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Bomb Blasts in Kathmandu KATHMANDU: A bomb explosion shook a busy residential area here on Friday, August 30, but there were no reports of injuries, the police said. Another blast occurred at a popular shopping centre in Kathmandu early on Wednesday damaging window panes of the building but no one was injured. Nepal is battling a six-year-old Maoist revolt against its constitutional monarchy, and the ultra left guerillas have let off a series of bombs in the Capital in recent weeks. Bodies
of 13 Germans killed in Air Crash Flown Home (Go
To Top) KATHMANDU : The bodies of 13 German tourists killed in a plane crash in the Himalayas have been flown to Frankfurt. The 13 Germans, along with an American, a Briton and three Nepali crew, died when their Twin Otter aircraft owned by private airliner Shangrilla Air crashed near Pokhara airport, 225 km west of Kathmandu, during a flight from Jomsom on August 22. Pokhara is a tourist resort. The crash was the fourth involving commercial airlines in the Himalayan kingdom in the last three years. Investigators have recovered the wreckage of the plane, but are yet to attribute a cause for the crash. Heavy monsoon rains were sweeping through Nepal on the day of the crash, reducing visibility. 60
Killed in Landslide, 40 Homes Swept Away (Go
To Top) KATHMANDU: About 60 people were killed when a massive landslide triggered by heavy rains wiped out a remote village of Damti in eastern Nepal on Wednesday, August 21. Forty houses were swept away. Officials said they were rushing a helicopter with relief supplies to the area. Lanslides claimed 32 lives when five villages in the remote Taplejung district in the country's eastern region were swept away on August 7. According to Nepal Red Cross, floods and landslides have killed 422 people and rendered more than 32,000 people homeless since July this year. Petitions
to Revive Parliament Dismissed (Go
To Top) KATHMANDU: Petitions to restore the kingdom's Parliament after it was dissolved in May have been dismissed by the Supreme Court, clearing the way for fresh polls slated for early November. The House was dissolved by King Gyanendra on the advice of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba. This happened after the majority Nepali Congress party refused to support the latter's plan to extend a state of emergency to fight the Maoists who want to establish a Communist republic by ousting the monarchy. Tuesday's court ruling came as 60 former deputies filed a petition arguing that Deuba's move to dissolve Parliament while the country was under emergency rule was unconstitutional. But KP Upadhyaya, chief justice, said that the prime minister has the prerogative to dissolve the House of Representatives even during emergency. Birth
of Royal Baby Settles Seccession Issue (Go
To Top) KATHMANDU: Princess Himani, wife of crown princess Paras, has given birth to a boy, settling the issue of succession. They had only a daughter. The crown passes through male heirs in the Shah dynasty. -Agencies
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