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From the Kathmandu Press: Monday, October 8, 2018

All major Nepali and English broadsheet dailies published from Kathmandu on Monday have given the top priority to the report of an investigation committee on the rape and murder of Nirmala Pant in Kanchanpur district two and half months ago as the Ministry of Home Affairs made the report public yesterday. The newspapers have highlighted that the report, however, fails to pinpoint who committed the crime.

Meanwhile, the Cabinet meeting made some significant decisions including raising the minimum wage of journalists and appointing Executive Chairman of Gorkhapatra Corporation. These decisions have also been featured on the front pages of Kathmandu newspapers today.

The front pages have also published reports about some other political, sociocultural and economic issues today.

Important

Pant murder probe panel claims police destroyed evidence

File: The team that investigated Nirmala Pant murder submits its report to Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa on Tuesday, September 25, 2018.

The investigation carried out by the panel led by Joint Secretary Hari Prasad Mainali has claimed police officials destroyed the vital evidence while carrying out the investigations into the rape and murder. The panel has suggested further probe into the officials and action against them.

Meanwhile, the country’s constitutional human rights watchdog, National Human Rights Commission, has directed the government to interrogate suspended SP Dilli Raj Bista and two women of the area, according to newspaper reports.

Panel to fix sugar issue

Gorkhapatra and Abhiyan report that the Cabinet meeting formed a panel to suggest solutions to the problem surfaced in the price of sugar in the market.

National Planning Commission member Dil Bahadur Gurung heads the panel which includes representatives of Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Commerce and Supplies, Ministry of Finance, sugar industry, consumer rights activities and sugarcane farmers as members, according to the report.

3 per cent capital spending in first quarter

File image: Ministry of Finance

It is just one week before the completion of the first quarter of current fiscal year, but the government has spent just three per cent of total capital budget allocated for this year, according to a two column box story in Abhiyan.

Meanwhile, the Finance Committee of House of Representatives has directed the government to increase capital spending from the beginning of fiscal year and end the tendency of exhausting budget in the last month, Annapurna Post reports in a three column story.

Ignored

32 years is age ceiling for Nepali Congress student union’s membership

File image: Nepali Congress’ central office in Sanepa of Lalitpur

Nepali Congress decided that people crossing the age of 32 years cannot be members of its student wing, Nepal Students Union, according to Gorkhapatra.

A meeting of the party’s Central Working Committee held yesterday made the decision. The meeting, however, could not endorse the new statute for the organisation as leaders including Krishna Prasad Sitaula sought more time to study the draft, the report adds.

Private firm assigned to print smart licences

After its failure to distribute driving licences to applicants on time, the government has assigned a private company to print smart licences though it has its own equipment for the task, Nepal Samacharpatra reports in its lead story.

A recent Cabinet meeting assigned Malika Incorporate to print the licences as the company has expressed its commitment to print licences for the applicants in the backlog within next 45 days, the newspaper quotes Department of Transport Management spokesperson Gokarna Prasad Upadhyaya.

India, Pakistan don’t want Nepal to extract petrol on its own

Representational file image

KP Sharma Oli in his first premiership announced that Nepal would extract its own petrol in next two years. Two years have passed, but Nepal has done nothing about the extraction possibility, because its immediate neighbour India and India’s arch rival Pakistan do not want to do so, claims Nagarik in its lead story.

Meanwhile, India might also object to Nepal’s efforts of extracting fuel with the assistance of China, claims report.

Administrative court likely to be dissolved

File image: The Parliament building of Nepal

The National Assembly has proposed that existing Administrative Court be dissolved; and administrative benches be formed at all seven high courts to handle related cases, according to a brief story in Republica.

“If the bill is endorsed from the Lower House, the Administrative Court will cease to exist. The cases related to transfer, promotion and removal of civil servants or other related issues will be assigned to a special bench at the high courts in all seven provinces,” the report quotes a member of the Bill Committee in the Upper House.

Interesting

Rukum East village fixes dates to harvest maize

Farmers of Tak in Putha Uttarganga Rural Municipality-10 in Rukum East district are free to choose which species of maize they cultivate and at what time. However, they are not free to harvest it on their own, according to the anchor story in Kantipur.

A panel of village leaders decides dates to harvest maize and those violating the decision will be punished, according to the report.

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