According to reports, Dipendra had been drinking heavily, smoked large quantities of hashish and had "misbehaved" with a guest, which resulted in his father, King Birendra, telling his oldest son to leave the party.
The drunken Dipendra was taken to his room by his brother Prince Nirajan and cousin Prince Paras.One hour later, Dipendra returned to the party armed with an H&K MP5, a Franchi SPAS-12 and an M16 and fired a single shot into the ceiling before turning the gun on his father, King Birendra. He then shot his uncle Dhirendra in the chest at point-blank range when he tried to stop Dipendra. Prince Paras suffered slight injuries and managed to save at least three royals, including two children, by pulling a sofa over them. During the attack, Dipendra darted in and out of the room firing shots each time.
President Bidya Devi Bhandari has been ranked 52nd on this year’s edition of Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.
The popular magazine publishes the name of powerful women and men every year.
The magazine attributes President Bhandari’s proximity to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli as a factor for the rating. “Although the role is considered to be ceremonial, Bhandari, a longtime politician, has the ear of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, and therefore could potentially have greater influence in national policies and decision-making,” read the description on President Bhandari.
Forbes has portrayed Bhandari as an women's rights advocate saying, “She (Bhandari) has made progress on at least one front: helping to push forward a mandate, now approved, that women comprise at least a third of Nepal's parliament.”
On this year’s Forbes list of the world’s 100 most powerful women, the top three most powerful are politicians: Germany’s Angela Merkel, US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen.
Other influential women who made the list are Park Geun-hye, President, South Korea at number 12, ranked 13 is Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States, and Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has been ranked 17.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and newly elected defacto leader of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi has been placed at number 26 and United Kingdom’s Monarch Queen Elizabeth II has been ranked 29.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has expressed shock and sadness over the death of veteran musician and composer of national anthem Amber Gurung.
“Late Gurung who immensely contributed to Nepali music throughout his life would always shine as a never-fading star in the sky of Nepali music,” read a statement issued by PM Oli.
He said Nepal and Nepali people will always be indebted to Gurung for his enormous contribution.
“I was stunned by the demise of musician Gurung, a shining star of Nepali music who composed Nepal’s national anthem,” said PM’s statement. PM Oli has expressed his condolences to the bereaved family of Gurung.
The height of Gurung’s patriotism that began from the composition of ‘Naulakhe Tara Udaya’ reached its pinnacle after he composed the national anthem, read the statement.
Also, former Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba expressed grief on the demise of Gurung and sympathised the bereaved family.
Gurung, 79, passed away during treatment at Dhapasi-based Grande International Hospital in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.
He suffered from high blood pressure, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease.
The group of artist Amber Gurung, who inhaled his last at Grande Hospital in Dhapasi in the small hours of Tuesday morning, is been taken to Kamladi-based Academy Hall in Kathmandu for conclusive tributes. According to suggestions from Buddhist priests, the body was taken out of the hospital at 9:55 am today. His body will be kept on the premises of Academy Hall until 3 pm today for his well-wishers to pay their final respects. Gurung was the first Academician of Music and Drama Academy. His final rites will be performed at Pashupati Aryaghat according to Hindu traditions, said his second son Raju Gurung.
At a press meet organised this morning, Grande Hospital Director Dr Chakraraj Pandey said Gurung’s condition was beyond the control of medicines. “We lost the battle against Gurung’s disease.” Gurung was brought to the hospital a week ago after he started vomiting immediately after eating. Alongside the National Anthem 'Sayaun Thunga Fulka Hami', Gurung had made more than a 1,000 melodies, including the time characterizing numbers Nau Lakhe Tara and Rato Ra Chandra Surya. Gurung was likewise a lyricist and artist.
Gurung, 78, had for quite some time been experiencing diabetes and Parkinson's illness.
In the wake of experiencing a treatment at the Medanta Hospital in New Delhi, Gurung had come back to Nepal on March 30 this, prior year being admitted to the Grande Hospital on May 30.
CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said he will become the prime minister only of a consensus government.
Talking at the gathering's fourth area tradition in the Dolakha locale central station Charikot on Friday, Dahal said, "Everybody asserts that Prachanda [Dahal] is force hungry. In any case, it is this Prachanda who bolstered Bidhya Devi Bhandari for the post of President and KP Oli for PM."
Referring to the nine-point agreement reached between his party and the CPN-UML, Dahal said he would take the leadership if a national government is formed with the NC and the Madhes-based parties on board.
“If I become the prime minister, the first thing I’ll do is convert the soft loan of Rs300,000 for the earthquake victims into a grant,” he added. Dahal also pledged to establish the much-talked about film city in Dolakha and to resume the Tamakoshi-III hydropower project that was abandoned by a Norwegian company.
Four months back, Kala Kshetry was only a home-creator. She invested the majority of her energy cooking, doing the dishes, washing garments, and dealing with her family.
Today, Kala works as a general technician for Khidmah LLC, a private company based in Abu Dhabi. Her days now are spent fixing ACs and general home appliances for a girls’ school.
"I was being met for the central cleaner's post. In any case, the questioner inquired as to whether I was occupied with filling in as an expert," she included. "Obviously, I declined it at first." Such works, she used to accept, were "unsatisfactory" for ladies.
Kala finally agreed to give it a try after learning about the added benefits. She underwent a rigorous training at a CTEVT centre in Kathmandu for a month. The training was supported by Nepal government and Aasha Foundation, an organisation that works with women migrants.
Her diligent work and center would pay off. In March, she was shortlisted for the position with 19 other ladies. They would turn into the primary gathering of ladies professionals to seek after livelihood in the center east.
Kala is part of a new wave of Nepali women who are pushing the envelope and are seeking employment in mostly-male dominated sectors other than domestic help--where they are more vulnerable to sexual abuse and exploitation.
More than 90 percent of 13,000 women going aboard in the first 10 months of the current fiscal year had taken up jobs other than domestic help, according to data compiled by the Department of Foreign Employment. Today, a majority of Nepali women are primarily seeking employment in manufacturing, retail, hospitality and service sectors.
Rosie Rai, 31, at first needed to be a columnist. In any case, in the wake of getting a four year college education in reporting in 2008, she chose to pick a vocation in inside configuration. She began off as an aide to an engineer fashioner for a private firm in Dubai. Today, Rai fills in as an inside outline specialist for Furniture Practice, a firm giving complete outfitting arrangement and planning situated in Dubai. She had worked for two diverse organizations prior.
“It’s a very competitive market where people are judged for their capacity rather than origin or nationality,” said Rai, a resident of Belbari in Morang. Encouraged by her professional success and future prospects, Rai recently enrolled at a private university in Dubai for a master’s in interior design.
Changing trend
Of late, a growing number of Nepali women have been taking jobs in the formal sector across the Gulf and in countries like Malaysia. It is a major paradigm shift from the days when Nepali women largely migrated abroad as household workers.
“My skills are going to be useful even when I return to Nepal. I can easily make a living as long as I have a skill and the required experience,” says Sabina Neupane, who is also a female technician at the company where Kala works.
Both Sabina and Kala earn around Rs54,000, which is a decent pay for a trainee worker. The company also provides her with accommodation, food, transportation and telephone facilities.
Women employed in the industrial and service sectors work in a relatively open environment. This makes it easier for Nepali diplomatic missions to oversee their general well-being and extend required assistance during contingencies.
Missions in the Gulf often struggle to trace Nepali women doing domestic jobs as a majority of them use illegal channels to reach there.
Nicholas McGeehan, a researcher at Human Rights Watch, believes that domestic work makes “women particularly vulnerable to physical, sexual and psychological abuses as they have to work in private homes”.
Officials at Nepali missions in the Gulf also admit that female domestic workers are more vulnerable to exploitation than industrial workers. Nepali embassies in the Gulf had rescued and repatriated more than 3,000 women since 2012 after they fell prey to abuse and exploitation.
"By and large, the government office needed to send them back looking for help from Non-Resident Nepali Associations or from the backing gave by the Foreign Employment Promotion Board. It is to a great degree difficult to give pay, not to mention equity," said Uday Raj Pandey, previous Nepali diplomat to Saudi Arabia.
Muhammad Ali has kicked the bucket at the age of 74, a family representative has said.
The previous world heavyweight boxing champion, one of the world's best-known sportsmen, kicked the bucket at a healing facility in the US city of Phoenix in Arizona state subsequent to being conceded on Thursday.
He was suffering from a respiratory illness, a condition that was complicated by Parkinson's disease.
The funeral will take place in Ali's hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, his family said in a statement.
Born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Ali shot to fame by winning light-heavyweight gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
Nicknamed "The Greatest", the American beat Sonny Liston in 1964 to win his first world title and became the first boxer to capture a world heavyweight title on three separate occasions.
He eventually retired in 1981, having won 56 of his 61 fights.
The previous heavyweight champion was experiencing respiratory issues
He was suffering from a respiratory illness, a condition that was complicated by Parkinson's disease.
The funeral will take place in Ali's hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, his family said in a statement.
Born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Ali shot to fame by winning light-heavyweight gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
Nicknamed "The Greatest", the American beat Sonny Liston in 1964 to win his first world title and became the first boxer to capture a world heavyweight title on three separate occasions.
He eventually retired in 1981, having won 56 of his 61 fights.
The previous heavyweight champion was experiencing respiratory issues
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