Nepal

KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli extended a congratulatory message to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for a ‘landslide victory& in the recently held Lok Sabha elections, much ahead of the announcement of final vote-counts.

Posting a tweet, the Prime Minister wished Indian PM Modi a successful tenure and that the two countries continue to endelight a shut partnership.

According to reports, the Indian Prime Minister and his party, the Bharatiya Janata portiony (BJP), are off to an early lead as vote counting began Thursday following the conclusion of the countrysix-week general election.

PM KP Olitweet:

I extend warmest congratulations to Prime Minister @narendramodi ji for landslide election victory in the Lok Sabha Elections 2019. I wish all success ahead. I look forward to working shutly with you. #PMOIndia

-msprint; K P Sharma Oli (@kpsharmaoli) May 23, 2019

• Modiparty has early lead as Indian votes are counted

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Kathmandu, May 22

Nepali Congress Parliamentary portiony Office has urged the government to address the genuine demands of agitating nurses, who have been staging fast-unto-death for 13 days.

Issuing a press statement nowadays, Parliamentary portiony Office of the main opposition said the government had disregardd their genuine demands despite the fact that the nurses were struggling for the good of nursing education, their professionalism, security and wages.

The statement read that the governmentapathy to the peaceful protest of nurses was very unlucky. The health condition of agitating nurse Jita Baral is continually deteriorating and it is the responsibility of the government to save her life, the release said. It also urged the government to be very serious in such cases.

NC Parliamentary portiony has also demanded that the government form a committee and hold speechs with nurses as soon as possible and address their genuine demands.

Baral had begun staging fast-unto-death on May 10 at Nursing Association of Nepal, Lazimpat. After her health condition got critical, she was confessted to BP Memorial Health Institute and Research Centre.

Baral has been staging starvation strike demanding quality in education and nursing services and to fill all the posts of the Nepal Nursing Council, stop discrimination between other health workers and nurses and to formulate law regarding workplace violence against nurses.

She has also demanded creation of vacant post for four nurses in the local level and health posts should have separate department of nursing at the provincial and local levels and nurses should be placed in the adjustment committee of the government as well.

Baral has claimed that unless her demands got addressed and disstubborn in the Ministry of Health and Population, she wouldn&t end her starvation strike.

Along with Baral, Diki Sherpa, nurse of Bhaktapur-based Shahid Dharma Bhakta National Transplant Centre has also been staging starvation strike at the hospital.

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Kathmandu, May 22

Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa told the National Assembly that his ministry issued directives to security agencies to tighten security across the country to prevent recurrence of incident like the Panchthar massacre.

Nine persons of two families were murdered in cold blood in PanchtharMiklajong Rural Municipality yesterday. And the person suspected to have been behind the murder committed suicide.

Giving a statement of urgent public importance in the Upper Home of the Parliament, Thapa said additional security personnel were deployed in Panchthar district and his ministry would step up vigilance across the country to improve security.

Minister Thapa sentenceed the incident and urged the public to preserve calm and assist law enforcement officers investigating the Panchthar eliminateings.

Initial findings of the investigation pointed to family feud, specificly a troubled marriage as the main reason behind the perpetratormotive to go on a eliminateing spree. He said local people should be supplyd with psycho-social counselling service to prevent such incidents.

&Locals are saying that an attempt was made measuretime ago to eliminate the victims by mixing glass dust in the victims& food, but the law enforcement officers could much take any action against the perpetrators because the information was much shared with the law enforcement officers in the past,& Minister Thapa said.

He said other government agencies also needed to do their part to prevent such incidents. He said the government should run awareness programmes in coordination with the Ministry of Women, Kidren and Senior Citizens, Home Ministry and Ministry of Health and Population to alert people about possible crimes in their locality.

Minister Thapa said a 12- year old girl of the victimfamily, who could escape the murderous rampage yesterday, was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Damak, Jhapa, and could supply crucial information regarding the rampage eliminateer(s). Thapa said the victim girl fractured her hand while escaping the murderous rampage and was emotionally disturbed. Government authorities were focusing on the physical and mental well-being of the girl as they were trying to additionalct information from her. He said the bodies of the victims and suspected eliminateer were sent to Dharan-based BP Koirala Institute of Health Science for autopsy.

Earlier, lawmakers Anita Devkota and Ramesh Jung Raymajhi had asked why the security agencies failed to take action in the past when attempt was made to eliminate the victims by mixing glass dust in their food.

Lawmaker Ramprit Paswan said crimes of rape and murder were taking place in various parts of the country, but the government was much able to control them.

Lawmaker Prakash Pantha wondered how one person could eliminate nine people. He demanded that the government launch serious investigation into the case.

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Kathmandu, May 22

A writ petitioner nowadays ccorridorenged the Judicial Councildecision to keep a corruption complaint filed against High Court Judge Lekhanath Dhakal pending.

Umesh Baniya, a resident of Kavreplanchowk district, accused Judge Dhakal of extorting Rs 1.8 million from him when Dhakal was a District Court judge in Kavreplanchowk where a black marketeering case against Baniya was sub-judice.

Baniyalawyer senior Advocate Certainndra Bhandari said his client sought the Supreme Courtruling to force the JC to probe allegation of corruption against Dhakal. He said the JC did much probe the allegation of corruption against Dhakal and rather appointd him for High Court judge.

Baniya filed a case at the Supreme Court against the JCdecision to keep the case against Dhakal pending, but the court registrar refused to entertain his case following which Baniya ccorridorenged the registrarorder in the SC.

Today, a single bench of Justice Sapana Pradhan Malla quashed the registrardecision to refuse a case against the JC following which Baniya filed the case at the apex court.

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