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Maoist to hold nationwide warning assemblies
The main opposition party, CPN Maoist Centre, has announced plans to make its government-focused warning assemblies nationwide.
During an address at a rally held on Exhibition Road in Kathmandu on Saturday, party chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda stated that they will expand this assembly to all parts of the country.
Dahal mentioned that they are preparing to circulate a schedule for organizing similar assemblies at the grassroots level within the party.
“We will send programs for this assembly to every municipality and ward in the country,” Dahal said.
Prachanda questions: Why were ruling party leaders linked to cooperative fraud not investigated?
Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda,’ Chair of the CPN Maoist Centre, has expressed concern over the failure to bring leaders from the Nepali Congress and CPN UML who were found guilty in the co-operative fraud case into the investigation.
Addressing a warning assembly held on Saturday at Exhibition Road in Kathmandu, Dahal stated that it is politically discriminatory and biased to arrest only opposition leader Rabi Lamichhane while not bringing Congress and UML leaders, who have been found guilty by parliamentary committees, into the investigative fold.
Natural disasters result in 191 deaths in Bagmati Province over a three-month period
During the last three months of the current fiscal year 2081/82, 191 people died across 10 districts in Bagmati Province, not including the Kathmandu Valley, due to floods, landslides, inundation, and fires.
According to the Bagmati Province Police Office in Hetauda, 177 of these deaths occurred due to heavy rainfall on September 27 and 28, which caused floods, landslides, and inundation.
According to Superintendent of Police Durgaraj Regmi, 157 people died from landslides, while 11 were swept away by floods, and nine drowned in this period.
Two killed, three injured in road accident
A road accident this morning in Sattale, Tulsipur Municipality-3, claimed the lives of two individuals and left three others injured.
The accident occurred when a passenger jeep (Ra. 1 Ja. 822) en route from Salyan to Tulsipur fell approximately 300 meters down a hillside.
The deceased have been identified as 22-year-old Hiramani Budhamagar from Baibang in Dangisharan Rural Municipality-4 and 19-year-old Suresh Khadka from Kapurkot Rural Municipality-6 in Salyan.
CEDAW concerned over regression in women and children rights
The CEDAW has called for safeguarding the fundamental freedoms of women and girls in Afghanistan.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) emphasized the need to ensure Afghan women and children’s access to education, employment and presence in public spaces among others as enshrined in the CEDAW.
Bandana Rana, CEDAW’s member and Chairperson of the Working Group on Afghanistan expressed CEDAW’s ”profound” concern over the ”severe” regression in women and children rights in Afghanistan in a meeting at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.
PM Oli urges robust stand on climate issues in upcoming COP-29
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli reiterated that Nepal would eloquently enhance advocacies on climate action, highlighting climate change impacts from mountain to sea in the impending UN climate conference, COP-29.
The 29th edition of the UN Climate Conference is taking place in Baku of Azerbaijan from November 11 to 22 this year. President Ramchandra Paudel is leading the Nepali delegation to the annual global event.
In the National Climate Conference organized by the Ministry of Forest and Environment today, PM Oli assured that Nepal would strongly raise issues relating to climate justice for vulnerable country like ours as put forward by him in the 79th United Nations General Assembly.
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