MOBILE PHONES START TO RING AGAIN

The government resumed the mobile phone services that were snapped since Saturday afternoon in Kathmandu from Tuesday morning.
The government had disconnected both post-paid and pre-paid mobile services of Nepal Telecom (NT) and Spice Nepal Private Limited from Saturday afternoon to thwart the pro-democracy movement of the country.
The mobile phones went down as tens of thousands of people took to the Kathmandu streets on Saturday defying curfew orders and denouncing Friday's royal proclamation.
Telecom employees had also been carrying out protests demanding immediate resumption of services.
This is the fourth time the government had snapped the mobile phone services after the February 1, 2005, royal takeover. NT officials said that net loss of Nepal’s giant telecommunication service provider has grown to Rs. 2.5 billion due to frequent disruption of services.
The NT has distributed around 500,000 mobile phone lines across the country-- nearly half of the mobile lines have been distributed to in the Kathmandu Valley.

KING GYANENDRA RESTORE THE DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT

In a major political breakthrough, His Majesty King Gyanendra restored the dissolved House of Representatives through a royal proclamation on Tuesday.

In his televised address to the nation later this evening, the King stated that the lower house of parliament dissolved in May 2002 has been reinstated as per the spirit of the ongoing people's movement and the roadmap of the opposition seven-party alliance (SPA).
The King also called the session of the parliament on Friday (April 28) at 13:00 p.m. at the parliament building in Singh Durbar.
He expressed hope that the SPA would become able to establish permanent peace and national unity and uphold total democracy in the country and extended his condolence to those who lost their lives during the ongoing people's movement, wishing speedy recovery of those injured.
Sovereign and executive power rest on the Nepali people as per the constitution of the Kingdom, the King said.
Reinstatement of the parliament has been on of the main demand of the SPA that has been carrying out nationwide general strike since last 19 days.

PARTIES GEAR UP FOR TUESDAY'S MASS DEMONSTRATIONS,PROFESSIONAL PLEDGE ACTIVE PARTICIPATION

The seven-party alliance (SPA) has completed preparations for the mass demonstrations in Ring Road, Kathmandu, on Tuesday, as various professional groups and trade unions pledged active participation in the protests.
Separate meetings of the seven parties on Monday decided to mobilise their central leaders to lead the rallies at different places. A meeting of the Standing Committee (SC) of the CPN (UML) decided to send all SC members to lead the peaceful rallies while the Central Working Committee meetings of Nepali Congress (NC) and NC (Democratic) also decided to deploy senior central committee members to coordinate the rallies. Four other parties also made similar decisions.
The parties also urged their cadres to mobilise the masses in a peaceful way and keep and eye on the ‘government-sanctioned vigilantes’ who could provoke violence during the demonstrations. Issuing separate statements after the meetings, the parties also appealed to the general people and professional organisations to actively participate in the demonstrations against the royal proclamation of Friday.
As per the decision of the meeting of the Central People’s Movement Coordination Committee held on Sunday NC president Girija Prasad Koirala will address a mass gathering at Narayangopal Chowk, UML general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal a mass meeting in Kalanki, NC (D) president Sher Bahadur Deuba at Gongabu and Amik Sherchan at Satdobato. Similarly, Nepal Workers and Peasants Party chairman Narayan Bijukchhe, Nepal Sadbhawana Party (Anandi Devi) vice-chairman Bharat Bimal Yadav and United Left Front’s Bishnu Bahadur Manahandhar will address the mass meetings at Koteshwor, Sitapaila and Chabahil respectively.
The demonstrations will be carried out from interior parts of the city and along the stretch of Ring Road from 12:00 p.m., which will converge into mass meetings.
In a show of strength, the SPA has vowed to bring as many as 2 million people in the streets of Kathmandu. Mass demonstrations will be organised in all cities and towns around the country on Tuesday, according to the parties.
Meanwhile, a meeting of the eight student organisations appealed to all students in the Kathmandu Valley and outside to leave their studies for one day and actively join in the pro-democracy demonstrations on Tuesday.
Expressing full support to the ongoing movement of the parties, various professional organisations and trade unions have pledged active involvement in Tuesday’s mass demonstrations.
The Professionals Alliance for Peace and Democracy (PAPAD) asked all organisations associated with it to join in the peaceful demonstration. A statement issued by PAPAD today said doctors, engineers, lawyers, teachers and other professionals would join in the rallies.
Similarly, Nepal Government Employees Union, National Private and Boarding Schools Organisation Nepal (N-PABSON), Nepal Trade Union, Nepal Trade Union Congress and G-Font have also asked their members to participate in the rallies.
In the same manner, Nepal Doctors Association and the Nursing Association in separate statements said volunteers would be stationed at various places to provide treatment to injured persons as there is a possibility of use of force by the security forces during the demonstrations.

DEMOSTRATION CONTINUE,OVER 16 PEOPLE KILLED DURING THE DEMONSTRATION,TU POSTPONE ITS EXAM

Pro-democracy activists have continued to defy the curfew orders imposed by the local administrations and continued demonstrations demanding restoration of complete democracy in the country, on Monday, the 19th day of the indefinite general strike called by the seven party alliance (SPA).
According to latest reports, pro-democracy activists carried out protest rallies in Chabahil, Gongabu, Patan, Bhaktapur, Narayangopal Chowk, Kalanki and other places calling for people to join the protest programme of SPA on Tuesday.
According to Nepal FM, a private FM station, over 15 people were injured when police baton charged and used tear gas shells to disperse the protestors near Narayan Gopal Chowk.
Demonstrations were going on in Chabahil, Gongabu, Kalanki, Mangalbazar of Patan, Tahachal and Bhaktapur areas at 2:30 p.m.
The SPA that is planning to hold a major showdown in the capital on Tuesday is organizing various programmes for the publicity of the Tuesday’s protest programme.
Sunday’s meeting of the Central People’s Movement Coordination Committee announced to stage a Ring Road-centered peaceful demonstrations in Kathmandu and protest rallies in all cities and towns around the country on Tuesday.
Top leaders of the SPA will address the rallies.
Likewise, FM reports said rallies and protests continued in major towns in various districts across the country on Monday as well.
A report from Pokhara said various professionals including teachers, students, legal practitioners, health workers, human rights activists and political parties organised separate rallies from different parts of the city.
In Biratnagar, students and party activists organised rallies. No vehicles plied on the roads.
In Nepalgunj, political workers, teachers, government employees, women, hotel workers and legal practitioners took part in the rally.
Likewise, demonstrations were held in Butwal, Bhairahawa and Rupandehi districts.
There have been no reports of violence till 2:30 p.m.
The SPA has decided to continue their protest programme even after King Gyanendra, in the royal proclamation on Friday, said he had returned the executive power to the people as per the Article 35 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal and asked the agitating seven-party alliance to recommend a name for the Prime Minister.
According to reports, 14 protestors were killed and 5,000 injured till Sunday in course of the ongoing pro-democracy movement of the country.
Meanwhile, following the political unrest in the country, the Tribhuvan University (TU) postponed all exams of Bachelor level 2nd year until further notice.
In a notice issued by the exam control office of the TU, the TU postponed the examination of all faculties – Humanities, Education, Science, Law and Commerce slated from May 4.
TU has already postponed the 3rd year exams of the same level.

ONE SOLDIER AND FIVE MAOISTS KILLED IN CHAUTARA ATTACK

At least five Maoists and one solider were killed during a clash between Maoists and security forces at Chautara of Sindupalchowk district on Sunday.
According to security sources, Maoists launched simultaneous attacks on the Royal Nepalese Army’s Naya Srinath Battalion, security forces deployed nearby to guard the repeater tower of Nepal Telecom in Chautara, District Administration Office and district jail on Sunday night.
Officials at the Directorate of Public Relations (DPR) of Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) said that the clash that started at around 9 p.m. on Sunday evening continued till 4.15 a.m. Monday morning.
Security forces Monday morning recovered five bodies of Maoists while a soldier was killed in the attack, the official added.
He informed that Maoists bombed some government offices during the incident. However details were not immediately available.
A telecommunication tower was destroyed in the attack.
Roads leading to the district headquarters were blocked and Maoist militia were seen in large numbers at different places, reports quoted locals as saying.
Details are still awaited.

LEADERS ARE INVITED FOR DISCUSSION BY KING

His Majesty King Gyanendra granted audience to former Prime Ministers Krishna Prasad Bhattarai and Surya Bahadur Thapa at the Naryanhity Royal Palace as seven opposition political parties continued their agitation for ‘total democracy’ on12th straight day on Monday.
Talking to reporters after the royal audience, Bhattarai said, “The process of dialogue has started. Democracy will certainly return in the country.”

The veteran Congress leader who is out of active politics for sometime said he was against the idea of election to the constituent assembly as well as the roadmap of the seven opposition political parties for ‘total democracy’. He said his interaction with the King was focussed on how the constitution of the 1990 could be activated.
Asked if the King was ready to cede power, Bhattarai remarked in his token light-hearted manner, “No one in power would want to give up power.”
He also made clear that he was a royalist. “I am a royalist. I am here to listen to what the King has to say,” he said before entering the palace.

Meanwhile, talking to journalists after the royal audience former Prime Minister and chairman of the Rastriya Janashakti Party (RJP), Surya Bahadur Thapa, said, he informed His Majesty about the current scenario of the country.
Asked whether he will be the next Prime Minister, Thapa said, the present need of the country is to address current problems not the issue of post.
Thapa also served the post of Prime Minister for a term after the King sacked elected Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on October 2002. However, RJP is stressing the need of consensus among all constitutional forces (the King and political parties) to resolve current political stalemate of the country.
The King appointed three Prime Ministers since October 2001 to February 1, 2005 before forming the cabinet under his chairmanship.
The King had given separate audiences to cabinet vice chairmen and the ambassadors of India, United States and China on Sunday. Reports said the current political crisis in Nepal and its possible outlet was discussed in the meetings.
Indian Ambassador to Nepal Shiv Shankar Mukharjee, who received royal audience on Sunday, called on Nepali Congress (NC) President Girija Prasad Koirala on Monday morning.
According to, NC sources, the duo discussed about the royal audience and current political situation of the country.
King Gyanendra has called upon all political parties to join in a dialogue to bear the responsibility of activating the multiparty democratic polity and contribute towards the same in his message on the occasion of Nepali New year on Friday.
International communities have been pressurizing the King to initiate dialogue with the seven political parties to resolve the present problems of the country. But it is not clear whether the monarch will call the seven agitating political parties for talks or not.

KARAN SINGH TO VISIT KATH AS SPECIAL INDIAN ENVOY

As the nationwide general strike and opposition protests are to complete the second week, Nepal’s southern neighbour India is sending Karan Singh as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's special envoy to convey New Delhi's message to the monarch, reports said.
Officials news agency of India, PTI, reported that former Union Minister and member of parliament Singh will visit Kathmandu on Wednesday and is expected to meet King Gyanendra.
He is also expected to meet opposition leaders in Nepal.
Singh, who is said to have excellent relations with the Nepalese royal palace, is also the president of Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR).
The decision comes two days after Indian ambassador to Nepal, Shiv Shanker Mukherjee, met the King and conveyed India's message underlining the immediate need for dialogue with political parties and restoration of multi-party democracy, the news report said.
Nepal has been witnessing increasing pro-democracy movement over the last fortnight.
India and rest of the international community has also been building pressure on the monarch to relinquish power that he seized by removing an elected government 14 months ago, the report added.
Expressing "concern" over the situation in Nepal, Mukherjee urged Nepalese monarch on Sunday to initiate dialogue with political parties aimed at reconciliation and evolving national consensus, according to reports.
Indian premier Singh also held a high-level meeting on Sunday night to review the latest developments in the neighbouring country.

CIVILS SERVANT ARE ALSO ON STRIKES ,NATIONWIDE STRIKE RUN ON ITS 11TH DAY

Over 25 employees of Home Ministry and four journalists were arrested on Tuesday from protest programme of the employees.
Police arrested 25 employees including four section officers and personal secretary of Home Minister while they are organizing sit-in protest programme at the Ministry at the premises of Singha Durbar.
Talking to Nepalnews, Bhola Pokhrel, general secretary of Civil Servants Organization of Nepal said that they will announce new protest programmes if the government did not release them immediately. He warned to bring all office work to a complete halt if the government failed to release them immediately.
He informed that the employees of various ministries organized demonstrations at the ministry premises to express solidarity to the ongoing pro-democracy movement of the country.
He condemned the incident saying it is against the labour laws and trade union laws. This is the first time civil servants were arrested while expressing solidarity to the pro-democracy movement of the country.
Police also arrested three journalists and one driver who reached there to cover the strike of employees.
Balram Baniya, reporter of Kantipur daily, Bimal Gautam, reporter of Kantipur Television, Raju Timilsina, cameraman and Shiva Ram Thapa, driver of Kantipur Television were arrested from the Central Secretariat complex (Singha Durbar) while they reporting news on the protest organized by civil servants against the government.
They were taken into control when they tried to enter the Home Ministry to cover news, and were taken to Hanumandhoka District Police Office.
Meanwhile, the pro-democracy demonstrations continued in the valley and other parts of the country on Tuesday as well.
Sangita Chhetri was injured when police fired rubber bullets at protestors in Buddanagar area of the capital. She is undergoing treatment at Everest Nursing Home. She was hit by rubber bullets when police fired to disperse demonstrators after they set ablaze a tempo in New Baneshwore for defying the general strike.
According to reports, she was returning home after completing the tuition classes.
Police also arrested 11 employees of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), the central Bank of the country, while they were organizing peaceful protest programme at the Bank. The employees Union of the Bank has warned of further strike if they were not released immediately.
The employees are planning to surround the governor's office, accusing the Bank administration of calling the police to arrest them. Those arrested have been detained at District Police Office Hanumandhoka.
Demonstrations were held in various parts of capital including Thamel, Gongabu, Soyambhu, Naya bazaar, Jorpati among others. Police arrested more than a dozen demonstrators from various protest rallies.
Reports from out of the valley said demonstrations have been continuing in various parts of the country including Pokhara, Chitwan, Nawalparasi, Butwal, Bara, Birjung, Sindhuli, Nepalgunj. One protestor received rubber bullet injuries in Gaighat of Udaypur district.
Employees of various organizations and government offices continued protests on Tuesday as well.
Meanwhile, protestors vandalized 14 vehicles in Bara.
One demonstrator was killed and over 100 injured during clashes between security forces and demonstrators on Monday.

WE ARE SHOCKED TO HEAR ABOUT BENOD

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we express our heartfelt condolence to the bereived family and pray god that we will get the place of heaven.........................

NEPAL NEEDS REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE TO RESTORE PEACE

Police have taken into custody more than 100 leaders of seven agitating political parties from Kathmandu, while defying the prohibitory orders imposed by the government.
Police arrested more than 20 protestors including CPN-UML leader Pradip Gyawali and Prabhu Narayan Chaudhari of United Leftist Front. Likewise 15 protestors were arrested while they were moving to Thamel from Gongabu; over 12 including Tek Bahadur Chokhayal of NC arrested from Maitidevi and over two dozen protestors including Tirthaman Dangol and Ghanashyam Poudel were arrested from Mahabouddha.
They were scheduled to organize a condolence meet at Tundikhel—a prohibited zone to pay tributes to martyrs of the on-going movement.
Three demonstrators have been killed in the protest programme launched by the SPA from April 6.
Local authorities in Kathmandu and Lalitpur districts issued prohibitory orders, barring public assemblies and rallies within the Ring Road area from April 4 ahead of planned four-day general strike of SPA beginning April 6.
Police also entered the Bhaktapur campus hostel and arrested five people, reports said.
Pro-democracy activists continued their agitation against the government demanding restoration of full democracy in Kathmandu and other parts of the country on Wednesday as well.
According to latest reports, protestors carried out rallies in different parts of the capital including Gongabu, Sitapaila, Chabhil, Patan and Kirtipur areas.
Police arrested more then 20 professors including chairman of Nepal University Teachers Association (NUTA) from a protest programme organized by NUTA in Tri-Chandra Campus.
Likewise, police also intervened a rally organized by writers at Old Baneshwore and took into custody over 25 writers.
Protestors also clashed with police in Thamel and Bhedasingh area as well.
Local authorities lifted the day-time curfew imposed in Kathmandu and Lalitpur from Wednesday.
Protestors carried out demonstrations in various districts of the country including Narayangadh, Chitwan, Tanahu, Dang, Biratnagar, Pokhara, Chitwan, Butwal among others.
Meanwhile, police arrested a group of rights activists, collecting money for the fund established for the treatment of injured people in the ongoing protest from Baghbazar area of the capital.
According to newspaper reports, over 300 protestors were injured across the country on Tuesday, while defying curfew orders imposed by local authorities.

POLICE SET FIRE ON LAWYERS' RALLY TODAY

In what is seen as yet another evidence of ‘zero tolerance’ policy of the royal regime towards anti-government protests, police on Thursday opened fire at a peaceful rally being carried out by the Nepal Bar Association (NBA) in the capital, Kathmandu, Thursday morning without provocation.

Lawyers Ramchandra Simkhada, Bharat Mani Gautam, Tanka Chaulagain have received bullet injuries while over a dozen lawyers, including NBA president Shambhu Thapa, were injured in police baton charging.
Police have manhandled and arrested over 50 lawyers from the rally.
According to a Nepalnews correspondent who was on the scene, police first tried to stop the rally of nearly 400 lawyers-- who were donning black coats-- as it was coming out of the central office of the Nepal Bar Association at 9:20 a. m.. Seven police vans were parked outside the NBA to stop the demonstration. The lawyers, anyhow, managed to break through the police cordon and proceeded towards Babarmahal past Maitighar Mandala.
Police pursued the rally—that was heading towards New Baeswore, which doesn’t fall in the ‘prohibited zone—and opened fire all of a sudden from the backside of the rally. Police personnel then threw tear gas shells targeting NBA president Thapa, advocate Indra Lohani and other lawyers.
“All the journalists and lawyers are Maoists,” a police officer was heard as saying as enraged policemen were raining batons on the peaceful demonstrators. There was no warning and nobody knew why the police was using force.
NBA and rights groups have condemned the police action on a peaceful demonstration with strongest possible words.
NBA—that represents over 5,000 practicing lawyers -- was the first professional body in the country that termed the seizure of power by King Gyanendra as ‘unconstitutional’ and demanded resignation of the royal government.
NBA has been in the forefront of a civic movement calling for respect to human rights and rule of law in the country.
Inujured lawyers including Thapa are undergoing treatment at the Kathmandu Model hospital while other detained lawyers are being kept at the Covered Hall, Dasarath Stadium, Tripureswore.

THREE SHOT OUT BY POLICE DURING LOWYERS' AND UMAN RIGHTS PORSONNELS' PEACEFULL RALLY IN KATHMANDU

In what is seen as yet another evidence of ‘zero tolerance’ policy of the royal regime towards anti-government protests, police on Thursday opened fire at a peaceful rally being carried out by the Nepal Bar Association (NBA) in the capital, Kathmandu, Thursday morning without provocation.

Lawyers Ramchandra Simkhada, Bharat Mani Gautam, Tanka Chaulagain have received bullet injuries while over a dozen lawyers, including NBA president Shambhu Thapa, were injured in police baton charging.
Police have manhandled and arrested over 50 lawyers from the rally.
According to a Nepalnews correspondent who was on the scene, police first tried to stop the rally of nearly 400 lawyers-- who were donning black coats-- as it was coming out of the central office of the Nepal Bar Association at 9:20 a. m.. Seven police vans were parked outside the NBA to stop the demonstration. The lawyers, anyhow, managed to break through the police cordon and proceeded towards Babarmahal past Maitighar Mandala.
Police pursued the rally—that was heading towards New Baeswore, which doesn’t fall in the ‘prohibited zone—and opened fire all of a sudden from the backside of the rally. Police personnel then threw tear gas shells targeting NBA president Thapa, advocate Indra Lohani and other lawyers.
“All the journalists and lawyers are Maoists,” a police officer was heard as saying as enraged policemen were raining batons on the peaceful demonstrators. There was no warning and nobody knew why the police was using force.
NBA and rights groups have condemned the police action on a peaceful demonstration with strongest possible words.
NBA—that represents over 5,000 practicing lawyers -- was the first professional body in the country that termed the seizure of power by King Gyanendra as ‘unconstitutional’ and demanded resignation of the royal government.
NBA has been in the forefront of a civic movement calling for respect to human rights and rule of law in the country.
Inujured lawyers including Thapa are undergoing treatment at the Kathmandu Model hospital while other detained lawyers are being kept at the Covered Hall, Dasarath Stadium, Tripureswore.

The Belgian sisters, Nicole and Ingrid, also called as 'crazy twins,' arrived Kathmandu last week over land from India as part of their ambitious programme to visit 55 countries around the world over the span of five years.
Nepal is the 19th country in Asia they are visiting.
Nicole and Ingrid plan to complete their nearly 100,000 km journey in the Kayak, bicycle, roller blades and horses. They said they are planning to try balloon and sledge as well.
The state-run The Rising Nepal daily quoted the Belgian sisters as saying that newspapers in Belgium mostly report negatively on Nepal's latest situation. “We are surprised to see the hospitality of Nepalis that we received during our travel to Kathmandu from Kakarvitta in the eastern border,”
”The main purpose of our trip is to promote cycling and trekking,” Nicole and Ingrid said during a programme organised by the Nepal Tourism Board in their honour in Lalitpur on Friday.
They will travel on foot and on mountain bike in Nepal on their way to Lhasa of People’s Republic of China .
During their two months stay in Nepal, the duo also have plans to visit the Everest base camp.
Their 'Journey through the world' had begun on 17 April 2004.

12 INJUIRED IN BOMB EXPLOSION AT SLC EXAM CENTRE IN DAILEKH

Eleven examinees and an invigilator were injured in a bomb explosion that occurred while the students were taking SLC Social Education examination at an exam centre in Narayan Municipality-9, Dailekh district, Friday morning.
The exam has been put off to April 7 after the blast.
Office of Controller of Examination has okayed the decision to put off the exam. District Examination Committee said the remaining exams will now be conducted in Sunrise Boarding School.
As many as 204 examinees were appearing for test in Saraswoti Secondary School at Jhupresal Tartang in Dailekh Bazaar when the blast rocked the centre at 8:30 am.
The school building suffered some damage due to the explosion.
The bomb was planted outside Room No 8 of the school.
Many students fainted out of fear after the blast, reports quoted Regional Administrator of mid western region, Mrigendra Prasad Yadav as saying.
According to the police, condition of examinees Hima Gautam, Chandra Kumari Panta, Shanti Kumari Panta, Uma GC, Urmila Sharukh and invigilator Gopal GC was critical and they have been admitted to Dailekh District Hospital for treatment.
The security forces misbehaved with the journalists who reached the blast site and warned them not to report the news.
Students chanted slogans against Maoists after the incident.
Meanwhile various rights organizations have condemned the incident and urged all conflicting parties “to respect examination sites as safe and peaceful areas where there are no disturbances.”
There is no word from the rebels about the incident.
Maoists exploded the bomb violating their commitment not to target exam centres. Earlier issuing a press statement, the student wing of the Maoists, All Nepal National Independent Students' Union-Revolutionary (ANNISU-R) appealed to all to make the environment conducive for the smooth running of the SLC examinations.
The ANNISU-R has also asked human rights activists, civil society, journalists and stake holders to directly monitor the exams.