Nepal

The video profiles will be uploaded on the Federal Parliamentofficial website

Kathmandu, July 1

On the occasion of the 61st Parliament Day, the Parliament Secretariat today unveiled the video profiles of 231 lawmakers of the Federal Parliament, including 59 lawmakers from the National Assembly.

Although, there are 175 seats in the HoR, three lawmakers& profiles have not been prepared for various reasons.

Those lawmakers, whose video profiles have not been prepared are Rabindra Adhikari (died this year in a helicopter crash), Resham Chaudhary (in prison after being convicted by the court in the Tikapur carnage case) and Hari Narayan Rauniyar (suspended from the HoR after the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority filed a graft case against him).

Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara said the Parliament was a step closer to adopting paperless system. &The profiles of lawmakers are usually published in the form of books, but this time, we opted for video profiles,& he said.

Deputy Speaker Shiva Maya Tumbahamphe said any one could use these video profiles of the lawmakers for information. She said the PS completed the work within two months. The length of each video is three to four minutes. She added that the concept of video profiles of lawmakers was the first of its kind in the country.

During the programme, Speaker Mahara also said the laptops provided to lawmakers were meant to be used during meetings other than the House sessions. He also said the lawmakers were provided laptops in line with the government decision to go paperless.

During the programme, the PS screened the video profiles of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, Speaker Mahara, Deputy Speaker Tumbahamphe, Chair of NA Ganesh Timilsina and Deputy Chair of NA Shashi Kala Dahal.

According to media expert at Parliament Secretariat Shekhar Adhikari, the video profiles will be uploaded on the Federal Parliamentofficial site.

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Kathmandu, July 1

Patients can book appointments online and visit doctors across the nation for treatment.

Medical records of patients will be digitalised and highly facilitated ambulance services will be available in each local level.

Making public its ambitious National Health Policy 2019, the government revealed its plans, policies and strategies to improve health services in the country.

For institutionalising e-health, the government has aimed to develop and extend mobile health and telemedicine services.

&The government has planned to provide e-medicine services to the public within a year. Online bookings will be made possible to rid patients of queues in hospitals. It will save the time of patients and help them get medical services without any hassle,& said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Population Upendra Yadav during a press meet organised at the ministry.

The new health policy has six objectives, 25 policies and 146 strategies to improve the health sector.

The government has ensured free basic health services as determined by health institutions in each level. All citizens will be ensured access to emergency health services.

Easy access for specialised health services will be ensured and the health system will be developed in the three tiers of government — federal, state and local.

Universal health coverage (including prevention, promotion, treatment, rehabilitation and palliation) will be provided.

There will be development and extension of ayurveda, naturopathy, yoga and homoeopathic medical systems.

The government also aims to manage organ donation and human organ transplantation along with organ donation of brain dead people. There will also be a provision of performance-based pay and incentive for health practitioners.

Every citizen will be ensured access to basic emergency health services as per the new health policy, said the health minister.

The government has planned to develop air ambulance services for people living in rural areas of the country.

Programmes have also been planned to bring all Nepalis under the insurance policy.

The government has aimed to establish trauma centres in major highways to provide emergency health services to victims of accidents. To help minimise the impacts of environment pollution on human health, the government aims to construct cycle lanes and public parks and coordinate with the concerned bodies.

The health system will be expanded according to the federal structure. There will be availability of basic health service centre in each ward and a primary hospital in each local level.

Secondary hospitals under provinces and provincial hospitals will be established.

Academy of medical sciences, super specialised hospitals and tertiary hospitals under the federal state will be established in each province. National disease control centre will also be established. One reference laboratory will be established in each province as per the health policy.

&The new policy has been made to ensure quality health services as guaranteed by the constitution. It is the fundamental right of the people to have access to quality health services,& said Minister Yadav.

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Kathmandu, July 1

Police today arrested 27-year-old Ishwari Bhattarai of Changunarayan Municipality, Bhaktapur, for allegedly plotting her mother Sabitri Bhattaraimurder.

Sixty-one-year old Sabitri, a resident of Chandrawoti Rural Municipality, Sidhupalchowk, was found dead yesterday at her daughter Ishwarihome around 12:00pm in Changu Narayan with her throat slit. Sabitri was staying with her daughter there.

Police also nabbed Ishwarialleged paramour Muhammad Nausad Khan, 23, of Kalyanpur Municipality, Siraha, and his two Indian accomplices — Bhola Kumar, 24, aka Arjun Kumar of East Delhi and Muhammad Rais, 24, of Madhubani, Bihar — for their alleged involvement in Sabitirimurder.

According to police, Ishwari who is married and has a four-year-old son, was having an illicit affairs with Mohmmad for some time.

Ishwarihusband runs a hotel in Kathmandu.

Metropolitan Police Crime Division, Teku, made the four accused public today. Ishwarialleged paramour Muhammad used to live in old Thimi, and frequently visited her home.

Chief of the MPCD Senior Superintendent of Police Sahakul Bahadur Thapa said Sabitri, who knew about her daughterillicit relations with Mohmmad, wanted to save her daughtermarital life and family, and she had also given Rs 100,000 to Mohmmad to go to Dubai for foreign employment.

&But Mohmmad returned to Nepal on June 25 without staying in Dubai even for one-and-half months with the motive of killing Sabitri so that he could live happily with her daughter,& SSP Thapa said.

Deputy Superintendent of Police at Metropolitan Police Range, Bhaktapur, Sabin Pradhan said Ishwari and Mohmmad were in regular contact through Imo and Viber when Mohmmad was in Dubai.

&Police are awaiting digital forensic examination of their mobile phones to find out what messages were exactly exchanged between them,& DSP Pradhan said.

Ishwari had also agreed to provide Rs 1.2 million to Muhammad to kill her mother, said SSP Thapa.

According to DSP Rabin Karki of MPCD, the Indian nationals hired by Muhammad had reached Kathmandu on June 29, a day before the murder took place.

&The three men had entered Ishwarihome yesterday noon when Sabitri was alone. &Two of them held Sabitri while Rais slit the womanthroat,& said SSP Thapa.

Earlier at 9:00am, before killing Sabitri, Muhammad had visited Ishwarihome, & DSP Karki said.

He added that Sabitri had beaten Mohmmad with a broom when she saw him in her daughterhome. She was furious to see the man, whom she had given her hard earned money in a bid to save her daughterfamily, in her daughterhouse again.

&But on the day of the murder, Ishwari was not at home.

She had gone to her sisterhome in Godawari,& DSP Pradhan said.

After the murder, the two Indian nationals fled to Makawanpur district. By evening, police had already nabbed Muhammad and they also arrested Ishwari at around 8:00pm yesterday from her home.

Police said Ishwarifouryear-old sonnarration of the early morning incident helped them crack the case within 24 hours. The boy told the police that Muhammad had come to their house before her grandmother took him to school on the day.

Ishwari, on the other hand, has not admitted her involvement in the murder yet. But circumstantial evidences are against her.

&All the circumstantial evidences show that Ishwari and Muhammad jointly hatched a plot to kill Sabitri,& said SSP Thapa.

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Kathmandu, July 1

Various human rights and civil society organisations today announced protest programme in Kathmandu against the Sri Lankan governmentrecent move to order the execution of four drug offenders.

The organisations are Amnesty International Nepal, Advocacy Forum, Accountability Watch Committee, Justice and Rights Institute Nepal, Collective Campaign for Peace, Peace Envisioners, INHURED International, Conflict Victims Common Platform, Aprabasi Mahila Kamdar Samuha, Go Go Foundation, Nepal Human Rights Organisation, National Human Rights Foundation, and World Vision Advocacy Forum.

The organisations plan to hold peaceful demonstration in front of the Sri Lankan Embassy in Kathmandu tomorrow from 9:00am to 10:00pm, according to a press release of Amnesty International Nepal.

Amnesty International Nepal said in its press release that it was shocked to know that Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on June 26 signed a warrant for implementation of death penalty against the four individuals who are presently serving jail term. There was a moratorium on death penalty in Sri Lanka for the past 43 years. However, after the Sri Lankan government hired executioners a few days ago, chances of the four individuals being sentenced to death are high, said the press release.

&Adopting a brutal and inhuman system of death penalty is a matter of shame for modern society.&

&As per our understanding, none of the worldcriminal system is perfect and the death penalty provision will not only disproportionately affect the poor, but also increase the chances of victimisation of innocent people.&

The statement said the death penalty system violates a personright to live and right against torture guaranteed by the universal declaration of human rights and other documents.

&We are organising the protest to warn the Sri Lankan government to honour its international human rights commitments,& read the press release.

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