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A group of people went on a rampage and vandalised the Metropolitan Police Beat at Nayabasti in Gokarneshwor Municipality-13 over the death of a taxi driver.According to the Metropolitan Police Office, Ranipokhari, dozens of vandals also overpowered five policemen, including the beat in-charge sub-inspector Sanjeev Napit, and thrashed them while making an attempt to torch the building with the cops inside at around 11:00 am.

KATHMANDU: As many as 26 Nepali Congress lawmakers on Friday expressed their reservation over the Local Body Restructuring Commission’s modus operandi on the collection of opinion and suggestions over the restructuring of Province No. 2 in the Capital. Issuing a five-point statement today, the lawmakers from Dhanusha, Mahottari, Udayapur, Morang, Saptari, Bara, Parsa, Sarlahi, Siraha, Chitwan and Rupandehi demanded that opinion and suggestions regarding local restructuring be collected from political parties, communities and people’s representatives in the respective districts. “We object to the fact that the Commission… has been inviting lawmakers from the districts in hotels of the centre (Capital) and receiving suggestions and permissions from them here,” they said. Meanwhile, the lawmakers also said service delivery should be considered at the centre while defining borders and numbers of local bodies.

One most celebrated couple in the industry, Anup Baral and Diya Maskey, in Jeevan Saathi with Narayan Puri.Diya Maskey is a Nepalese movie actress so far she have done movies like Kagbeni, Ek Din Ek Raat, Tata Bye Bye, Soongava and Fitkiri. Watch the latest episode of Jeevan Sathi. Diya Maskey started her career from film as an actress but later she is more fascinated towards theaters. She is continuously working on play at theaters. Diya Maskey got married with Anup Baral. She got attracted towards Anup Baral after looking her performance and her dedication towards the work. Watch an exclusive video interview with actress Diya Masket right here on Canada Nepal:

There are many stories behind Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Third Gender and Intersex (LGBTI) in Hinduism. Hindu society and culture perceive LGBTIs as good luck. For example, a newly born child or newly married couple in Hindu society gets blessed by LGBTIs that are believed to be an incarnation of god. Despite the existence of LGBTIs in the society, the identity and issues of LGBTI came forward officially only since 2001 in Nepal. Since 2006, Nepal is a secular state where LGBTI community represents diverse culture and religion. Interestingly, LGBTI people in Nepal have been successful to establish their identity and issues in private and public sphere and law, policies, plans and programmes within short period of time. Although the economic and social status of LGBTI is yet to be better, Nepal has been the most active country in South Asia towards the identity and issues of LGBTIs. It has taken a number of steps to address the issues of LGBTIs. The National Youth Policy, 2010 of Ministry of Youth and Sports in Nepal defined “youths as women, men and third genders of 16-40 age group”. By recognizing the identity of third genders, Nepal’s census-2011 included third genders in its survey form. The Supreme Court of Nepal through its verdict in 2007 introduced gender identity of third gender people as natural and urged the government to issue citizenship certificate to them as per their preferred gender identity. In addition, the 2008-2009 budgets of the government allocated some fund to ‘tesrolingi or ‘third sex’. The Three-Year National Human Rights Action Plan (2010-2013) of the government included some programmes and budget for them. The Election Commission for the first time recognized third genders in its new voters’ list in 1013.