Here are some of the top stories from The Kathmandu Post (August 4, 2019).
Unprecedented rhino deaths in Chitwan National Park raise alarm
A total of 46 one-horned rhinos died last year in and around the Chitwan National Park, recording the highest mortality of rhinos for the park in a year due to natural causes.
The fatality rate looks daunting, especially at a time when these deaths have been attributed to natural deaths with the authorities maintaining complete control over illegal poaching. In the last five years, only one rhino has been poached.
Suspected suicides by people under graft probe highlight need to revamp investigation process
While corruption has thrived in Nepal for decades, impunity has been the order of the day. But in recent weeks, deaths of two former government officials—which are said to be suicide cases—have put a spotlight on the way corruption cases are dealt within the country.
Yukta Prasad Shrestha and Ram Bahadur Pandey, two former government employees who were being investigated by the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority, were found dead last month.
Army expedites action against soldiers who had defected to the Maoists
The Nepal Army general court-martial on July 25 convicted its former private Bikram Gurung for breaching the Army law by defecting with a rifle and ammunition to join then the CPN-Maoist on August 15, 2007. The Army court sentenced him to 10 years in jail and sent him to an Army prison in Chitwan on July 28.
Telecom regulator wants to equip 930 public high schools with IT labs in six months
Installation of twenty-four computers, a projector, a multifunction printer, a router, Uninterrupted Power Supply device and solar panels (where necessary) in each of the 930 government high schools in six months across seven provinces.
That is what the Nepal Telecommunications Authority wants to achieve in its drive to equip public schools with much-needed ‘Information Technology Labs’ which it says will reduce the digital divide between students at public and private institutions.
Nepali women duped in China have returned home, but their ordeal is not over yet
When Ritu Sherpa Shrestha landed in Kathmandu on Sunday after spending two difficult months in China, the only thing that was in her mind was reaching home in Taplejung at the earliest. She was one of the 44 women who were duped by a recruiting agency which had promised a job at Dandong Larore, a garment factory in the northeastern Chinese city of Dandong. But since she had returned empty-handed, going home has become a problem.
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