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Nepal AbroadPublished weekly from Washington D.C. Saturday March 10, 2007 Falgun 26, 2063 B.S. Year 2. No.10 US Under Secretary Fore Nepalese Doctor conferred Visits Nepal ‘Asian of the Year’ Award New Delhi March 5 (IANS): Sanduk Ruit, a Nepalese eye surgeon educated in India, was Monday conferred with the first Reader’s Digest Asian of the Year award. Ruit has conducted over 70,000 surgeries for cataract, considered to be the main reason of blindness in the subcontinent. ‘It is an apt award for a man of his stature. India and the Indian subcontinent need his Dr. Sanduk Ruit service,’ Indian Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said about Ruit has been working for the cause of eliminating Photo: Nepal News the 54-year-old surgeon at the Henrietta H. Fore, Under Secretary of State for Management meet- award ceremony here. ...Contd. on pg 4 ing with the Prime Minister Girija P Koirala at his residence in Baluwatar on Saturday March 10, 2007. During her stay she re- India Agrees to Inter-State viewed developments in Nepal and met Nepali politicians, officials, business executives, and women alumni of US exchange programs. Railway US Prepares for Possible New Delhi, March 9: India yes- der project. UNESCO in its 62nd terday agreed to expand inter-state inter-governmental meeting on 12 Flow of Caribean Immigrants railway services linking Asia with April had decided to launch this Europe. Miami, March 9: U.S. officials including personnel from 50 ambitious project. A press release issued by have wrapped up an exercise agencies including the Coast “This railway network the Union Communications Min- to prepare for the possible Guard, and local rescue and would be significant for promot- istry today stated that the cabinet mass flow of migrants police departments. ing trade and tourism in the re- meeting under the chairmanship arriving by boat from Cuba or Officials said the gion,” Indian Union Communica- of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan another Caribbean nation. exercise imagined the possible tions Minister Priyaranjandas Singh made the decision in this From Miami, VOA’s Brian collapse of the Communist Munsi said after the cabinet meet- regard. Wagner reports that the drill government in Cuba, but they ing. Earlier, the Nepal gov- was intended to test existing said a mass migration also Eighteen nations, includ- ernment had given its consent. 18 U.S. resources to combat could come from Haiti, ing Nepal, Russia, China, Iran, nations would join hands to build illegal migration, as well as Dominican Republic or Korea, Mongolia, Turkey, railway network in this intra-bor- drug and people smuggling. another Caribbean nation. The ...Contd. on pg 4 U.S. officials said the head of the operation, Coast scenario called for scores of Guard Rear Admiral David Tickets to Nepal, India boats from Cuba arriving on Kunkel said the goal of the & Worldwide the shores of Florida after the drill was to ensure security fall of the Communist regime forces are prepared for any in Havana. Actors playing the Low price tickets from all over the US & Canada to Nepal, India, Pakistan, event. 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