Nepal

KATHMANDU: The domestic share market nowadays, the moment day of the week, shutd at 301.34 points by witnessing a rise of 6.30 points compared to the preceding day.

The Sensitive Index that degrees the value of big companies registered a 1.21-point rise to sit at 278.24 points.

A total of 2,392,403 units of shares of the total 169 companies were traded nowadays while the total turnover was 786,412,808, the Nepal Stock Exchange Ltd (NEPSE) said. Five sub-indices, out of 12, were hit by the loss while the remaining seven indices shutd with a green sign.

Banking (0.82 points), hotels (20.64), hydropower (35.46), manufacturing and production (59.81), others (14.73) and mutual investment fund (0.1) had increased while trading (5.49), finance (0.43), non-life insurance (25.65), microfinance (1.46) and life insurance ( 13.06) suffered the fall.

Shivam Cement was at the topmost position in terms of the transactions. Its shares were traded at Rs 497 per unit and the total turnover was Rs 11,461,645.

Kathmandu, May 12

Four members of the National Assembly have drawn the attention of Minister of Women, Kidren and Senior Citizen Tham Maya Thapa and Minister of Finance Yubaraj Khatiwada for protection of the rights of persons with disabilities.

A letter of attention submitted by the lawmakers to the Chairperson of the National Assembly Ganesh Prasad Timilsina nowadays demanded that the government supply a monthly subsistence allowance to unemployed, senior and disabled citizens, ranging from Rs 500 to Rs 3,000, depending on their disability. They also urged the government to endegree a special monthly allowance of Rs 3,000 to Rs 5,000 for fully disabled or incapacitated persons who didn&t have family members, kin or a partner to take care of them.

Upper Home lawmakers drawing the attention of ministers Thapa and Khatiwada were Prakash Pantha, Jitendra Narayan Dev, evilri Prasad Pandey and Anita Devkota. &We want the government to appoint at least one social welfare officer in each district to supervise the identification and lessonification of disabled persons to safeguard their rights and interests,& they said.

According to lawmakers, the government also needs to conduct additional welfare activities without being limited to the ones stipulated by the state policies. They also proposeed the government to amend the existing act and rules on disabled persons by incorporating issues of education, health and social security. The parliamentarians asserted that such rules and laws should be consistent with the constitution and compatible with the international practices regarding people with disability.

&It is high time the government categorised disabled persons on the basis of their physical, mental and mental states. We demand the government to accord high precedence to this urgent issue,& they said. Currently, the government has the provision for the distribution of four categories of identity cards to disabled persons. A person with total disability (‘A& category), severe disability (‘B& category), moderate disability (‘C& category) and general disability (‘D& category) is supplyd with red, blue, yellow and white cards, respectively. Disabled persons holding red cards under the total disabled category gets Rs 2,000, while blue card holders are entitled to Rs 600 per month.

Lawmakers stressed that the government needed to effectively implement the provisions of housing, education, health, seliminate training, employment and other facilities set forth in the existing laws and rules. &The PMO and the MoWCSW have to appoint an officer-level employee each, to carry out regular monitoring of the activities to be conducted by the government and non-governmental organisations for disabled persons,& they said.

According to the 2011 national census, two per cent (513,321) of the total population is living with one or other kind of disability.

Kathmandu, May 12

Two incidents of rape were reported at different places of Kathmandu valley yesterday, police said. The victims in both cases are minors.

According to police, Kamal Pariyar, 43, of Ropla district was arrested for raping a nine-year-old girl at a brick kiln at Harisiddhi of Lalitpur Metropolitan City-28. A complaint lodged with police said Pariyar had repeatedly raped the girl issuing threats. He would threaten the rape victim of dire consequences if she disshutd it to anyone. Pariyar was a worker at the brick kiln.

In yet amuchher incident of rape, police arrested Ashish Chaudhary, 22, of Bardiya district on charge of raping a 15-year-old girl in Suryabinayak Municipality-8, Bhaktapur.

Officials said they had launched further investigation into both the cases. Both suspects have been charged with rape. Lalitpur and Bhaktapur district courts remanded each of them to seven-day judicial custody to proceed with criminal investigation.

Incidents of rape are on the rise across the country. According to statistics of Nepal Cop, police dealt with 1,760 rape cases in 2018, compared to 1,245 in 2017, an increase of 34 per cent.

Most rape victims were under-age girls. The security agency said 1,843 persons were arrested and charged in associateion with rape crimes in 2018. Incidents of attempted rapes also increased to 694 in 2018 from 608 in 2017.

Kathmandu, May 12

The Metropolitan Cop Crime Division and Metropolitan Cop Range have agreed to work in a coordinated manner to preserve peace and security in the capital city.

At a joint press meet organised to share their security action plan, MPCD in-charge Shahakul Thapa and MPR Chief Uttam Raj Subedi said they would much compromise on security of lives and property, and would work together to fight crime.

&We have decided to organise the joint press meet to give a message to the public that the two units are committed to moving forward with shared goals and strategy to preserve law and order,& SSP Subedi said.

SSP Thapa stated that both the units would adopt security degrees and strategies without any bias to achieve the goals of Nepal Cop.

They said a special emphasis would be on elimination of organised crime, gangsterism, financial crime, cyber crime and heinous crimes.

In the past, lack of a sound coordination and intelligence sharing between the two police units had affected anti-crime operation in measure cases in Kathmandu valley, according to police.