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Police arrest Tibetans, Gyatso leads prayers

SUNDAR KHANAL
KATHMANDU, March 10: Police arrested two prominent Tibetans from Bouddha area in the capital late Tuesday night, according to police. Police also arrested a youth who was wearing a ´Free Tibet´ t-shirt from one of the gates of the Bouddha Stupa Wednesday morning.

Police in Bouddha told Republica that they arrested Kalsang Lama of New Age Network and Furba of Tibetan Volunteers Group. Police further said they took the duo into custody to foil any "anti-China demonstrations" in the area.

Another unnamed Tibetan was arrested in Balaju area in the capital Tuesday night.

Every year, Tibetan refugees across world mark March 10 as Tibetan Uprising. On this day in 1959, the Chinese government sent its troops into Tibet, including its capital Lhasa to crack down on Tibetans led by the Dalai Lama who had been protesting the Chinese rule.

Thinley Gyatso leading prayers in Samdeling Monastery

Meanwhile, Thinley Gyatso, the representative of the Dalai Lama is leading prayers at the Samdeling Monastery at Bouddha. Some media, both national and international, had incorrectly reported that he had been arrested.

	Q&A Meet Goedele Liekens
	BY DIPAK BHATTARAI
	GOEDELE LIEKENS is the Goodwill Ambassador of UNFPA. She was in Nepal for a week to report for Goedele magazine published in Belgium in her own name. She lives in Brussels with her two daughters. Dipak Bhattarai spent three days traveling with the former Miss Belgium. Why are you here in Nepal? I am here to do stories for my magazine. One is on polyandry issues. And the other is about climate refugees.

POLITICAL AFFAIRS

Koirala under 24-hour oxygen
KIRAN CHAPAGAIN

KATHMANDU, Mar 10: Doctors have put Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala under oxygen around the clock at his residence at Maharajgunj after his illness worsened in recent days.

Until recently, he used to be put on oxygen five to seven hours a day. [More]

MoLD probe uncovers anomalies in DDC funds
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CC poses 16 key queries to top leaders
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BUSINESS & ECONOMY

MoF okays APF recruitment
REPUBLICA

KATHMANDU, Mar 10: The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has granted permission to recruit over 5,400 additional personnel for the over 25,000-strong Armed Police Force (APF), creating an additional liability of around Rs 1.4 billion annually for state coffers.

We have recently given our consent to the Home Ministry for the recruitment and MoF is ready to bear the additional financial liabilities arising from the recruitment, but only from the coming fiscal year, an MoF official told myrepublica.com. [More]

MoI pushes for duty concessions, diesel subsidy for industries
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MoF nod to appoint four more labor attaches
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SOCIAL AFFAIRS

Sports event aimed at killing a myth
SUNDAR KHANAL

KATHMANDU, Mar 10: That people who have undergone kidney transplants and their donors could go about their lives as actively as any healthy person is not yet an accepted notion in Nepali society. This, however, will be challenged by Nepal´s first ever Transplant Sports Event scheduled for April 14.

Surendra Bahadur KC, 60, who has been jogging for nearly two hours every morning after receiving a kidney transplant, is also participating in the event. “Exercise for me is not only a way to cope with side effects of post-transplantation medication but also to enjoy a vigorous life,” he said. [More]

Construction of Jajarkot-Dunai road to resume
OM ASTHA RAI

Main accused in gangrape, 'murder' held
ROHIT RAI

LIFESTYLE

Living in Kathmandu, not easy
SAHARA SHARMA

KATHMANDU, March 9: Preetam Kushmi came to Kathmandu after her School Leaving Certificate exam in 2007. Everyone in her village suggested Kathmandu as the best place to acquire her further studies. Preetam made her first big decision to go to the city.

“An elder brother of one of my classmates was living in Kathmandu. So we made a decision that we would live together,” she says. [More]

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SPORTS

Rambir Shrestha Memorial Chess
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KATHMANDU, Mar 9: Ganesh Man Duwal, Nabin Tandukar, Shyam Sundar Shrestha, Sajan Pandey, Ratna Byanjankar and Dinesh Shrestha are leading the Rambir Shrestha Memorial First Nationwide Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament with three points after the completion of the third phase matches on Tuesday.

Duwal defeated Laba Kumar Shrestha and Niraj Niraula in the second and third phase matches respectively. Likewise, Tandukar ousted Bikash Kuluju and Prajwal Raj Upadhyay, Shyam Sundar Shrestha edged out Laxman Kumar Regmi and Uttam Raj Thapa while Pandey beat Ilias Ali and Rijendra Rajbhandari to remain at the top. Byanjankar emerged victorious against Shiromani Bajracharya and Sujendra Prasad Shrestha. [More]

Nepal march toward semifinals; Nischal sets record
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Shrestha scores first hat-trick as JYC ease past APF; Machhindra beat RCT
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INTERNATIONAL

Gays find surrogate mothers in India
AGECIES FRANCE-PRESSE

NEW DELHI, March 9: For gay US businessman Brad Fister, experiencing the joy of fatherhood meant flying half way around the world to India where he first held his baby daughter, born to a woman who had signed away any right to her child. [More]

Earthquake hits Turkey, 41 dead
SUZAN FRASER/AP

Powerful car bomb kills 11 in Pakistan's Lahore
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

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