meeting Wednesday. The Cabinet will now pick of them for the position of NRB governor. The position is lying vacant since almost a month now after the retirement of erstwhile governor Bijay Nath Bhattarai.

A passenger bus going towards Birgunj from Pokhara has overturned in a bend at Kotre, near Majhuwa of Kaski, Wednesday morning. One passenger has died, while over 30 have been injured. The situation of at least seven injured passengers is critical.

Civil movement for democracy and peace organised a mass rally in Kathmandu Tuesday to pressure the political parties and its leaders for timely promulgation of the Constitution.

It has been revealed Foreign Employment Department had sent some 300 Nepali women for work in Saudi Arabia without doing enough homework. The revelation came after one of the women workers Renuka Tamang sent as house maid ran away from her employer's house citing excessive torture and came to the embassy for refuge. Nepali embassy in Saudi Arabia has written to the foreign and labour ministries asking them to take action against the employees involved in issuing them permits. The letter sent to the ministries mentions, we have found the workers were sent based on a collusion between the workers/agents and the employees. Please take strong action against every one involved in this. According to existing foreign employment laws, the department should take permission from the embassy, labout atachee or the chamber of commerce while sending women workers to organised sector like hotels and hospitals. However, it was found the department did not take permission from any of the menti