Training for Tharuwan Maoists underway

Banke march 31
A trining session of the UCPN (Maiust) cadres of the Tharuwan state has begun on saturday at Chisapani of banke district on Saturday.

Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal , Standing Committee member Dev Gurung and Maoist leader Lila Mani Pokhrel are facilitating the training.

The training is being conducted under the chairmanship of central Secretatiat menber of Tharu Rastriya Mukti Morcha Duraga Bahadur Taharu.

Around 700 maoist cadres across Kapinvastu Kanchanpur are taking part in the training.

Former king in Mahendranagar

Mahendragar march 30

Former King Gyanendra Shah reached Mahendrangagar during his four day visit to the Far wWestern Region on Friday. Shah offered prayers at Siddanaath Temple during his stay in the district

Hundreds of supporters of the former king flocked to welcome Shah upon his arrival and shouted slogans in support of the monarchy.Large number of cadres of Shiva sena were deployed to escort Shah during his half an hour long walk to the Temple.

Shah is also scheduled to meet people close to him and will leave for Dhangadi today itself.

SAARC conference on sanitation to be held in Nepal

Rss LALITPUR ; The fifth south Asian sanitation caonterence is to be held for the first time in Nepal.

The fifth South Asian conference on sanitaion ( SACOSAN) is to be held for the first time Nepal with  an objectve of formulating policies and programmes by the governments of concerned countries be discussing and consulting with stakeholders on the sanitation of South Asia.

The NGO Fresh water Action Nepal will organise the conference which will be participated in representatives of all the countries including Nepal India Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and stakeholders of all countries.

The ffirst conference was held in Bangladesh in 2003 and the fourth conference in Sri Lanka.

The conference will be held in November 2013 in Kathmandu.

As per government statistice Nepal has 50 percent population within reach to sanitation and the targer is to recch ecnt percent by 2017.

China executes three over deadly hotel arson

Beijing  china on Thuresday esecuted three arsonists held responsible for a deadly hotel fire last year  that killed 11 people and in people and injured more than 30 others state media reported.

The victims at the budget hotel in the northeastern Jilin province part of a chain called Home Inns died of smoke inhalation after the fire started in a stairwell and sendt thick plumes of moke to the upper floors.

On Thursday the intermediate Peoples court Tonghua city where the incident took place announced three people blamed for starting the fire had been sentenced to death and executed Xinhua news agency said.

The report did not elaborate on why the three started the fire last year on May 1. The court unavailable for comment when contacted by AFP and an official at Jilins superior court said he was not aware of the case.

According to Amnesty International china executes more people than the rest of the world put together although it has reduced the number of offences facing the death penalty abolishing its use for 13 mainly white collar crimes.

5.2 Quake strikes Nepal-India border

 Saptari mara 28
 A 5.2 magnitude earthquake Jolted Nepal,s eastern Indian border on Wednesday morning.

Howeber , on human casualties have been reported so far.

The epicenter was recorded betwwn Saptari and sunsati district at 5.27 am Technical officer at National Seismological centre Umesh Gautam informed.

According to Gautam the area is less vulnerable to earthquake

The earthquake was felt in Indian state Bihar and some parts of western Bangal as well.

No CA term extension:sc

Kathmandu march 28
With the supreme Coury (SC) upholding iis administrations refusal to review the verdict no constituent Assmbly term extension on wednesday it has become almost certain that the CA term would not be extended anymore.

A single bench of SC  Justice Kamal Narayan Das issued the order to this effect today.

Earlier the SC administration had refused to accept review petitions filed separately by Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai and Constituent Assembly Chairman Subash Chandra Nembang against the Novemer 25 verdict of the apex court to put a cap on the CA term.

In the petitions they had sought the review arguing that the courts decision was not based on leded on legal principles and without legal presedents.

On November 25 the SC had issued a verdict that had called on ghe government to complete the tast k drafting the constitution be extending the ca term one last time.

Obama concedes strains between US Pakistan

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SEOUL:
President Barack Obama  is conceding that ties betwrrn the U.S. and Pakistan are strained , but says it is important to get their relations hip reght.

Obama is speaking alongside Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaaf Raza  Fillani before the two men hold a private meeting .

Their meeting comes amid heightened tensions betweer the U.S. and Pakistan following a series of incidents that have marred trust. The relationship breaking point in November when U.S. forces returned fire they believed came from a pakistani border post killing 24 pakistani troops.

Pakistan has been debating new terms of engagement with  the US Obama says he welcomes the pakistani review and says the key is finding a balanced approach that respects Pakistani sovereignty and the right of the US to protect its security interests.