Weather : Light to moderate rain

Kathmandu, May 19: Light to moderate rain with thunder and lightning is currently taking place in some places of Koshi and some parts of the hilly areas of Bagmati province.

This is due to the effect of the westerly and local winds, says the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. The weather will remain partial to generally cloudy in the hilly parts of the country, including Koshi, Madhes and Sudurpaschim provinces, and clear in the remaining parts of the country.

This afternoon, there is possibility of light to moderate rain with thunder, winds and lightning at some places in Koshi and Gandaki Provinces and the hilly parts of the rest of the provinces as well as at one or two places in the Terai region of Lumbini and Sudurpaschim Provinces, says the weather bulletin issued by the Department at six in the morning. There is possibility of light snowfall in one or two places in the high hilly and mountainous parts of the country.

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02-       Ghumti-Ranitari road to be closed for 16 days

Tanahun, May 19: The Ghumti-Ranitari road, an alternative route to Damauli-Jamune under the Prithviraj highway will be closed for traffic for the next 16 days. The road will remain closed until June 3 for upgrading of the road.

Mukesh Kumar Yadav, sub-engineer of the infrastructure development office, told RSS that the road from Ranitari to Harshpur has been closed. The road is being upgraded in Ward No. 3 and 7 of Myagde Rural Municipality and in Ranitari of Byas Municipality-5.

Upgrading and expansion is taking place along the 9.452 km road with 62 percent of the work completed so far, said sub-engineer Yadav.

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03-       Sapkota new President of Nawalpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Nawalpur (Nawalparasi), May 19: Deepak Sapkota has been elected as the president of District Chamber of Commerce and Industry Nawalparasi (Bardghat-Susta Purba).

The chamber’s assembly held on Saturday elected a new 29-member working committee under the leadership of Sapkota.

Likewise, Chhabi Kandel has been elected as the senior vice president, Yekdev Rimal as first vice president (commerce), Surendra Tiwari as the second vice president (industry), Tejnarayan Pandey as the general secretary, Madhav Prasad Sapkota as the treasurer, Bishnu Prasad Pangeni as the secretary and Shalikram Sapkota as the senior member.

Similarly, other members of the executive committee include Gopal Prasad Sapkota, Prakash Kumar Shrestha, Shaligram Sapkota, Parmesh Acharya, Kishore Kumar Lamsal, Srijan Paudel, Kabiraj Acharya, Kamal Sharma Gautam, Gokul Sapkota, Binod Kumar Shrestha, Ghanashyam Parajuli, Amit Agarwal, Deepak Prasad Bhattarai, Rakesh Kumar Harlalka, Meena Dahal, Sheshkant Koirala, Prakash Sapkota, Sameer Shrestha, Meghraj Kandel and Krishna Neupane.

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04-       One killed two injured in road accident

Lumbini, May 19: One person has died and two others were injured after being hit by an ambulance in Butwal sub-metropolis-13 along the East-West Highway.

The deceased has been identified as 56-year-old Kamala Nepali of Butwal-11 Devinagar, according to the area police office Butwal. The incident took place this morning when the ambulance (Lu. 1 Ja.531), which was carrying a patient from Argakhanchi to Butwal, hit them near a suspension bridge.

The injured 55-year-old Harikala Nepali and 35-year-old Jhupa Thatrai of Devinagar are undergoing treatment at the Lumbini Regional Hospital.

Ambulance driver Narayan Bahadur Magar of Panini Rural Municipality-7 of Arghakhanchi has been taken into custody for necessary action, police said.

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05-       Nepalis in Kyrgyzstan urged to exercise caution

Kathmandu, May 19: Nepali nationals living in Kyrgyzstan have been urged to exercise caution, and remain indoors until the situation there returns to normal.

The request comes following reports of mob violence targeting foreign students in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.

Meanwhile, the Embassy of Nepal in Islamabad, Pakistan has stated that the around 280 Nepalis living in and around Bishkek are reported to be safe. For any kind of information and support, the Embassy has requested to contract at the Embassy’s phone number +92512610321 (including WhatsApp) and email at eonislamabad@mofa.gov.np.

The Kyrgyz foreign ministry on Saturday assured that the situation was under control. “From the moment information about the incident was received, law enforcement agencies of the Kyrgyz Republic took prompt measures to detain persons involved in the event, both foreign citizens and citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic,” the Kyrgyz foreign ministry said in a statement.

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06-       Thapa elected president of the Democratic Foreign Employment Entrepreneurs Forum

Kathmandu, May 19: Deepak Thapa has been elected as the president of Nepal Forum of Democratic Foreign Employment Entrepreneurs. Thapa was elected in the election held this morning.

Likewise, Binod Kung KC has been elected as the first vice president, Harka Bahadur Limbu as the second vice president, Semantaraj Neupane as the third vice president and Mahesh Kumar Basnet as the general secretary of the Forum. Tulsi Ram Puri and Raj Lama were elected as the secretaries, Hima Gurung as the treasurer and Lil Bahadur Tamang as the joint-treasurer.

Those elected as members of the new executive committee include Devi Prasad Giri, Shalikram Adhikari, Deepak Kumar Rai, Saurabh Acharya, Bidyalaxmi Bajracharya, Abhinabhan Singh Basnet, Rajeshwar Yadav, Sabita Kumari Singh, Roshana Niraula and Mahesh Kumar Shrestha.

 More than 400 foreign employment entrepreneurs in the country are members of the Forum.

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07-       Bagmati government to table its policy and program on May 27: Speaker Pathak

Makwanpur, May 19: Speaker of Bagmati Provincial Assembly Bhuvan Kumar Pathak has said that the parties have agreed to table the policies and programs of the provincial government for the fiscal year 2081-82 in the provincial assembly that will be held in the afternoon on May 27.

Chief of Bagmati Province Yadav Chandra Sharma will read out the government’s policies and programs at the meeting of the provincial assembly.

Speaker Pathak told RSS that the meeting of the Provincial Assembly to be held this afternoon will hold discussions on principles and priorities of the policies and programmes, and the budget of the provincial government for the fiscal year 2081-82.

 The discussion on the principles of the budget will continue tomorrow, said Chief Secretary of the Provincial Assembly Secretariat Krishnahari Khadka.

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