Good morning!
Here’s a quick summary of important, ignored and interesting stories from Sunday to kickstart your Monday.
Important
Paudel proposes NC convention date; talks positive
Negotiators in the main opposition party, Nepali Congress, have said that the ongoing talks between two factions led by the party president Sher Bahadur Deuba and senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel have moved towards consensus. Now, the Paudel faction has agreed to leave the leadership position of the student wing for the Deuba camp but has proposed that the party hold its 14th general convention on November 20-23, 2020. The Deuba side is yet to give any specific answer to the proposal.
Earlier, the Deuba side had said that it was committed to holding the convention by February 2021, and the Paudel side thinks it is also a positive gesture.
APF personnel rescue kidnapped Dailekh village chair
After around 18 hours of abduction, Armed Police Force personnel rescued Dhir Bahadur Shahi, the chairman of Thantikandh rural municipality in Dailekh district, from neighbouring Kalikot district of Karnali province.
When police, assisted by the locals, located the whereabouts of Shahi in Chhati, Shubhakalika rural municipality-1 of Kalikot, the abductors, reportedly cadres of the Netra Bikram Chand ‘Bipalv’-led Maoist party, left him inside a house and ran away, according to police.
Shahi was abducted from his house in the wee hours of Sunday.
Supreme Court gives continuity to stay order on Nijgadh airport
The Supreme Court on Sunday decided to give continuity to a previous interim order that barred the government from cutting down trees in Nijgadh area of Bara district for the construction of an international airport there. A division bench of Chief Justice Cholendra Shamsher Rana and Justice Kumar Regmi issued the order in response to a writ filed by former bureaucrat Dwarika Nath Dhungel and others.
With the order, the government’s ambitious project has been further pushed into limbo.
Ignored
11 parties registered for National Assembly elections
Eleven parties have registered themselves for the National Assembly elections scheduled for January 23, 2020, informs the Election Commission. The commission had urged political parties to apply for the election till Sunday, and a total of 11 parties showed up in the allocated time, the constitutional body informs.
The January elections will elect 18 members of the 59-member Upper House.
Thamel beautification campaign incurs loss to ISPs
A local NGO named Thamel Tourism Development Council recently launched a campaign in Thamel, a popular tourist hub of Kathmandu, aimed at beautifying the area. Under the drive, it also removed messily hung cables on roadside utility poles. The NGO’s intention was good but it did not cooperate with concerned agencies in removing the wires. Consequently, the internet and telephone services were interrupted in the area briefly.
Meanwhile, the Internet Service Providers’ Association of Nepal said the removal incurred a loss amounting to Rs 50 million to the internet service providers, adding the providers would file a complaint with police demanding compensation.
Interesting
Drunk police staffer on the road to check drink driving
A head constable of Nepal Police, who was himself drunk, was found to be checking on the streets of Pokhara if drivers were driving under the influence. After some drivers found out that Bhim Bahadur Yadav deployed at local Taalchok of Pokhara was drunk, they nabbed him and submitted him to police.
It has been learned that he was later fired from the job.
