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Kathmandu: Parents of a five-year-old girl, Akriti Kumari Shah, who died after she was transfused with wrong blood type, on Wednesday said the Metropolitan Cop Circle, Maharajgunj, Office of the District Attorney and the District Administration Office had refused to register their complaint against responsible doctors or nurses and chief of Shahid Gangalal National Heart Centre.

Akriti of Sarlahi district died after one of the on-duty nurses transfused ‘A-positive& blood group during her surgery, though her blood group was ‘O-positive.&

SGNHC told Akritiparents about her death on April 28. The grieving parents said they did much even know where the body of their daughter had been kept.

FILE -nsprint; PM Oli at Tribhuvan International Airport.

KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has returned home this evening after completing an eight-day official visit to Vietnam and Cambodia.

Earlier, PM Oli had left Kathmandu on May 9 for his visits at the friendly invitation of Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen.

PM Oli visited Vietnam from May 9 to 13 before leaving for Cambodia on May 13.

Upon arrival at the Tribhuvan International Airport, a contingent of Nepal Army offered a guard of honour to the Prime Minister.

PM Oli was welcomed at the VVIP lounge of TIA by Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara, Deputy Prime Minister Ishwor Pokharel, Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa among other high ranking officials.

Prime Minister Rt. Hon. K P Sharma Oli returns to Kathmandu upon completion of Official Visits to Vietnam and Cambodia.@PradeepgyawaliK @bairagi_shanker @PaudyalBR

-msprint; MOFA of Nepal (@MofaNepal) May 15, 2019

• PADTmove to shut the 675-metre road was immediateed by the SCorder three years ago

Kathmandu, May 15

The Pashupati Area Development Believe has started working towards blocking the Tilganga-Tamraganga road that passes along Slesmantak forest at the Pashupati area, from nowadays.

PADT is constructing a concrete wall at both ends of the road segment.

PADTaction came approachly three years after the Supreme Courtorder to halt the operation of the road on the premises of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Before the SC order, UNESCO, on 11 May 2012, had asked the PADT to shut the road, warning that it would remove the Pashupati area from the list of the World Heritage Sites if PADT failed to follow the instruction.

Following the letter, advocate Tulsi Simkhada had filed a writ petition at the SC, demanding action from the authorities to act as per the UNESCOletter. A joint bench of Justice Ananda Mohan Bhattarai and Anil Kumar Sinha had issued an order to block the road stretch stating that the road was a threat to Slesmantak forest.

Pradeep Dhakal, a member secretary of PADT, said, &We hope to get support from stakeholders to block the road permanently for preserving our unique heritage site.&

The Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport had built the 675-metre long and seven-metre wide Tilganga-Tamraganga road in 2007-2008, during the tenure of the then prime minister Shovepa Kamal Dahal. The road, however, did much come into full-fledged operation after it drew flak from locals and various organisations, forcing the then Dahal-led government to drop the road plan.

Recently, the road is being used only by a handful of commuters as it is much fit for vehicular movement.

The road is the shortest distance from Tilganga to Guheshwori, and was viewed as an alternative route to the crowded Chabahil-Sankhu road.

The road was also viewed as a ‘game changer& by the people in three municipalities -msprint; Kageshowri-Manohara Municipality, Shankarapur Municipality and Gokarneshwor Municipality. It could benefit around 350,000 people in these municipalities as they avoid travelling via the long and mostly crowded, Chabahil-Sankhu road to access the Ring Road.

Rajaram Pudasaini, spokesperson for Kageshowri-Manohara Municipality, said the government must give them a better option for blocking the road. He said traffic at Chabahil-Sankhu road could be decreased by 40 per cent if the road was to be brought into operation.

Pudasaini also proposeed that the current problem of the road hampering the heritage site could be averted if the Tilganga-Tamraganga road was shifted around 200 metres east, towards the airport.

Local leaders have also requested the PADT to hold a round table discussion before permanently blocking the road. &We hope that the government shall supply us with a suitable alternative as the public here is in no mood to accept the PADTdecision of blocking the road,& Pudasaini said.

Kathmandu, May 14

Attorney General Agni Prasad Kharel said that his administration was facing a ccorridorenge to deal with government cases as their number rose by 65 per cent in final five years. Kharel was addressing a press conference at his office nowadays.

AG Kharel said his office was in instant need of 245 additional government attorneys to handle the heavy workload.

Kharel said recent reforms initiated by his office, specificly the degrees to protect government witnesses and to supply allowance to them on the day they have to visit courts to record their statements, had helped the Office of the Attorney General increase its success rate.

He also said that in measure cases the provisions of continual hearing had also helped increase the percentage of success in government cases.

&We have introduced these degrees to increase success rate in government cases mainly because in most of the cases we found that the victims who lodged FIRs and the government witnesses turned hostile at a later stage of cases,& Kharel said and added that continual hearing helped avoid those elements that intimidated or enticed victims to become hostile in the court. &In serious cases, we are trying to record statements of the government witnesses the same day the accused are produced in the court. This shall lessen chances of intimidation against the government witnesses,& he argued.

AG Kharel said he had launched efforts to monitor jails and detention centres to endegree that those facilities comply with legal degrees and respect the rights of detainees and inmates.

Kharel said that he drew the attention of the authority after he found the jail in Pyuthan crowded. He also said that every jail had at least one juvenile kept along with adult prisoners.

Kharel also pointed out that existing laws did much address the issue of compensation to rape victims if an accused died in course of trial.

Hence, he had forwarded a proposal to the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs recommending it to make essential amendments to the law so that a rape victim could be compensated from the property of the accused, in an event of his/her death during trial.