Nepal Highlights

Nepal's cabinet is meeting at the Everest Base Camp Friday morning to give a message about the melting snow due to rising temperature. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and 24 ministers of his cabinet have already gone to Lukla, today, and they are spending the night at a hotel in Lukla. A jumbo team of journalists and select government employees have followed the ministers. The jumbo team of journalists with more than 100 of them are staying in Syangboche, while the ministers are at Lukla. The cabinet meeting will take place in Kalapaththar at height of more than 5000 metres from the sea-level.

An alleged poacher has been shot dead by security personnel in Chitwan National Park. The deceased has been identified as Raj Kumar Darai of Kumroj, a village in the bufferzone of the park. Security agencies told armymen patrolling Churiyamai area inside the park Friday opened fire after some attacked them by rolling boulders from a vantage point. Security personnel have arrested two others involved in the incident.

Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the legislature parliament has interrogated Nepal Airlines officials on the latters' plan to purchase two aircrafts.

Two persons have been killed when an wild elephant attacked them last night in Triyuga municipality, Udaypur.

Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has vowed to eradicate violence against women from the nation on the occassion of the UN International Day for Violence against Women.

Finally the Madhav Kumar Nepal led government supported by a good number of parties but not 22 as claimed by the big boys has been finally able to pass the budget for fiscal year 2009/2010. The budget that was supposed to be passed in July has been passed with little deliberations based only on formalities. MKN government has been facing hard times these days due to the PKD agitation while the ailing GPK continues to play big by plotting against anybody he likes and withdrawing the same at his descrition.

Even as thousands of buffaloes, goats, pigs, pegions, chicken and ducks are being slaughtered in a hamlet in Southern Nepal to satisfy the blood thirsty deity, almost a dozen persons have died in the carnival due to weird reasons.