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Written by admin on 28 April 2012
Kathmandu, April 28 (IANS) Nepal has offered to train Indian Army officers who will take part in the United Nations peacekeeping operations under various international assignments.
Nepal made the offer during the ninth meeting of Nepal-India Bilateral Consultative Group on Security Issues that concluded in Pokhara in western Nepal Friday, reported Xinhua.
“This is the first time Nepal offered such training slots to Indian Army,” said a Nepali official.
The Nepal Army (NA) has two training centres exclusively for peacekeepers and an integrated training centre.
The bilateral security meeting mainly dwelt on eight agendas that included imparting various types of training to Nepal Army personnel, purchasing vehicles for the army, upgrading the army’s Sundarijal arsenal factory, maintaining the army helicopters, and providing hardware and logistic assistance for the army’s new directorate.
“We discussed all the agendas and will forward our requirements to India later. We also discussed about requirements for the NA’s new directorate,” Dipak Dhital, joint secretary in the foreign ministry, was quoted by eKantipur.com as saying Saturday.
He said the two sides agreed to strengthen the bilateral mechanisms to manage the Nepal-India border.
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Written by admin on 26 April 2012
Kathmandu, April 26 (IANS) India and Nepal began their four-day bilateral security talks Thursday.
The Nepal-India bilateral consultative groups on security issues began their meeting in Nepali city of Pokhara, 200 km from capital Kathmandu, Xinhua reported.
The Indian delegation, which arrived in Kathmandu earlier Thursday, is led by Akhilesh Mishra, joint secretary in the external affairs ministry, while the Nepalese side is led by Dipak Dhital, joint secretary in the foreign ministry.
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Written by admin on 23 April 2012
Kathmandu, April 23 (IANS) Major political parties of Nepal Monday sought two more days to thrash out contentious issues that have held up their constitution drafting.
The Himalayan country’s political parties have extended the Constituent Assembly’s (CA) term thrice earlier, though they had in 2008 agreed to complete the drafting of the statute book within two years.
During a meeting of the Dispute Resolution Sub-Committee Monday, Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)(UCPN-M) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal a.k.a Prachanda, who also heads the committee, proposed for two more days to settle the yet to be resolved issues of constitution drafting, Nepal’s newspaper ekantipur reported.
The constitutional committee and the sub-committee have been summoned to meet Wednesday, said Ram Chandra Poudel, Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party leader.
During Monday’s meeting, political parties came closer over the issues on judiciary, citizenship provision and electoral system. They were, however, divided on the issues of state restructuring and forms of governance.
Prachanda, during this meet, also proposed to endorse the already resolved issues of the new constitution in the assembly session April 26. The yet to be resolved issues would be decided through voting the same day.
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Written by admin on 20 April 2012
Kathmandu, April 20 (IANS) A total of 6,574 ex-Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the (UCPN-M)’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) combatants, have opted for voluntary retirement, a report said.
The step came at the end of the timeline specified for the second round of regrouping of the ex-Maoist combatants Thursday, Xinhua reported.
Founded in 1994, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), a Nepalese political party, was initially led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal a.k.a Prachanda. In Sep. 2008, Nanda Kishor Pun was appointed new chief commander of the PLA, as Prachanda became Nepal’s Prime Minister.
The PLA, an armed wing, was founded in 2002, in the midst of the Nepal Civil War initiated by the Maoists in 1996.
According to Army integration special committee secretariat coordinator Balananda Sharma, only a total of 3,129 combatants now remain in the cantonments.
The combatants, opting for voluntary retirement, received their pay check and left the cantonments, said Sharma.
Following Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the PLA soldiers have been staying in cantoments.
The team of the secretariat is returning to Nepal’s capital Kathmandu with the completion of the regrouping.
The second round of regrouping, conducted by the Army Integration Special Committee, has concluded all the seven divisions in Nepal that began April 14.
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Written by admin on 07 April 2012
Kathmandu, April 7 (IANS) At least five people died and nearly a dozen were injured in a head-on collision between a jeep and a bus in Nepal Saturday.
The accident occurred when the jeep collided with a bus on the East-West Highway at about 6 a.m. near western Nepal’s Murgiya Bazar, Xinhua reported.
Three people died on the spot while two others succumbed while undergoing treatment at a local hospital, police said.
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Written by admin on 05 April 2012
Kathmandu, April 5 (IANS) Indian Army chief Gen. V.K. Singh Thursday dismissed as “absolutely stupid” a report that suggested a coup bid on the basis of movement of two key army units towards the capital”.
The comments come a day after the Indian government led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the defence minister thrashed the report as alarmist as well as baseless.
Singh, here on a two-day visit to attend a seminar hosted by the Nepalese army, said the report was “deplorable” and that some people were trying to throw muck at the government and the army.
“This is absolutely stupid,” was his reply when asked to comment on the Indian Express report of Wednesday claiming the Raisina Hills, the seat of the Indian government, was “spooked” Jan 16 after the troop movement.
“Whosoever is trying to make stories against the army chief is deplorable. What it shows is that people are unnecessarily trying to throw muck at both the government and the army. Such people should be taken to task,” he said.
The Express said the Hisar-based Mechanised Infantry unit and elements from the airborne 50 Para Brigade in Agra moved towards the capital on the night of Jan 16, without following the standard operating procedure of informing the defence ministry in advance.
The report said since this happened when Gen. Singh was waging a judicial battle against the government over his age row, it created unease and suspicion in Delhi. But the paper left it short of calling it a coup bid.
“It (the report) seems like somebody’s mischief,” Singh said, adding that he “can’t keep guessing” who was playing mischief or why it was being played.
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