Gaurav Pokharel
April 9, 2021
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Fire engines in Kathmandu
On March 2, 2021, a fire gutted 58 houses in Meringden rural municipality in the Taplejung district of northeastern Nepal. The fire that started due to a short circuit at the house of Bhola Poudel at 9 am spread all over the neighbourhood. Even though the district’s only fire engine was sent to the scene from its headquarters Phungling, by the time it arrived, the fire had done significant damage.
“It took the fire engine an hour to arrive. By then, the damage had been done,” says Ganesh Limbu, the chair of the rural municipality. “What could one fire engine do anyway?”
Kathmandu [Nepal], February 4 (ANI): A total of 157 cadres affiliated to the ruling Nepal Communist Party s rival faction has been arrested in Nepal on Thursday during their nationwide strike against Parliament dissolution, security officials confirmed.
According to the Nepal police record, 11 incidents of vandalism have been confirmed throughout the nation as the splinter group led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Madhav Kumar Nepal called for a nationwide strike. At least 157 people trying to enforce strike have been arrested. Of them, 80 have been arrested from Kathmandu Valley alone, while the remaining 77 are arrested from outside Valley, Senior Superintendent of Police, Basanta Kunwar, spokesperson for Nepal Police, told ANI.
Strike to oppose Oli government paralyses life in Nepal Police arrested 157 cadres of the Prachanda-led faction of Nepal Communist Party for its enforcement PTI | Kathmandu | Published 05.02.21, 03:37 AM
Normal life was paralysed across Nepal on Thursday during a nation-wide general strike called by the Nepal Communist Party’s splinter faction-led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal, alias Prachanda, to oppose Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli government’s appointment of office bearers and members of various constitutional bodies.
Major markets, educational institutions, offices and factories were shut down while transport services were disrupted during the strike.
The government had mobilised at least 5,000 security personnel in Kathmandu valley to pr
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Over 150 arrested in Nepal during nationwide strike by rival NCP faction ANI | Updated: Feb 04, 2021 18:10 IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], February 4 (ANI): A total of 157 cadres affiliated to the ruling Nepal Communist Party s rival faction has been arrested in Nepal on Thursday during their nationwide strike against Parliament dissolution, security officials confirmed.
According to the Nepal police record, 11 incidents of vandalism have been confirmed throughout the nation as the splinter group led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Madhav Kumar Nepal called for a nationwide strike. At least 157 people trying to enforce strike have been arrested. Of them, 80 have been arrested from Kathmandu Valley alone, while the remaining 77 are arrested from outside Valley, Senior Superintendent of Police, Basanta Kunwar, spokesperson for Nepal Police, told ANI.