Namrata Shrestha is a Nepali actress and model. She is also a presenter and a RJ as well. Namrata is best known for her role in ‘Sano Sansar’, which was a romantic movie released in 2008. Namrata life and career was going good but in September 2009, she was found involved in a controversial sex scandal. It was a six minute sex video that featured Namrata and her boyfriend DJ Tantrik. DJ Tantrik is already married. The unexpected sex video was filmed by a mobile by an unknown person and this controversial video clip spread from mobile to mobile like fire around the cities. This video was called unexpected as such cases are very rare in a country like Nepal. The wife of DJ Tantrik also seen the video and she was shocked.

The video really affects the career and personal life of Namrata Shrestha. Namrata Shrestha is named as one of the top 5 models in Nepal by the Kathmandu Poston in the edition of February, 2005. She has been modeling since 1997 and had also appeared in a number of theater acts as well. She has appeared on the cover of a number of well known magazine such as VOW Magazine, Wave Magazine and various other. Currently, she also works as a radio jockey at Kantipur FM.

A meeting of the District Natural Disaster Management Committee on Wednesday decided to resettle 140 families of Tepari at Holiya VDC, who were displaced by floods in the Rapti river, in a local community forest. “It is not possible to save the village from floods immediately. So we decided to resettle villagers in a safer place,” said Chief District Officer and Chairman of the Committee Jiban Prasad Oli. Floods from the river have swept away half a dozen houses and damaged many others, causing a loss of property worth thousands of rupees. The village is exposed to floods during monsoon every year.

Officials at the District Forest Office said they will begin a survey of the land in the community forest from Thursday for rehabilitating flood victims.

The Committee also decided to rehabilitate 400 families of Gangapur and Bhojbhagawanpur, who are at the threat of floods from the Rapti river, in local schools and public buildings.

Three die, one goes missing

Palpa: The body of Dilu Prasad Basyal, 42, of Khanigaun VDC -6 in the district, who was buried in a landslide on Wednesday morning, was recovered from the debris on Thursday. Likewise, Menuka Sharma, 55, who was injured in the disaster, died on Thursday while undergoing treatment in Bharatpur Medical College. In Myagdi, a girl died after she was swept away by a landslide at Tatopani VDC -1 in the district. The deceased has been identified as Kamala Rai, 21, from Udayapur. Rai, who worked as a wage labourer, was sleeping in a house when the incident occurred. Meanwhile, Keshabraj Parajuli, 50, of Pokhara-4 in Kaski went missing after the local Phirke river swept him away on Wednesday night. Parajuli slipped into the river when he went to the river bank to pee, police said. (PR)

Congress President Sushil Koirala has said that the problems caused by the Rapti flood to the southeast of Banke owing to the Laxmanpur dam and the Kalkalawa embankment on the Indian side will be his top agenda during his upcoming India visit.

The NC president pledged before the flood-affected villagers of Holiya Village Development Committee on Tuesday that he will take the issue before Indian government officials and request them to come up with a long-term solution to address the villagers’ plight.

Every monsoon, the Rapti floods Holiya, Gangapur, Matehiya, Betahani, Kamdi and Fattepur VDCs. Since the onset of monsoon this year, floods have already displaced more than 200 families in the six VDCs. Around 500 houses in Gangapur and Matehiya are still engulfed by floodwaters.

“Since these floodings were primarily caused due to the dam and the embankment built on the Indian side, I will ask the Indian authorities to find a solution to the crisis,” Koirala said after inspecting the flood-affected region.

The NC president said that former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, during his 1999 India visit, had first apprised the Indian government of the flood problem caused by the Laxmanpur and Kalkalawa dams in the Nepal i villages.

“The Indian government had then pledged to build embankments to save the villages. Since the project was not implemented, I will keep the matter before the Indian government once again.”

Koirala assured the villagers that he will appeal to the Nepal government for compensation and relief materials for the victims.

In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the government and authorities concerned to make special provisions to promptly hear and clear cases of ‘serious nature’ such as rape, hostage taking and human trafficking. The apex court said victims of such cases have not been able to get timely and ‘effective’ justice.

The court was responding to a petition filed by Uma Tamang of Maiti Nepal, Sunita Danuwar of Shakti Samuha and Sushma Gautam of Forum for Women, Law and Development, in September 2012, demanding an order to the Ministry of Home Affairs and Nepal Police Headquarters to direct District Police Offices to produce the accused in the court during the investigation period itself.

The court on Wednesday ordered its administration, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG)  and the Prime Minister’s Office to ensure “continuous hearing” on all such cases. According to the verdict, a case once opened for hearing cannot be adjourned until a judgement is delivered.

Though there is a legal provision that calls for “continuous hearing” on certain cases, it has not been followed as the court administration and the government attorney’s office interpret it as an “optional” provision.

A division bench of Justices Kalyan Shrestha and Baidya Nath Upadhyay on Wednesday said the “continuous hearing” provision in the District Court Regulation is not optional.

The bench also ordered the apex court registrar to form a mechanism in different courts to help facilitate dialogue among different stakeholders in a case, including attorneys of the plaintiff and government attorneys.

The division bench further directed the Monitoring Division of the Supreme Court to keep track of developments in such cases, while also ordering the Ministry of Home Affairs, Nepal Police Headquarters and the OAG to make necessary arrangements to produce witnesses as required by the courts to ensure continuous hearing.

The petitioners had also sought orders in the name of the OAG to direct its subordinate offices to produce witnesses in the court while filing charge-sheets.

The appellants have also sought orders to the apex court administration to ensure that it prepares case hearing calendars in a way that ensures continuous hearing of the cases.