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NC, CPN-MC and UDMF agree to form joint task force

Edit The Himalayan 31 Jul 2016
A new coalition government of the NC and CPN-MC, he added, could easily address the front’s demands related to the Madhes movement such as giving martyrdom status to those killed during the protest, providing compensation to victims’ families, bearing treatment costs of the injured, probing human rights violations during the movement and waiving interest charged on public loans during the movement period....

UDMF for halting LBRC’s functioning

Edit The Himalayan 30 Jul 2016
The hill plus mountain areas will have over 375 local bodies against Madhes’s 275. How can Madhes have fewer local bodies? ... NSP Chair Jha said the commission had proposed to create over 175 local bodies in Madhes, 275 in the hills and 100 in the mountain regions, which was not fair. “This means the hill plus mountain areas will have over 375 local bodies against Madhes’s 275....

Amend constitution to meet Madhesis’ demands: Mahato

Edit The Himalayan 30 Jul 2016
“We have taken the seven-point agreement signed by the NC and the CPN-MC positively for it has put Madhes issues on the top but that alone is not enough ... If it does not support it, it will lose its influence in Madhes,” Mahato said in response to a journalist’s query ... He said if the new government too did not do enough to solve Madhes problems, the UDMF would be forced to resort to movement....

Heavy rain brings Vihar close to the brim, pothole woes overflow

Edit The Times of India 30 Jul 2016
MUMBAI. The city witnessed significant rainfall in the last two days, bringing Vihar lake, located within city limits, barely a metre away from overflowing on Saturday. Tulsi, another lake which supplies water to Mumbai, recently overflowed ... Rohan Roy, a resident of the western suburbs, said the road from Malvani to Madh remains filled with potholes despite complaints to the BMC ... The problem persists in the entire locality," said Roy....

‘NC-Maoists yet to approach UDMF for support to government’

Edit The Himalayan 29 Jul 2016
KATHMANDU ... Sadbhawana Party is one of the key constituents of the UDMF, which has been protesting the promulgation of Constitution, claiming it was not inclusive, since before its promulgation in September last year ... “Our main concern is our issue,” he said urging all Madhes-centric parties not to hurry to join the government ... ....

Madhesi parties advised to focus on Tarai agendas

Edit The Himalayan 28 Jul 2016
Birgunj, July 27 ... Speakers Pramod Gupta, Hareram Thakur, Devendra Mishra, Binod Gupta, among others, warned that Madhes agitation would end in a written agreement if the Tarai-centric parties got involved in power politics ... ....

Lawmakers flay govt for ill-preparedness

Edit The Himalayan 27 Jul 2016
Kathmandu, July 26 ... Brijesh Kumar Gupta of the Tarai Madhes Democratic Party said the government had not been able to reach to the flood-hit people ... The post Lawmakers flay govt for ill-preparedness appeared first on The Himalayan Times. ....

Three hidden lakes revealed, but they may soon vanish

Edit The Times of India 26 Jul 2016
Till the early eighties, three natural spring-fed freshwater lakes in Madh Island, surrounded by sea water, provided drinking water and fish to villagers even during summer. But today, Harba Devi, Vanala and Erangal, located at an altitude, are no-go areas, recalls Santosh Koli, a fisherman and social worker in Madh village ... Madh is located around 11 km from Malad by road and is closer to Versova by ferry boat....

FA disrupts programme in Rautahat

Edit The Himalayan 26 Jul 2016
Rautahat, July 25 ... Tarai Madhes Democratic Party leader Anil Kumar Singh, on his part, pledged to disrupt such programmes in the future too. “Those in power never tried to understand the Madhes plight despite months of agitation; we won’t accept their designs here in any form,” he said ... ....

EDITORIAL: Enduring legacy

Edit The Himalayan 26 Jul 2016
This also is good news ... But the challenges ahead for the new government are tough ... A joint mission of the Federation of Nepalese Journalists and Federation of International Journalists have recently visited the Tarai-Madhes to conduct a study about the situation of working journalists during the months long agitation called by the Madhes-centric parties demanding amendments to the new constitution adopted on September 20 last year ... ....

LETTERS: Oli rises above all

Edit The Himalayan 26 Jul 2016
Politics is all about power game. Nobody can remain in power particularly in a parliamentary democracy where the prime minster has to secure the backing of the majority of the lawmakers ... Since he took the office of prime minister nine months ago Oli did his best to bail the country out of the chaos, economic blockade and prolonged agitation in Tarai-Madhes ... Saroj Wagle, Bara. Janakpur ... Swarnim Lal Karna, Janakpurdham. The post LETTERS ... ....

All should unite to build nation: Deuba

Edit The Himalayan 25 Jul 2016
Kathmandu, July 24 ... Stating that issues like national unity and national security should be raised in the interests of the country, Deuba said the new government would prioritise mending ties with neighbours, reconstruction works and talks with the agitating Madhes-based parties to address their concerns ... ....

Maoist chief Prachanda set to become Nepal PM again

Edit One India 24 Jul 2016
Kathmandu, July 24. CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka 'Prachanda' was on Sunday all set to make a comeback as Prime Minister of Nepal, a week after the Nepali Congress and Madhes-based parties pledged to throw their weight behind ... ....
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