Nepal Highlights

Police have arrested one Sunil Kumar Sadaya from Dharampur of Saptari on charges of murdering his own wife, Tuesday. Police have said, thirty-years-old Sadaya murdered his own wife Rajodevi Sadaya, 25, by charging an axe on her neck and arms, while she was sleeping Tuesday morning. He was arrested Tuesday afternoon, almost 12 hours after the incident, from a ground some 1 km away from his home. Police have recovered the blood-stained axe from the incident site. It is not known yet, why Sadaya murdered his own wife. However, police have established Sadaya couple used to fight over various issues in the past too. Neighbours have claimed, Sadaya was drunk at the time of the incident and he killed his wife due to a fight that started with the wife asking her husband not to drink. Sadaya couple have a nine-year old daughter.

Two gangs, one from Pokhara and the other in Damauli, have fought with each other over a tender deal in Damauli, this afternoon. Police have arrested some 12 persons from both the gangs. Police fired several rounds tear gas canisters and two rounds of bullet in the air to control the gangsters. Over 50 students of nearby Satya Devi High School have been affected due to the tear gas. Some of them have been admitted to hospital. Youths from Pokhara and Damauli had clashed over a tender of Irrigation Department worth Rs 45 million. Getting tenders by threat and using gangsters is common place in Nepal, particularly in government offices. Such incidents have also taken place in the past. Few months ago, there was a shoot out inside the capital's Tri-Chandra College among students over a tender deal on constructing a building in the college.

One person has died when he was buried under a mud-pile in Manamaiju VDC of Kathmandu, Tuesday afternoon.

थारू कल्याणकारिणी सभाले २०६६ साल माघ १९ र २० मा काठमाडौंमा आयोजना गरेको वृहत थारू भेलाले २४ गते गरिने मसाल जुलुस र २५ माघमा गर्ने भनी पूर्वनिर्धारित तराई वन्द कार्यक्रमलाइ पछाडि सार्ने निर्णय गरेको छ। विवाहको लगन परेकाले सो दिनको तराई वन्द स्थगित गरी आगामी दिनमा वन्दको आव्हान गर्ने निर्णय गरेको हो। बन्दको मिति पछि तोकिने छ। भेलाले आगमी फागुन १ गतेदेखि एक महिनासम्म थरुहट तराईलाई अधिकारबाट बन्चित हुनबाट बचाउन बहुप्रदेश अभियान चलाउने निर्णय गरेको छ। सो क्रममा संविधानसभाका अध्यक्ष तथा संवैधानिक समितिलाई ज्ञापनपत्र दिइनेछ भने देशभरि एक महिनासम्म जागरण अभियान चलाइने छ। यसका निमित्त सम्पूर्ण संघसंस्थाहरुलाई एकीकृत रुपमा सहभागि गराइने छ। भेलाले निम्न प्रस्तावहरु पारित गरेको छ। १) संविधानसभाको राज्य पुनर्संरचना समितिले प्रस्ताव गरेको १४ प्रदेशको खाकाले तराईका जनता ठगिएका छन् तथा नेपालका आदिवासी जनजाति समुदाय, मुस्लिम, दलित, अल्पसंख्यक समुदायको माग र चाहना पूरा भएको छैन। २) १४ प्रदेश तय गरिँदा पहाड तथा हिमालमा १२ वटा प्रदेश निर्धारण गरिँदा तराईमा दुईटा प्रदेश मात्र निर्धारण गरेर तर...

Nepal Police has arrested ten Tibetan refugees trying to enter Nepal through Lamabagar of Dolakha, Sunday morning. The arrested includes eight men and two women. Police is preparing to hand them over to Chinese officials.

Eight inmates serving their jai-term in Kapilvastu prison have fled through an improvised tunnel, last night. They were serving sentences for various charges including  murder, rape, arms and ammunitions. Police were unaware throughout, when the inmates dug a tunnel 2.5 feet wide and 10 feet long. According to Kapilvastu prison, the fleeing inmates Ramjas Murabu, Prabhu Teli and Shrawan Kumar Maurya were serving terms for murder. Likewise, Kedar Sahani, School Miyan Ansari and Bagedo Musalman were serving terms on charge of arms and ammunition. Shanta Kumar Pasi and Santosh Kahar were serving terms for drug peddling. Some fleeing inmates are associated with various armed outfits active in Terai. The prison is housed in an old building built during the Rana regime. Seven inmates had fled from the same prison on August 8.

Deuba could become the next Prime Minister in support of Maoists There are credible reports that Nepali Congress leader Sher Bahadur Deuba could become the next Prime Minister in support of UCPN-Maoist. It has been learnt, Deuba had proposed Maoists to support him as the next Prime Minister. He is planning to acquire the required 301 votes required in the parliament if the Maoists support him. The Maoists have 218 seats in the parliament, while NC has 110 seats. However, not all NC members will support Deuba. However, if the Maoists support him, he can still acquire a 301-majority, at the stake of dispute, possibly a split of his party. He needs to take some fringe parties, too, in confidence for this. According to the recieved reports, Deuba sent such message to the Maoists through his close aide and another party leader Gopal Man Shrestha. Shrestha talked to Maoist leader Khim Lal Devkota, and through Devkota there have been two rounds of talks with Maoist vice chairman Narayan ...