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Here are some of the top stories from The Kathmandu Post (December 19, 2019). Leela Devkota was killed while returning from a temple on Saturday morning. Post Photo: Shuvam Dhungana
Here are some of the top stories from The Kathmandu Post (December 19, 2019).
She was returning from a temple. Then a drunk driver killed her.
Most Saturday mornings, Leela Devkota would be at a temple, circumambulating the gods and offering prayers. When she had finished, she would return home to Budhanilkantha before going about her Saturday.
This past Saturday, as she was walking along the footpath in Budhanilkantha on her way back from Sankata Temple in New Road, a grey Suzuki car careened onto her path. The car struck Devkota, before losing control and ramming into an electric pole.
Dahal’s proposal to set up mechanism for transitional justice raises alarm
Amid confusion over how the transitional justice process moves ahead, Pushpa Kamal Dahal has proposed setting up a political mechanism—a body with leaders from the ruling and opposition parties—to support the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons.
In his political paper presented for discussion at the Nepal Communist Party’s Standing Committee meeting, Dahal, who is also the executive chairman of the NCP, has argued that forming the body is necessary for concluding the process that has dragged on for over a decade.
Nepal needs another international airport. So why is Nijgadh being held up?
Twenty-four years ago, the government initiated discussions to construct a second international airport in Bara, a Tarai district, as an alternative to Nepal’s only international airport in Kathmandu.
The decision followed the deadliest aviation disasters of Thai Airways and Pakistan International Airlines in 1992. This gave momentum to the discussions of an alternate airport and how the difficult topography of Kathmandu poses a challenge for even experienced pilots to land.
Already struggling to cope with malnutrition, Nepal now faces a new burden: Obesity
A few weeks ago, six-year-old Kushal Ghale and eight-year-old Kajal Ghale were discharged from a nutrition rehabilitation home in Lalitpur.
The Ghale siblings, who come from a small village of Rorang Rural Municipality in Dhading, were referred to the rehab home after they were diagnosed with moderate acute malnourishment by doctors.
Chandra Bahadur and his wife Laxmi lost their 49-day-old son on November 29. The residents of Somadi Tangsial in Palpa had taken their baby for vaccination to a nearby health camp.
“He cried all the way back home after receiving vaccination and a polio drop,” said Laxmi. “He died the same night.”
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