Locals in Salyan start collecting rain water

Locals of Kupindedaha and Nigalchula in Salyan have initiated a campaign to collect rain water as an alternative source of drinking water, due to acute shortage of water.

The compulsion to walk five hours distance a day to fetch drinking water has been ended with the feasibility of collecting rain water as an alternative source through the use of bio-gas, locals said.

At the present, 40 households and students of two local schools have started the campaign to collect rain water as a reliable source of drinking water.

Under the campaign, the construction of 40 wells for community people and three wells for two schools and a sub health post has been in the final stage

Nepali girls forced to work in Tibet cabins, dance bars under vulnerable condition

Nepali girls are working under vulnerable conditions in different cities of neighboring country, China, RSS reports citing a recent study.
Nepali girls have been trafficked to China by luring them of dignified and decent jobs and are forced to work in cabins, restaurants, lodges and dance bars. However, the girls have been barred to return home though they wish so.
The study conducted in Khasa and Kuti of Tibet by Maiti Nepal for a month reveals that among 137 interviewed girls, 50 per cent said they were working under hardships against their interests.
The study further reveals that all the documents of the Nepali girls were taken under control by the owners of the dance bars and restaurants, thereby barring the Nepali girls to return home during their convenient time.

Discharge of retiring combatants from Friday

The Maoist leadership has assured the opposition parties that the discharge of former Maoist combatants opting for voluntary retirement will begin on Friday, said senior leaders involved in the negotiation.
UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai have told the Nepali Congress leaders that they would not backtrack from the Special Committee's decision to bid farewell to 7,365 combatants. The opposition parties had grown warier after some commanders of the Maoist army on Sunday pressed the party leadership to ensure tax exemption in cash package and a certificate from the government to the retiring combatants. Both NC and UML have bluntly rejected the possibility of meeting these demands.

Three Nepali pilgrims killed in Bihar road mishap

Three Nepali pilgrims were killed and four others critically injured when the jeep they were travelling in met with an accident in the Indian state of Bihar on Monday.
The accident occurred when the unidentified pilgrims from Janakpur of Dhanusha were returning home after offering prayers at the temple of Shiva at Deoghar of Jharkhand.

Police to seek life sentence against Koirala

Police have decided to take the case of DIG Ranjan Koirala, who is accused of killing his wife, to the court demanding life sentence with confiscation of all the properties.

Organising a press meet at the Metropolitan Police Commissioner's Office on Monday, police said all the evidence gathered during the investigation goes straight against Koirala who claimed that the death of his wife, Gita Dhakal, was an accident. Koirala had told the police that the death occurred during a husband-wife battering over economic issues and that it was not deliberate.

Workers forced to grease TIA officials' palms

Women leaving for Gulf countries for employment are forced to pay anything from Rs 10,000 to 60,000 to immigration officials at the Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu, victims have alleged.
A number of migrant workers interviewed by the Post claimed immigration and "other officials" at the TIA took bribe through employment agents in return for allowing the workers a "safe passage." They said the amount, which the agents refer to as the "setting fees," has become almost compulsory for female workers travelling to Gulf countries.

Cooperate, Dahal tells commanders

UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has directed commanders of the Maoist army to cooperate with the Special Committee in bidding farewell to combatants opting for voluntary retirement from Tuesday.
The instruction comes two days after the prime minister-led committee decided to send home the combatants. Dahal on Sunday invited PLA Chief Nanda Kishore Pun and commanders of all the seven divisions of the PLA at his residence.