ICYMI: Here are our top stories from Wednesday, May 8

Here are some of the top stories from The Kathmandu Post (May 8, 2019). ICYMI: Here are our top stories from Wednesday, May 8

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Published at : May 8, 2019

Updated at : May 9, 2019 07:55

Kathmandu

Here are some of the top stories from The Kathmandu Post (May 8, 2019).

Disease control division scans media reports to get information about disease outbreak

Nine health workers were deployed at a health desk setup at the Tribhuvan International Airport some six years ago to carry out 24-hour screening of passengers entering the country.

The health desk was set up to prevent the spread of Ebola Virus Disease in the country and other contagious diseases including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, coronavirus.

Today, there are only four health workers serving at the health desk at the airport since the others have been transferred to the health facilities at the local levels. Due to lack of staff, the health desk stopped screening foreign passenger entering the country via the country’s sole international airport, round the clock.

Supreme Court overturns own decision on Home Ministry’s citizenship circular

The Supreme Court has, once again, stayed a Home Ministry circular to chief district officers to grant citizenship by descent to the children of those individuals whose parents are citizens by birth.

The order comes less than two weeks after the top court issued an interim order to stop granting citizenship by descent to individuals whose parents obtained citizenship by birth in 1997, under the recommendation of a committee led by Jitendra Dev.

A joint bench of Justice Ishwar Prasad Khatiwada and Sushmalata Mathema on Tuesday also decided to send the issue to the full court.

The court has not decided yet when the full court will sit to decide the case.

Investigation committee report clears Lalitpur Madhyamik teachers accused of sexual abuse

Two months after an investigative committee was formed to look into allegations of sexual abuse against three teachers at Lalitpur Madhyamik Vidyalaya, the committee has cleared all three of them, saying it couldn’t find sufficient evidence against them.

The report, which was submitted on Monday evening, concludes that because the alleged sexual abuse happened more than 10 to 15 years ago, the committee was unable to find definitive evidence against any of the three perpetrators—Bodha Raj ‘Basu Tripathee, Sumanta ‘Suman’ KC, and Gokul Sharma.

Industrialists accuse Nepal Electricity Authority of charging them illegally

Industrialists on Tuesday accused the Nepal Electricity Authority of having billed them ‘illegally’ for the past three years for using regular electricity supply through dedicated feeders and trunk lines.

The state-owned power utility said that certain factories received electricity through dedicated feeders worth billions of rupees when the rest of the country suffered load-shedding. It said it was calculating the actual amount of the outstanding electricity bills.

On Tuesday, three trade associations came to the defence of the industrialists and countered the utility’s charges, questioning the motive for billing them for such huge amounts. They claimed that the utility had even billed those factories that had not signed any agreements for regular electricity supply. The private sector representatives said that the claim made by the authority was ‘unacceptable’.