YadavRameshwar Ray Yadav Devoted towards the National Integration, Nationality and Madheshbad The Voice Of www.madheshvani.com Adopting Dedication to National Integration , Nationality and Madheshism, National Weekly Madheshvani publishes on Every Friday . Search and get ‘ Madheshvani’ for reading. Kathmandu / Vol.–6/ Issue – 4, Monday, May 25th 2015, ( 2072, Jeshtha 11th ) Page- 8, Price Rs. -10 Blocking Kaligandaki Landslide throws another terror after earthquake Myagdi : After disaster of earthquake landslide blocked Kaligandaki river creating another terror among Nepali society. The perceived danger downstream, at least temporarily, was averted as the water in a landslide-dammed lake on the Kaligandaki river in Myagdi district started overflowing after 15 hours of blockage. A massive landslide fallen from Mahavir in Ramche-9 along the Beni Jomsom road blocked the river at Baisari . The site is about 9km north of Beni, the district headquarters of Myagdi. The blocked river flowed out after filling the artificial lake at around 5pm on Sunday. There was flood as the water level rose two meters above the usual monsoon flow. Though floodwaters reached up to some houses near the banks, there was no notable damage. According to Chief District Officer Tek Bahadur KC , the area is now out of danger. There are no human casualties. There is no damage to property too. Downstream settlers, who had climbed to safer places, have started returning to their homes. Landslides first occurred in Baisari village on Friday morning, hitting five houses. Massive rocks started falling past Saturday midnight, burying 26 houses in Baisari and Ramche. A 2km long and 100 meters deep lake was formed after the landslide dammed the river. Local administration urged the people in Beni and other downstream settlements to go to safer places. Beni Bazaar wore a deserted look after the notice. Inmates of District Prison were shifted to a hall at the District Development Committee office. Riverside settlers in Palpa, Syangja and Gulmi districts fear flooding. By the blocked river, power generation was halted in the country’s biggest hydropower project at Syangja’s Mirmi, fearing dam outburst. Subengineer Om Darlami working at the dam of the 144-megawatt plant said the power station has been shut indefinitely. He said all the three sluish gates at the dam, with the capacity of draining 640,000 liters water per second, were kept opened. Staffs at the plant are on high alert. By the blocked all the floodgates at Gandak Barrage were opened . According to the local administration, all the 36 floodgates were opened amid flood fears. Alert has been sounded in several downstream settlements. The local administration of Chitwan alerted the people on the Narayani riverbanks about the threat. The Kaligandaki meets the Narayani river at Devghat. Forum Nepal battles for keeping party intact Bijaykumar Gachhedar Upendra Yadav Sharatsingh Bhandari Kathmandu. Joint Democratic Madheshi Front has been fallen in crisis to be broken. Some leaders of affiliated party of the Front have concluded the requirement of a National Government in Nepal for facing the challenges of disaster occurred by earthquake while other termed this as a hypothetical question for the formation of National Government. Bijaykumar Gachhedar , chairman of Madheshi Janadhikar Forum Democratic, clarified that talk of the formation of National Government in Nepal almost finalized. But Upendra Yadav, chairman of Madheshi Janadhikar Forum Nepal, refused to accept that a national government required for disaster destructed country. Ruling Parties leaders have already said that talks for formation of National Government with Madheshi leaders have been almost finalized. Sushil Koirala, Prime Minister and Party President of Nepali Congress, said that he had been ready to form a National Government. KP Sharma Oli , UML Chairman, has been already playing role for formation of a National Government. Gachhedar is known as party broker for forming government. Earlier Gachhedar broke Upendra Yadav led Madheshi Janadhikar Forum Nepal for forming government. Gachhedar aloso broke Tarai Madheshi Democratic and Sadabhawana Party. So Gachhedar is known as party broker. Recently he said that Joint Democratic Continue in page 4 Armed group Madheshi Tigers surrenders weapon Bhairahawa :Tarai Madheshi Tigers Party has surrenders weapon and explosives to government as per early agreement. The group has signed agreement on 26 Mansir after negotiation talk held. Both government and the armed group gave 129 weapons and explosives. According to Police chief Rajendra Dhakal , 37 Tiffin bombs, 35 Box bombs, 7 Socket bombs, home -made pistols ,bullet 8 , mobile bomb 2 , cooker bomb 2 were received from the group. In the press meet President of the group Janardan Yadav called Bikram Pandey, Jayprakash Yadav, Ramminlan Chaudhary, Roshan Sah and Prembahadur Kshetry were present. From the government talk team member Sarvendranath Sukla and CDO Toyam Raymajhi were present. Third Alliance distributes relief in Kharelthok Kabhre. Mid-west sub region of Third Alliance has distributed relief goods to victims of Kharelthok of Kabhre district. According to coordinator of region Alam khan, Third Alliance distributed 3 lakh relief goods like quilt food-grain and warm clothes with the assistance of Mankameshwar Temple of Lucknow of India. . 2 Monday, 25th May , 2015 Editorial Create Appreciable Environment for Children Whether it is natural disaster like earthquake or manmade disaster, children are victims everywhere. Rescue and Relief programs are made. Planners make plans. Plans are not executed if somehow it is executed the plan avoids welfare of children. Policy makers keep the children out of the policy. Nationally and internationally children education has been seen avoided wherever disasters attack the human society. After earthquake schools’ buildings are collapsed completely or partially and schools are closed. Rescue and Relief programs are going on. Child education is in limbo. Policy makers should think the truth that children are the future of country. They should be secured and provided good environment of education. People can sleep in tent living the building why not the children are given education in tent or such temporary shelter. Their education should be given with psychological treatment otherwise their terror will not be removed. Nepal has faced two types of disaster: natural and manmade disaster as ten years peoples’ war led Maoists. Policy makers should consider such situations on time otherwise future of Nepal will be terrible. PHOTO CORNER Rani Sharma Tiwari, President of Woman Empowerment Campaign Mahottary, giving two trucks of goods for woman health to a UN representative . 2072, Jeshtha 11th National Weekly Atrocities on women in Pakistan ‘alarming’, HRCP - Manzoor Ahmed In the wake of the recent gangrape of a five-year old girl and the wave of protests that it has generated, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has published a report that presents a grim picture of the way the country is ttrating its female population. There has been a marked increase anmd the figures are ‘alarming’ the commission has said in a report. Violation against women is widespread and exists in various forms be it domestic violence and abuse, sexual abuse and harassment, acid attacks, honour killings, restricted freedom of movement to downright barring of women from casting their votes in the elections. The Commission in its statement has said: “HRCP has watched with grave concern the rising incidence of violence against women in Pakistan in recent days. Unfortunately, such incidents have always been commonplace in the country but now such reports are coming not from faroff places but from the main cities.” Several cases of rape have been reported from Punjab, thje most populous province, in the past few days, it has said. In Lahore alone, police have registered 113 cases of rape from January 1 to August 31 this year. The police in Punjab’s capital registered 32 gang-rape cases.Most of the victims were teenage girls. But, the problem in hardly confined to Punjab. The plight of Kainat Soomro, a young rape victim in Sindh, and the excesses she has had to endure in her efforts to bring her tormentors to justice are there for all to see. She got relief only afrter personal intervention of then President Asif Ali Zardari. Her ordeal represents how rape victims who have the courage to pursue their rapistsare left to fend for themselves. The case was reminiscent of the ordeal of Mukhtaran Mai a woman in rural Punjab who was ordered to be gang-raped in public by those belonging to the landed gentry. Her ‘crime’ was that her younger brother had eloped with a girl from the family of one of the landlords. Her case became know worldwide, much to the embarrassement of then President Pervez Musharraf, who was confronted about it at the United Nations. According to media monitoring by HRCP, until the end of July this year, at least 44 women became targets of acid attacks in the country, seven of whom had died due to their injuries. As many as 44 women had been set on fire; 11 had died in such attacks. Furthermore, as many as 451 women had been killed in Pakistan in the name of honour by July-end this year, compared to 918 killed in the whole of 2012. Mid-September, three women were shot dead by family members in the name of ‘honour’ in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The HRCP is acutely concerned that risks have grown for all those who try and help the victims is any manner or try to expose the excesses. Human rights defenders who try to highlight excesses against women have become particularly vulnerable. The HRCP itself had to relocate a staff member in early September because his reporting of a woman’s beating by her relatives upset the family to the extent that they threatened to kill him and started following him. Targeting of a section of population solely on account of gender is utterly unacceptable and it is a matter of shame that the society at large has not felt compelled to raise a strong enough voice to putting an end to this travesty, the commission has lamented. HRCP has called upon the state authorities to include ending violence against women and impunity for the violators to its list of priorities in order to dispense justice to half the population of the country. The commission’s statement said it hoped that these steps would include awareness campaigns and would not merely be confined to making changes in laws that thenremain unenforced. Analysing the plight of the fiveyear old girl in Lahore, advocate writer Rafia Zakaria wrote in Dawn (Sept. 18) that the girl ws playing with her three-year old cousin in the open near her house in the evening when she disappeared. “What happened to the five-yearold between the time she was abducted from outside her home and the next day, when she was found abandoned outside a hospital, is the stuff of the most grotesque nightmare. “Unconscious and bleeding, the child found lying on a thin strip of green lawn just outside the hospital building had been raped. The doctors who examined her asserted that on the basis of their physical examination, she had probably been assaulted by several men for over an hour. “She was rushed to surgery because of haemorrhaging, and when she emerged her condition was listed as critical. The next day, television channels reported that she was deeply traumatised, crying and screaming even when members of her family approached her. “The utter cruelty of the case elicited denunciations and expressions of outrage. In a country where public debate on rape cases often hinges on the indictment of the victim long before it turns to the perpetrators, the fact that the victim was a child managed to force attention on the brutality of the crime itself.’ Zakaria said the plight of older giorls and women is worst. “The child had been too young to blame, too little to be accused of having provoked her attackers. The usual excuses — a lack of feminine modesty, culpable presence in the public space, a flawed character — could not be employed here, and so, finally, the ghastly fact of the crime was before the country. “So confronted, many grew angry; a group of female representatives from the Khyber legislature demanded that the perpetrators be hanged. Such cries for blood and vengeance were fervently repeated. “The aftermath of the case exposes once again the complete inability of law enforcement and judicial bodies to deal with rape investigations. Even with closedcircuit camera images, there was no solid identification of suspects. “A few suspects picked up by the police on Friday had already been released by Saturday. While DNA samples were collected from the child and sent to investigation labs, no report was available yet. There was no confirmation about the exact number of rapists. “Amidst the legal and investigative morass surrounding the case are the questions of how such a dastardly act can occur and how the complicity of society can breed the sort of demons who can commit it (and probably get away with it).” “The mistake made by the child at the centre of the recent Lahore tragedy was to play outside in a society which does not consider even girl children entitled to be in public space. “In the Pakistan where such things happen, legislatures past and present have failed to force the stringent application of the Women’s Protection Act, 2006, and the Zina Ordinance continues to exist. In the Pakistan where such things happen, the Council of Islamic Ideology has cast doubt over the value of DNA as primary evidence across the board in rape cases. “When this cumulative picture of the country where the crime was committed is considered, the only thing different about the recent case is that she was victimised so early, subjected to a crime that is the fate of too many women. “ She c a nno t s pea k t o da y because she is too young, but if she was older and could speak and point to her victimisers, f ew in this c o unt ry of me n would believe he r ,” wr ite s Zakaria. Sources : Agencies 3 Monday, 25 th May , 2015 2072, Jeshtha 11th National Weekly National Government requires for facing disaster National government is not for doing politics. National government is required for facing the challenge of national disaster. All political forces should be united at the time of natural disaster. This means all party should stand at a point. How did you get the role of national and international sector performing at the moment of national disaster? -The national disaster has destructed the whole country. Nepali are not only terrorized by physical terror but also by metnal terror.In this moment I would like to express my heartfelt condolence to them who lost their life in the destruction of earthquake. I would like also to thank them who including governmental ,nongo vernmental, national and international donor agencies and organizations joined their hands to help victim of earthquake. And especially to Nepal Army, Nepal Police, Armed Police and Rescue teams from different country they ran for rescuing people putting their life in danger. In recent years issues of earthquake were in discussion. We are in highly sensitive prone zone for earthquake so we should prepare for facing disaster like earthquake. But government has been seen without any preparation. In recent years d i f f e r e n t organizations have been organizing public awareness programs. But government has been seen having no preparedness. What will be the reason behind it? - Government has no preparedness we have just learnt facing the problems. Government would have performed for facing vehicle accident. Our country is running through a political transition. Government by count is stronger but no any solid step taken for. Thank God, it was Saturday even not in night the killer earthquake emerged at close to noon otherwise the situation would be more vulnerable. What was to be happened that happened. As prepare for facing earthquake was to be that has not been seen. Earlier, many more advertisements were published and broadcasted in media about how to survive by earthquake and how to start rescue and provide relief to victims. But, situation after 10days of earthquake people were without shelter to live and water to drink. Still situation is seen the same. All blames to go to government. It doesn’t mean that government did nothing .All did from their own stand what they could. By the earthquake one thing seen that all Nepali stand at a point when such disaster emerges. All people showed performance as Nepali at this national disaster. By this disaster country has collapsed. According to Geologists northern area has been most affected area. Madhesh also facing problem of earthquake. All Madheshi were active providing relief to them. As Pahad suffers Madhesh feels pain and Madhesh suffers Pahad feels pain. How much relief goods from your district was distributed to victims? - Madheshi Front has decided that Madheshi should donate blood to protect life of Pahade. We campaign blood donation and collected food grains by fistful donation. We distributed relief goods to victims of Lalitpur. From Rauthat distributed in Bhaktpur. As well as to Gorkha from Dhansusha, Sindhupalchok from Parsa, Dhading from Bara, Nuwakot from Sarlahi. What did you see in the field when you visited the affected area? - It is natural that government has seen failure providing relief and doing rescue. Government has accepted the truth. Local agencies of government were also seen inactive. Government is present everywhere with its organs but those organs were inactive among people. Recently police Sharatsingh Bhandari President National Madhesh Socialist Party has arrested them who were selling relief goods to victims of earthquake. Black marketers are taking advantages from this pitiable situation. Members of constituent assembly were seen fighting for taking tents instead of sending those tents to victims first. What do you say the behavior of constituent assembly? - It is not fault of members of constituent assembly. Housing Ministry and Home Ministry sent tents for members of constituent assembly. It is the worst work of such ministries. One hand members of constituent assembly are donating salary of one month another hand those members of constituent assembly are being given tents. It was an act of defaming them. This should be probed. It was an act of diminishing image of parliament. Such acts should not be allowed. During the disaster, formation of a national government has been surfaced. What do you think it is right time for making a national government? -National government is not for doing politics. National government is required for facing the challenge of national disaster. All political forces should be united at the time of natural disaster. This means all party should stand at a point. Making the country secured and out from national disaster and phase of national disaster. How do you judge the support of neighboring countries especially India? -The relation between Nepal and India has been sweet. Geology of Nepal and Indian is interlinked. Earthquake of Nepal affects India immed ia te ly. Government of India called his cabinet meeting earlier than Nepal government and decided to help victims of earthquake. Indian Government sent rescued teams and relief providers’ team and goods to Nepal. 4 Monday, 25th May , 2015 2072, Jeshtha 11th Relief goods handed by Nepal India Jain Shwetamber Terapanthi Society Kathmandu. Nepal India Swetambar Terapanth Society has handed blanket like relief goods to Union of wife of Nepal Police. In a program organized at Police Headquarters Dinesh Naulakha and Motilal Dugar jointly handed the relief goods to Roshi Aryal. IGP Upendrakant Aryal appreciated the assistance and thank the Terapanth Society. Indo-Nepal assisted Tent equals to 2 million Birgunj. Indo-Nepal Chamber of Commerce Raxaul has assisted Tent equals to 2 million to earthquake victims through central member of Nepali Congress Ajay Chaurasiya. Rajkumar Gupta, President of IndoNepal, handed Tents for 2 hundreds households to Chaurasiya. Disputes in temple Rautahat. Garhimai Development Centre Sangarmpur Bindeshwar Sah and Satyanarayan Bhagat have been tempered for the fund collected by people. Culture Ministry has sent 2 lakh rupees for the development. The money sent by the ministry should be kept under their own account. Both claim their social organizations should keep the money. 1 billion rupee collected Rupendehi. For assisting victims of earthquake ,districts of Lumbini zone have collected relief from Indian bordering villages up to 1 billion rupees. Indian citizens have themselves donated relief goods. Youth Union operated Kathmandu. Youth Union Nepal affiliated with CPNUML has operated its workers for providing relief goods to victims of earthquake. CPNUML decided to operate 10 thousand of youths helping victims of earthquake. To cooperate UML , Youth Union Nepal took responsibility operating 1 thousand youths. Terror creators arrested Kathmandu. Terror creators who forecasted baselessly have been arrested by police. After earthquake some people started forecasting baseless that big magnitude killed many people and destructed many building in the most affected area of Nepal. Operator and editor WWW.expresskhabar.com respectively Gyanendra Bhattarai and Chandramani Shapkota have arrested. The online said that magnitude of earthquake 30 times greater than 1934' earthquake will come in Nepal. Operator and editor both have beg pardon for their release from custody. Idol of God Ganesh installd Birgunj. A new idol of God Ganesh has been installed at Mabirsthan of Birgunj. For the installation Pashupati Rauniyar and his wife Sumitradevi worshiped. Saying Forum will not join the government Yadav said that it is a matter of hypothesis. Saratsingh Bhandari , chairman of Madheshi Front would join the National Madhesh Socialist Party, has government. said that a National Government is Gachhedar is playing role making required for nation. All countrymen a new government so he is feeling and political forces should be united nerves of members of constituent at a point of destruction occurred by of assembly to join the earthquake. government. According to source All these leaders of Madhesh based Upendra led Madheshi Janadhikar parties associated with the Front. Forum Nepal is at top of Some say the requirement of Gahchhedar. Some sources say National Government others are that Gachhedar doesn’t like reluctant about the issues. According Upendra Yadav to have more to some party leaders of Forum height than him. If Joint Nepal, it is time to forming a national Democratic Madheshi Front is government Forum must join. agreed to join the government, Analysts say Madhesh based parties Gachhedar will break the partiesl. are only seeking opportunities to join So Upendra Yadav has keeping government so they will not drop this his eyes on party intact. Upendra upcoming opportunity whether it is Yadav said that it is a rumor only Forum or Sadabhawana or Tarai to form a National Government. Madheshi Democratic Party. Forum Nepal ... National Weekly Madhesh Update Interaction held on quake risk Birgunj. Nepal Engineers Association Birgunj has held an interaction on mitigation of quake risk. Umesh Kumar Gupta chaired the president of the interaction held in the presence of technical chief of Birgunj Sub- MetroPolitian, Prakash Amatya, Baidyanath Prasad, Lalbabu Chaurasiya, Atmaram Prasad Sah, Rajesh Yadav, Banka, Shyambabu Prasad Prabhakar Chaurasiya, Phiroj Raki and Binod Shrestha. People of Mahottary distributes relief in Ramechhap Jaleshwar. Relief goods collected in Mahottary district have carried to Ramechhap. For the victims of Ramechhap locals have collected 10 ton rice. Earlier relief goods was sent to Solathana and Sumanam Pokhari of Sindhuli district. Beautician Training held Birgunj. One month long beautician training assisted by the parliament fund of Shravan Agrwal has been finished at Jagarnathpur of Birgunj -25. The closing ceremony was chaired by Mini Singh in the presence of Pradeep Yadav, Umeshlal Sahani, Radhika Devi, Aslam Alam and Khobhari Yadav. 20 women participated the training for which 1lakh 50 thousand rupees from parliamentary fund. More than 2000 house damaged in Bardivas Jaleshwar. By earthquake around 2000 houses have been damaged in Bardivas Municipality. Bardivas Municipality has recently made its primary report of damaged. According to primary report 1690 houses have been damaged. Died by beating Bara. 35 years of Sanmatiya Devi Chamain inhabitant of Ganganagar of Simaraun Municipality-4 has died by beating .60 years Raghumat Chamar and 35 years Birendra Mahar beat her and later she died in hospital. Drowned in Pond Kapilvastu. 8 years of Rabraham Ahamad and 10 years of Majbullah Fakir inhabitant of Hasampur-7 have found dead in a public pond of the same VDC. Prisoner Died Parsa. 70 years of Basudev Sah accused in brown sugar case, inhabitant of East Champaran of India has died in Parsa jail. He was declared dead in Narayani Sub regional Hospital. Died and injured by Thunderbolt Rautahat. 10 years of Muskan Kumari Patel has died and 16 years Binay Patel has injured by the thunderbolt fallen at the house of Ramsingh Patel inhabitant -7. Injured Patel is receiving treatment. Died by hanging Bara. 12 years of Ramitakumari Thakur inhabitant of Amarpatti-7 Bajhopatti has been found hanging by a ceiling fan in her own room on Thursday . Police has been investigating the case. Died by attack of wild elephant Sunsari. 70 years Prembahadur Magar inhabitant of Haripur-4 has been died by attack of wild elephant. The elephant trampled him under foot. Old man died by beating Kailali. 71 Harmal Dhami inhabitant of Masuriya-4 has died by beating of his neighbor Sandhya Bohora. Bohora beat him on Tuesday. Police has arrested Bohara and preparing a file case against Bohora. Died in accident Morang. 30 years Tikadevi Shrestha driver of Scooty no Me 3 Pa 1660 inhabitant of Budhabare has died in an accident occurred at Pathari Shanishchare Municipality -8. When Tractor no Ko 1 Ta 3522 hit Motorcycle no Me 5 Pa 1999 and Scooty Me 3 Pa 1660 Scooty driver Shrestha died at spot and her brother 20 years of Birabahadur Shrestha and Motorcycle rider 50 years of Dilbahadur Limbu were injured. 5 Monday, 25th May , 2015 Corporate News India outpaces China in steel production, up 6.7% this year Even as steel production is on the decline globally, owing primarily to falling Chinese output, India remains the only exception among the major producing nations. According to World Steel Association’s recent data, India’s steel production grew by an impressive 6.7 per cent in the first four months of the current year vis-à-vis a decline of 1.3 per cent in China, the highest producer by a wide margin and 1.7 per cent, globally. India, now the world’s third largest producer, produced 29.97 MT steel during the January-April period of the current year compared to 28.09 MT in the same period a year ago. China’s production fell to 270 MT from 274 MT a year earlier. Output in Japan fell by 3.7 per cent to 35 MT during the period. Production in the US also dipped by 8.5 per cent to 26.3 MT in the period. Global production came down to 536 MT in January-April from 546 MT a year ago. In April also, India’s steel production growth remained in the positive terrain while decline in output in all other major producing nations. 2072, Jeshtha 11th National Weekly Anushka has evolved as an actor, person: Ranveer Singh Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh on Sunday heaped praises on ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’ co-star and former girlfriend Anushka Sharma for her growth as an actress and as a person. “It was fantastic working with her in ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’. She has evolved as an actor and person. It was wonderful to work with her after a few years. We did our first few films together. She taught me a lot,” Ranveer said here during the film’s promotion. The duo were seen in “Ladies vs Ricky Bahl” and “Band Baaja Baaraat”. In the Zoya Akhtar-directed ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’, Ranveer and Anushka form a part of the ensemble cast including Anil Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Shefali Shah, Farhan Akhtar and others. Anushka, who is currently dating Indian cricketer Virat Kohli, was however, missing from the Kolkata leg of the promotional. Quizzed on whether he was missing Anushka, Ranveer gave a guarded response. “I am missing the entire starcast Priyanka, Shefali and others. However, it’s a boys’ night out,” he said referring to Anil and Farhan’s presence at the promotional. Dil Dhadakne Do is set to release on June 5. Samsung launches Galaxy S6, S6 edge in India NEW DELHI: Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone maker, launched its latest flagship devices - Galaxy S6 and Galaxy 6 edge - in the premium segment in the world’s fastest growing smartphone market in the world. T he Galaxy S6 starting price is Rs 49,990 and has has a 5.1-inch 2K Amoled display, 16 megapixel rear and 5 megapixel front camera, an octacore processor with a 3 GB RAM. The Galaxy S6 edge is the world’s only smartphone which has dual curved screen or curved from both lengths of the screen, and is priced at Rs 58,990 for the lowest storage variant. The edge has the similar features as that of the S6, but differs in battery and the display make. “We see a large growth with edge and curved displays,” said Asim Warsi, head of mobile and IT business in India, indicating that innovation would be key to growth for the company that has seen device sales flagging and revenues slumping. Our Features: Modern Sound System, Battery as the option of Load sheding, Media Link,Capacity of 70 Seats, Parking Facility. 6 Monday, 25th May , 2015 2072, Jeshtha 11th ENTERTAINMENT Priyanka Karki fund raising dance in UK raised Actress Priyanka Karki raised Rs. 500,000 for earthquake victims in her UK tour. In a Facebook post, Priyanka shared the photos of her dancing on stage on ‘Gairi Khet …’ song. In the comment she wrote, “Although I was smiling, it was the most unhappy dance in my life.” After the dance performance, she they went around collecting the funds for relief efforts. With the money she and her team collected, she is planning to bring happiness to a few houses. Priyanka Karki Priyanka Karki, singer Anju Pant and singer Shiva Pariyar had a pre-planned event in scheduled in UK before earthquake. They later converted the fun event to earthquake relief fund-collection event. Before heading to the UK, Priyanka was actively volunteering to help earthquake victims. Salman Khan to be the ‘guest of honour’ at sister Arpita’s wedding Six months after the most talked about wedding in recent times, Salman Khan will be the ‘Guest of honour ’ at sister Arpita Khan’s wedding reception on May 25. The event will be held at Mandi, which is gearing up for the gala affair. Mandi also happens to be Arpita’s husband, Aayush Sharma’s home town. Salman Khan, who had just resumed his shooting in Kashmir after finishing off with the last schedule of ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ as he got relief in the 2002 hitSalman Khan and-run case, will be visiting Mandi for the first time. Excited on her first visit, Arpita tweeted on May 22 – “Looking forward to going bk to Mandi (HP) as Mrs Arpita Khan Sharma”. The town is also getting spruced up for the function and a local dham (community feast). “Salman Khan and whole family, except his father Salim Khan, will be reaching Mandi for the function. While Arpita-Aayush and other family members will reach Mandi a day before (May 24) taking a road trip from Chandigarh—where they will land in the morning,Salman Khan has hired a private helicopter to fly to Mandi from Chandigarh on May 10 alongwith two brothers Arbaaz and Sohail,” says Anil Sharma, Aayush’s father,who is also a cabinet minister. Initially, it was learnt that state government will provide a helicopter ride to Salman Khan to attend the reception but later, Anil Sharma was conveyed the inability to extend such a hospitality to the Bollywood superstar, fearing controversies . Though Sharma is reported to have offered to meet the expenses of hiring the government chopper but was left with no option but to have alternate arrangements, which Salman Khan reportedly made on his own, say insiders. More than 14,000 to 15,000 people, which includes all residents of Mandi town will be attending the ceremony. Anil Sharma’s assembly constituency, political figures, businessmen and prominent figures from all the state will be attending the function at local Gymkhana club. The Sharma family also engaged local folk artists to perform for the guests next to the main stage –where Salman Khan will make his appearance with the young couple and Aayush ‘s family. Says SP (Mandi) Mohit Chawla, “We have all necessary arrangements already in place as the event is going to attract a huge crowd. Since it being a private affair,the police have nothing to do except taking care of law and order or traffic mobility on Kullu-Manali National Highway due to tourists season.” Manisha Koirala partners with UNFPA to help quake-affected women Noted Bollywood actress Manisha Koirala has partnered with the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) and Government of Nepal to help quake affected women of Nepal by providing them with ‘Dignity Kits’. The Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Population, Dhanabahadur Tamang, UNFPA Nepal Goodwill Ambassador Manisha and UN Population Fund Representative for Nepal, Glulia Vallesse, jointly launched the campaign by pronouncing “Dignity First” at a function in Kathmandu today. “Each of us needs to be proactive in preserving the dignity of women and girls in a situation of emergency,” said Tamang. “The government of Nepal and UNFPA’s support for these vulnerable population covers a range of issues, from reproductive health to the prevention of gender-based violence,” said Manisha. “The dignity of women and girls whose lives are shattered must be restored together with their physical health and well-being.” The project aims to cater to the needs of some 165,000 women and girls across 14 quake affected districts of Nepal. Currently we have distributed some 7,000 Dignity Kits and an equal number of Kits are arriving soon for the needy women, informed Tamang. The Dignity Kits, which include towel, shawl, torch light, tooth paste and tooth brush among others, costs around USD 32. Those who are marginalised and whose houses are completely destroyed by the earthquake get first priority while distributing the Kits, said Manisha. The actress along with her actor friend Gulsan Grover also raised USD 500,000 from charity programmes conducted in Mauritius recently. The money will go to the Prime Minister’s Fund to Support Earthquake Victims, Manisha added. FIR registered against Sunny Leone, Google CEO for allegedly spreading obscenity An FIR was today registered against actress Sunny Leone, Google CEO and a Bollywood magazine in Ajmer city for allegedly spreading obscenity, police said today. Arinjay Jain had subscribed to a Bollywood magazine through S K R Sharma. The entertainment journal contained obscene photographs of Leone, SHO Ajmer Kotawali police station Jitendra Gangwani said. ain said he followed a website link given Sunny Leone in the magazine and found more obscene contents and pictures of the actress on internet, following which he registered the FIR with police. A case has been registered under section 292 (sale ofobscene book) of IPC, relevant sections of the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act and the IT act, Gangwani said. ain said he followed a website link given in the magazine and found more obscene contents and pictures of the actress on internet, following which he registered the FIR with police. A case has been registered under section 292 (sale ofobscene book) of IPC, relevant sections of the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act and the IT act, Gangwani said. 7 Monday, 25 th May , 2015 international Pakistan should fully cooperate in tackling terrorism: Rajnath Singh Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday asked Pakistan to extend all help in tackling terrorism as it was also a victim of the menace. “It (Pakistan) should extend full cooperation in checking terrorism because the country is facing a similar problem today,” Singh told reporters. On Pakistan’s strong reaction to Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s recent remarks about they associated 15 crore families under Jan Dhan scheme. It’s not a small achievement,” he said. The Home Minister also lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi for launching social security schemes. 2072, Jeshtha 11th Madheshvani Radio Program ( Sunday to Friday) Devoted towards the National Integration, Nationality and Madheshbad F.M Radio Rajdhani Radio Sunrise Red F.M 101 “Even those who criticise us will realise this sooner or later. Even the International Radio Rubaru F.M Earlier, addressing a SBI officers’ convention Singh expressed concern over Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) racket and said it was used to promote terrorism. “FICN is a big problem as fake currency is used to promote terrorism,” he said and asked banks to be alert to that. The Home Minister said India was taking all steps to fight terrorism. Singh described banks as the “spine” of the country’s economy and said,”I want to see it as the nation’s lifeline.”He described the nationalisation of banks as the “biggest” decision taken postindependence to improve the health of the economy. “But even after nationalisation the connect with the people was not there. I want to congratulate the banking sector that Kathmandu 10:40 P.M 90.2 Jhapa -Birtamod_ Morang Swarnim F.M Rautahat F.M Radio Saugat (E xcluded Saturday) 6:30 P.M (E xcluded Saturday) 9:30 P.M Re- Broadcast 9:30 A.M (Excluded Saturday) 101 -Biratnagar_ 104.5 Banke 8:15 P.M Mahottari 8:15 P.M 95.2 93.5 Radio Janakpur He recalled how GDP growth had reached 10.4 per cent during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s tenure due to execution of massive infrastructure projects. The minister said government’s attempts to check black money generation will also boost the economy. Rajnath Singh said through PM Modi’s Make in India initiative, the government wanted not only to promote domestic investors but also potential investors from abroad. “We want Made in India to be a big brand,” he said, adding the government wanted a manufacturing revolution to be ushered in. Time 100.6 Banke -Jaleshwor_ (Nepalgunj) Radio Jay Madhesh “It must be the first time that a minister of an elected government openly advocates use of terrorism in another country on the pretext of preventing terrorism from that country or its non-state actors,” Aziz had said in a statement released by Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Place 98.8 Popular F.M= Monetary Fund (IMF) has appeciated the scheme,” he said. He rubbished Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s accusation against the Centre for scrapping the food park project in his constituency Amethi. The Home Minister asserted the government’s initiatives on the economic front will result in GDP growth touching the 10 per cent mark. “India has the fastest growing economy. I am confident that GDP will reach minimum upto 10 per cent due to policy decisions,” he said. MHZ M h z Radio Rudraksha neutralising terrorists through terrorists, Singh said, “Not only India, but the entire world knows who is promoting terrorism.” Reacting to Parrikar’s comments, Adviser to Pakistan Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz had said it confirmed Islamabad’s apprehensions that India was involved in terrorism in that country. 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No. 53/067/068 National Weekly Has Narendra Modi lived up to expectations? Is a year in power long enough to evaluate the performance of a new government? Possibly difficult in a country with many unresolved social and economic issues like India, but it is a good time for some stock-taking. So it is with Narendra Modi and his BJP government, which stormed into power last May. Mr Modi ran a presidentialstyle campaign, promising achhe din, or better times, if elected. It is a promise which his supporters continue to cling to, and his detractors sneer at, saying it was a deceit to capture political power. Yet, if opinion polls are to be believed, Indians continue to be hopeful about Mr Modi. A poll by Mint newspaper found the prime minister has an approval rating of 74%, although down eight percentage points since last August. Another poll by the Times of India found 47% of the respondents saying that Mr Modi’s performance in government had been “somewhat good”, and an ambivalent quarter saying that it had been “neither good, nor bad”. In truth, Mr Modi faces little competition: the Congress party, under Sonia and Rahul Gandhi has still not recovered from last year’s debacle, despite the latter ’s spirited recent efforts to pick up the gauntlet. India’s Grand Old Party remains largely bereft of new ideas to fire the imagination of India’s restless young, who form the bulk of voters. Mr Modi’s first year in office has met with a mixed response. All leaders need luck on their side, and Mr Modi has had his share. Inflation has been tamed, and the fiscal deficit contained. For both, Mr Modi should thank cheap commodity - mainly oil prices. Electricity generation has surged to a record high. His government so far has been free of scams, and he is making his ministers and bureaucrats work hard. Plans to auction mineral rights - starting with this year’s coal auction - should check corruption and foster transparency. He has energised India’s foreign policy, openly courting countries like Japan, Australia, Israel and the US. He is mining the diaspora. Taking the lead in evacuating stranded people in conflict-zones like Yemen and rushing relief to earthquake-ravaged Nepal has earned his government rightful praise. “Two foreign policy priorities have emerged: South Asia and the management of a larger periphery with a focus on China,” says Harsh V Pant of King’s College, London. There are reports of industrialists, bureaucrats and politicians saying that corruption at the top has “declined dramatically”. If this is true, it is a welcome change from the scamtainted Congress government. Mr Modi is prolific on social media and speaks to the people frequently through a monthly radio address and frequent speeches, which can sometime look and sound like exercises in chor eo gr aphed triumphalism. Unlike his taciturn predecessor Manmohan Singh, Mr Modi is a better communicator. But all of this is still strangely - not translating into a resurgent economy: companies are not performing well, industrial output is flat, bank credit is languishing, the property market is gloomy. Messy taxation is putting off investors. A simpler and fairer land acquisition law that many believe India badly needs to build infrastructure and industry has become a lightning rod for discontent, and unless it gains bipartisan support, could be doomed to legislative limbo. The goods and services tax, India’s single biggest tax reform after Independence, appears to be embroiled in familiar political differences, and many believe that a watered down version is now being pushed through in what is seen as a shoddy compromise. Low commodity prices and bad weather have led to an unprecedented crisis in farming. There are reports about villagers suffering and confusion arising out of reported cutbacks to social welfare programmes. Also, many say, it is not clear whether Mr Modi is a serious reformer or somebody merely comfortable with tinkering with the status quo. Or whether, as economist Vivek Dehejia says, Mr Modi is attempting to deliver reforms “through a gradualist, rather than a radical, trajectory”. There is talk about reducing bloated government, but no radical reforms seem to be on the table. Some of Mr Modi’s ambitious projects so far look like retreads of older ones. Failure to fix the basics could easily hobble each programme. Mr Modi wants to set up 100 smart cities, but most of India’s main cities have turned into urban dystopias. Nobody quite knows what Digital India means in a country where the elementary mobile telephone network is broken. How India will manufacture lots of goods in Mr Modi’s Make in India programme with a low-skilled, poorly educated people is not clear. Mr Modi appears to be fainthearted about tackling corruption at the bottom, which hurts the poor most. This, according to journalist James Crabtree, could stem from an “unwillingness to disturb powerful, Iodized salt protects from goiter and mental retardation. BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences and Hospitals, Dharan is entrenched interests” because to win the reelection in 2019 he will need lots of money. “The present government has been almost hyperactive in its approach. The problem is that, when all is said and done, it is not clear that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” says Milan Vaishnav of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC. His critics say Mr Modi is a control freak who has concentrated too much power in his hands. Although he has pledged stern action against religious violence, a series of church attacks - which police deny had anything to do with the Christian community and irresponsible rabble rousing by some of his hardline ministers and Hindu groups has led to what former BJP minister Arun Shourie calls “greater anxiety in social relations.” Others worry about what they say is Mr Modi and the party’s intolerance to criticism - analyst TN Ninan says it follows “subaltern siege mentality: you are either one of us or not one of us, there is no room for middle ground”, an attitude that has has led to a crackdown on civil society activists and hostility towards the media, among other things. Mr Modi’s problem is that he doesn’t have the luxury his predecessors enjoyed. He raised massive hopes of transforming India; the tyranny of high expectations can bite badly. Failing to deliver on a single major challenge could trip him up. Some 13 million Indians are seeking jobs every year, and if Mr Modi cannot get them work, he won’t have their votes. This is no longer an India which is endlessly willing to wait patiently. Mr Modi must know that - and that he needs to do more. Sources : BBC Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh has been conducting eye-checkups for hundreds of thousand school-going chldren of Nepal and has been distributing India Provides more than 2500 scholorships annually to Nepalese students for various Issue in public Interest by Nepal- India. Office : Madhesh Media House, Anamnagar, P.O.Box : 11858, Kathmandu, Phone No : 977-4266142/4266141, Fax : 014266141, E-mail: nepal.madhesh@gmail.com, Website : www.madheshvani.com, Editor : Rajesh Ahiraj, Sub-Editor : Mukesh Jha
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