Butwal schools suspend classes due to heat wave
Maximum temperature in the town reached 42 degrees on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Maximum temperature in the town reached 42 degrees on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The cooperative chair Om Prakash Gurung has been sent to jail for judicial custody while others, including former Vice President Pun’s son, have been released on bail.
This is Adhikari’s second stint as Gandaki chief minister. He first took the post in January last year but lost it after failing to secure the vote of confidence during the floor test in the provincial assembly in April.
Dilli Bahadur Chaudhary of Nepali Congress stepped down citing change in the political alliance.
Police detain Om Prakash Gurung, chairman of the Butwal-based Supreme Saving and Credit Co-operative, and its manager Durga Pandey Chapagain.
The provincial government is now nine-strong with induction of two new ministers.
The government has decided to reduce the size of the industrial area by 250 bigha, address the locals’ concerns, and proceed with the project.
But victims in several far-flung villages away from roads are yet to receive any assistance.
The probe panel said that more than 70 percent of the subsidies in Lumbini province had been misappropriated.
Indian carpenters cross the border on bicycles early in the morning and visit the under-construction houses, hotels and corporate offices to make furniture items. They then return home in the evening after finishing their work.
Hospitals run by the private sector are blatantly ignoring the mandatory 10 percent free bed allocation for the needy.
Another cable car project in the northwest of Butwal is expected to come into operation during the Dashain festival in October.
The project is eyeing both domestic and Indian tourists.
The company owning the land, which has a five-star casino resort in Bhairahawa, was found to have exceeded the land ceiling as provisioned by the law.
Giri’s motion was rejected by a majority of the 87-member assembly, managing to receive only 33 votes in his favour.