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News In Brief
BY KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On Sunday, February 01, 2009, the leaders of the UCPN-Maoist and CPN-UML met at the official residence of the Prime Minister in Kathmandu and agreed on not criticizing each other in public, and promulgating ordinances only after due discussions among the leaders of the political parties including the Nepali Congress and then reaching consensus on them.
On Sunday, February 01, 2009, the Parliamentary Accounts Committee set up a nine-member Parliamentary sub-committee on probing the suspected irregularities in the Mid-Marshyangdi Hydro-power Project. The sub-committee has a month to investigate the alleged irregularities and then report on the findings. Legislature-House member Prakash Chandra Lohani leads the committee.
A police investigation report on gang mafia in Nepal said that the political parties including the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML have been protecting the gang mafia in Nepal. The police make the arrest of the members of such mafia but the political leaders put pressure on the police to release them.
Some cadres of the CPN-UML charged their leaders of being communists in name only and owning a number of houses in Kathmandu and luxurious cars and leading very luxurious lives.
Nepalnews.com ta Feb 03 09 quoting the newspaper ‘Annapurna Post’ reported that the Nepalese ambassador to Myanmar had been collecting donations from the Nepalis for the General Convention of the CPN-UML to be held in Butwal soon. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent a notice to the ambassador asking for the clarification on the complaints about the collection of donations from the Nepalese Diaspora in Myanmar based on the newspaper report and the complaints sent by the Nepalis in Myanmar.
The Radio Nepal in its morning news on February 4, 2009 reported that the police arrested the chairman of the ‘Reporters’ Club’ Rishi Dhamala in Kathmandu yesterday for the suspected involvement in the bombs went off at the International Convention Hall some time ago.
On February 3, 2009, the Government of Nepal and Finland signed on an agreement on the investment in both Nepal and Finland on the occasion of the visit of the Finnish minister to Nepal. According to the agreement both the governments would ensure the security of investments and would not expropriate such investments in both the countries.
On February 3, 2009, the Secretary to the Home Ministry told the members of the Committee on Monitoring the return of the land grabbed by the Maoists during the conflict that the Maoists have returned the land belonging to former Surya Bahadur Thapa in Dhankuta and Former Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand in the Western Nepal, and to the Central Committee member of the CPN-UML Amrit Kumar Bohara.
On February 3, 2009, the major seven political parties agreed on setting up local governments with their share in them based on the votes they received in the elections for the Constituent Assembly held based on the proportional representation system.
