OM ASTHA RAI
Even as Malaysia — where one third of Nepali migrants are currently working — assured a Nepali delegation that it would not return any Nepali worker with minor health problems, Nepali employees, who pass medical tests in their home country before flying overseas, continue to receive step-brotherly treatment
According to foreign employment agencies, many Nepali workers, who passed medical tests conducted by authorized health institutions in Nepal, have been forced to return home over the last couple of months.
KATHMANDU, FEB 20 – Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal’s inability to expand the Cabinet has invited angry reactions from lawmakers in the House. They warned the leaders of an impending crisis if the current deadlock continues and urged the political leadership to realise the interconnectedness of the peace process, constitution writing and power sharing.
“The Constituent Assembly, whose term we extended ourselves, is heading towards its death and the general public across the country have started conducting the last rites of CA members,” said UML lawmaker Ram Nath Dhakal. “Instead of venting ire on one another, the parties should start serious engagement on forging national consensus to address the consequence that would result from the failure to deliver the new constitution within the deadline.”
Nepali Congress leader Prakash Man Singh objected to the seven-point agreement signed by the UML and the Maoists and demanded the Khanal-led government work for completing the peace process and constitution writing within the May 28 deadline. “We have doubts about this government taking full shape within the remaining 97 days of the Constituent Assembly,” he said.
AKANSHYA SHAH
NEW DELHI, Feb 16: The Nepali embassy in New Delhi has said that the suspected human trafficker, who escaped from its custody, had “tricked” the embassy officials to flee from the scene.
“Sushila Rai (the suspect) actually tricked us to escape from the embassy,” Runoonu Chapagai, the third-secretary at the embassy who was handling Rai´s case, told Republica Tuesday. She said the suspect left behind her citizenship card and said she will be back after collecting clothes.
Samar Halarnkar
At least 1,370 girls are aborted every day in India. For perspective, some 250 Indians die every day in road accidents. Terrorists killed about six people, on an average, every day in 2009. In the last two decades of economic progress, 10 million girls have died before being born. More are strangled, slowly starved or simply tossed in the trash.
This is mass murder on a scale unseen in any other country this century. Only China runs us close. The overall Indian sex ratio should be at least 950 women to 1,000 men (Nature produces more males than females as boys are more vulnerable to infant diseases than girls). But the child sex ratio, the number of girls to every 1,000 boys in the age group zero to six, has dropped from 1,010 girls in 1941 to 945 in 1991 to 927 in 2001, according to census figures. The 2011 census will reveal a further decline based on mostly disturbing trends.
The Chhattisgarh High Court on Thursday rejected human rights activist Dr Binayak Sen’s plea for bail.
Sen’s lawyers will now move the Supreme Court to secure his bail.
The High Court had on Wednesday reserved its order on the bail plea even as the state government opposed it on grounds of his links with Maoists.
The deadlock was finally resolved when the Maoists, the largest single party, decided to withdraw their own candidate and to support Jhalanath Khanal, the chairman of a smaller allied party.
Nepal has been without a functioning government since June.
Many Nepalese are angry, saying issues including the economy and the peace process have been neglected.
“Jhalanath Khanal secured 368 of the 598 votes cast, giving him a majority,” speaker Subash Chandra Nemwang told parliament.
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