Nepal Highlights

Some goods including a breifcase belonging to Dr Bhaktaman Shrestha, executive director of BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital, Bharatpur has been found in Mugling, police said. Dr Shrestha is missing since Tuesday night. His car was found in Pokhara Wednesday evening. The briefcase marked BM Shrestha was recovered from the house of Ek Bahadur Thapa located in Darechok VDC along the Narayangadh - Mugling road, Saturday morning. Thapa told the police, he and his friends found the briefcase and the goods at about 4 pm, Wednesday at a nearby jungle when they had gone to collect firewood. Police got the information about the goods only Saturday. Nothing more is known about the whereabouts of the missing doctor yet. Whether Thapa was involved in the incident in any way is also not known. Related links: Missing doctor's car found; no clue about the person Bharatpur Cancer Hospital Exe-Director Bhakta Man Shrestha abducted

Central Vice  Chairman of National Private and Boarding Schools' Organisation of Nepal (NPABSON), an umbrella organisation of private schools in Nepal, Tikaram Subedi has died in a motorcycle accident, Thursday morning. Subedi was critically injured when the motorcycle numbered Bhe 2 Pa 4901 he was traveling on shunted on a parked tractor numbered Bhe 1 Ta 3179 at Dhakeri of Banke, last night. He died on the way while being taken to Lucknow for treatment. Subedi is the founder principal of Baljyoti Boarding School located in Kohalpur, Banke. NPABSON, Banke has decided to shut all schools in Banke Thursday to mourn Subedi's death.

The car numbered Ba 3 Cha 989 being used by Bhakta Man Shrestha, executive director of BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital,  Bharatpur, has been found at Kudahar of Pokhara, police said. However, there is no clue about the missing doctor yet. Latest update: Missing doc's briefcase found in Mugling

An unidentified group has shot at a Birgunj based businessman Gopal Kedia, Wednesday night. Kedia, who  is also the general secretary of Birgunj Chamber of Commerce and Industries, was shot at when he was sitting at his drapery in front of Mahavir temple at about 8 pm. He recieved bullet on his neck. Doctors said, he is out of danger. He is undergoing treatment at a local hospital. Joint Terai Liberation Front has owned up the shooting.

Unified CPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda has gone to a posh resort in Dhulikhel reportedly seeking solitude to chart out agenda and report for the upcoming central committee meeting of the party. Prachanda is accompanied by his son Paras Dahal and his party's Tamsaling state committee's in charge Agni Sapkota. Dahal entered the resort without giving any comments to journalists who had reached the resort after learning of his  arrival. Dahal has a fetish of spending time in posh resorts and hotels at quite places whenever he is intense pressure.

Nepali Congress (NC) has turned down the Unified CPN (Maoist) proposal to form a separate security force comprising of some personnels from Nepal Army, Nepal Police and the Maoists' People's Liberation Army. A meeting of the NC central officials at acting president Sushil Koirala's residence in Maharajgunj Wednesday decided such proposal would not be acceptable to the party. UCPN (Maoist) had put such proposal before NC leaders at a meeting yesterday. The three parties have not been able to forge a consensus due to differences in the number of combatants to be  integrated in the army.

President Ram Baran Yadav's press advisor Rajendra Dahal has ruled out the possibility of a presidential rule in Nepal, Wednesday. Addressing an interaction titled 'Posibble Political Crisi, Solution and Media' organised by Tribhuvan Nagar Jaycees in Ghorahi of Dang Dahal said, presidential rule will not be imposed as the president does not have executive authority as per the interim constitution. Saying  the present crisis was a result of the conflict among the parties, Dahal said, there was no option to a consensus among the parties. He also accused the three largest parties in the parliament of making the parliament and the country a prisoner of their feuds.