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Morning Starter: Friday, January 17, 2020

Good morning!

Here’s a summary of important, ignored and interesting reports from Thursday to kickstart your Friday.

Important

Oli, Dahal hopeful of ending stalemate over speaker’s candidate today

 

L-R: KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal

Two chairmen of the ruling Nepal Communist Party are preparing to hold another round of meeting to choose the party’s candidate for the speaker in the House of Representatives, according to the party insiders. After a gap of four days, the two leaders had held a one-on-one meeting for around three hours on Thursday. Though the meeting did not result in any concrete progress, the talks are going towards a positive direction, it has been learned.

“The discussions are going ahead with an objective of finding a solution before Monday,” the party’s general secretary Bishnu Paudel says, “The process to elect the new speaker will begin Monday.” The House meeting has been postponed for Monday after the party’s failure to pick a candidate.

Three Nepalis killed in Abu Dhabi bus crash

Three Nepali women were killed whereas 14 others sustained injuries in a bus accident in Abu Dhabi of the United Arab Emirates on Thursday. The bus carrying workers of a company had collided with a lorry on Thursday morning.

Meanwhile, officials of the Nepali Embassy in Abu Dhabi including Ambassador Krishna Prasad Dhakal, Deputy Chief of Mission Rita Dhital, and Labour Consul Bhesh Bahadur Karki visited the hospital where the injured are undergoing treatment. Karki says their employer is funding the treatment.

Ignored

Private sector to be deprived of their representation in CAAN

The government has decided to change the law regarding the composition of the board of Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal. The government spokesperson and the Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gokul Baskota says the two seats currently being held by representatives of the private sectors will be replaced by aviation experts after the new law comes into effect.

Two jailed for 39 years for killing Makawanpur journalist

The Makawanpur District Court has sent two persons to jail for 39 years for their involvement in the murder of a journalist after a robbery around one year ago. A bench of district judge Dilli Ratna Shrestha handed down the sentence on Anamol Pudasaini (20) from Hetaunda-11 and Praveen Waiba (19) from Hetaunda-12. The convicts have also been fined Rs 70,000 each.

The duo had murdered Manohar Dhakal, a journalist at local Radio Palung, was murdered at Bhairavdanda of Hetaunda-1 on January 9, 2019. They had robbed the victim of a gold ring and mobile phone among others. A course staffer, Keshav Raj Kaushik, says the convicts will be jailed for 25 years for the murder and 14 years for the robbery.

Interesting

Nepal wants India to take back smuggled red sandalwood

File: Red sandalwood

Nepal is requesting India to take back rend sandalwood weighing around 173,000 kilograms. The logs of the precious herbal plant were confiscated by Nepali authorities and security personnel from the smugglers.

The Ministry of Forests and Environment says the sandalwood was confiscated while being smuggled to China via Nepal from Andra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states of India. The logs have been kept in 20 districts of Nepal currently.

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