Good morning!
Here’s a quick summary of important, ignored and interesting stories from Thursday to kickstart your Friday.
Important
Nepal adds seven gold medals to SAG tally
Nepal won seven gold medals to its list of achievements from the 13th South Asian Games currently underway in the country. With this, Nepal has earned a total of 37 gold medals. It is in the second position of the tally, behind India. However, the count has already exceeded the previous record of the highest number of gold medals.
On Thursday, the following players from Nepal won one gold medal each:
- Nima Gharti Magar: Wushu
- Sima Chaudhary: Weightlifting
- Gaurika Singh: Swimming
- Buddhi Bahadur Tamang: Cycling
- Laxmi Magar: Cycling
- Juni Rai: Wushu
- Bhupen Shrestha: Taekwondo
Dahal against internationalising Kalapani dispute
Ruling Nepal Communist Party’s executive chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal says time is not ripe yet to internationalise the issue of border dispute with India regarding a part of the Nepali land in Kalapani. He says the country should initiate diplomatic communications with India before that.
Speaking at a function in Dhangadhi on Thursday, Dahal feared that taking the issue to the international area could add more problems to it.
Council rejects Baidik’s nomination for CJ
Judicial Council member Padam Prasad Baidik resigned from his position after Chief Justice Cholendra Shamsher Rana assured him that he would nominate Baidik for the Supreme Court justice. Rana called a council meeting on Thursday and tabled the proposal. The council, however, did not endorse it after Law Minister Upendra Yadav and SC justice Deepak Kumar Karki protested.
The duo protested the proposal citing Nepal Bar Association’s objection to Rana’s intention.
Ignored
Six-year-old girl raped in Bara
A six-year-old child was raped in Kalaiya of Bara this Tuesday, according to family members and police.
The family members say they found the girl bleeding from her vagina and rushed her to Birgunj-based Narayani Hospital for treatment. The hospital, however, refused to admit her saying it was a police case and the referral should be made by police. But, the family complains that the girl was taken to the hospital after National Medical College Teaching Hospital said such police cases should be handled by a government hospital.
After the two rejections, the family, assisted by police, took her to Birgunj Health Care, where the doctors provided her needful service.
Taskforce to study medical college fee dispute
Seeing that protests launched by students are not going to end anything soon, the government has established a task force to study if the medical colleges really collected excessive fees from them and how they should refund it.
The Medical Education Committee on Thursday announced the establishment of the five-member committee. The committee is yet to make the names of its leader and members public.
The panel has been mandated to make a study, discuss the issue with the stakeholders and submit a report. The task force was formed as per an agreement made between the colleges and the government last week.
Interesting
Nepal to announce Visit Nepal Decade
As the ambitious Visit Nepal Year 2020 is about to begin, Nepal is preparing to extend the campaign to the entire decade. The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation is proposing that the government announce the campaign for 2020-2029 in the annual policy and programme of the government for the next fiscal year.
“The campaign will not stop after December next year,” tourism minister Yogesh Bhattarai, “We will move ahead with a plan for the entire decade.”
