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Drug-and-loot gang in police net

KAMAL PARIYAR
KATHMANDU, May 23: On Sunday afternoon, when Tuna Kumari Nepal, 39, of Votshipa-9 in Sindhupalchowk District, regained consciousness, she was horrified to find that the gold jewelry she had been wearing was all missing. And she could hardly stand on her feet as these were unresponsive.
It was not long before it dawned on her that she had looted after being drugged with the fruit juice that she had taken about 25 minutes earlier at the request of a woman in her forties and two men.

She was not the only woman to find herself in such a miserable predicament of late. In the last few months, several other women and elder citizens have gone to the police with similar complaints. However, the police were clueless about the culprits, who operated by drugging their victims with Lorazepam, a type of drug often used as a sedative. [More]

  Nepali Dalit woman gets DLitt from US  
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Boston-based social activist Bishnu Maya Pariyar has become the first South Asian to be awarded with honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from Pine Manor College, the 102-years-old well known educational institution in Massachusetts of the USA. She is also become the first Nepali woman to be awarded DLitt from an American university.

Bishnu Maya, who graduated from the same college in Social Change and International Development, has been recognized for her undeterred contributions to the upliftment of Dalit women in Nepal. The college honored her for works to women’s empowerment through the Boston-based Empower Dalit Women of Nepal (EDWON) and Nepal-based Association for Dalit Women’s Advancement of Nepal (ADWAN), according to the college.

 
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