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Monthly Archives: February 2012

Powerful Bomb Blast outside NOC office

February 27, 2012
Powerful Bomb Blast outside NOC office

Monday afternoon, powerful bomb blast at Babarmahal, Kathmandu outside Nepal Oil Corporation’s (NOC) head office, killing three persons and injuring seven persons. Two persons died on the spot while the other victim breathed his last while undergoing treatment at the Bir Hospital. Police identified two of the deceased as Krishna Bahadur Tamang and Bishnu...

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Miss Mongol 2012- Sapana Roka Magar

February 26, 2012
Miss Mongol 2012- Sapana Roka Magar

Sapana Roka Magar from Baglung won the title ‘Dynamic Energy Drink Miss Mongol 2012’ that was held on February 25 at Nepal Academy Hall, Kamaladi.In the fourth edition of Miss Mongol organized by Action Entertainment Pvt Ltd., top 10 were selected based on the judgment made on talent round, voting and introduction round. Then...

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About 145 lawyers arrested from Singhadurbar

February 24, 2012

About 150 lawyers staging a protest against delay in promulgation of the new constitution were arrested from outside the Supreme Court premises in Singha Durbar in Kathmandu on Friday afternoon. The protest rally, organized by the Nepal Bar Association, was planned to take out from NBA building, next to the SC, to Ratnapark but...

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Action taken against Pedestrians for not using Overhead Bridges

February 23, 2012
Action taken against Pedestrians for not using Overhead Bridges

Kathmandu Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (KMTPD), from Thursday, has started to fine pedestrians who do not use overhead bridges to cross the road. Those, who cross the roads without using overhead bridges, though the bridge is nearby, will be fined Rs 50 and will be under detention of the Traffic Police for an hour....

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SC holds Minister Gupta guilty in corruption case and slaps jail term and fine

February 21, 2012
SC holds Minister Gupta guilty in corruption case and slaps jail term and fine

The Supreme Court on Tuesday hold Minister for Information and Communications Jaya Prakash Gupta guilty of amassing property by misusing the power during his various stints as minister and slapped one and half year jail term and Rs. 8.4 million fine.  The court also ordered confiscation of same amount of his property. A joint...

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Fire gut house in Busy Ason

February 21, 2012
Fire gut house in Busy Ason

The fire that occurred due to an electric short-circuits completely destroyed one house and damaged other two at Balkumari, Ason in Kathmandu on Tuesday.  The fire caught the house owned by Tulshi Maiya Joshi at around 7.00 am and according to police, it took about six hours to bring the fire under control by...

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One died as locals scuffle with police in Chitwan on the eve of Shivaratri

February 20, 2012

 18-year-old Rabin Gurung of Simbhanjgyang died in a scuffle between locals and police on Sunday night in Bhaludhunga, Muglin. The scuffle happened when police tried to stop locals from collecting money for the Mahashivaratri by obstructing traffic movement. According to the police, Gurung sustained serious head injury while falling down on the road during...

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Democracy Day: no celebration from Govt; besets opposition

February 19, 2012
Democracy Day: no celebration from Govt; besets opposition

Opposition parties, Nepali Congress and CPN-UML have criticized UCPN (Maoist) led government for breaking tradition of celebrating democracy day on 7 Fagun when the nation was liberated from the 104-year long Rana dictatorship. Today on the occasion of the 62nd Democracy Day, Tundikhel remains cold and bizarre. Though the government has given a public...

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Miss Lumbini is Sweta Rajbhandari

February 19, 2012
Miss Lumbini is Sweta Rajbhandari

The beauty contest held in Butwal movie theater last week was told to be to be the First Miss Lumbini (we suspect otherwise – see the comment at the end). In the event, Miss Sweta Rajbhandari was selected the Miss Lumbini 2012 out of the 16 participating beauties. Apart from the crown, Sweta also...

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Father murders child born from relation with daughter

February 18, 2012

Police detained Amrit Chand, 59, and his daughter Nanda Kala, 21, on charge of killing a newborn child born from their illegal relationship, in Bhurunge of Jajarkot district. Both confessed of killing the newborn child. According to news report in kantipur, Chand, along with his daughter, had murdered the child immediately after birth and...

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Father kills his own three daughters

February 17, 2012

Police arrested Bhakta Bahadur Rumba, 35, of Bakhrekhola, Faparbari-5 of Makwanpur on charge of killing his three daughters on Thursday night. According to police, mentally unstable Rumba killed 12 years Laxmi Maya, 10 years Sunita Maya and 9 years Anita Maya by attacking with stones at 2:40 am at night. The incident took place...

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SC stays Home Minister’s circular on citizenship by descent

February 16, 2012

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a stay order on the government’s decision of providing ‘citizenship by descent’ to those children who were born before their parents acquired Nepali citizenships. A joint bench of justices Bharat Raj Upreti and Bharat Raj Karki issued such order. The advocates duo Bal Krishna Neupane and Prabinata Wosti...

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