The government has decided to increase the cash prize of the medal winning players, coaches and sports associations in international tournaments on Thursday.
It has been decided that players winning gold in individual events at the Olympics will be awarded with Rs 10m while their associations and coaches will be the recipient of Rs 1.5m and 1m respectively.
Likewise, players winning gold medals at the Asian games will be felicitated with Rs 2.5m while their associations and coaches will be awarded Rs 1m and Rs 500,000 respectively.
Similarly, players winning gold in South Asian Games will bag a purse of Rs 500,000.
The silver and bronze medallists in Olympics’ individual events will secure 7.5m and 5m respectively, while their coaches will be felicitated with cash prize of 0.6m and 0.45m respectively.
Cash Prize
Gold Silver Bronze
Individual event 10m•2.5m•0.5m 7.5m•1.5m •0.3m 5m•1m•0.2m
Group event 4m•1m•0.2m 3.5m•0.5m•0.1m 1m•0.3m•0.1m
*Cash prizes first, second and third denote Olympics, Asian Games and South Asian Games.
KATHMANDU, SEP 28 -
Nineteen people died when a Dornier Aircraft 9N AHA of Sita Air crashed at the banks of Manohara River in Thimi-16 of Bhaktapur district in the Capital on Friday.
19 people, including 16 passengers and three crew members died in the crash. It has been said that the aircraft crashed within two minutes after the Aircraft Controller’s Office gave its clearance for takeoff at around 6:10 am today.
The reason of the crash has not been ascertained. However, experts claim that it could either be a case of ‘on air fire’ or it could have struck a bird on air.
It has been said that the pilots could have tried to crash the aircraft in the river to minimise casualties. However, the aircraft could only reach the banks of Manohara River.
According to airport sources, most of the deceased are tourists. The deceased crew members have been identified as pilot Captain Bijaya Tandukar, co-Pilot Takeshi Thapa and airhostess Ruja Shakya.
The aircraft was on its way to Lukla from the Capital.
As global average temperatures rise due to greenhouse gas emissions, the effects on the planet, such as melting ice caps, extreme weather, drought and rising sea levels, will threaten populations and livelihoods, said the report conducted by humanitarian organisation DARA.
It calculated that five million deaths occur each year from air pollution, hunger and disease as a result of climate change and carbon-intensive economies, and that toll would likely rise to six million a year by 2030 if current patterns of fossil fuel use continue.
More than 90 percent of those deaths will occur in developing countries, said the report that calculated the human and economic impact of climate change on 184 countries in 2010 and 2030. It was commissioned by the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a partnership of 20 developing countries threatened by climate change.
"A combined climate-carbon crisis is estimated to claim 100 million lives between now and the end of the next decade," the report said. It said the effects of climate change had lowered global output by 1.6 percent of world GDP , or by about $1.2 trillion a year, and losses could double to 3.2 percent of global GDP by 2030 if global temperatures are allowed to rise, surpassing 10 percent before 2100.
It estimated the cost of moving the world to a low-carbon economy at about 0.5 percent of GDP this decade.
Temperatures have already risen by about 0.8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times. Almost 200 nations agreed in 2010 to limit the global average temperature rise to below 2C (3.6 Fahrenheit) to avoid dangerous impacts from climate change. But climate scientists have warned that the chance of limiting the rise to below 2C is getting smaller as global greenhouse gas emissions rise due to burning fossil fuels. The world's poorest nations are the most vulnerable as they face increased risk of drought, water shortages, crop failure, poverty and disease. On average, they could see an 11 percent loss in GDP by 2030 due to climate change, DARA said.
Kankai Paint Nepal was gutted by fire that broke out due to short-circuit and destroyed the properties of the factory.
Mandira Magar, 7, who was the daughter of a labourer from Udaypur died on the spot after a tripper heading to Trishuli river to extract sands from the river bed hit her near Belkhukhola of Bairini VDC-7 this morning.
Similarly, two other children, who had come running to see the unfortunate accident, were also hit by a passenger bus (Na 3 Kha 7736) heading to Gaighat from Kathmandu. Rabin Baral, 11, of Baireni VDC died while receiving treatment at Gajuri hospital, while his friend Rajan Lama, 7, of the same VDC was seriously injured and has been rushed to Kathmandu for further treatment.
Saying that the decision is not acceptable, the students smashed the windowpanes and some furniture of the English Department.
The Department's administration said that the exam of Linguistics and Literature would be carried again on October 10. The decision comes following the notice from National Vigilance Centre saying that the question paper resembled with the question paper of previous exam and that the English Department should be held accountable for the wrongdoing.
The temples opened for viewing by the public and visitors are the Krishna Mahabishnu Temple, the Jagannath Temple, the Bishweshwar Mahadev Temple, the Degu Taleju Temple, the Nil Barahi Temple, the Gorakhnath Baba Pau shrine, the Kalbhairav Temple, the Shree Bishnu Temple, the Hanuman Swetbhairav Temple, the Kotilingeshwar Mahadev Temple, the Thulo Nahgara, the Kaheshwar Mahadev, Saraswati, Nawayoginimai, the Shiva Parvati Temple and the Radhakrishna Temple.
Chief Executive Officer of KMC, Kedar Bahadur Adhikari, said the temples will be open from 7 to 11.30 a.m.
There are over three dozen houses of the community but only one person Uprendra Mukhiya had passed the SLC so far. The Mukhiya community resides nearly two kilometer far to the north of east-west highway from Choharwa.
Although there is a primary school till grade three, the number of the students in the school does not exceed 12, said Uprendra. “What to do with studies, when there is no employment after it,” he said. Daughters should be able to manage household works rather than going to school, Uprendra added.
Shiva Shankar Mukhiya, another local, said that 25 youths had gone for foreign employment in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.Ranjit Mikhiya who studied till third grade has returned to his village from the foreign employment.
Similarly Chulhai Mukhiya, father of 10 children, said sons have gone to the foreign employment and daughters spend the time with the households, why to give education to the children.
Solar panels were installed at the houses throughout the country under a programme which was started with the purpose of lighting the homes of the people of rural areas. The solar panels were installed through government, private sector and different projects, it is learnt.
According toVice-Chairman of the Nepal Solar Electricity production Association, Deepak Bahadur Shahi, solar panels have been installed considerably in rural areas of late. The Association has been co-working with the Center.
Shahi said now there is a demand from around 200,000 households yearly for installing solar panels but there is only a programme for installing solar panels to 80,000 households as per the government plan.
Now the Bhaktapur district, which is beautiful, peaceful and rich of archeological heritages, is full of foreign tourists.
Bhaktapur district is an attraction to tourists due to culture and rare heritages including Bhaktapur Peacock Window known as Monalisa of Asia.
Now, around 500 foreign tourists visit Bhaktapur per day, according to the tourism section of Bhaktapur Municipality.
The section said around 10,000 foreign tourists visited Bhaktapur last month while the number of tourists visiting the district is over 10,000 till the half of this month.
The country has lost over Rs 120 billion — one third of the budget which stood at Rs 384.90 billion for the last fiscal year — in the last one year with 80 days of bandhs, according to Liveable Nepal.
The country has to bear a loss of Rs 1.5 billion in a single day of bandh, according to data of the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI).
Bandhs — the most binding constraint to business growth in the country — has hit the far western region hard as the
region witnessed the most number of bandhs, according to the FNCCI data that revealed that the region witnessed around 30 per cent of the total bandhs, followed by the central region that saw 27 per cent and mid-western region that saw 17 per cent of the total bandhs in the country.
Similarly, the eastern and western regions saw 14 per cent and 12 per cent of total bandhs, respectively.
Unlike a year ago, when
the country witnessed the most number of bandhs in Sankhuwasabha and Bhojpur — eastern region, last year Kanchanpur and Kailali — mid-western and far-western districts — witnessed the most number of bandhs, according to figures.
Like earlier years, political issues have been the key reason behind most of the bandhs followed by protests due to deaths and accidents.
“Some 61 per cent of the total bandhs that the country witnessed was due to political reasons,” the data pointed out, adding that bandhs protesting deaths and accidents accounted for 23 per cent, whereas bandhs due to other reasons accounted for 16 per cent.
Until and unless there is economic freedom to safety of life and property, proper and effective implementation of the rule of law, and freedom to enterprise and participation in a profession of one’s own choice, a country cannot develop.
Political parties after sustained pressure from the public had committed not to
call bandhs but have repeatedly broken their promise forcing people to close down their businesses and having their properties damaged.
Among the political parties, Samyukta Loktantrik Paribes, Far Western Ekta Saamaj, and Tharuhat Struggle Committee are the top three political parties that have called for the highest number of bandhs dearly hurting the economy.
Rescue team has resumed their search operation on Monday morning in the avalanche- affected base camp areas in Gorkha’s Samagaun for the missing climbers.
The death toll in Mt.Manaslu avalanche reached eleven on Monday morning. Seven French climbers, two German climbers and one each from Spain and Nepal lost their lives in the the disaster.
Two choppers belonging to Fishtail and one chopper of Simrik Airlines left for the site of incident after 6 am in the morning but to due to bad weather, the search operation is being obstructed.
According to a police officer Basanta Bahadur Kunwar, rescue crew is yet to pick up those 13 climbers people who were rescued on Sunday but are still waiting at the base camp as thick fog hindered the rescue operation. Meanwhile, the rescue team is also searching three others who are reported missing.
Among the more than 50 persons, who were sleeping at the Third Camp of the 8,156-metre Mt Manaslu at an altitude of 6,600 metres when the incident occurred around 3.00am on Sunday, 18 sustained injuries and are undergoing treatment.
The disaster as such, which is actually a blow to the promotion of a tourism sector in Nepal, had not occurred since 1995, when over 40 people( including 17 foreigners) were killed in heavy snowfall in Mt. Everest Region.
The death toll in Mt.Manaslu avalanche reached eleven on Monday morning. Seven French climbers, two German climbers and one each from Spain and Nepal lost their lives in the the disaster.
Two choppers belonging to Fishtail and one chopper of Simrik Airlines left for the site of incident after 6 am in the morning but to due to bad weather, the search operation is being obstructed.
According to a police officer Basanta Bahadur Kunwar, rescue crew is yet to pick up those 13 climbers people who were rescued on Sunday but are still waiting at the base camp as thick fog hindered the rescue operation. Meanwhile, the rescue team is also searching three others who are reported missing.
Among the more than 50 persons, who were sleeping at the Third Camp of the 8,156-metre Mt Manaslu at an altitude of 6,600 metres when the incident occurred around 3.00am on Sunday, 18 sustained injuries and are undergoing treatment.
The disaster as such, which is actually a blow to the promotion of a tourism sector in Nepal, had not occurred since 1995, when over 40 people( including 17 foreigners) were killed in heavy snowfall in Mt. Everest Region.
The aircraft of Tara Air met with an accident at Jufal Airport in Dolpa on Friday as it was about to make a flight to Nepalgunj.
There were no casualties, although some parts of the twin otter (9N ABQ) have been reported to be damaged. Seven people were reported to be on board including the aircraft staff.
According to eye witnesses the aircraft skidded 50 meters off the runway, at around 9 27 am today. The aircraft went on to hit the fence damaging the left wing, left engine and wheels. The landing gear of the aircraft has also been broken.
Pilot Sunil Joshi, co-pilot, Basanta Lama, airhostess Alisa Bajracharya, engineer K Sharma and R Shahi along with passengers K Rokaya and S Buda were on board the Tara aircraft.
The aircraft was leased from Nepal Airlines Corporation.
Meanwhile, another aircraft of Tara Air averted accident when wheels of the aircraft, landing at the Pokhara airport, were punctured. However, the pilots kept the aircraft under control.
There were no casualties, although some parts of the twin otter (9N ABQ) have been reported to be damaged. Seven people were reported to be on board including the aircraft staff.
According to eye witnesses the aircraft skidded 50 meters off the runway, at around 9 27 am today. The aircraft went on to hit the fence damaging the left wing, left engine and wheels. The landing gear of the aircraft has also been broken.
Pilot Sunil Joshi, co-pilot, Basanta Lama, airhostess Alisa Bajracharya, engineer K Sharma and R Shahi along with passengers K Rokaya and S Buda were on board the Tara aircraft.
The aircraft was leased from Nepal Airlines Corporation.
Meanwhile, another aircraft of Tara Air averted accident when wheels of the aircraft, landing at the Pokhara airport, were punctured. However, the pilots kept the aircraft under control.
Silwal breathed his last at the Birendra Army Hospital in Chhauni. He was suffering from a tumor in his stomach. According to Chairman of Nepal Sports Journalist Forum (NSJF), Niranjan Rajbanshi, Silwal passed away while undergoing an operation for his tumor.
Silwal had participated in the Olympic Games of 1964 in Tokyo, Japan to become the first Nepali Olympian. Moreover, Silwal had run bare feet at the Asian Games in 1958.
Silwal was in the audience in this year’s Olympics held in London to cheer for the Nepali team. Silwal was also presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by NSJF earlier this year.
Silwal was admitted to the hospital on Monday.
This is the second time in three days that Chief District Officer Kamal Prasad Bhattarai asked Poudel to take action against Shakti Higher Secondary School. Bhattarai resorted to the move after a Grade 11 student lodged a complaint with the DAO recently, demanding a scholarship from the school.
The Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB) had recommended four students, all in Grade 11, for scholarships from the school. However, headteacher at the school, Nirajbabu Bhattarai, has been accused of having compelled students to sign a document reading that they no more need the scholarship. The students should have received Rs 9,000 each as scholarships once enrolled in Grade 11.
“We will take action against the school if it is necessary as per Education Act,” said Poudel.
Meanwhile, a meeting of the school management committee decided not to reimburse the money the students spent for their admission to the school. It has further been revealed that the daughter of Bipin Chandra Dhalak, chairman of the school management committee, has been provided with a scholarship under Dhalak’s influence.
A source said that Barsha, also a student of Grade 11, received a scholarship after the HSEB approved her name. The source claimed that Dhalak, with Nirajbabu’s help, had filled up the scholarship form.
I have a memory of a bad event in Nepal after announcement of democracy 1990.
There was big rally in a district, organised by a political party. A woman was involving to the rally carring a flag of the party . The same evening, her husband had cut her both hands from the wrist. Dr. Bruce (INF) from England, working in Western Regional Hospital Pokhara attempted to cure her hands but it was late and was not successful to replace the hands. In some societies, head of a family have high power than whole society and governmental institutions. For Instance, I listened to a BBC interview of a Pakistani woman, whose nose had been cut by her husband.Due to social and cultural pressure, She has been living with same husband for 32 years, covering her nose. Some daughters are horrendously stoned by parents (killed by throwing stones in a public places in the name of religion) just because they choose their life partner without parents consent. Banning girls and women from participating in social events, traveling and visiting relatives, hitting, breaking hands, cutting body parts and other mental and physical tortures are common in developing societies, where family members are not concious about human rights and women rights. Women rights violations are going on in developed societies as well in different forms and ways as women rights are not respected by some persons and groups.
Countless women are being killed for dowry in South Asian countries. In every society, there is a new story of murder of young girl in every new year. They are compelled to suffer as they are highly dependent. Neither they have chance to get education, to earn money nor they have rights to take legacy from their parents . But husband's family wants more money or properties as a dowry. They have no any options beside suffering the torture and eventually being the victim of horrible crime i. e. being burnt to death. These kind of situation is a big challenge for human rights activists in developing societies. It is crucial for government to take active action, to make women capable. As girls are deprived of education and cannot stand on their own feet, the society believes the only one way to make life easier for girls is marriage.
There is no guarantee that life is comfortable after marriage because if a man wants to marry second wife, he can leave first wife with children. There are numerous women with children on the streets of developing countries ,who were abandoned by men. Men role is important to make a perfect family and society as well. They have privilege of getting education, job and also have the property rights from parents.
My mind went through a life story of my friend,who was living with three children in a hospital apartment because her husband was working at that hospital. One day, he did not come from his work. She waited whole evening. Next day, she inquired the office and the staff revealed that ' her husband had transferred with a female staff of the same hospital to another district hospital,which was very far from that city. She had no education, no any skills because she had been married when she was only 11 years old. After marriage, she had started working like a slave in her husband's family. When he completed his education and found job, she had a chance to live with her husband for seven years. Eventually, she ended up in street with three small children. There are thousands of stories like this.
It is erroneous for a family, society and nation if women are not capable and are not involved in economical, social and political activities. Women cover the fifty percent citizens in a country. The role of woman has been limited by father, brothers, husband and society in the name of religion, culture and tradition. The conventional rules created thousands of years ago are still followed. Culture should be changed. It can be made comfortable enough, mentally and physically healthier to follow for all followers. It would be disastrous for a society if fifty percent citizens live inside home wearing nice colorful dresses and ornaments or covering whole body and not doing anything. Achieving human rights, free and fair and free of fear atmosphere makes individual confident. Only a confident person is able to create idea, apply idea and perform better. Women rights should be the great subject of concern in a family, sociaty and nation to foster their inner capabilities to enable them to participate in all sectors as a work force of a society. Women rights should be managed and protected by rule of law and should be respected in a family.
Publishing a notice, the Hospital Administration closed the Operation Theater from Friday evening for four days after women receiving surgery from the hospital started to fall ill.According to Director at the Hospital, Dr. Sheela Verma, investigation and study are underway on the cause of infection by closing the Operation Theater.
Around 80 women per day receive the maternity service in the Hospital. Of them, around 25 women give birth to children through caesarean operation.Women having poor financial condition who visit the hospital from out of the valley have been hard hit with the closure of the Operation Theater.
Dr. Verma said they have run other services though the Operation Theater was closed and added that preparation is underway to resume the surgery service again.
Women who received surgery had developed different symptoms including fever, dizziness and headache. The Hospital has the capacity of 415 beds.
The victims have been identified as Saraswati Subedi, 27, her daughters Akriti, 5, Asmita, 2, and 20 days old son Govinda Subedi were killed when the landslide buried their house in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.
However, Subedi's husband Om Prakash survived the disaster.
accusing the preime submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai on Tuesday.
Minister Joshi, also the Chairman of CPN-United, submitted his resignation letter to the prime minister, sources said.
Expressing displeasure over lack of initiatives on the part of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, the central secretariat of the CPN-United decided to withdraw from the government.
The agitators staged a sit-in outside the DAO from 9 in the morning by placing a banner across the office entrance. The DAO wore a deserted look as the protestors blocked the staffers including the chief district officer from entering the office.
They chanted slogans against the government outside the DAO premises.
Likewise, most of the government offices in the district have also been shut down for the third day due to the protest called by the airport construction stakeholders’ committee.
The locals, who had put their agitation on hold after Civil Aviation Minister Post Bahadur Bogati assured to resolve the issue within 15 days, resumed their strike after the 15-day timeline ended Saturday.
When Minister Bogati asked for 10 more days, saying the issue would require some more time to settle, locals decided ‘not to listen to the government anymore’ and not to rely on the false promises made by the government.
