Electoral system needs reform: Leader Koirala

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Leader Nepal worries over anomalies plaguing communist parties

KATHMANDU: Chairperson of Unified Socialist, Madhav Kumar Nepal, has said political solidarity is warranted to resist attempts being made against the system. The ill attempts were being made by taking advantage of political instability, he warned. He echoed the need for unity among the democratic forces to win against the ills as corruption, individualism, and […]

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Prez urges top leaders to work in the spirit of unity

President Ramchandra Paudel called the three top leaders - Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba and Leader of Opposition KP Sharma Oli and urged them work in the spirit of unity so as to strengthen the democratic system.

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Conspiracies being hatched to bring instability: Maoist leader Gurung

DODHARA CHANDANI: Leader of Maoist Centre Dev Prasad Gurung has said conspiracies are being hatched to invite instability in the country in recent times. Addressing a press conference organized by the Press Centre Nepal in Mahendranagar today, he said, “The situation as such is not like the political system is going to be toppled as […]

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National consensus a must to safeguard democracy and constitution: NC Senior Leader Poudel

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New Zealand passes legislation banning cigarettes for future generations

DEC 14: Legislation passed by parliament on Tuesday means that anyone born after 2008 will never be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products. It will mean the number of people able to buy tobacco will shrink each year. By 2050, for example, 40-year-olds will be too young to buy cigarettes. Health Minister Ayesha Verrall, who introduced the bill, said it was a step "towards a smoke-free future". "Thousands of people will live longer, healthier lives and the health system will be NZ$5 billion (US$3.2 billion) better off from not needing to treat the illnesses caused by smoking," Dr Verrall said. New Zealand's smoking rate is already at historic lows, with just 8% of adults smoking daily according to government statistic released in November - down from 9.4% last year. It is hoped that the Smokefree Environments Bill will reduce that number to less than 5% by 2025, with the eventual aim of eliminating the practice altogether. The bill is also designed to limit the number of retailers able to sell smoked tobacco products to 600 nationwide - down from 6,000 currently - and reduce nicotine levels in products to make them less addictive. "It means nicotine will be reduced to non-addictive levels and communities will be free from the proliferation and clustering of retailers who target and sell tobacco products in certain areas," Dr Verrall said. She added that the legislation could close the life expectancy between Maori and non-Maori citizens. The overall smoking rate for Maori citizens is at 19.9% - down from last year's figure of 22.3%. The new legislation does not ban vape products, which have become far more popular among younger generations than cigarettes. Critics of the bill - including the ACT party which holds 10 seats in parliament - have warned that the policy could fuel a black market in tobacco products and kill off small shops. "No one wants to see people smoke, but the reality is, some will and Labour's nanny state prohibition is going to cause problems," said ACT Deputy Leader Brooke van Velden.

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Iran hands out more death sentences to anti-government protesters

NOV 17: Revolutionary Courts in Tehran said one of the unnamed "rioters" hit and killed a policeman with his car, the judiciary's Mizan news agency said. The second possessed a knife and a gun, and the third blocked traffic and caused "terror", it alleged. The fourth was convicted of a knife attack, Mizan reported late on Tuesday. Human rights activists condemned the death sentences - which brought the total to five since Sunday - saying they were the results of unfair trials. "Protesters don't have access to lawyers in the interrogation phase, they are subjected to physical and mental torture to give false confessions, and sentenced based on the confessions," the director of Norway-based Iran Human Rights, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, told AFP news agency. Although the judiciary did not disclose the identities of the five individuals sentenced to death, Amnesty International said information about their charges had led human rights activists to believe they were Mohammad Ghobadlou, Manouchehr Mehman Navaz, Mahan Sedarat Madani, Mohammad Boroughani and Sahand Nourmohammad-Zadeh. It added that they were among at least 21 detainees charged with security-related offences that are punishable by death under Iran's Sharia-based legal system, including "enmity against God" and "corruption on Earth". At least 348 protesters have been killed and 15,900 others arrested in a crackdown by security forces on what Iran's leaders have portrayed as foreign-backed "riots", according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), which is also based outside the country. The women-led protests against clerical rule erupted after the death in custody three months ago of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who was detained by morality police for allegedly breaking the strict rules on hijabs. The judiciary's announcements came after 12 people were reportedly killed amid a fresh wave of unrest that began on Tuesday. Activists called for three days of demonstrations and strikes to commemorate "Bloody November" - a reference to the deadly crackdown on the last major nationwide protests that began on 15 November 2019, when many Iranians reacted angrily to a sudden increase in fuel prices. Videos posted on social media on Tuesday showed crowds in Tehran and other major cities chanting slogans against the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, including "death to the dictator". At a metro station in the capital, protesters set fire to a headscarf on a platform as a crowd shouted that Ayatollah Khamenei "will be toppled". Another video from a metro station appeared to show officers beating people inside a train carriage, while in a third, people were seen running and falling over as security forces allegedly opened fire. On Wednesday night, state media reported that at least five people were killed when armed "terrorist elements" opened fire at protesters and police officers at a market in the south-western city of Izeh. The deputy governor Khuzestan province said the dead included three men, a woman and a girl. Opposition activist collective 1500tasvir also said it had received reports of a high number of casualties in Izeh and accused security forces of killing a 10-year-old boy. It also posted a video that it said showed some protesters setting fire to a seminary in the city. Earlier, Kurdish human rights group Hengaw reported that a male protester was shot and killed by security forces in the north-western city of Kamyaran, in Mahsa Amini's home province of Kurdistan. He had been standing near the house of another man who was killed by direct fire from security forces on Tuesday, it said. Another two men were also killed in the nearby city of Sanandaj, it added. Hengaw, which is based in Norway, also said that protesters seized control of the city of Bukan, in neighbouring West Azerbaijan province, on Tuesday night. State media reported that "rioters" shot dead two members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including a colonel, in Bukan and Kamyaran on Tuesday. They also said that a cleric who was a member of the paramilitary Basij Resistance Force, which is controlled by the IRGC, died after being hit by a Molotov cocktail in the southern city of Shiraz. State media have so far reported the deaths of 38 security personnel since the protests began. HRANA has put the toll at 43.

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Leader Nepal emphasizes on socialism-based economic system

CPN (Unified Socialist) chairperson Madhav Kumar Nepal said that the goal of the communist movement is to maintain the prosperity of the people through a socialist system.

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Ukraine conflict: Your guide to understanding day three

FEB 27: Mr Zelensky says Ukrainians had been fighting Russian troops in Kyiv, as well as Odesa in the south and Kharkiv in the north-east. "The occupiers wanted to block the centre of our state," the president said. "We broke their plan." As Russians close in, though, Kyiv residents have been asked to stay indoors until Monday morning. The invasion has killed at least 198 Ukrainians so far and the UN says more than 120,000 have fled the country in the past 48 hours. Ukraine said 137 people - civilians and soldiers - have been killed, while Russia has not admitted any deaths on its side. West to block some Russian banks from Swift New financial sanctions have been levelled against Russia - the most severe so far - after the EU, US and their allies agreed to cut off a number of Russian banks from the main international payment system, Swift. Russia is heavily reliant on the Swift system for its oil and gas exports, and analysts say its economy will be hit hard. The assets of Russia's central bank will also be frozen, limiting the Kremlin's ability to access its overseas reserves. This will stop it using its currency to limit the impact of sanctions. The measures will "further isolate Russia from the international financial system", a joint statement said. Abramovich hands over Chelsea Chelsea's Russian owner Roman Abramovich says he is "giving trustees of Chelsea's charitable foundation the stewardship and care" of the club. Mr Abramovich is one of Russia's richest people and believed to be close to President Vladimir Putin - who is facing personal sanctions by a number of Western countries over the invasion. It is not known yet if Abramovich might be sanctioned as part of the UK government's measures against Russia. France intercepted and impounded a Russian-flagged cargo ship suspected of breaching sanctions imposed because of the invasion of Ukraine. The ship, the Baltic Leader, was heading from the north-western French city of Rouen to St Petersburg in Russia with a cargo of new cars. The US Treasury Department has issued blocking sanctions against the vessel, saying it is owned by a subsidiary of Promsvyazbank, one of the Russian financial institutions hit by sanctions. Sandbags and petrol bombs: Kyiv gears up to face Russians We saw men, in jeans and trainers, taking up position: the luxury of camouflage protection not possible in this moment of crisis. Makeshift roadblocks had been assembled. A tractor and a delivery truck had parked at strategic angles to block the path of any incoming attacker. In other cities, steelworkers are reported to have welded new obstructions into place: forging their own defences. And workers in a sewing factory who normally stitch uniforms have been making sandbags. Across the country, patriotic Ukrainians are weaving their own narrative and hoping their collective effort will count for something in the face of Moscow's military might. The urgency of all this tells you many fear it is a question of when - not if - they'll be face-to-face with the advancing Russian forces. Queue of 24 hours On the Moldovan border - and the borders of four other nations neighbouring Ukraine - mothers and grandmothers, wheeling suitcases to safety, have been leading their children into the unknown. Men are not allowed to join them - they have to stay behind to fight. Ana arrived at the Palanca crossing point after more than 24 hours waiting in a queue on the Ukrainian side of the border - her little yellow car stuffed with bags, her six-year-old granddaughter singing to herself in the backseat. Ana's calm smiling manner crumbled as soon as she began to speak to the BBC. Breaking down in tears, she described how she'd had to leave her husband behind to defend their country. Leader under siege It may be a David-versus-Goliath struggle, but it is one that has thrown the figure of President Volodymyr Zelensky into the limelight. Zelensky's arrival on the political scene was a case of life imitating art. But it is life that is at stake here now his country is under attack and the capital under siege. Tested like never before, the Ukrainian commander-in-chief has appeared to strike all the right notes.

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Fusemachines Announces AI Fellowship 2022 in Nepal

FuseMachines Inc., a leading AI talent and education platform and service provider, today announced AI Fellowship 2022. The online live certification program is a Fusemachines initiative that has been designed and expanded in Nepal, over the last two years, with support from the UKaid Skills for Employment (SEEP) programme, with a keen focus on upskilling. The program aims to expand the talent pool of AI engineers in Nepal and will be offered to a total of 100 university students and graduates with backgrounds in mathematics, engineering and computer science. The selected candidates will be granted full-scholarship to take the courses. Remarking on this important endeavour, Mr. Baljit Vohra, UKaid SEEP Team Leader and Ms. Stuti Basnyet, Deputy Team Leader said, “Globally aligning and improving the ICT skilling system, by ensuring stronger alignment with global and national expertise and industries is critical to realizing Nepal’s potential on ICT. Over the last two...

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Electoral system needs reform: Leader Koirala

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President Ramchandra Paudel called the three top leaders - Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba and Leader of Opposition KP Sharma Oli and urged them work in the spirit of unity so as to strengthen the democratic system.

CPN (Unified Socialist) chairperson Madhav Kumar Nepal said that the goal of the communist movement is to maintain the prosperity of the people through a socialist system.