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Nepal-India Everest Team Collects 2,000 Kg Garbage |
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Plans to collect 2,000 kg more
KATHMANDU, May 20: The joint Mount Everest Expedition and Sanitation Campaign of army personnel from Nepal and India has collected over 2,000 kg of garbage from around base camp and the routes to the peaks. It plans to spend two more days at base camp to collect more garbage.
According to the Nepal Army´s Directorate of Public Relations (DPR), a first team of the Nepal-India Everest Expedition and Sanitation Campaign successfully climbed Everest at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday. A second team reached the summit on Monday at 7:35 a.m.
Colonel Prakash Jung Karki of the Directorate General of Military Training (DGMT), who is chief liaison officer of the joint expedition, said, “Both teams have climbed the summit but now they plan to collect more garbage.”
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Vote Counting On As RPP-RJP Unity Convention Underway |
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KATHMANDU, May 20: Voting to elect central committee members in the ongoing unity convention of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) and Rastriya Janashakti Party (RJP) was underway until late evening on Monday.
The unity convention, which is under way in Kathmandu, had unanimously elected RJP head Surya Bahadur Thapa as chairman of the unified party on Sunday.
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Journalists Concerned Over SC Move |
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KATHMANDU, May 20: Constitutional and Judicial Journalist´s Forum has expressed serious concerns over the Supreme Court (SC) administration´s move to not issue press pass to media persons representing electronic and online news portals.
The Forum has expressed dissatisfaction over a notice issued by the SC administration on Sunday regarding issuance of press pass to 16 journalists from various newspapers.
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10,000 Voter Signatures Provision Challenged |
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KATHMANDU, May 20: A writ petition was filed at the Supreme Court on Monday against the provision requiring the signatures of 10,000 voters for registering a new party at the Election Commission (EC).
Vice-chairman of Nepal Janata Party Prabhu Prasad Kalwar moved the apex court stating that the provision is against the right to equality.
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RPP-RJP Unity Convention Elects Thapa As Chairman |
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KATHMANDU, May 20: The ongoing unity convention of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) and Rastriya Janashakti Party (RJP) elected Surya Bahadur Thapa as the chairman of the unified party, which has been named RPP.
The convention which is under way in Kathmandu elected former RJP chairman Thapa as the head of the unified party on Sunday as the proposal to entrust top four leaders -- Thapa, Lokendra Bahadur Chand, Pashupati Shamsher JB Rana and Prakash Chandra Lohani -- with heading the party on a rotational basis was withdrawn following protest by delegates on Saturday.
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