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News in Brief
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
The State-run Radio Nepal has been running ads: any woman delivering her child at a health post would receive Rs 500 in the Terai, Rs 1,000 in the hills, and Rs 1,500 in the mountains in Nepal.
On January 11, 2009, the Health Minister said that the Government of Nepal was going to provide the people with fifteen different prescription drugs free at the state-run hospitals from January 14, 2009 and onwards, and has been making an arrangement for the private hospitals also would provide those fifteen prescription drugs free to the health service seekers.
On January 11, 2009, a woman reporter Uma Singh fighting for the women’s rights and writing against the dowry system that has made women vulnerable died from the heavy wounds inflicted by her killers in Terai.
On January 11, 2009, the Government of Nepal declared Maghe Sankranti a public holiday for celebrating the most important festival of the Magar ethnic community. However, almost all Nepalis celebrate Maghe Sankranti following their age-old tradition. Tharu ethnic community celebrates it as a New Year day. This year’s Maghe Sankranti is on January 14.
On January 12, 2009, the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist and the Communist Party of Nepal-Unity-center Masal have agreed to form a new communist party called Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist. Founding father of the Communist Party of Nepal Nara Bahadur Karmachary expressed his happiness in making his dream of setting up a largest communist party come true.
On January 12, 2009, political parties have agreed to share in the positions of the chairpersons of 14 Constituent Assembly Committees and 10 Legislature-House committees. Following the agreement, the CPN-Maoist takes seven positions, the Nepali Congress and CP-UML takes five each, Madheshi People’s Rights Forum three, Terai Madhesh Democratic Party, CPN (Marxist Leninist) and Rastriya Prajatantra Party one each. Former General Secretary of CPN-UML Madhav Kumar Nepal was supposed to get the chair of the Constitutional Committee uncontested; however, the recent news has it that he would need to contest for the position.
