<p><span style="line-height: 1.42857;">The government in a period of the past two years distributed identity cards to 200 thousand senior citizens.&nbsp;</span><br></p><p><br></p><p>As per the national census (latest) 2011, the population of the senior/older citizens makes up 2.2 million of the total population of the country.&nbsp;</p><p>According to Meera Sherchan, Chief of Senior Citizen Unit at the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare, senior citizen identity card were distributed from the District Women and Children Offices to the people above 60 years of age in the last two years.&nbsp;</p><p>Older people have expressed their concerns over the lack of full implementation of the discount facility announced for them in hospitals and public transport.</p>

<p><span style="line-height: 1.42857;">A meeting of the Legislature-Parliament held today has passed the 'Employees Adjustment Bill, 2074 BS' by a majority.</span><br></p><p>Minister for General Administration Tek Bahadur Basnet, informing the parliament about the main features of the bill, urged the parliament to pass the bill as it provides for the adjustment of the employees in line with the federal set-up and the constitution.</p><p>In the meeting, lawmakers Jeevan Pariyar, Chudamani B.K. Jungalee, Dilli Prasad Kafle, Meena Pun, Prem Suwal, Ramhari Subedi, Ramhari Khatiwada, Rabindra Adhikari and Rukmini Chaudhary called for making provision in the bill requiring that all the government employees should go to the places where the government has assigned them to.</p><p><br></p><p>They also suggested incorporating a provision in the bill whereby the employees would be required to have only one trade union and not several unions on party line.##</p>

<p><span style="line-height: 1.42857;">Ambassador of Nepal to India, Deep Kumar Upadhyay has resigned from his post.</span><br></p><p><br></p><p>Upadhayay has said that he has put in his papers for 'returning to social life'.</p><p><br></p><p>&nbsp;He has submitted his resignation to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Krishna Bahadur Mahara today.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>His resignation will come into effect once it is accepted by the Council of Ministers.&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="line-height: 1.42857;">A meeting of the Nepali Congress central committee today discussed the issues of candidate nomination process and its criteria for the upcoming House of Representatives and State Assemblies elections slated for late this year. &nbsp; &nbsp;</span><br></p><p><br></p><p>The first round of the meeting agreed in general not to give tickets to candidates who contested in the local level elections, the rebel candidates, those not supporting the party's official candidates and (previous) lawmakers under the proportional representation category.</p><p><br></p><p>The meeting chaired by Prime Minister and party president Sher Bahadur Deuba held at the PM's official residence, Baluwatar.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Most of central committee members putting their views in the meeting insisted on the need of finalising candidates for the both approaching elections.</p><p><br></p><p>Talking to media following the meeting, party central members Dilendra Badu said the meeting suggested the party leadership for the need of finalising the matter of nomination of candidates by October 11.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Following the meeting Nepali Congress central committee member Arjun Narsingh KC, terming the leftist unity against the democratic norms, values and ideologies, claimed that such unity was just for reaching to power.</p>

<p><span style="line-height: 1.42857;">Two people were killed and 30 others injured when a bus they were travelling in fell some 100 meters from the road at Sapdanda, Malarani rural municipality-2 in Arghakhanchi district this morning.</span><br></p><p><br></p><p>Eight persons injured critically in a bus accident have been taken to Kathmandu while 37 persons are receiving treatment in Butwal.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The critically injured are undergoing treatment at Tribhuvan University, Teaching Hospital Maharajgunj, Kathmandu.</p><p><br></p><p>The bus was going towards Butwal from Arghatos, Dandakateri at the time of the accident.</p>