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KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Sunday paid tribute to late Mahakavi Laxmi Prasad Devkota on his 111th birth anniversary.

Prime Minister Oli took to Twitter to pay tribute remembering immortal literary works of the great poet.

महाकवि लक्ष्मीप्रसाद देवकोटाको ११०औं जन्मजयन्तिका अवसरमा महाकवि देवकोटाप्रति हार्दिक श्रद्धासुमन अर्पण गर्दछु । उहाँका अजर अमर कृतिहरुले नेपाली साहित्यलाई सदा मार्गदर्शन गरिरहने छन् ।

— K P Sharma Oli (@kpsharmaoli) October 27, 2019

Mahakavi Devkota, after a long battle with cancer, died on September 14, 1959.

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KATHMANDU: Police arrested 25 persons for illegal gambling and seized Rs 26.7 million from a house in Kathmandu Metropolitan City-3 on Saturday night.

A team of police deployed from Metropolitan Police Circle, Maharajgunj raided the house belonging to Bikram Gautam at Pipalmarg and arrested the gamblers red-handed while playing Kauda (a traditional form of gambling with 16 sea shells) with the huge amount of money as a stake, informed Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Umesh Lamsal, Chief at the police circle.

Police arrested Balram Sapkota, Sovit Silwal, Pradip Bogati, Ram Krishna KC, Indu Shrestha, Ranjan Rajbanshi, Sitaram Khadka, Roshan Tamang, Ram Tamang, Krishna Bhandari, Suman Gurung, Suman Agrawal, Sodel Karki, Pawan Agrawal, Pabitra Kumar Karki, Balram Sapkota, Mukti Lama, Bhakta Tamang, Shambhu Budhathoki, Prem Thapa Magar and Ashok Shrestha, Halam Prasad Parajuli, Buddha Lama, Thanku Sherpa and Nawang Lama in connection with the case.

Thosearrested will be subjected to punishment as per the existing laws, informed police.

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