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The District Police Office, Baglung has apprehended two persons for their alleged involvement in kidnapping a girl. Among the accused, one is a policeman. The suspects have been identified as Shankar Acharya and Bhagawati Chhetri (36) of Jaimini Municipality-7 in the district. Acharya is a policeman. They tried to abduct a six-year-old daughter of Sapana Thapa of Dhading and currently residing at Ramrekha of Baglung Municipality-1. The two are accused of forcibly picking up the girl from Hallanchowk of Baglung-2 and trying to take her towards Buddha Bihar. The girl's mother said that the duo took her daughter when she was at her office and her spouse was out of their residence to buy vegetables. Police said that they are looking into the case.

Three persons died in two separate road accidents in Kurintar and Ratnanagar of Chitwan district. Two youths died when a motorcycle (Ba 88 Pa 5301) heading towards Kathmandu from Narayanghat collided with a truck (Na 6 Kha 5913) at Kurintar in Ichchhakamana Rural Municipality-4 along the Prithvi Highway. The deceased have been identified as bike rider Saroj Rokaya (25) of Dailekh and Saroj Majhi (31) of Ishwarpur Rural Municipality-1 in Sarlahi district, the District Traffic Police Office said. The duo breathed their last during the course of treatment at the Chitwan Medical College. Likewise, a pedestrian died when a jeep knocked him down near Khageri bridge in Ratnanagar Municipality-9, police said. Khadak Bahadur Ranamagar (70), who was critically injured in the accident, died while receiving treatment at the Chitwan Medical College Hospital this morning. The jeep driver fled the scene after the accident, it has been learnt. Meanwhile, the local residents have staged a demonstration demanding arrest of the jeep driver.  

Hindus across the country are celebrating Shree Krishna Janmashtami, the birthday of Lord Krishna, by organizing various programs on Friday. It is believed that Lord Shri Krishna was born at the midnight of Bhadrakrishna Ashtami day as per the lunar calendar during the Dwapar era. Lord Krishna, born to Basudev and Devaki to kill King Kansa in Mathura, is considered the incarnation of Lord Bishnu, the protector of human beings from evil, injustice and devilish forces. Devotees throng the temples of Lord Krishna including the famous Shree Krishna Temple of Mangal Bazaar in Lalitpur. Devotees, especially women, spend the night chanting prayers and devotional songs, dancing and lighting oil-fed lamps.

The man accused of attacking acclaimed author Salman Rushdie last week in New York state has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault charges, Aljazeera reported. Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old accusedof repeatedly stabbing Rushdie on stage during a US literary event, entered the not guilty plea on Thursday during an arraignment hearing in upstate New York. A grand jury indicted him earlier in the day on one count of second-degree attempted murder, which carries a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison, and one count of second-degree assault. Dressed in a black-and-white jail uniform, Matar stayed quiet during the hearing while his lawyer unsuccessfully tried to persuade the judge that he should be released while he awaited trial. The judge ordered that Matar remain detained without bail. Last Friday’s attack against Rushdie, the 75-year-old author of books such as The Satanic Verses and an outspoken advocate of freedom of expression, at an event in Chautauqua, New York, spurred shock and condemnation around the world. Rushdie was hospitalised, but his agent has said that his condition is improving and he is in good spirits. Rushdie has faced more than 30 years of threats against his life, after The Satanic Verses was published in the late 1980s. Many Muslims around the world regard the book as blasphemous, and in 1989 Iran’s then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a religious edict calling for Rushdie’s death, forcing the author to spend more than a decade in hiding.