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WITHOUT F EAR OR FAVOUR Nepal’s largest selling English daily Vol XXIX No. 135 | 8 pages | Rs.5 O O Printed simultaneously in Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Bharatpur and Nepalgunj 36.6 C 14.2 C Saturday, July 03, 2021 | 19-03-2078 Dipayal Jomsom As US supplies vaccines to some countries, Nepal waits and wonders Nepal fails to become Washington’s priority for vaccine aid despite its urgent needs. There is no clarity on doses and delivery of the jabs White House announced last month. ANIL GIRI the government made a clarion call to KATHMANDU, JULY 2 the international community for sup- port, seeking medical supplies and On June 3, US Ambassador to Nepal vaccines. Various countries, including Randy Berry celebrated the Joe Biden the United States, have come forward administration’s announcement that to show their generosity by providing Nepal would be among the countries medical goods. But Nepal has not to receive vaccines against Covid-19. received a single dose of vaccine from “I join my fellow Americans & all any country besides India and China. friends of Nepal, in celebrating the @ On June 21, the Biden administra- Whitehouse announcement that Nepal tion made yet another announcement will be among the countries to receive of sharing 55 million doses—of the direct vaccine donations from the total 80 million doses announced in United States,” Berry wrote on April—among various countries. Twitter. “More details are coming Nepal was on the list of recipients of soon,” he added, referring to the fact the doses under COVAX, an interna- sheet announced by the White House tional vaccine sharing scheme backed for the first time. by the United Nations. The White House had announced “Approximately 16 million for Asia that approximately seven million to the following countries: India, POST PHOTO: RAMESH KUMAR PAUDEL doses would be given to India, Nepal, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Workers use a bulldozer on Friday to remove a rock that fell on the Narayangadh-Muglin road at Chaudha Kilo on Thursday disrupting vehicular movements, in Chitwan. Following continued Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Lanka, Afghanistan, Maldives, rainfall, the giant boulder had broken off the adjoining hillock, releasing a flood of mud. According to a local resident, small stones had been falling on to the road for the last couple of days. After Afghanistan, Maldives, Malaysia, Bhutan, the Philippines, Vietnam, rockfall stopped and the debris was cleared, one-way traffic resumed. Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, Laos, Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Taiwan, and the Pacific Islands Cambodia, and the Pacific Islands,” through Covax. There was no clarity read the White House fact sheet. on the number of doses Nepal would Though the US ambassador claimed receive. It’s exactly a month since the that Nepal would receive “direct” vac- INSIDE Oli tells Nepal faction to withdraw announcement but Nepal has not cine support from the Biden adminis- received a single dose of vaccine yet. tration, Nepali officials in Kathmandu After Nepal crumpled under the and Washington, DC, say they have no Sudurpaschim reports cases Covid-19 onslaught when the second clue about it. after relaxation in restrictions support to Deuba. Dissidents refuse wave of coronavirus hit the country, >> Continued on page 2 KANCHANPUR/ACHHAM: Until June 26, the number of Covid-19 recoveries With the court verdict on House dissolution imminent, he were higher than that of active cases in Kanchanpur, according to the tells party lawmakers to abandon the opposition alliance District Health Office in Kanchanpur. The district did not record any new for any chance of unity between the warring factions. cases while the lockdown was in place. But June 27 onwards, the dis- omegawatches.com trict authorities in Kanchanpur allowed the operation of businesses and transportation services from 6am to 6pm. This has contributed to an increase in public movement, leading to a resurgence of coronavirus cases in the district, health workers say. According to the record of the District Health Office, there were only 80 active cases in Kanchanpur before the relaxation of prohibitory orders. (Details on Pg 2) Rule eased for recruiting agencies to renew licence KATHMANDU: Several hundred recruit- ing agencies that hire and supply Nepali workers overseas have sur- vived the prospect of losing their operating licences for failing to send a stipulated number of workers. POST PHOTO: DEEPAK KC Recruiting agencies will be able to Hope for immediate unity between the two factions has faded with Oli’s latest moves. renew their licences and run their business in the fiscal year 2021-22 TIKA R PRADHAN of 153 lawmakers from his party, UML, after the government allowed them KATHMANDU, JULY 2 and the Janata Samajbadi Party. one-time relaxation. The Cabinet A five-member Constitutional meeting on Monday paved the way for CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli has Bench of the Supreme Court has been licence renewal of recruiting agen- given an ultimatum to the Madhav hearing the case since June 23. cies that could not supply at least 100 Kumar Nepal-led faction: withdraw On Friday, lawyers of two of the workers in each of the last two fiscal the signatures in the writ petition three defendants—Office of the years—2019-20 and 2020-21. The filed at the Supreme Court demanding President, the Office of the Prime Cabinet asked the line agency, the the restoration of the House of Minister and Council of Ministers, Department of Foreign Employment, Representatives and the appointment and Prime Minister Oli—completed to renew licences even if they did not of Nepali Congress President Sher their arguments. meet the minimum number of work- Bahadur Deuba as prime minister. The final verdict is expected next ers sent requirement. (Details on Pg 3) Or else unity between the two fac- week. tions will not be possible, Oli has Before the verdict, lawyers of warned. Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota, who Farmers boost yield by using “Party unity is not possible if they has already termed the dissolution of System of Rice Intensification refuse to withdraw their signatures by the House unconstitutional, will pres- 5pm Monday,” a Central Committee ent their arguments. This will be fol- BIRATNAGAR: Paddy farmers in member quoted Oli as saying at the lowed by briefs from a four-member Province 1 are using a low-water and party’s Central Committee meeting on amicus curiae and rebuttal by plain- labour-intensive growing method Friday. “No UML member can make a tiffs’ lawyers. called System of Rice Intensification Congress leader prime minister. This Analysts say that the UML has (SRI) in a bid to increase yield. The RECORDING OLYMPIC DREAMS SINCE 1932 is not acceptable.” reached such a complicated point seedlings are transplanted individual- The Nepal faction remains defiant. that the two warring factions can nei- ly in a widely spaced pattern as “We won’t follow his orders,” said ther move ahead nor turn back. opposed to the traditional method of Every athlete has a dream. It lives in their heart and it pushes them towards Ghanshyam Bhusal, a deputy general Nothing will happen in the UML until planting them in clumps. The rice secretary of UML who is with the the Supreme Court’s verdict, accord- victory. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, these dreams will be given a stage. seeds are transplanted when they are Nepal faction. “Now we don’t care ing to them. much younger than usual, using dif- This is the moment when inspiration meets performance, when ambition about any of his actions or punish- All eyes are now on the Supreme ferent amounts of water at critical ments. We will wait until the court’s Court, said Shyam Shrestha, an ana- times of their growth cycle, and meets precision, and when the Official Timekeeper OMEGA records it all. verdict.” lyst who has followed Nepal’s left poli- improving soil conditions with organ- On May 24, two days after President tics for decades. ic manure. (Details on Pg 5) Bidya Devi Bhandari invalidated Ever since Oli dissolved the House, the claim Deuba made to form his position has become untenable, as the government, 146 lawmakers the Supreme Court has passed at least of the dissolved lower house half a dozen orders against his gov- went to court. Of them 23 belong ernment’s decisions. to the UML. As the court is expected to pass its The President had refused to verdict soon, and many expect the appoint Deuba saying that his bench to order the restoration of the claim, despite having the sup- House, Oli seems to be attempting to AVAILABLE AT: port of 149 members of the placate the Nepal faction. REGENCY WATCH: Annapurna Arcade, Durbar Marg 275-member House, was ‘insuffi- Oli now wants to ensure that the 1 Durbar Mall, Thamsherku Center, Durbar Marg cient’. On May 21 Oli too had dissidents withdraw their signatures MGA International Pvt Ltd staked a claim to government as before the court verdict, according to per Article 76 (5) of the constitu- Bhusal. tion, saying he had the backing >> Continued on page 2 C M Y K SATURDAY, JULY 03, 2021 | 02 NATIONAL Sudurpaschim reports new Covid-19 cases Oli tells Nepal faction ... >> Continued from page 1 parties and the bond within our group In their arguments, the plaintiff ’s and lure some leaders from our group lawyers have said that the House dis- into his fold,” Gyawali told the Post. solution was illegal since Oli did not While there were 203 members in after relaxation of prohibitory orders go for a floor test, a mandatory process the UML Central Committee on May defined in Article 76 (4) for a prime 16, 2018, it was expanded to 241 before minister appointed under Article 76 the merger with the Maoist Centre the Increase in public movement has led to a resurgence of coronavirus cases in Kanchanpur, health workers say.

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