2 Nepalese die in Saudi Arabia accident

Two Nepalesese were killed when a vehicle ran over them in the construction site at Shaybah in Saudi Arabia . 

Janaki Sharan Yadav of Bagara, Mahottari district and Binod Kumar Raya of Manor VDC of Siraha district were mowed down by a van in the construction site bordering Kuwait on October 3.

According to Secretary of Eastern Region Coordination Committee of Non-Resident Nepali Association in Saudi Arabia , Keshab Khadka, the accident occurred when the van driver did not follow a safety feature of the company.

The bodies of the deceased have been kept at a local hospital.

भिडियो हेर्न तल को बिज्ञापन काटेर फेरी क्लिक गर्नु

money goes mobile

When Shiv Bhushan Lal had first made a call to Nepal from Finland using a mobile phone the size of a small briefcase, he was absolutely amazed by the technology. The year was 1987, and Lal, an IT professional, had been attending a training organised by Nokia. In the almost three decades since, however, the realm of communications and mobile technology has witnessed a veritable explosion, the impact of which has been seen and felt the world over. The advancements therein have come to revolutionise lives, thanks to the many—and ever-growing—services that might’ve once seemed impossibly far-fetched, but are now available at the click of a button. And mobile-banking is a prominent instance among these, a feature that is fast gaining in popularity even in Nepal, and one that is set to forever change the way we conduct financial transactions.

The evolution of the mobile phone has been fascinating to behold. Simple boxy equipment with limited black-and-white display have now morphed into sleeker, more user-friendly designs, with great quality colourful visuals, as seen in the almost-ubiquitous smartphones, for example. But more than aesthetics alone, it’s how these hand-held devices have come to represent the centre of convergence between a range of technologies that has really defined their ascent. And that has precisely been the appeal of mobile-banking around the world, and what mobile financial services platforms like Fonepay and Hello Paisa are now out to cash in on in Nepal.

Lal is the present-day head of the IT directorate at Nepal Telecom (NT), which introduced the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) here in 1999, and he says that the ease of cashless transactions that mobile banking is set to offer is a major draw. "Imagine never having to handle bundles of paper money, and still being able to channel your savings as you please," he says. "Who wouldn’t prefer that?" Lal believes that in a country where mobile phones have spread so far and wide in a short while, and where it is not physically possible to establish bank outlets in all remote corners, a collaboration between telecom companies and banks could pave the way for mobile banking to become a dominant, and more convenient, mode of transaction.

So far, about 1.5 million Nepali bank customers have reportedly enrolled in mobile-banking services. Local experts predict that the number of people using ‘mobile-money’ innovations is bound to increase each year, as mobile penetration rate, literacy and incomes see a boost. After all, according to government statistics, mobile users in the country are nearing the 20 million mark, while people with bank accounts comprise roughly half of that, so 10 million. In a country with a total population of 26.49 million, these are some impressive projections, to say the least. Ananda Raj Khanal, the director of the Nepal Telecommunications Authority—regulator of the telecom sector—says that with the global market already moving from "e-commerce to m-commerce", mobile financial services are only bound to get bigger and better with time, especially once high-speed mobile broadband becomes accessible to all, a "future attraction" he hopes will be soon made possible.

A visible shift in the telecom sector in Nepal had occurred about a decade ago with the entry of the first private sector player in the GSM mobile services field—Ncell (formerly known as Spice Nepal)—an arena previously monopolised by the state-operated Nepal Telecom. As Nepal Telecom and Ncell began to compete aggressively for service expansion, consumers were benefitting from the rivalry as services became more streamlined and efficient, and mobile users grew rapidly in the process. And although these two companies continue to enjoy the biggest slices of the GSM mobile service pie—the fastest growing and major-earning segment in the domestic telecom market—more recently, two more parties have been welcomed into its fold: United Telecom Limited and Smart Telecom.

Given these circumstances, many banks and financial institutions have now wised up to the possibilities associated with the increasing versatility and popularity of mobile phones, partnering with telecom companies to offer phone-banking services to customers. At present, over three dozen banking and financial institutions are providing such services with limited features like fund transfer, checking balance, mobile balance top-up, and paying for utilities, among others. Ncell alone has been sought out by almost 20 commercial banks in the country—including Nabil, Everest and Laxmi Bank—for this very purpose, according to Milan Sharma, Ncell’s communication expert. Even the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has lately opened up to mobile-banking, allowing payments to be made by branchless agents of various banks through phones, whereas before, the central bank only authorised banks to consider Point-of-Sale machine transactions. NRB representatives say that given the encouraging rate of mobile penetration today, new strategies need to be crafted to harness that and increase financial access nationwide.

Similarly optimistic is Biswas Dhakal, chairman of F1 Soft International, which introduced Fonepay. He predicts that in just five years’ time, 40 percent of all financial transactions will be made through mobile phones, and this is despite many hurdles such as rampant illiteracy and the relatively slower acceptance of new technologies in Nepal compared to other countries. If this does happen, we’re bound to see a flooding in of a range of associated services designed around the use of the technology that allows for cashless transactions, and we might just have to turn to our phones for something as huge as paying for a car, or as small as buying bread.

source:-ekantipur.com

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Doctor refuses operating HIV infected patient

A doctor in Gajendra Narayansingh Sagarmatha Zonal Hospital denied operating on a woman suffering from delivery pains for 30 hours, who was infected with HIV /AIDS. 

Gynecologist Dilip Saha denied operation to the woman although admitted at 10:00 am Tuesday   after 30 hours of pains.   She was to be operated after there was no normal delivery. 

He also denied recommendation for referring her to other hospitals. She was then taken to BPKIHS, Dharan by relatives Wednesday evening.  She gave birth to a baby girl after operation on Thursday. 

The 28-year old pregnant woman of Bakadhuwa VDC of Saptari was admitted at the hospital on Tuesday. 

Her husband who returned from Saudi Arabia wondered, "If the doctors themselves fear of it who will treat it?" 

Doctor Saha, however, said there were no enough infrastructure and equipment in the Zonal Hospital  to operate on  her in the hospital.

source:-ekantipur.com

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Doctors at Sagarmatha Zonal hospital stigmatize pregnant AIDS patient

She writhed in labor pain for 30 hours at Sagarmatha Zonal hospital. But, no doctor came to her rescue. The doctors were unwilling to go near the woman let alone providing any medical assistance. 

She only fault was that she is HIV positive. The doctors at the zonal hospital neither dared for Cesarean operation nor they referred Jaharun(name changed), 28, to other hospital. 
Jaharun gave birth to a daughter on Thursday morning after her relative took her to B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) on Wednesday evening. 

Jaharun, a resident of Bakadhuwa VDC, was admitted to Sagarmatha Zonal hospital after she had labor pain on Tuesday morning. 
“She had to be shifted to BPKIHS after the doctors at the zonal hospital refused to attend her till Wednesday evening, informed Jaharun´s husband Rahaman (name changed) “ My wife gave birth to a daughter through a caesarian section at BPKIHS.” 

Jaharun´s father in-law informed that BPKIHS doctors treated her normally. 
Dilip Sah, a gynecologist at Sagarmatha zonal hospital, said that they could not operate on Jaharun due to the lack of equipments necessary for the purpose. 
“We would have carried out the surgery. But, we did not have equipment needed for that,” said Sah. “Operation on HIV patient needs extra operation theater, high-tech helmet and mask, boots among other special equipment.” 

Sah added that the operation theater should not be used for the next 24 hours after an operation of a HIV positive patient to avoid infection to other patients. 
Jaharun had contracted HIV virus from his husband, who was infected with the deadly virus while he was in Saudi Arabia. 
“I know that I was infected with HIV one and half years ago. On returning home, I had unsafe sex with my wife passing the virus to her,” Rahaman repented. 
Jaharun had been taking the antiretroviral from the zonal hospital ever since she became pregnant. 

source:-myrepublica.com

The life of a Lilliputian

Flashlights fall hard upon his old grey eyes. He squints every time the cameras click and he is surrounded by many of them, as he has become a celebrity.

Master Nau, now 90, and who measures about 15 inches, has come to the capital city of Kathmandu for the first time. He recently flew to Kathmandu on Yeti Airlines, thus fulfilling his single long-cherished dream to fly on an aircraft.

“Nau will probably set a new world record. He must be the shortest man in the world,” commented a visitor at Hotel Maharaja during an informal gathering following his arrival in Kathmandu.

Nau, who looks like a Lilliputian of Jonathan Swift’s novel, “Gulliver’s Travels,” feels like he mistakenly landed into an “average-sized” world. All his life, he felt static, almost glued to the same position, immobile, as his legs don’t function well. All this was about to change when during a regular visit to a hospital in Bhairahawa, he was spotted by Prakhyat Banjade, an Executive Member of West Nepal Development Trust.
“Prakhyat then arranged this flight for me,” says Nau, gratitude evident in his tone.

An inhabitant of a small village in Rupandehi District of Western Nepal, Master Nau was born with a physical disorder that kept his body from gaining the ‘average’ height. His exceptionally tiny stature starkly reflected the signs of disproportional dwarfism – a considerably large head, protruding jaw, shrunken feet, and a height of roughly 15 inches.

Nau’s tiny frame shivers ever so often. His feet are clubbed, and he has almost lost his hearing. However, his eyes are now bigger and brighter, resulting from the thrills and excitement of the airplane ride he recently experienced. In the air trip, he finds his dream fulfilled. The flight was the first he ever boarded. It was his single dream, long harbored.

“He always wanted to board a plane every time he saw one flying overhead. Now, he’s happy that he flew in the air, along the birds,” says Seema, his niece who attends to him.

Life has always been different and in ways difficult for Nau. Born as the eldest of seven sons to his parents, he could never try the vulnerable moves of initial walking days, nor could make out the thrill of sports that his brothers would regularly engage in.

“I’ve spent all my life in the exact position I’m in now,” he says, gesturing to his skinny legs, and thus implying his inability to move around. The disorder he was born with forced him to cope with the hurdles that come with such a condition.

“He has an abnormal morphology. According to the doctor, all his chest, lungs and liver are oddly placed and miniature in sizes,” adds Rocky, one of Nau’s grandsons who accompanied him during the trip to Kathmandu.

Of the many difficulties he faced, the ones that hit him hard the most were never being able to do what others his age could. Nau could never go to school or work in the fields with his family. As an adult, he was often carried to school by his friends who were teachers.
“But they would do so for the children’s amusement and not for my benefit,” he adds.

Nau also never married, nor did he let the thought come to his mind anytime, and if it did, he was quick to dismiss it.

“The idea was totally unfeasible, given my condition,” he explains, adding that he has always been dependent on his family. Even now, he lives with his brothers’ families. For mobility around his home, he uses a pushcart and still has to be escorted by Seema because his arms are too frail to be able to push himself.

But he loves to be around people and to be surrounded by them. His days back in the village are spent chatting with people who keep visiting him. He learns about various happenings in the village and the country alike from the visitors who have become his friends over time.

“People come to me to talk about all the problems in the village, like how rainfall was scarce or late this year, or how they harvested less amount of crop this year, unlike last year,” says Nau, adding that he lives vicariously through these conversations.

He is also watchful about the changes, both social and political, that have occurred over time.

“We used ‘suka’ (quarter) and ‘mohar’ (half a Rupee) when I was young,” he says, commenting on the price hikes of the present days while, at the same time, expressing his desire to cast a vote in the upcoming elections.

The fact that Nau holds a clear and solid political agenda at this age adds yet another insight to his character. “Vote those who make the country prosperous and punish those who wrong the citizens,” he says in a loud voice.

Though Nau finds it difficult to adjust to a world designed for people of larger statures than him, his enthusiasm for life, however, remains intact. From his hotel room, across the window, he wishes to see the Pashupatinath Temple. But he has to be assisted, and Prakhyat lifts him up to give let him peek out of the window.

After his stature caught the media’s attention, he was provided a new wheelchair. He rode on a bike and also boarded a Jeep. He is quite excited about his new wheelchair and wishes to show it off to all his friends in the village. Nau’s incessant optimism and unflinching hope are the life energies that drive him. He is satisfied with all that life has given him, and has no regrets whatsoever.

“Even this disorder has served me in disguise today. It has brought me to the capital, taken me over the clouds literally and made me famous,” he says, and the excitement to board a plane once again to return to his village shows in the twinkle in his eyes.

Source:-myrepublica.com

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Wanna destroy beloved Nepal?

A strange thing happened back in 1999 in a South African national park. Someone was killing the rhinos systematically. The rangers were clueless as to the cause of the death (36 altogether) at menacingly regular intervals. Clearly it was not the handiwork of the poachers as the dead rhino bodies were found intact. So what was happening? To their utter surprise, they found out that it was wild elephants that were killing the rhinos. Why, they simply could not understand.

There was an all-round shock among conservationists when a park ranger came forward and said he witnessed an elephant knocking a rhino over, trampling it, and driving a tusk through its chest. That was unheard of, particularly the scale at which it was happening. This sort of behavior when an elephant actively goes out and chases rhinos was totally abnormal. A careful examination brought forward that all these young elephants were orphaned as their parents were killed (they call it culling) during the early 1990s by rangers to control excessive elephant population, and were only recently introduced to the Hluhluwe-Umofolozi Park. 

The park authorities were under pressure to do something. They decided to do an experiment. They asked Kruger Park, the mother park of the orphaned elephants, to send 10 adult bulls (male elephants) in the hope that their presence will have some calming effect on the young unruly elephants. And to everyone’s delight, the killings completely stopped, almost overnight, once the adults arrived. The young ones’ behavior patterns returned to normal under the influence of adult elephants.

The state of a half of Nepal’s population is similar to the story of the orphaned elephants. The State of Nepal and its elite, their metaphorical parent, abandoned them. Today they stand disillusioned and angry. They are ready to destroy anything in rage. These are the communities and ethnicities that were treated as second-class citizens by the state for centuries. 

The state of the other half of Nepal’s population that monopolized Nepalihood is no better. Though the state provided them with all the material support it could, it failed to provide them with the guidance to ‘respect’ siblings and cousins, extended family members, indeed the entire society. Some of them consistently and actively went out just like the young orphaned elephants in the above story to hurt fellow citizens by calling them names, insulting them, assaulting them physically.

Come to think of it- when we proudly and openly call fellow Nepalis who constitute almost half the population of the country, and inhabit some quarter of its land ‘Dhoti’, and declare them foreigners by saying that the defeat of India in a football game that was being celebrated by the entire country is a defeat of Madhesis- we may be thinking we have done a patriotic act to show the love for our country. But the truth is through such utterances and behavior we are doing the biggest disservice to our beloved country- we are further alienating a substantial part of its population that has been abandoned by the state hundreds of years ago, and are already seething with anger. 

Come to think of it, when we declare the Nepali football team a‘Gorkhali’ Team, we are belittling them – we are attempting to rob them of their support from the entire Nepal. Gorkhali population is but only a small part of Nepal, and more than 50% of Nepal cannot be called Gorkhalis until one is totally ignorant of the meaning of the term. We do not live in Gorkhaland – we live in Nepal. Shockingly, even the anchors of national TVs, and agencies deeply involved with promotion of football in Nepal, use slogans like ‘Aayo Gorkhali!’ as their taglines. They appear either stupidly ignorant, or a part of the same unruly hooligan mindset that routinely uses inflammatory terms like ‘Dhoti’ and ‘Bhote’ regularly.

There is an equally strong anti-national campaigning going on by the unruly Madhesi population that generally goes unseen by the Kathmandu elites. There are hundreds of vociferous groups on social networks like Facebook that I would suppose are run by disillusioned members among the Madhesi youth who are openly propagating secessionist emotions by bringing up half-baked truths and disastrous prescriptions that are no less anti-national. Their choice of their language is no better than that used by the Kathmandu hooligans. They simply sound angry, but not necessarily having any solution that will help the Madhesi population that has unfortunately been thrown in a complete darkness, making the Madhes a ‘backyard’ of both mainstream Nepal and India.

To disillusioned Madhesi youth, I have this to say: Our future is in United Nepal. We are the sons and daughters of this great country as much as anyone else. We have given to the world the Buddha, hailed as the Light of Asia. The current-day Madhesh and adjoining areas – much of which fall under India today (called Madhyadesh in olden times) – was the fertile ground of proliferation of eastern philosophies and arts. It was central to the coming up of two of the world’s greatest religions – Buddhism and Hinduism. Mind it, these are the same two religions that Nepal follows (barring a miniscule population). Almost entire Nepal respects ‘Maata Sitaa,’ the tallest mythical figure among Hindus who was a princess of Janakpur – the seat of Mithila – one of the most prominent cultures in Madhesh. The shadow of Madhesh, and the wisdom it produced is just not seen all over entire Nepal, it has spread to a large part of the world – billions follow the path shown by the sons and daughters of the Madhya Desh (a part of which we call Madhesh today). Madhyadesh produced great poets like Kabir and Bidhyapati and hundreds of world-class personalities in the past.

Even in the context of modern-day Nepal, Madhesh is where most of our recent political leaders made their careers from – including leaders from the Khas communities – the Koiralas, MadhavNepals, and so many more. The quest for democracy originated from Biratnagar and other significant townships of Madhesh. Madhesh and its leaders played a major role in the recent political changes in Nepal. Their efforts have been recognized, too. Who could have imagined a few decades ago that Nepal’s President and Vice President would be Madhesis, and close to half the Cabinet berths would go to Madhesis? Have confidence in self, friends – the entire Nepal is ours, not just a part of it.

Our problem is not us the people – whether Pahadis, Madhesis or Himalis. Our problem has been our incompetent and dishonest leaders from the past. Our country is endowed with enough to feed each one of us – indeed help other countries. Let’s not waste our energy in insulting each other. We all are fellow Nepalis – we should know more about each other. We should develop respect for each other. We have lived in one country long enough to develop blood relations. We are inseparable.

The silence of the sane majority on both sides of this mindless war of words is seen by the other side as a tacit support to the acts of the unruly minority. The silence, even if it is just for timidity, is criminal at this juncture when the country’s future is at a crossroads. Speak up until it is too late. Let us not make a Syria or Iraq out of us lest foreign powers would be inclined to do exactly what the South African park authorities did to control the unruly elephants that were killing the rhinos. We do not want any foreign interference – we are capable of settling our differences and finding our ways ourselves. To those unruly anti-nationals on both sides of the debate who are threatening the unity of Nepal, here is the challenge. Nepal will remain united. No one dare think otherwise.
Source:-myrepublica.com

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One man's ObamaCare nightmare

Andy and Amy Mangione of Louisville, Ky. and their two boys are just the kind of people who should be helped by ObamaCare. But they recently got a nasty surprise in the mail.

"When I saw the letter when I came home from work," Andy said, describing the large red wording on the envelope from his insurance carrier, "(it said) 'your action required, benefit changes, act now.' Of course I opened it immediately."

It had stunning news. Insurance for the Mangiones and their two boys,which they bought on the individual market, was going to almost triple in 2014 --- from $333 a month to $965.

The insurance carrier made it clear the increase was in order to be compliant with the new health care law.

"This isn't a Cadillac plan, this isn't even a silver plan," Mangione said, referring to higher levels of coverage under ObamaCare.

"This is a high deductible plan where I'm assuming a lot of risk for my health insurance for my family. And nothing has changed, our boys are healthy-- they're young --my wife is healthy. I'm healthy, nothing in our medical history has changed to warrant a tripling of our premiums.

"Well I'm the one that does the budget,” said his wife. "Eventually I've got that coming down the pike that I gotta figure out what we're gonna cut what we're gonna do, to afford a $1,000 a month premium."

Their insurance company, Humana, declined to comment, but the notice to the Mangiones carried this paragraph:

" If your policy premium increased, you should know this isn't unique to Humana -- premium increases generally will occur industry-wide.

"Increases aren't based on your individual claims or changes in health status," it continued. "Many other factors go in to your premium including: ACA compliance, including the addition of new essential health benefits."

ACA, of course, is the abbreviation for the President's new law, the Affordable Care Act -- which for the Mangiones will be anything but affordable because the law adds a new tax on every insurance policy and requires a list of additional benefits the Mangiones didn’t want to pay for.

Robert Zirkelbach, spokesman for American Health Insurance Plans, which represents insurers,explained that "for people who currently choose to purchase a high deductible, low premium policy that's more affordable for them, they are now being required to add all these new benefits to their policy.

That," he says, "is also going to add to the cost of their health insurance premiums."

This comes amid a huge debate over whether ObamaCare will raise or lower insurance rates.

For the Mangiones, that answer is abundantly clear.

Source: foxnews.com

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