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By KTM Metro Reporter
August 13, 2010: officiating Deputy Prime Minister holding portfolio of foreign Affairs Sujata Koirala has refused to sign on the document awarding a contract for printing machine-readable passports (MRPs) to a French company: the lowest bidder among the four bidders for the job. Obviously, Sujata is not happy with the contract, as she could not materialized the contract she has given to her favorite Indian company because of the public discontent with the awarding of the contract of printing MRPs to the Indian company; in addition, she is not signing off the document as she is not gaining anything from it but the people in general might gain from it. Sujata Koirala and her late father Girija Prasad Koirala have been widely known for making money while in power.
Former Indian ambassador to Nepal KV Rajan has arrived in Nepal on Wednesday, August 11, 2010, and has met with the leaders of the Madhehsi political leaders. Some Nepalese media have reported that they have met in presence of the former king but Upendra Yadav has denied the media report.
Tharuhut political leaders have warned the Nepalese political leaders of taking the issue ‘one Madhesh one province’ to the streets if they agreed on it with the Madheshi political leaders in exchange for their support for the prime ministerial candidate. Tharus have been demanding a Tharu state in the Tarai. They don’t want to be ruled by the Madheshi people. They don’t feel they are Madheshi. Madheshi political leaders have been bargaining with the political leaders for making ‘one Madhesh one province’ for their support for the prime ministerial candidate in the upcoming election to a Prime minister to be held on August 18, 2010.
Marking fifty years of ‘peace corps’, Executive Director of the University of Michigan’s Business Engagement Center and former Peace Corps Volunteer Daryl Weinert writes, “a lesson I learned as a peace corps volunteer in Nepal 24 years ago is ‘technology is the least of the challenges. Culture and education are the real barriers to economic development, for any region or society. The longer I lived in Nepal the more I realized how clueless I was to the underlying forces that held sway in the ultimate success or failure of the programs I was trying to promote (and which seemed so obviously beneficial to me). Unfortunately Michigan struggles with some of the same reluctance to reconsider age-old attitudes as we struggle with crippling unemployment and political gridlock.’”
A commission on studying civil code and civil procedural code led by Supreme Court Justice Khil Raj Regmi has in its report recommended to do away with the current law on inheriting the parental property, and make a new law on leaving the parental property to the discretion of the parent to whom to give.
The Kathmandu-Zoo authorities have arranged a honeymoon suite for the two one-horned rhinos. Both the male and the female rhinos have reached the age of above twenty years. They have not officially or ritually married the rhinos, yet; but they have made cozy place for them to enjoy the honeymoon. Wait and see whether they will bring a new one-horned baby rhino on earth. In Nepal, farmers marry frogs to get rains when the monsoon is late to come.
