KATHMANDU: Kantipur daily has highlighted the renouncement of Independent Madhesh Alliance (IMA) by CK Raut, a secessionist Madheshi leader.
Raut agreed to join the main stream politics of Nepal by signing an 11-point agreement with the government at the City Hall in the capital on Friday, giving up his seven-year-long stance for separate Madhesh state. According to the agreement, both the parties have to treat with each other in line with the the constitution of Nepal.
Meanwhile, the Nepal Communist Party leaders Bamdev Gautam and Narayan Kaji Shrestha expressed discontent over the language used in the agreement.
Naya Patrika daily has reported that out of 753 local units, 93 units have changed their names and headquarters. Seventeen units have changed only their names leaving the centers intact while 55 have changed only centers leaving the the names intact. Twenty units have changes both names and centers, according to the report.
Meanwhile, Parliamentary Hearing Committee (PHC) could not decide the disputed case of Samim Ansari, candidate of National Muslim Commission, within the given time. According to the provision, the PHC has to submit its report within 45 days after receiving the letter from the concerned unit. Four complaints had been filed against Ansari at the PHC. With PHC’s failure to take a decision on Ansari, he is likely to become chairman of the Commission.
With the advancement of information technology, the number of cyber crimes have also gone up, of late. As many as 253 cases related to Facebook, 19 related to YouTube, 10 online web-page, nine Imo, 10 Instagram and three cases related to Twitter have been filed at the Metropolitan Crime Division, Teku, Kathmandu, according to a report in Annapurna daily.
Rajdhani daily has highlighted that the state is still witnessing the import of medicines the government had banned almost two years ago. The government had punt a ban on the import of 30 different medicine including Albendazole, amoxicillin, antacid, tinidazole among others on June 13, 2017.
However, these medicines are still coming to Nepal without restrictions after the Department of Drug Administration failed to implement the decision, allegedly due to the pressure from the medicine importers.
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