Nepal Highlights

Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) chairman Upendra Yadav met UCPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Thursday to discuss the possible power-sharing.

Former Crown Prince Paras Shah is going to Chitwan Thursday for a hearing on a case filed against him at the District Administration Office (DAO), Chitwan.

A Standing Committee meeting of the Unified CPN (Maoist) Thursday morning called to pick ministers to represent the party in the Jhala Nath Khanal cabinet failed to pick the ministers and has been postponed for later today. The meeting was postponed without finalizing the list of ministers as chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal was scheduled to leave for Gulmi to inaugurate a function there.

Indian Currency (IC) worth more than NRs 19 billion was withdrawn from accounts in Nepali banks through various ATMs in India in the first five months of the current fiscal year, Nagarik daily reported quoting Nepal Rastra Bank officials. The amount is more than four times withdrawn the same way in the first five months of the previous fiscal year.

A Nepal Army soldier serving as an UN peacekeeper in Haiti has died in a road accident in Haiti Tuesday, reports say. Bhagawati Nyaupane, 26, serving in Haiti since October last year was hit by a truck when she was standing outside her base in a town north of the Haitian capital, according to an UN spokesperson. The driver fled after the accident. There are about 1,000 Nepali soldiers in Haiti.