Landslides displaces most families.....

Twenty five families of Baramchi VDC-2 in Sindhupalchowk district have been displaced due to landslides.

The families of local Adavara and Tekanpur were displaced due to the landslides after the Balefi Hydro Power 

Project constructed the road despite a road was already constructed along the village.

The victims accuse the hydro power project of constructing the road despite their objection.

Similarly, floods in a local river inundated some 1,500 ropani land, said the victims.

The victims have lodged applications in the offices concerned demanding relief and other assistance.

I understand they wanted to kill me..............

BIRATNAGAR: had just reached my rented apartment in Khandbari at around 9pm yesterday. As I was getting ready for dinner, my phone rang and I walked out of my room to the street and got busy in the conversation with him. Then I saw Bikas Rai and Rupak Rai coming towards me. Both of them asked me if I could go for a walk with them. They were under the influence of alcohol. I refused, but they held me and forced me to walk towards a meadow nearby. Then I spotted that Bikas was carrying a weapon. Anyway, Bikas is a professional criminal here and fearing that my refusal might land me in trouble, I kept walking along with them. No sooner had we reached a gorge near Tundikhel than both of them began assaulting me. First they punched me here and there and then out of the blue I felt excruciating pain; they attacked me with a khukuri. Had I not ducked in the nick of time, they would have chopped my head off. “Aren’t you the one who was raising an issue between a husband and his wife in the public?” they asked, as their brutality continued. I passed out soon after. If my memory serves me correctly, Bikas was asking Rupak to dump my body in my room. I think they presumed me dead. By the time I regained consciousness today morning, my sisters had already left for the college. I called Yogendra BK, who along with Chhetu Sherpa, came to meet me. I have no enmity with the perpetrators. But I think they wanted to kill me over a news report aired on a local FM about a month ago. The news included my statement as well in which I had spoken about violence against women at a public programme in the district.

Morang journo demand security

MORANG: The Morang-based journalists have demanded their security with the police administration after the Morang district chief of UML’s Youth Association Nepal (YAN), Rabin Thapa, threatened to attack the journalists if they were against the YAN leaders. The journalists have also demanded action against Thapa.

The journalists have submitted a memorandum at the district police office, demanding their security after Thapa threatened the journalists on August 11 speaking at a corner assembly organized by the YAN.

Eastern coordinator of the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ), Mohan Kaji Neupane, Morang chair of FNJ, Bikram Niraula, district coordinator of the Revolutionary Journalists’ Association, Ganesh Lamsal, and others have condemned the threat against the journalists. Receiving the memorandum, Superintendent of Police (SP), Pradhumna Karki, said the police is committed to providing security to all people by ending rampant hooliganism and all sorts of criminal activities in the district.