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The National Land Commission has said works are going on to collect and verify details of landless dalits, landless squatters and those residing unsystematically. According to Commission Vice-Chair and Spokesperson Nahendra Khadka, though such works were suspended for a certain time with the enforcement of the Election Code of Conduct, it will resume very soon. The Commission has urged all the local levels including the Kathmandu Metropolis and the government and non-government offices not to intervene in the settlement of Dalits and landless squatters, and not to take or cause any move capable of making them unsafe until the works to distribute land registration certificates to the target groups get over. It has urged local levels which have earlier issued a 35-day public notice in the national daily to collect the details of such people to act in accordance to the consensus reached between the Commission and them. The Commission mentioned that it and local levels, not all, have earlier agreed to manage the landless, Dalits and people residing unsystematically through a due process. The Commission formed in accordance with the Land Act-1964 remains as the government entity to provide land to the landless Dalits and squatters and to systematize haphazard settlement.  

A clash broke out between students and police personnel in Dhangadhi of Kailali on Friday. Police fired dozens of tear gas canisters to disperse the mob after the students staged a demonstration in the prohibited area. The students have been staging demonstrations in every chowk of the area defying the prohibitory order. Chetana Saud, a student at the Padmodaya Higher Secondary School, had died after being hit by a grader at around 10 am on Thursday. Saud (14) had died on the spot. Following her death, the students staged demonstrations for the whole day. Then, the District Administration Office issued a prohibitory area from 7 pm on Thursday until further notice to take the situation under control. Meanwhile, police have arrested some students for staging demonstrations in the prohibitory area.

An Indian national was shot at in Mayadevi Rural Municipality of Kapilvastu. A group of unidentified persons opened fire at Irshad Khana (35) of Aligadhawa, Siddharthanagar, India at a hotel in Chakarchauda of Mayadevi Rural Municipality-4. Khan received bullets on his shoulder and leg, DSP Prem Bahadur Basnet of the District Police Office, Kapilvastu said. He has been taken to the Gorakhpur Medical College of India for treatment. Police said that they are looking into the case.

Four persons died and eight others were injured when a jeep met with an accident at Kanchhipani in Dhaubadi of Hupsekot Rural Municipality-5, Nawalparasi on Thursday. The deceased have been identified as Hom Bahadur Rababhat (60) of Bulingtar Rural Municipality-6, Mansabha Baral (67) of Bulingtar Rural Municipality-5 and Kesari Darai (27) and Yam Bahadur Thada of Baudikali Rural Municipality-2, SP Bhuwaneshor Tiwari said. The incident occurred when the jeep (Gandaki Province 04-001 Ja-0006) heading to Dedgaun from Daldale in the district fell some 300 meters down the road. The injured are receiving treatment in various hospitals of Chitwan.