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Joya Spoke these things before return back to her motherland, here this her heart touching speech.

Sanskrit is an orthodox subject of feudalist Brahmans” is what I remember from my memory of class two. The school I studied in trusted these words and dropped Sanskrit as a subject. These words left a great mark on my mind. I thought wearing a coat, a pair of pants, speaking in English, and using a fork and spoon would make me modern. I hallucinated that I was modern, but this hallucination ended during my A-levels, when I found out that 14 universities in Germany were teaching Sanskrit for developing the modern mind. What we threw away, calling a feudal orthodox subject, was a tool for modernity and development for them.
A few weeks ago, the Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) introduced electric cremation as a symbol of modernity and development. PADT claims there is no difference between the traditional cremation process and the modern electric cremation process from a Dharma perspective, and that it is more beneficial economically and environmentally. Is the modern PADT modern enough to analyse the value of the traditional cremation process from a sociological perspective?
Any action has both costs and benefits, but the benefits should exceed the costs. If we look at the benefits of the PADT electric cremation process, then yes, it is a great step for environmental conservation. As claimed by PADT, nearly 300 kg wood is needed to cremate a body on a pyre which will be conserved once the electric cremation process is brought into practice. It seems by their statement that electric cremation is a great achievement for environment conservation. But to critically analyse the situation, will those trees that were used for burning be conserved for fresh oxygen, or will they be used for something else entirely? Say to make luxury furniture? If the trees will be conserved and the resources are not allocated somewhere else for luxury, it is a great step for change as future generations will enjoy a greener Nepal.
Likewise, a lot of environmental activists believe that the remaining wood after the pyre burns out is a cause of pollution in the Bagmati river, and that electric cremation will decrease the pollution. Again critically analysing, is the wood remaining after traditional cremation polluting the Bagmati river or the sewage from houses around? Let us also consider this as an advantage of electric cremation that water pollution will decrease in general. Similarly, PADT claims, cremating a body on a pyre costs around Rs 7,000, but cremating a body in electric crematorium is much cheaper, around Rs 3,000. They are also providing free cremation to economically challenged people. The economic benefit people will be getting from electric cremation and a step towards environmental conservation is appreciable if we see superficially what PADT is trying to show.
PADT is only seeing what it wants to see in order to prove itself correct but they are not seeing it from the sociological perspective. Malinowski, a sociologist, anthropologist and ethnographer in his work Argonauts of the Western Pacific writes about the practice of Kula ring exchange. By studying his work, Kula ring exchange can be defined as a practice done by tribes of Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea, which spans 18 island communities where participants travel hundreds of miles by canoe in order to exchange Kula valuables consisting of red shell-disc necklaces (veigun or soulava) that are traded to the north (circling the ring in clockwise direction), and white shell armbands (mwali) that are traded in the southern direction (circling counter-clockwise). If the opening gift is an armshell, then the closing gift must be a necklace and vice versa.  The exchange of Kula valuables is also accompanied by the trade of other items known as gimwali (barter).  Malisnowski critically argues, “Why would men risk life and limb to travel across huge expanses of dangerous ocean to give away what appear to be worthless trinkets?” His question gives birth to an analysis that the Kula ring seems to be a simple traditional process for the people of the tribes, but in reality, it has a huge social significance—it welds together a considerable number of tribes. It won’t be debatable to say from his work that a traditional function of a tribe is as complex, rational and practical as of modern society practices in order to bind their people into one community. Every society is unique and functions differently to bring people into common consciousness.
By the same token, the tradition of cremation is seen as just burning the dead by PADT like the tribal people of Papua New Guinea with regard to the Kula ring are simply engaging in it as a practice but not as a tool of social unity.
For most people, every practice of ours is barbarian, irrational and has no value. We need to come out of inferior complex and leave this mentality, or else we will fall for the same trap of individualism. By disregarding our traditions and way of society, we will fall in the trap of the west creating a society of individualism. Let’s stop individualism before every social institution gets fragmented and we create a fragmented society of an individual.

Nepal Medical Collage Health Camp and Awareness program on HIV/AIDS
First and Successful health camp and awareness program on HIV/Aids at Mahendra Nagar, . Thanks all team. Thank to those friends who has heart for their nation and will to support the people here is remote villages. Even they are far form nepal. Specially thanks to Nepal Medical collage chair person who made this thing happened.
All villegers volunteers. Doctors, new hope  team. NMC family. All my friends. We like to continue this again. People living there with no electricity and and no transportation, no health care support. They have to walk 4—5 hours on foot to get medical assistance.

Despite several warnings issued by the national and international experts, the Nepalese are yet to be fully prepared for the consequences of inattention to a looming earthquake. As Nepal is celebrating the Earthquake Day, remembering the horror of 1934 earthquake, the time has come for policymakers, civil society and people to work and minimize the damage in life and property if an earthquake hits
Issue Name : Vol: 07 No. -14 Jan. 10- 2014 (Poush 26, 2070)
Along with haphazard building constructions, Nepal’s telecom companies are installing big towers over the roofs of houses in Kathmandu Valley, irrespective of the safety standards adopted in terms of the size and strength of the buildings.

Similarly, Nepal Electricity Authority is yet to take any safety measures in installing its electricity transformers in various parts of Kathmandu Valley. Almost all transformers are likely to fall if a major quake shakes the valley.

The construction of buildings continues even as enforcement of the building codes is very weak in Nepal. Although Kathmandu Metropolitan City introduced the building code a few years back, its full implementation is far from realized.

“Kathmandu Metropolitan City is now strictly enforcing the building code,” said Laxman Aryal, its chief. Given the present situation, there will be a heavy damage in case an earthquake measuring over 8 in the Richter scale or something equivalent to the great earthquake like of 1934.

General secretary of National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET) Amod Mani Dixit holds the view that a major earthquake will be devastating for the valley. “Despite making certain improvements in safety against earthquakes, Kathmandu valley’s more than 60 percent houses will be destroyed in case of a major quake. There will be over 100,000 death and 300,000 injuries,” said Dixit (see interview).

According to the seismologists, a major earthquake is due in the fault line lying between Kathmandu of Nepal and Shimla of India. Studies have shown that Nepal has no record of a major earthquake in the span of 80 years. As there was no major quake since 1934, the threat is looming large.

Along with earthquakes, landslides, floods and other calamities are creating a havoc annually, making Nepal a disaster prone country. Earthquakes are not as frequent, but they have the potential for causing the greatest damage.

As a country in the high risk seismic zone, earthquakes are very likely in Nepal. Past records have shown that Nepal can expect two earthquakes of magnitude anywhere between 7.5 and 8 on the Richter scale every forty years and one earthquake of magnitude of 8+ in Richter scale every eighty years.

The last great earthquake to strike Nepal was in 1934. It had a magnitude of 8.3 on the Richter scale. It caused a considerable damage to buildings and a great loss of lives. Since then, the population of Kathmandu Valley has gone up. Urban development and inadequately planned construction practices have deteriorated the situation further. As Nepal is celebrating the Earthquake Day on January 16, to remember the loss from the great earthquake of 1934, no body needs to predict that such disasters would cause a greater loss of lives and properties now.

Haphazard construction of buildings and other infrastructures has created further problems. Although Nepal lies in an earthquake prone zone, there is yet to dawn enough realization about the safety measures at official level also. Towers built by Telephone companies and Nepal’s electricity offices are two examples of their inattention to the knowledge on disaster. Despite availability of technology to make safe homes, an overwhelming number of people are yet to perceive the real threat.

Earthquakes are inevitable in a regular process of time. According to Seismological Center, more than 500 small and big shocks occur annually. Scientists, government officials and the public can all help to make societies more resilient to earthquakes and other natural hazards by way of some prudent actions. But, despite several efforts, the lack coordination among the authorities is starkly visible at times of disaster.

Some have predicted that the level of Haiti’s Quake may completely ruin Kathmandu, cutting it from outside world. Deadly earthquakes often occur on fault lines at any time. Nepal is no an exception in terms of its location.  Unless it prepares for earthquakes, developing a broad set of tools to make communities resilient, the risks will grow bigger.

The main problem with Nepal is imparting knowledge to the common people. “Scientists must assess and effectively communicate their knowledge about earthquakes. Public officials must admit their mistakes and learn from them,” said an expert.

The public are generally poor judges of their own safety. They think they are safe until a disaster occurs. More public awareness of the need to prepare for disasters is needed. There is the need to make annual earthquake drills to sensitize the people.

Following the earthquake of 1988, seismology related technology has improved in Nepal and certain precautionary methods have also been taken. The government has disaster contingency plans and programs.

With support from development partners, Nepal has already formulated a number of programs.  But problems may remain over the quality of data and research. “We need to improve the research and quality of data to prepare for Disaster Risk Reduction.

In the wake of a series of large earthquakes, the country's scientists are debating how technology might help limit the devastation caused by future disasters.

Although the scientists have been used technology to successfully identify the direction of movement and major cracks in faults in different parts of world, Nepal is yet to build its own capacity to get this routine information.

Academic research was being hampered by a lack of seismic technologies. Productive research in this area needs old and new seismic data but, unfortunately, Nepal’s old seismic data is either not reliable or of poor quality.

The need to speed up work on a reliable system for predicting potential aftershocks in the days following a strong earthquake has become more urgent

A report has showed the number of earthquakes worldwide of more than [magnitude 5.5] increasing by some factor.

History of Earthquakes

Not many people in Nepal realize that Nepal is among the high risk countries in terms of earthquake occurrences. On the other hand, there is the need to find out more about the reason behind this and what the damages might be if Nepal is hit with a devastating earthquake.

The first recorded earthquake in history of Nepal took place on June 7, 1255 AD. According to records, one third of the total population of Kathmandu were killed, including Abahya Malla, the King of Kathmandu valley. Numerous buildings and temples of the valley were entirely destroyed while many of them were severely damaged. The magnitude of the earthquake is said to be around 7.7 on the Richter scale.

Around 1316 BS/ 1260 AD, the next recorded big earthquake occurred during the reign of King Jayadev Malla. Many buildings and temples collapsed and many more were severely damaged. Although the exact number of fatalities cannot be confirmed, we know from the facts that there was a heavy loss of lives resulting from the earthquakes and from the subsequent epidemic and famine said to be widespread which arose in the aftermath of the disaster.

In 1408, another major earthquake hit Kathmandu in the month of August/ September. The temple of Rato Matchendranath was completely destroyed while many other temples and buildings collapsed and were damaged. Cracks on land appeared in many places.

The 1681 AD’s earthquake was another major quake that occurred during the reign King Sri Niwas Malla. Although very little information is available on this particular earthquake, there was a heavy loss of lives as well as many buildings, including temples, that were either damaged or destroyed.

In months of June and July of 1767 AD, another significant earthquake seemed to have hit Nepal. Twenty one shocks and aftershocks of this particular earthquake is said to have occurred in a span of twenty four hours.  During the reign of King Girban Yudha Bikram Shah, in the months of May or June, twenty one shocks of earthquakes in total were felt in Nepal in 1810 AD. In 1823, another earthquake hit Kathmandu Valley causing a heavy loss of life and property. Similarly, in 1883, two major  earthquakes struck Kathmandu Valley. According to records, houses, temples, and public shelters collapsed. The tower of Dharahara was also severely damaged.

Four major earthquakes were felt in the months of June and July of 1834 AD. These earthquakes destroyed or damaged many buildings and temples. However, the extent of damage was much less than the previous ones (i.e., 1833 event).

In 1934 January, a major earthquake, Known as the Great Nepal-Bihar Earthquake struck the Kingdom of Nepal and its surrounding areas. The magnitude of the earthquake was 8.4 on the Richter scale. Casualty figures were the highest for any recorded earthquake in the history of Nepal. In total, 8,519 people lost their lives in Nepal. A total of 126,355 houses were severely damaged. Some 80,893 buildings were completely destroyed.

Disaster Risk Reduction

Although Nepal has been struck by several earthquakes in the past, the history of Nepal’s earthquake Risk Mitigation and Management is comparatively new. People were unaware about disaster risk management and only recently the government has started some measures in light of the new developments.

After the Udaypur earthquake of 1998, Nepal woke up to the risk of such disasters. It killed over 721 people, affecting life in 22 districts. Nepal has made several efforts since then, but they are still inadequate.  Nepal has started the building code and disaster resilience management efforts, but the job is still too short. Instead of focusing on prevention, Nepal’s disaster management relies on rescue and rehabilitation. The earthquake of 2011 has shown that relief and rehabilitation alone is not enough. What is required is a preventive method based on the involvement of the community.

With the establishment of NSET, a non-governmental organization, in 1993, Nepal has made several studies and campaigns against the earthquake. Community awareness programs were launched nationwide.

In 1998 Nepal, government declared 16 January as the National Earthquake Safety Day (ESD). NSET launched the School Earthquake Safety Program (SESP) in 1999. All these helped to enhance the capability of the country.

Since the realization of the effects of earthquake on the population, various international non-governmental organizations have also been working in the area. Save the Children Fund, World Vision International Nepal and Practical Action have already initiated a number of program targeting schools. Similarly, UNDP has also supported several programs and projects.

All these efforts are laudable but little compared with the risks. Kathmandu Valley is still vulnerable and a major earthquake like that of 1934 will destroy it badly.

As Nepal sits across the boundary between India and southern Tibet and the two tectonic plates are still moving towards each other by 2 meters per century, this movement creates pressure within the Earth, which builds up and can only be released through earthquakes. This is how earthquakes can happen in Nepal.

Based on the seismic records of the number of earthquakes that occurred since 1255, earthquakes of magnitude greater than 8 occurred on average once every 80 years. The last great earthquake of magnitude 8.3 occurred in 1934.

As Kathmandu Valley is located on the site of a prehistoric lake which has been filled with soft sediments that make up the valley floor, there will be more damage here due to quake than in many other places.  The population in the Kathmandu Valley has significantly increased in the recent times.

As the population of Kathmadu valley is over 5 million and it is increasing at a high rate, the looming earthquake is likely to be devastating for the people and their life and property. January 16 should remind us how we should work to stay safe.

The pilot and co-pilot were killed when an Air Kasthamandap aircraft bound to Jumla from Nepalgunj, with 11 people on board, crash-landed in Kalikot district on Friday.

Pilot Dinesh Neupane and Co-pilot Santosh Rana died in the incident, said our Nepalgunj correspondent Arjun Oli quoting Nepalgunj Airport sources.


The aircraft with call sign 9N8AB crashlanded at Chilakhaya 2, Jigeli in the district, acording to Chief District Officer of Kalikot, Pradip Shrestha.

The passengers have been identified as Megharaj Giri, Ganesh Bhattachan, Sonali Bhattachan, Laxmi Sunar, Govinda Bhandari, Laxman Khadka , Dhananjaya Khatri and Jagadamba Khatri. All nine passengers are reported injured.

"The condition of the plane was not good. But, do not panic. We will land the plane safely. We will save you all passengers even at the cost of our lives," the injured passenger said, quoting the deceased pilot. READ MORE: Pilot Neupane had vowed to save passengers

The aircraft had taken off at 12:30 pm from Nepalgunj today.

Security teams from Nepal Army and Nepal Police from both Julma and Kalikot have left for the accident site accoring to Acting CDO of Jumla.
All injured passengers brought to Nepalgunj

All injured passengers of Air Kasthamandap have been ferried to Nepalgunj for the further treatment via helicopter. They are receiving treatment at Nepalgunj Medical College, Kohalpur.

Co-pilot was former minister's son

Co-pilot Santosh Rana who died in Air Kasthmandap plane crash was the youngest son of former Land Reform Minister Dal Bahadur Rana. He had completed his airline course from Philippines.


Santosh began flying after completing airline course in the United States. He had joined Air Kasthamandap on last April.

Rana was a resident of Palpa. He was unmarried.

Neither an inevitable death nor a bed-ridden physical state seems to able to keep a genuine politician from being active in politics until the last breath. Nepali Congress president and former prime minister Sushil Koirala, who died at his residence in Kathmandu at the age of 79 early Tuesday, watched the news on television and shared his political concerns about the world and Nepal with his aides as he fought with pneumonia and asthma in a losing battle. Koirala had demonstrated the will needed to beat his lung cancer. Now, sharing his last words with his personal assistant and private doctor, he gave up: "I got it." In the old and new media, the world remembered Koirala for his simple outlook and sheer political determination to work for the nation and people. The party halted its ongoing 13th convention programmes to elect its new leadership. The 12th convention had elected Koirala, who earlier served in the posts of party's general secretary and central leader, as the NC chief.

A downright politician, Sushil Koirala stood out among Nepal's prime ministers for making a promise and keeping it. Koirala's election plank during the Constituent Assembly (CA) election of 2013 was promulgating the post-monarchy Nepal's first constitution in a year. His promise earned him voters, and he was elected to the CA from a constituency each of Banke and Chitwan. As the chief of the largest party in the CA and parliament, Koirala then became the prime minister of a coalition government and helped the CA cobble together the new constitution and issue it before it would be too late. The first CA, elected in 2008 with the main mandate to give the peace process a logical conclusion by promulgating the new constitution of Nepal, had failed to fulfill its mandate despite extending its own tenure for four years.

In Koirala's death, the nation has lost a true democrat from the breed of Nepali politicians who had participated in the country's democratic movement to oust the Rana oligarchs, served jail terms and exiles for upholding contrary political views during the party-less monarchical system and chose to live a simple life without showing any craving as such for physical property, such as a house, land and car, or getting married to establish a family, for that matter. Starting from his childhood dream of becoming an actor, Sushil Koirala, who joined politics early on by drawing inspirations from the NC's ideals of nationality, democracy and socialism, lived a life full of twists and turns that eventually made him a hero, who led Nepal's peace process to a logical conclusion in the Federal Loktantrik Republic of Nepal, placing him somewhere down the Koirala-clan line linking late BP Koirala and GP Koirala. Until his demise, Sushil Koirala worked for a politics that aimed at making Nepal peaceful and prosperous. His absence will be conspicuous in the party as well as in the nation. As the nation and the world remember leader Sushil Koirala, the onus lies with his top brass party colleagues to take good care of the party and make it work towards fulfilling late Koirala's political dream.

Nepal and India on Saturday signed nine different agreements during official visit by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.

The deals were signed between the two countries during meeting between PM Oli and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House, New Delhi.

A  Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Nepal and India on utilization of USD 250 million vowed by the Indian government as post-earthquake assistance.

Likewise, MoUs were signed on strengthening of road infrastructure in Tarai region of Nepal and between Nepal Academy of Drama and Sangeet Natak Akademi of India.

Similarly, Nepal and India inked letters of exchanges on transit between Nepal and Bangladesh through Kakarvitta-Banglabandhu corridor and operation and utilization of Vishakhapatnam port.

Moreover, another letter of exchange was signed on rail transport to/from Vishakhapatnam and rail transit facility through Singhabad for Nepal’s trade with and through Bangladesh. 

On the occasion, the two prime ministers jointly inaugurated Muzzaffarpur-Dhalkebar Transmission Line.

Nepal and India have also agreed to form eminent persons group.

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A Smart Class is backed by the power of multimedia, paving the path for easy and clear explanations of the most difficult concepts, eventually bridging the learning gap between the two stakeholders. It is equipped with an exhaustive repository of well researched, digital lesson modules (consisting of audio-video, 2D and 3D animations, graphics, MCQs, Real Life applications, worksheets, weblinks etc) on almost every subject from KG to grade XII. The modules are designed in a teacher led format where the teachers integrate these elements into their daily lesson plans, influence, explain and also use the black/white board as before. Such a progressive form of visual teaching is what gives wings to a student's imagination.

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KATHMANDU: Sadbhawana Party Chairman Rajendra Mahato, one of the key leaders of the agitating United Democratic Madhesi Front, was injured in a clash with police at Rani customs point, near Biratnagar of Morang district, on Saturday.

Morang District Police Office spokesperson DSP Pramod Kumar Kharel told THT Online that Mahato among some other cadres of the Front had gathered at the border point to stage a sit-in protest.
“We told them that they cannot stage any protest in the border area,” Kharel said, “But, they began pelting stones at us and ran away to the other side of the border.”

He, however, said that police did not have any information about actual injury of Mahato. “However, one of our constables sustained some injury.”

Police had to use two rounds of tear gas to disperse them, he added. “The situation is already under our control.”

Leader Rajendra Mahato receiving treatment at Golden Hospital in Biratnagar. Photo Courtesy: Upendra Mahato
Leader Rajendra Mahato receiving treatment at Golden Hospital in Biratnagar. Photo Courtesy: Upendra Mahato

Meanwhile, Upendra Mahato, a Central Committee member of Sadbhawana Party, wrote on Facebook that the protesters seized leader Mahato from the police custody and took him to the Golden Hospital in Biratnagar.

According to Upendra, the top leader of his party sustained injuries on his head and limbs and is currently receiving treatment at the intensive care unit after undergoing CT scan and other tests. He has posted photographs also.

A video posted by the Image Television on its YouTube channel shows that the Indian security personnel resorted to lathi charge after the protesters started pelting stones at the Nepali security personnel, who were seen trying to protect themselves with shields,  from the Indian side of the border.

It has been reported that leader Mahato had reached the no man’s land at Rani-Jogbani border entry point via India.

Reporters Without Borders condemns last night's bomb attack on Radio Parasi, a radio station in Parasi, in the southern district of Nawalparasi, which has been the target of many threats in connection with its coverage of protests by the Madhesi ethnic minority.

Thrown at the radio station at around 11 p.m., the bomb caused no injuries but badly damaged its premises and, as a result, Radio Parasi has suspended broadcasting until further notice. The Nawalparasi police are investigating the attack, whose perpetrators have yet to be identified.

According to Radio Parasi manager Meghraj Gautam, the station has been repeatedly threatened by people accusing it of pro-government bias in its coverage of the Madhesi protests. The past few months have seen many clashes between residents and the authorities in these traditionally poor southern lowland plains bordering India, which are known as the Terai.

“We condemn this attack on Radio Parasi and call on the authorities to conduct an independent and thorough investigation with the aim of quickly identifying those responsible and bringing them to justice,” said Benjamin Ismaïl, the head of the Reporters Without Borders Asia-Pacific desk.

“It is unacceptable that media outlets and their journalists, who just do their job of providing news and information, should be caught in the crossfire between the government and ethnic militants.”

Journalists have repeatedly been the victims of violence by both protesters and police during the past four months of demonstrations by members of the Madhesi and Tharu minorities in the southern plains in protest against Nepal's new constitution, which in their view discriminates against them.

Bulbule FM reporter I Singh Rokaya sustained a gunshot injury to the leg when police fired on demonstrators in Surkhet on 10 August. Bikram Rauniyar, a photojournalist who also reports for Mountain Television, was beaten by police on 7 September.

Om Prakash Shah of the weekly Bilochan, Shatish Datt of the weekly Mithila, Ashutosh Prasad Singh of Radio C FM and Parish Karna of Chandra FM were attacked by police on 22 November while photographing the body of a Terai demonstrator killed by the police.

Demonstrators attacked Jitendra Narayan Yadav, a reporter for the national daily Gorkhapatra, and Makalu Television reporter Navin Karn on 9 September. A Molotov cocktail was thrown at photojournalist Ram Sarraf's home a few days later. Members of the United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) attacked News 24 TV reporter Irfan Ali in Birgunj, near the Indian border, on 20 November.

Activists damaged the cars of several media outlets, including the Annapurna Post newspaper on 23 August, and the daily Nagarik on 2 September. Tharu activists also burned copies of the Annapurna Post in the southeastern city of Biratnagar and copies of the Sanskar Khabar newspaper in Bara. The premises of Phoolbari FM, a local radio station in the western town of Tikapur, were set on fire on 25 August.

Nepal is ranked 105th out of 180 countries in the 2015 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index.

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RAUTAHAT, Nov 28: United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) cadres on Saturday torched a motorcycle (Na 25 Pa 5738) at Dasgaja region.

The UDMF cadres torched Shyam Babu Sah of Bisrampur-6, Rautahat's motorcycle while he was returning to Nepal after buying some logistics for his sister's wedding.


"The markets in Nepal have remain closed for months. I had to go to Indian markets as we don't get any goods here," Shyam added, "Around 15-20 protestors impounded me and set my bike on fire. They even manhandled me. "

An Indian motorcycle (BR 05 J 0716) too caught fire when the cadres torched Shyam's motorcycle.

The protestors ran away after Nepal Police and Armed Police Force personnel arrived the scene, District Police Office Rautahat's spokesperson DSP Rajendra Pokharel said.

Irate locals torch UDMF's tents

Following the incident, a group of irate locals set fire on tents used by UDMF cadres to stage sit-in. Locals have thrown away quilts, blankets and pillows used by protestors nearby Barhawa lake.

A brief tension flared up following the incident in the area.

UDMF cadres also had torched Forward Bank's staff Amrit Chaudhary's motorcycle (Ko 8 Pa 8726) while he was on his way to Nepal refilling fuel in India.

Locals have been expressing dissatisfaction over the protestors as the latter torch trucks carrying medicine, ambulances and wedding vehicles irrespective of what they had committed.

Former Prime Minister and CPN (UML) leader Madhav Kumar Nepal has claimed that the ongoing protest of Madhes-centric parties was nothing except than taking the country towards failure and giving trouble to the people.

Talking to media persons in Itahari today, leader Nepal said that the new constitution has ensured the rights to the Madhesi people more than their demands but Madhesi parties were not disseminating the reality to the people.

He further questioned why Madhesi leaders did not bring plan to lift the living standard of the Madhesi people when they were in the government.

Leader Nepal pointed out the need of alerting the Madhesi people that the ongoing protest was not for them as it was for some limited selfish leaders. He claimed that the state had not discriminated against the Madhesi people; however some Madhesi leaders were trying to make the Madhesi people slave in the name of protest.

Former PM Nepal acknowledged that the parties have failed to aware the people that the new constitution was Madhes-friendly and has incorporated almost all rights.

He added that the protesting parties should give up the anarchy and violence in the name of protest however some words might be changed in the constitution if that satisfies them.

The former Prime Minister clarified that his party was against the step of disintegrating Sunsari and Morang districts and including these districts into Province No-2 as people were also not willing for the same.

The delineation of borders could be resolved by federal commission, he said, adding that if the protesting parties were not ready for this option also then he urged them to garner two-thirds majority to amend the constitution, leader Nepal added. RSS

Indian Member of Parliament from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Kirti Azad has said that Nepal should return 15 of its Terai districts to India.
Azad, who was elected to India's lower house Lok Sabha for the third term from Dharbhanga, Bihar, made the statement while addressing a program in his constituency on Tuesday, reports Hindi daily Jagaran. Azad's statement came as he protested that Nepal government had not addressed the demands of the Madhesi agitation.
A former cricketer of the Indian national team, Azad claimed that the 15 districts were once a part of India's territory and were granted to Nepal by the British rulers.
He said that no one in the Indian establishment had taken initiative to reclaim these territories into India once the country got independence from the British rule, adding that he would raise the issue in the parliament and make an appeal to demand the concerned districts from Nepal. He argued that if Nepal failed to abide by the demand, then India should annex these territories.
"If Nepal doesn’t return, these districts should be seized," he said.
Azad has been demanding that a separate Mithila state be carved out of Bihar for Maithili speakers.

Kathmandu, November 23. Federalism Socialist Forum President Upendra Yadav has accused the government of committing genocide in Tarai Madhesh.
Issuing a press release on the 100th day of the Madhesh Movement on Monday, Yadav, also a leader of the United Democratic Madheshi Front, accused the government of suppressing people using brute force instead of addressing concerns of Madheshi and Janajati issues.
He accused the government of trampling on democratic norms and values and violating international humanitarian laws and human rights.
The Madhesh Movement is also the liberation movement of the marginalised peoples of the Himalayas and Hills as well as Madhesh and Tharuhat, Yadav maintained.
Rather than addressing the movement, the government is conspiring to pit Madheshi and Pahadi people against each other in a bid to foment communal violence and spoil national unity, according to Yadav. He called on all concerned to remain aware of such a plot and maintain unity in diversity and diversity in unity.
The Madheshi leader also called protesters to provide free passage for ambulances, vehicles of diplomatic missions, the Press, human rights organisations, fire engines and edicine carriers.

In the current context many Nepalese men are going abroad to earn money. They believe that by going abroad their economic status will get better. They go abroad by leaving their family. There have been thousands of cases of wives of men who go abroad getting into affairs with some other guys. They even spend all the money that have been sent to them by their husband. So many men doubt their wives despite they are noting like that.
This is an awareness video that is very much related to the topic. In the video a man knocks on the door of a woman. The woman opens the door and asks who he was. The man offers her a gift but the woman refuses. She says that she does not know him and she can not accept the gift. The man forces her and says that he wants to be friends with her. She refuses at first later becomes OK with it. The man gets in and starts talking.
Later the relationship becomes more than just friendship and they even get se*ually indulged. The girl starts liking him. One day they walk in the rain and suddenly get aroused. Not only that they have se* and after that the man tries to get out of the room. The girl stops him and asks where he was going. The man says that his work was done and he got money from her husband. He also added that her husband will come home now.
This is an awareness video that says that we should not start trusting people so much. The video has been uploaded on the channel of enjoy Nepal and the video itself has been viewed more than 69 thousand times.

Apart from rising gastroenteritis cases, caused by contaminated water or spoilt food in small pockets of the city, dengue cases are steadily escalating.
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A 19-year-old Worli Naka teenager became the latest victim of dengue infection — succumbing to dengue shock syndrome at Nair hospital on October 5. (Illustration by C R Sasikumar)
A 19-year-old Worli Naka teenager became the latest victim of dengue infection — succumbing to dengue shock syndrome at Nair hospital on October 5. (Illustration by C R Sasikumar)
The changing weather has taken a toll on Mumbaikars, with viral infection at its peak this year. As many as 1,724 fever cases were reported in the first week of October alone, along with 110 gastroenteritis cases in the city, data collected from the civic health department indicated.
Apart from rising gastroenteritis cases, caused by contaminated water or spoilt food in small pockets of the city, dengue cases are steadily escalating.
A 19-year-old Worli Naka teenager became the latest victim of dengue infection — succumbing to dengue shock syndrome at Nair hospital on October 5. This is the sixth dengue death reported in the city.