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From the Kathmandu Press: Friday, May 17, 2019

Tribhuvan University cancelling the interviews for the post of Section Officer after some officials at the Office of the Service Commission were reportedly involved in a controversy has been featured in most newspapers. A Nepali woman being raped in India has also been featured in some papers.

Here is a summary of important, ignored and interesting stories from the cover pages of national broadsheets:

Important

File image: Tribhuvan University Central Office, Kirtipur

TU cancels interview for the post of Section Officer

Rajdhani, Annapurna Post and Kantipur report that Tribhuvan University Service Commission has published the interview cancellation notice for the post of Section Officer. The interview has been cancelled after many relatives of the Tribhuvan University Service Commission Chairman Chaitanya Sharma, Chief Parashu Ram Koirala, Central Campus Principal Krishna Acharya, former Registrar Chandra Mani Paudel, Monitoring Division Chief Bishnu Prasad Khanal, among others, were selected for various positions of the university.

Meanwhile, the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority has received a complaint against the Service Commission and has launched an investigation into it.

Nepal blacklists 52 Malaysian companies

Karobar reports that Nepal has blacklisted 67 companies of various countries, barring Nepali migrant workers from working for them, and 52 of them are in Malaysia, one of the most popular destinations for Nepali workers.

They have been blacklisted for breaching the labour agreement signed with the Nepali workers. There have been complaints that they do not provide remuneration and other facilities as per the agreement.

According to the latest statistics maintained by the Department of Foreign Employment, a total of 79 per cent of foreign companies blacklisted by Nepal are from Malaysia. The remaining 21 are from Gulf countries.

On the other hand, Naya Patrika reports that Nepal since April 2018 has sent only 2,000 workers to Malaysia. Nepal and Malaysia had signed a deal to make sure workers get the best deals. But, as of now, Malaysia hasn’t formulated a proper atmosphere and policy for workers. Only those workers who have received their calling visas have left for Malaysia.

Ignored

Nepali woman gang-raped in India

Kantipur reports that a 22-year-old Nepali woman, who was travelling to Mumbai from Delhi, has been gang-raped by four men in Delhi. The police registered a case and transferred it to the Delhi police.
The woman also gave the police the names of the people she said had raped her in Delhi. She also gave a phone number of one of the men.

According to the police, the victim was on her way to Mumbai to meet her brother. She had reached Delhi on Saturday by bus and was supposed to take a train to Mumbai. However, she could not reach the station in time and missed her train. The woman was sitting on the platform when four persons approached her. They told her that it was not safe to be there, and took her to Dwaraka where they allegedly raped her.

Chair of SAGGC bars media again

File: A State Affairs Committee meeting

The Himalayan Times reports that the chair of the State Affairs and Good Governance Committee of the House of Representatives Shashi Shrestha on Wednesday barred media persons from covering the panel’s meeting, incurring the wrath of lawmakers and civil society members.

This is the fourth time that panel Chair Shashi Shrestha has barred media persons, saying the panel was discussing ‘internal matters’ related to the Federal Civil Service Bill.  At the beginning of the panel meeting, Shrestha allowed journalists to enter the meeting hall, but after a few minutes, she asked them to leave as confidential issues were to be discussed.

NCP still undecided on political ideology

The announcement ceremony of Nepal Communist Party

The Kathmandu Post reports that after struggling to manage the party rank and file, now NCP leaders are squabbling over the party ideology. According to leaders, the fundamental difference lies with the “people’s war”.

The Maoists waged a war against the state for 10 years from 1996 to 2006, which claimed nearly 17,000 lives. The UML, or its leader KP Sharma Oli for that matter, was always averse to this ideology of the Maoists who wanted to attain power through the barrel of the gun.

The UML initially embraced “people’s multiparty democracy”–a guiding principle propounded by its late leader Madan Bhandari–and in later years adopted it as the party ideology. But even as the unified party has become one year old, it is yet to ascertain what ideology it would be following–or how they should assimilate the two principles they practised.

Interesting

Woman critical after husband throws acid

The Kathmandu Post reports that Jenny Khadka, a 20-year-old woman from Kalopul, is still not out of danger after her husband Bishnu Bhujel threw acid on her on Wednesday. Doctors say that around 15 per cent of her body, including her chest, hands, back and neck, has sustained burn injuries.

Bhujel and Khadka were living separately after marital difference. He was apprehended by police from Kandaghari on Wednesday. The immediate reason for Bhujel’s attacks remains unknown but interrogations are going on.

Tourists arriving in Nepal spending less money

The Kathmandu Post reports that even though tourist arrivals crossed the coveted one-million mark for the first time in 2018, with 1.17 million foreign visitors streaming into the country, their spending plummeted to a seven-year low.

According to statistics from the Tourism Ministry, expected to be released next week, the average spending per tourist per day dropped to $44, the lowest in seven years. The average spending was $54 per day in 2017. In 2003, during the height of the Maoist insurgency, per day spending of tourists was at a record $79.1.

Division bench to give a decision on citizenship bill

File image: Supreme Court of Nepal

Annapurna Post and Nagarik both carry reports about the Supreme Court has ordering the citizenship by decent issue to be solved by a division bench. Previously the SC had told the full bench to give the decision, however, the full bench consisting of justices Kumar Regmi, Susmalata Mathema and Ishwar Prasad Khatiwada transferred it back to the division bench on Thursday.

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