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.
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.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has communicated profound sympathies and sensitivity to his Japanese partner Mr Shinzo Abe over the loss of lives and annihilation of property because of the overwhelming seismic tremor s that hit Kyushu island and Kumamoto prefecture of Japan on April 14 and 16, individually.
In a condolence message sent to the Japanese Prime Minister, PM Oli stated that the government and the people of Nepal extend their deep condolences and sympathies over the loss of precious lives and destruction of property due to the tremors as well as wish for speedy recovery of those injured in the disaster. He also wished for the overall recovery from the destruction.
While reviewing significant backing and collaboration got from the legislature and the general population of Japan in the consequence of the staggering seismic tremor a year ago, I might want to guarantee, Your Excellency, that the Nepalese individuals are with the general population of Japan at this hour of melancholy and torment in solidarity of sensitivity and backing, the PM expressed in the sympathy message.
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