Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Sunday, January 25, 2015
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| the nepali embessy at barakhamba road in the indian capaital |
- The residence of the Nepali ambassador at Barakhamba Road in New Delhi is an old house within the premises of the Nepali Embassy, devoid of basic facilities. To make the matters worse, the embassy lies just above a noisy underground track of the Delhi Metro.
The plight of the building had failed to catch the attention of the embassy employees until the recent nomination of Nepali Congress leader Deep Kumar Upadhyay as Nepal’s ambassador to India, a post lying vacant since 2011.
“The place is uninhabitable. Water seeps from the ceiling, phone cords have been chewed upon by rats, the AC isn’t working, and furniture is out of shape,” said an employee at the embassy. He added that the place would not be ready to welcome the ambassador for at least two months.
“Preliminary estimates show the renovation and repairs will cost more than IRs 2 million. We are planning to send a report to the Foreign Ministry mentioning the amount of time and money required for maintenance.” Acting Ambassador Krishna Prasad Dhakal said consultations are ongoing with technicians regarding the repair and renovation of the ambassador’s residence. More than a dozen employees live on the embassy premises. Three consuls—economic, security and investigation—and a military attaché live in rented houses outside the embassy. The monthly rental charges exceed IRs 200,000.
A study is under way regarding a plan to build either residential houses or apartment style buildings for the staff on the embassy premises that sprawl over 48 ropanis. The biggest change since Ambassador Rukma Shumsher Rana—who was recalled on August 10, 2011— left is the construction of the metro railway that runs under and within the “annex” of the premises.
In May 2011, Nepal denied the request for permission to drill some parts of the embassy, including the land in front of the ambassador’s residence, for the expansion of the Metro tracks. The then foreign minister, Upendra Yadav, sent a taskforce led by Joint-secretary Dhananjay Jha to study the situation.
“We had made it clear that the embassy’s land could not be provided to build the tracks, but I don’t know about the underground way,” Jha, who is currently Nepal’s ambassador to the UAE, told the Post.
The track that came into operation since January last year lies 15 meters below the surface and 11 meters under the embassy premises. “We had suggested that the rails could be operated by building tracks 11 meters below the surface in a 5-metre wide tunnel,” said Khaga Nath Adhikari, currently the Nepali ambassador to Thailand.
But the rails running above the annex of the embassy are causing all the trouble. The residential staff complain of noise and “vibration that breaks light bulbs and causes cracks on the walls”.
The US Embassy and a dozen other diplomatic agencies, citing the Vienna Convention (1961), were able to prevent railway tracks below or near their premises.
Though the Cabinet has named Upadhyay as the envoy to India, he will be appointed only after a parliamentary hearing in Nepal and approval from the host country.
The last few heads of the Delhi mission—Rana and Durgesh Man Singh—were recalled before their tenures ended. Rana had got into a controversy over his stakes in Dabur Nepal Pvt Ltd, which is Dabur India’s Nepal unit. He was also charged with non-cooperation to then Indian Foreign Minister SM Krishna while he visited Nepal.
Singh retained the job only for 15 months. Former Ambassador to India Lok Raj Baral shares his experience of the “unpredictability” that envoys to India face. Baral headed the mission only for 14 months.
Since 1989, out of the seven ambassadors deputed to New Delhi, only Chakra Prasad Bastola, Bhekh Bahadur Thapa and Karna Dwoj Adhikari completed their four-year terms.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
- Constituent Assembly (CA) Subas Nembang put off the CA meeting for Friday after the opposition leaders continued their protests.
Nearly two hours after the commencement of the CA meeting, Nembang addressed the meeting and lamented the failure to promulgate the new constitution on the slated date.
Talking to reporters after the postponement of the CA meet, UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushap Kamal Dahal apologised for the failure to live up to promise to draft the new constitution. “I regrettably say that we had to obstruct the CA meeting in our attempt to write a progressive constitution,” said leader Oli.
The CA meet that was put off for 30 minutes earlier in the day resumed only at around 8:30 in the evening.
However, the lawmakers from the opposition parties stood from their chairs and rushed towards the rostrum and began chanting slogans.
The opposition lawmakers continued to the chant the slogans until the CA chairman deferred the meeting.
Meanwhile, the meeting of four major political forces held prior to
the CA meeting ended inconclusively after the parties stuck to their respective guns.
A 17-year-old girl was gang-raped in Dolalghat of Kavre on Wednesday. The teenage girl from Hokse, Panchkhal of the district was raped by three youth at a hotel in Dolalghat yesterday.
Police nabbed Aditya Adhikari (22) and Samir Shrestha (19) from Panchkhal-4 on Thursday in connection to the crime.
The victim has claimed that three persons including the detained duo raped her under the influence of alcohol at a birthday celebration function.
The girl was invited as a singer at the function organised to mark Adhikari's birthday on Wednesday afternoon.
"I was called to sing some songs at the event," the girl said, "But, the three youth had sex with me turn by turn."
The accused had left the victim at her home in Hokse of Panchkhal after the crime at around 8 pm.
She had, then, told her father about the incident.
"With her tearful eyes," the father said, "she told me that she was raped."
After the victim's family filed the complaint with the Panchkhal Police Post, Adhikari and Shrestha were arrested from their houses this morning.
The victim is studying in Grade 11 at a local school.
Police said they have launched a manhunt to nab the third suspect.
Police nabbed Aditya Adhikari (22) and Samir Shrestha (19) from Panchkhal-4 on Thursday in connection to the crime.
The victim has claimed that three persons including the detained duo raped her under the influence of alcohol at a birthday celebration function.
The girl was invited as a singer at the function organised to mark Adhikari's birthday on Wednesday afternoon.
"I was called to sing some songs at the event," the girl said, "But, the three youth had sex with me turn by turn."
The accused had left the victim at her home in Hokse of Panchkhal after the crime at around 8 pm.
She had, then, told her father about the incident.
"With her tearful eyes," the father said, "she told me that she was raped."
After the victim's family filed the complaint with the Panchkhal Police Post, Adhikari and Shrestha were arrested from their houses this morning.
The victim is studying in Grade 11 at a local school.
Police said they have launched a manhunt to nab the third suspect.
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| TU centrel office |
TU said it would issue a public notice in a daily newspapers tomorrow, informing campuses in the Kathmandu Valley to open admission forms under annual format from January 26.
Earlier TU had said it would open admission forms from tomorrow.
“We are going to publish a notice in daily newspapers tomorrow, asking colleges in the Valley to open forms from January 26,” said Bhawana Bajracharya, Chief, Information Division, TU. "Students can submit forms till February 9."
Colleges will also be informed individually to open admission forms, she added. “Tomorrow is Friday, so it is difficult to send circulars to all colleges but by Sunday, it will reach all the colleges,” she said.
Earlier, TU had opened forms under the semester system from December 16, but students had halted form distribution in most of the colleges, demanding that TU postpone its decision of implementing the system, saying that Valley campuses lack infrastructure and human resources.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
SIMARA, JAN 20 - Nepal Police Club (NPC) rallied from a goal down to edge Nepal Armed Police Force (APF) Club 4-1 in tie-breaker and enter the semi-finals of the sixth Simara Gold Cup football tournament here on Tuesday.
Ganesh Lawati gave APF an early eight minute lead, connecting a corner kick off Heman Gurung. Ajit Bhandari brought NPC back in the game with a 63rd minute equaliser that pushing the game into 30 minutes of extra time.
NPC earlier missed on the opportunity to seal the game when Nir Kumar Rai failed to convert the 13th minute penalty. NPC were awarded the spot kick when Ramesh Dangol tripped Bharat Shah inside the area.
As the 30 minutes of extra time too failed to break the deadlock, the penalty shootout determined the winners. Shah, Ajit Bhandari, Suman Subedi and Hari Kathayat scored for NPC. Only Lawati converted the spot kick in tie-breaker for APF. Nabin Lama and Jangbu Sherpa squandered their spot kicks. Lama ‘s shot had hit the cross bar while NPC custodian Ritesh Thapa denied Sherpa.
Despite the win NPC’s coach Birat Krishna Shrestha was not happy his team’s performance. “The match should not have gone to tie-breaker had we not squandered so many chances,” said Shrestha. APF coach Krishna Thapa blamed his players wasting the lead.
Hosts Nawa Janajagriti Youth Club will take on Tribhuvan Army Club for a place in the final on Wednesday.
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