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BY KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
The university students have started off the second round of their protest against the state-run university increasing the tuition fee ten times. The students will urge the leaders of the top three political parties such as UCPN-Maoist, NC and CPN-UML to put pressure on the university administration on rolling back the decision on increasing the tuition fee. The students have also decided to stop the university meeting to be held on December 7 and the university convocation ceremony on December 11 if the decision on increasing the tuition fee is not rolled back.
On November 29, 2009, the Public Account Committee (PAC) of the legislature set up eleven sub-committees to hold investigation into the accounts of the government agencies not audited so far. Accounts of more than a billion rupees have remained not audited so far.
Chairman of CPN-UML Jhalanath Khanal has been the target of criticism in the politburo meeting. Supporters of his rival KP Oli have been targeting him for criticism, and have demanded his resignation stating he is the most incompetent chairman of the party. They could not digest his statement of the need for the Prime Minister resigning if it helps in breaking the current political deadlock.
Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) has found that the number of Chinese visitors to Nepal has increased drastically since August 2009. NTB has attributed such rise in the Chinese visitors to Nepal to its promotional activities targeting to bring one million visitors by 2011 and to the flights of China Eastern Airlines linking Kathmandu with various major cities of China.
