Arrest warrant issued against singer Rabi Oad
A complaint of marital rape has been filed against Nepal Idol season 2 winner Rabi Oad.
Police have started an investigation after Oad's wife filed a complaint saying that she had been raped by her husband, Inspector Pushpa Raj Panta of the District Police Office, Kanchanpur informed.
An arrest warrant has been issued against Oad.
Weather to remain partly cloudy this afternoon
The weather across the country is likely to remain partly cloudy due to the influence of westerly wind and local wind.
According to the Meteorological Forecasting Division, it will be generally cloudy throughout the country this afternoon. Weather will be generally clear in other places.
Meteorologist Rojan Lamichhane said light rain with thunderstorms is likely to occur at some places of the hilly regions of Gandaki, Karnali and Sudurpaschim Provinces.
Light snowfall will possibly take place at some places of the high hilly and mountainous regions of Gandaki and Karnali provinces, he shared. It will be partly cloudy across the country tonight.
Light rain followed by thunder and lightning is likely to occur at some places of the hilly regions of Gandaki and Karnali Provinces.
Graft case filed against former minister Shahi, 31 others
The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Thursday filed a graft case against 32 persons, including former Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Jeevan Bahadur Shahi, for their alleged involvement in carrying out irregularities while procuring a wide-body aircraft for the national flag carrier- Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC).
The anti-corruption watchdog also filed a case against then General Manager of NAC Sugat Ratna Kansakar, the government secretary and Chairman of NAC Board of Directors Shankar Prasad Adhikari, then Director General of Customs Department and then NAC Board of Directors Shishir Kumar Dhungana, Civil Aviation Ministry's Joint Secretary Buddhi Sagar Lamichhane and others.
The CIAA has sought Rs 1.471 million in recovery for their alleged involvement in the misappropriation in the procurement of the wide-body aircraft.
Similarly, others implicated in the case are Board of Directors Teknath Acharya, Jiban Prakash Sitaula, Achyut Raj Pahadi, Nima Nuru Sherpa and Muktiram Pandey, according to the CIAA.
The Commission has also sued aircraft suppliers’ company's representatives, citizens from Germany, Romania and Moldova.
AAR International INC’s chief and four others have also been named as the alleged ones claiming Rs 1.471 billion in compensation, CIAA Spokesperson Narahari Ghimire said.
India builds school, hotel buildings in Khotang
The school and hostel buildings of Shree Sharada Secondary School in Rawa Besi Rural Municipality, Khotang, built with Government of India’s financial assistance of Rs 36.10 million under ‘Nepal-India Development Cooperation’ was inaugurated on Thursday.
The buildings were jointly inaugurated by San Bahadur Rai, Chief, District Coordination Committee, Phatik Kumar Shrestha, Chairman, Rawa Besi Rural Municipality, Khotang and Shri Suman Shekhar, First Secretary, Embassy of India, Kathmandu, reads a statement issued by the Embassy of India.
Public representatives, government officials, social workers, representatives of the school management, teachers, parents and students were also present on the occasion.
The Government of India grant under ‘Nepal-India Development Cooperation’ was utilized for the construction of a double storied school building, hostel building and procurement of furniture for both buildings.
This project was implemented through the District Coordination Committee, Khotang.
The project was taken up as a High Impact Community Development Project (HICDP), earlier known as Small Development Projects, under an agreement between the Government of India and the Government of Nepal.
Shree Sharada Secondary School was established in 1952. The school is providing education from Class 1 to 10+2 level. There are over 365 students studying in the school, about 50% of whom are girls. The school has achieved remarkable success in providing quality education.
Since 2003, the government of India has taken up over 550 HICDPs in Nepal in various sectors and has completed 488 projects.
Amongst these, 85 projects are in Koshi Province in various sectors, which includes one project in Khotang. In addition to these, the government of India has gifted 974 ambulances and 234 school buses to various hospitals, health posts and educational institutions in Nepal on the occasion of Independence Day and Republic Day of India. Amongst these, 141 Ambulances and 35 School buses have been gifted in Koshi Province, which includes 4 ambulances and 1 school bus provided in Khotang District, according to the statement.
As close neighbors, India and Nepal share wide-ranging and multi-sectoral cooperation.
The implementation of HICDPs reflects the continued support of the Government of India in bolstering the efforts of the government of Nepal in upliftment of its people, augmenting infrastructure in the field of priority sectors especially in the education sector in Nepal.
