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THE HIMALAYAN TIMES, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2012<br />
Penultimate day: festive mood on as Dashain nears end<br />
1.Youngsters heading to their destination after receiving tika from their elders during Dashain, at Boudha Ramhity in Kathmandu on Sunday. 2. A woman buying fruits for Dashain, at Ason in Kathmandu. 3. A police officer talking to her<br />
colleague after tika, at Hanumandhoka in Kathmandu. 4.Women striking a pose with their pet after tika, in Kathmandu. 5. People heading to their destination after celebrating Dashain.<br />
Polls the silver<br />
bullet: Ex-CJs<br />
Himalayan News Service<br />
Kathmandu, October<br />
Former Chief Justices today<br />
suggested Prime Minister<br />
Baburam Bhattarai that promulgating<br />
constitution by<br />
reviving the dissolved Constituent<br />
Assembly is impossible,<br />
so the best solution to<br />
end the present crisis is to<br />
hold elections.<br />
Talking to this daily, Attorney<br />
General Mukti Narayan<br />
Pradhan said that the <strong>CA</strong><br />
can be revived only to remove<br />
the constitutional and<br />
legal hurdles to go for fresh<br />
elections.<br />
Former Chief Justices Keshav<br />
Prasad Upadhayay,<br />
Anup Raj Sharma, Ram<br />
Prasad Shrestha, Trilok Pratap<br />
Rana, Om Bhakta<br />
Shrestha and Hari Prasad<br />
Sharma held a meeting with<br />
PM Bhattarai at his residence<br />
at Baluwatar. AG Prad-<br />
Himalayan News Service<br />
Kathmandu, October 28<br />
Security officials at the Tribhuvan<br />
International Airport<br />
said they are keeping a close<br />
watch on baggage handlers<br />
in the wake of growing complaints<br />
of theft of valuables<br />
from passengers’ luggage.<br />
Deputy Inspector General<br />
of Police Narayan Prasad<br />
Bastakoti, security in-charge<br />
at the country’s only international<br />
airport, informed that<br />
pro-active measures of police<br />
had resulted in the arrest<br />
han and Political Adviser to<br />
the PM, Devendra Paudel<br />
were also present in the<br />
meeting.<br />
“They stressed on political<br />
consensus for any solution<br />
to the present political and<br />
constitutional deadlock,”<br />
Pradhan said adding, “The<br />
Chief Justices interpreted<br />
that the election is the best<br />
solution to the present crisis<br />
as stated by the Supreme<br />
Court in its verdict passed<br />
eleven months ago.”<br />
The former Chief Justices<br />
also warned the government<br />
not to look for any<br />
solution against the<br />
Supreme Court order because<br />
that would be against<br />
the Interim Constitution.<br />
They also added that the<br />
government and the parliament<br />
did not work towards<br />
finding a solution in the past<br />
six months following the<br />
Apex court verdict.<br />
Luggage handlers under close watch<br />
Five arrested at TIA for stealing passengers’valuables<br />
of five baggage handlers involved<br />
in stealing highpriced<br />
electronic goods from<br />
bags belonging to passengers<br />
landing at the airport in<br />
the past three months.<br />
Those arrested are Bhup<br />
Bahadur Rai, Deepak<br />
Tamang, Niraj Kumar Basnet,<br />
Tapendra Shahi and<br />
Subash Silwal.<br />
“We arrested the five people,<br />
filed theft charges<br />
against them and the airport<br />
administration dismissed<br />
them,” he said.<br />
Passengers arriving at the<br />
Cataract a major cause of blindness, says report<br />
Himalayan News Service<br />
Kathmandu, October 28<br />
The changing pattern of<br />
eye diseases demand that<br />
people take care of their<br />
food habits and lifestyle.<br />
Although Cataract remains<br />
the leading cause of blindness<br />
as shown by the national<br />
survey in 2010 and<br />
1981, the other diseases<br />
have shown significant<br />
changes.<br />
airport are prone to losing<br />
their valuables at the hand of<br />
bag handlers entrusted with<br />
making sure passenger luggage<br />
gets to vehicles waiting<br />
to receive them from the arrival<br />
point. The goods stolen<br />
from the luggage included<br />
laptop computers, mobile<br />
phone sets and cameras.<br />
“Activities of baggage handlers<br />
and passengers are under<br />
CCTV surveillance. We<br />
have also deployed cops in<br />
civvies to ensure the safety of<br />
luggage and prevent theft,”<br />
DIG Bastakoti informed.<br />
According to Rapid Assessment<br />
of Avoidable<br />
Blindness Survey by Apex<br />
Body for Eye Health at the<br />
Health Ministry, Cataract<br />
was responsible for 65 per<br />
cent of blindness in 2010,<br />
which was 72 per cent in<br />
1981.<br />
The survey showed that<br />
a retinal disease was responsible<br />
for nine per cent<br />
of blindness in 2010 which<br />
was three per cent in 1981.<br />
Fortnightly launched<br />
Portugal gets Nepali mag<br />
Rastriya Samachar Samiti<br />
Kathmandu, October 28<br />
The first Nepali language<br />
newspaper in Portugal,<br />
‘Nepali wave’ (fortnightly),<br />
was published on the occasion<br />
of Bada Dashain and<br />
Tihar festivals-2069 Bikram<br />
Sambat.<br />
Honorary Consular of<br />
Nepal for the European<br />
country, Makar Bahadur<br />
Hamal, and Chairman of<br />
the Nepal-Portugal Art, Literature<br />
and Communication<br />
Council Kumar<br />
Shrestha released the newspaper<br />
in the Portuguese<br />
capital Lisbon at a function<br />
on Thursday.<br />
Kamal Bista is the chief<br />
editor and publisher of the<br />
eight-page fortnightly.<br />
Airport police claimed to<br />
have been able to stop the<br />
incidents of theft after five<br />
baggage handlers landed in<br />
jail and lost their jobs for<br />
their crimes.<br />
Six months ago, police at<br />
the airport used to receive<br />
five complaints of thefts on<br />
an average day, but this has<br />
all stopped, according to<br />
Bastakoti.<br />
“We have not received any<br />
such complaints in the past<br />
two months,” Bastakoti said,<br />
attributing this to the arrest<br />
of the offenders.<br />
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Likewise, glaucoma was responsible<br />
for five per cent<br />
of blindness in 2010, which<br />
was three per cent in 1981.<br />
Earlier in 1981, trachoma<br />
was responsible for three<br />
per cent of blindness<br />
which came down to one<br />
per cent in 2010.<br />
YD Sapkota , Programme<br />
Coordinator, Nepal Netra<br />
Jyoti Sangh (NNJS) said,<br />
“The pattern of increasing<br />
risk is due to unhealthy<br />
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lifestyle that people are<br />
adopting. Unhealthy diet<br />
and lack of exercise are the<br />
reasons behind diabetic<br />
retinopathy at present<br />
time.<br />
The survey also showed<br />
that age-related macular<br />
degeneration , refractive<br />
error, surgical complication<br />
and diabetic retinopathy<br />
has been recorded by<br />
four per cent, four per cent,<br />
one per cent and 0.2 per<br />
cent respectively.<br />
At present, there are 21<br />
eye hospitals, 63 primary<br />
care centres and 12 eye departments<br />
across the<br />
country. There are about<br />
275,000 blind people in the<br />
country.Ophthalmologist<br />
Dr Sunu Dulal said, “Diabetic<br />
retinopathy is the<br />
most common diabetic eye<br />
disease in the country<br />
caused by uncontrolled diabetes.”<br />
Thin vehicular movement on the road in front of Singha Durbar on Sunday.<br />
THT<br />
Two nabbed<br />
with live<br />
pangolin<br />
Himalayan News Service<br />
Kathmandu, October 28<br />
Photos: THT<br />
Metropolitan Police Range,<br />
Hanumandhoka today arrested<br />
two smugglers of rare wild<br />
species with a live Pangolin at<br />
Naya Basti, Bouddha.<br />
Those arrested have been<br />
identified as Buddhiman Moktan<br />
(30) and Aryan Moktan (17)<br />
of Daduwa-1, Ramechhap.<br />
SSP Jaya Bahadur Chand,<br />
MPR in-charge, said, “Buddhiman<br />
and Aryan were on their<br />
way to find prospective clients<br />
for the pangolin when they were<br />
held at around 1.30 pm based<br />
on a special tip-off.”<br />
During interrogation, they<br />
told the police that they were<br />
planning to sell the animal for<br />
Rs 1,00,000.<br />
“We captured the pangolin in<br />
a forest of our home district and<br />
brought it to Kathmandu for<br />
sale as some people said it can<br />
fetch us handsome money,” a<br />
source quoted Buddhiman as<br />
saying.<br />
The pangolin seized from the<br />
duo weighs 12 kg.<br />
According to police, pangolins<br />
are generally smuggled to<br />
China where it is used for meat<br />
and decorative purposes. Its<br />
scales are believed to have medicinal<br />
properties.<br />
Chinese people believe that<br />
pangolin scales can heal<br />
swelling, increase blood circulation<br />
and help mothers produce<br />
milk.<br />
Anyone involved in the trade<br />
of the conserved species could<br />
be slapped a fine of up to Rs<br />
100,000 and 5-15 years jail term<br />
as provisioned in the National<br />
Parks and Wildlife Conservation<br />
Act-1973. Police said the duo<br />
and the pangolin would be<br />
handed over to the Kathmandu<br />
District Forest Office after an investigation.