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Temperature: Max: 32.3°c Min: 13.0°c Coldest: Jumla: 4.3°c Hottest: Bhairahawa: 40.5°c the kathmandupost.ekantipur.com kaCAPITAL EDITION l PRINTED SIMULTANEOUSLYth IN KATHMANDU, BIRATNAGAR, BHARATPURma AND NEPALGUNJ nduposSTANDt PRICE RS 5.00 Vol XXIV No 66 | 12+4 Pages NEPAL’S LARGEST SELLING ENGLISH DAILY MONDAY, APRIL 25, 2016 (13-01-2073) PAGE 9 PAGE 4 PAGE 12 ESCALATE WORLD SPORTS money Success is about NKorea says missile test Sunderland hold Arsenal CNI: Bring policies to being consistent a major success to goalless draw rehabilitate industries capital gains tax FORMER NCELL Nation remembers quake victims CEO COULD FACE received the first instalment PROSECUTION President goes of the Rs200,000 cash grant for BIBEK SUBEDI building houses. KATHMANDU, APRIL 24 to epicentre for Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli attended a wreath-laying Former Ncell CEO Erim house rebuilding ceremony at Sundhara where Taylanlar could face prosecu- the iconic Dharahara tower tion after he failed to respond campaign stood before the magnitude 7.8 to a letter from the Large POST REPORT earthquake reduced it to rub- Taxpayer’s Office to present KATHMANDU, APRIL 24 ble on April 25, 2015. himself before the LTO. In Barpak of Gorkha dis- The wing under the Inland The country marked the first trict, the epicentre of the Revenue Department (IRD) anniversary of the devastat- earthquake, President Bidhya had issued a letter to the then ing Gorkha earthquake by Devi Bhandari laid the first chief executive officer of the remembering thousands of stone for rebuilding the house telecom service provider on people who lost their lives and of Gopal BK. She also laid the construction of a memorial in April 20, asking him to pres- symbolically inaugurating foundation stone for an earth- the same VDC. ent the details of the recently the reconstruction of several quake memorial park in More than 800,000 houses concluded Ncell deal. damaged structures. The big- Barkpak and inaugurated the were destroyed, mostly in the gest quake in eight decades Hills, due to the tremors. left nearly 9,000 people dead, Around 500 demonstra- more than 22,000 injured and ELIGIBLE FOR AID tors—quake survivors who three quarters of a million SN Districts Households arrived from 11 worst-affected families homeless last year. 1 Okhaldhunga 15,005 districts—tried to enter the As anger boils over the gov- 2 Sindhuli 21,114 government’s main adminis- ernment’s slow pace of recon- 3 Ramechhap 30,519 trative centre in the Capital The office had cited Section struction, a group of youth 4 Dolakha 49,751 insisting that they wanted to 135 of the Income Tax Act- activists demonstrated at the 5 Sindhupalchok 35,308 put their demands before the 2002 that says the IRD may southern gate of Singha 6 Kavre 40,264 authority. avail of powers with respect Durbar in Kathmandu 7 Nuwakot 38,235 A banner with the names of to issuing summons, record- demanding accountability 8 Rasuwa 5,417 all the 8,856 killed in the disas- ing statements, examining from the National 9 Dhading 23,440 ter was displayed at Bhugol evidences and seeking docu- Reconstruction Authority. Out 10 Makawanpur 7,412 Park in New Road after a can- ments from the officials of the 770,000 families ren- 11 Gorkha 34,496 dlelight vigil. Other neigh- concerned. Tax officials Source: NRA dered homeless, only 700 have bourhoods and communities n People light candles to the shapes of Dharahara and Kasthamandap, at Basantapur in Kathmandu on Sunday. POST PHOTO: KAUSHAL ADHIKARI initiated the move after Ncell, recently acquired by across the country observed delay. Speaking live on televi- homeless families before mon- Axiata—a Malaysian telecom- silence and took out rallies to sion on Saturday, PM Oli soon. “The government is munication giant, said that it Reconstruction project in 11 districts mourn the dead and press the pledged that the government developing joint settlements was unaware of the transfer government to provide aid to would distribute the promised as soon as possible,” he said. of its 80 percent stake. BHADRA SHARMA ties—to lay the foundation Spokesperson Ram Prasad In the absence of accurate the survivors without further Rs200,000 rebuilding aid to >> CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 >> CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 KATHMANDU, APRIL 24 stone for the house of Sarbe Thapaliya. The authority, data on the earthquake dam- Tamang. At the function, an which recently selected more age, rebuilding activity was The National Reconstruction agreement local authorities than 2,400 engineers to assist confined to Singati of Authority formally took its signed a deal with Yadumaya the quake survivors in Dolakha. The authority house rebuilding project to 11 Ghorasaini, a single woman. rebuilding earthquake-resil- expanded its campaign after severely quake-affected dis- The Dolakha sub-regional ient houses, plans to deploy detailed damage assessment tricts on Sunday, on the first office of the NRA has begun them within a week and pro- on houses and infrastructure anniversary of the devastat- reconstruction of 10 houses in vide housing reconstruction was complete in most of the ing earthquake. Ramechhap district. With gen- aid soon after agreements are devastated villages. Over The NRA announced the uine victims identified and signed at the local level. 710,000 households have been names of 300,981 beneficiaries legal hurdles cleared, officials The name list of earth- surveyed in the districts. in 11 of the 14 worst-his dis- believe reconstruction will quake victims has been sent The assessment, which tricts. Prime Minister KP gain momentum across the to the districts. “Officials can began following discrepancies Sharma Oli reached Chautara country. sign agreements with the dis- in the number of damaged in Sindhupalchok—the worst- Resources would now be placed families from tomor- houses, is yet to begin in hit district in terms of casual- mobilised fully, said NRA row itself,” said Thapaliya. Kathmandu Valley. CARAVAN ACTOR THINLEY FALLS OFF CLIFF, DIES BISHNULAL BUDHA DUNAI (DOLPA), APRIL 24 Popular actor and social activ- ist Thinley Lhondup died in his home district Dolpa on Sunday. He was 72. A permanent resident of Saldang-5, Thinley had fallen off the cliff at Chhepka in Phoksundo VDC, on his way back home from Dunai, the district headquarters. He fell along with the horse he was riding as it was pushed by mule passing through the nar- row track, according to Ram Krishna Regmi, Thinley’s landlord in Dunai. The horse died on the spot while Thinley succumbed to his injuries soon afterwards. The Caravan actor had stomach cancer. He lived in Dunai and frequently trav- elled to Kathmandu for treat- ment. Thinley’s friends and relatives told the police about the incident. Preparations were on to dispatch a team to the incident site, DSP Dhrubaraj Raut said. Thinley played the lead character in the 1999 adven- ture film directed by Eric Valli. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Film Award at the Oscars in 1999. Valli met Thinley in the 1980s in Dolpa where he was the village chief. Thinley also made a mark in the Nepali music video industry. Nepathya’s Sa Karnali was a popular num- ber he was cast in. C M Y K Monday, April 25, 2016 news thekathmandu post 02 NEWS DIGEST educational relief Young girl found TMLP set to hold dead, search on for missing mum BAJHANG: Police are searching for a 24-year- old woman from Rayal-9 conclave in June of Bajhang after her four-year-old daughter was found dead on the First general convention since party was formed in 2007 bank of Seti River on Sunday. Devi Khati and POST REPORT Gachhadar-led MJF-L had her daughter had gone KATHMANDU, APRIL 24 scheduled its first general con- missing four days ago, vention for May 2-4 in police said. (PR) The Tarai Madhes Loktantrik Biratnagar. Leaders said that Party has announced that the the convention is also expect- 3 die, 15 hurt in party would hold its first gen- ed to rename the party. jeep plunge eral convention from June 20 “Besides restricting the par- PYUTHAN: Three persons to 22. The party has not held ty’s organisational setup, the died and 15 others were the convention since its for- convention would also help wounded when a jeep fell mation on 2007. month, the EC had scrapped make its position clearer on some 100 metres down Veteran leader Mahanta the registration of 15 political various political issues and n Children of Kalisetidevi Lower Secondary School pose with their new schoolbags donated by the Kathmandu-based organisation, ISDRI, the road at Okharkot-6 in Thakur-led TMLP is the third parties, including that of the the ongoing crisis,” said in Chaughare VDC-5, Lalitpur on Sunday. The children received educational materials on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Pyuthan on Sunday. largest Tarai-centric party Samajwadi Janata Party led MJF-L General Secretary Gorkha Earthquake. After the magnitude 7.8 quake flattened the school building, the students are being taught in temporary classrooms. Police identified the behind the Sanghiya by sitting Minister Prem Ramjanam Chaudhary. POST PHOTO: SURBINDRA KUMAR PUN deceased as Jagat GC, Samajwadi Forum Nepal and Bahadur Singh for failing to Other Madhes-based par- Janak GC and Shyam Madhesi Janadhikar Forum abide by its code of conducts. ties, including the Bhandari. Three people, (Loktantrik). Singh looks after the Sadbhawana Party, are also who were critically hurt, Most Tarai-centric parties portfolio of water supply and gearing up for their conven- were to a Butwal-based are under increasing pressure sanitation. tion. The party had concluded MAN SEEKS hospital.