Government to form high-level probe commission to investigate Balkumari incident
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that the government is ready to form a high-level probe commission to investigate the Balkumari incident.
Prime Minister Dahal directed Home Minister Naarayan Kaji Shrestha to come up with a proposal to form a high-level probe commission under the headship of a former judge.
According to the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, Prime Minister Dahal instructed Home Minister Shrestha to bring the proposal in accordance with Section 3 (2) of the Commissions of Inquiry Act-1969.
A Cabinet meeting to be held on Monday will take a decision to form the commission after the Home Minister takes the proposal.
The Prime Minister’s Office said that the commission will start working from tomorrow itself.
Earlier this morning, the Nepali Congress had demanded the formation of a high-level probe commission to investigate the Balkumari incident.
Making public the decisions of the Central Committee meeting held for three days at the party office in Sanepa, party Publicity Department Chief Min Bishwokarma said that the party has demanded the formation of a high-level judicial probe committee.
Sujan Raut of Dailekh and Birendra Shah of Achham had died when the Korean Language test candidates clashed with police personnel at Balkumari in Lalitpur.
Raut and Shah, who was critically injured in the police firing, breathed their last during the course of treatment at the Kist and Patan Hospitals.
Police opened fire on protesters, who were not allowed to take part in the Korean language test for employment in South Korea, after they torched the vehicle of Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Prakash Jwala.
NC demands formation of high-level judicial probe committee to investigate Balkumari incident
The Nepali Congress has demanded the formation of a high-level judicial probe committee to investigate the Balkumari incident.
Making public the decisions of the Central Committee meeting held for three days at the party office in Sanepa, party Publicity Department Chief Min Bishwokarma said that the party has demanded the formation of a high-level judicial probe committee.
The Home Ministry has formed a three-member probe committee under the headship of DIG Lalmani Acharya of the Valley Police Office to investigate the Balkumari incident.
Deputy Chief District Officer of Lalitpur Amardeep Sunuwar and Deputy Investigation Director at the National Investigation Department Basu Sigdel are other members of the committee.
The Congress demanded formation of a high-level judicial probe committee, expressing dissatisfaction over the committee formed by the government.
The NC has decided that the guilty should be punished by forming the judicial probe committee.
Bishwokarna stressed on the need to create job opportunities in the country.
Police opened the fire at the direction of the Lalitpur Chief District Officer Rudra Prasad Pandit.
Sujan Raut of Dailekh and Birendra Shah of Achham, who were critically injured in the clash with police, breathed their last during the court of treatment at the Kist and Patan Hospitals.
Police opened fire on protesters, who were not allowed to take part in the Korean language test for employment in South Korea, after they torched the vehicle of Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Prakash Jwala.
Festivals help maintain national unity, says Gandaki chief
Gandaki Province head Prithvi Man Gurung has said that religion and culture play an important role in maintaining national unity.
In a message of best wishes on the occasion of 'Tamu Lhosar', a festival observed by the Tamu (Gurung) community today, he said that such festivals help increase goodwill in Nepali society while inspiring everyone to protect their religion, culture, customs and traditions. It also helps strengthen national unity.
Stating that the Gurung community is celebrating the Tamu Lhosar festival today bidding goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year with joy and fervor, Province Chief Gurung has expressed his belief that the festival would provide inspiration to all to build a civilized, cultured and progressive country by enhancing the sense of mutual trust and solidarity.
The festival is being celebrated with enthusiasm mostly in Gurung majority districts like Lamjung, Gorkha, Tanahun, Syangja, Kaski and Parbat.
India’s External Affairs Minister Jaishankar arriving on Jan 4 to participate in Nepal-India joint commission
India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is arriving in Nepal on January 4 to take part in the meeting of the Nepal-India joint commission.
The Foreign Ministry said that a team of Jaishankar will arrive in Kathmandu by a special plane of the Indian Air Force.
Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra and Anurag Srivastava, head of the Northern Division at the Ministry of External Affairs among others are in the team.
A meeting of the Nepal-India joint commission will be held on January 4.
Matters of mutual cooperation and bilateral relations will be discussed in the meeting, it has been said.
The Foreign Ministry said that an agreement will also be signed on the small development project of the Indian Embassy in the meeting.
Under this project, the Indian Embassy can directly invest up to Rs 200 million in Nepal.
A Cabinet meeting held recently had decided to allow the Indian Embassy to invest up to Rs 200 million in Nepal.
The power trade agreement will also be signed in the meeting.
During Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s India visit, India had signed an agreement to purchase 10, 000 megawatt of electricity in 10 years.
While staying in Nepal, the Jaishankar’a team will call on President Ram Chandra Paudel and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal.
The Indian leaders are also scheduled to meet Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli among others.
They will return to India on January 5.
