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All 18 dead bodies of the Buddha Air crash victims have been recovered from the crash site at Kotdanda hill, Lalitpur. One passenger had died while being rushed to B&B Hospital at Lalitpur.

The dead bodies have been brought to Tribhuvan Airport on an army helicopter.

Our correspondent Ram Humagai, who was at the crash site, said most of the bodies are identifiable. Parts of the aircraft are scattered within a periphery of about 200ft. A portion of the aircraft has burnt.

Nepal Army, Armed Police Force and Nepal Police are collecting the wreckages after collecting the dead bodies.

Deputy Speaker Purna Kumar Subedi and senior government officials also visited the scene hours after the reports of the plane crash.

According to eyewitnesses, there was fire on the plane as it fell from the sky and slammed on the ground.

The Beechcraft 1900-D, which was returning after a mountain flight, crashed soon after it lost contact with the tower at around 7:30 am.

The sky over Kathmandu Valley was cloudy when the crash took place.NN

Dead bodies of Buddha Air crash victims recovered

All 18 dead bodies of the Buddha Air crash victims have been recovered from the crash site at Kotdanda hill, Lalitpur. One passenger had died while being rushed to B&B Hospital at Lalitpur.

The dead bodies have been brought to Tribhuvan Airport on an army helicopter.

Our correspondent Ram Humagai, who was at the crash site, said most of the bodies are identifiable. Parts of the aircraft are scattered within a periphery of about 200ft. A portion of the aircraft has burnt.

Nepal Army, Armed Police Force and Nepal Police are collecting the wreckages after collecting the dead bodies.

Deputy Speaker Purna Kumar Subedi and senior government officials also visited the scene hours after the reports of the plane crash.

According to eyewitnesses, there was fire on the plane as it fell from the sky and slammed on the ground.

The Beechcraft 1900-D, which was returning after a mountain flight, crashed soon after it lost contact with the tower at around 7:30 am.

The sky over Kathmandu Valley was cloudy when the crash took place. nepalnews.com

Newly elected Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai is to be sworn in by the President this afternoon.

UCPN (Maoist) leader Baburam Bhattarai with party chairman Pushpa Kamal …

According to the President’s Office, the swearing-in ceremony is scheduled to take place at 1 pm at Shitwal Niwas.

Bhattarai told media persons at his residence, soon after his election as the Prime Minister that a small cabinet would be unveiled on Monday.

A few ministers from the Madhesi Front are also likely to be sworn in today.

Sources said the UCPN (Maoist) has promised some 12 portfolios to the Madhesi Front including home, defense and communication. Both the UCPN (Maoist) and the Front are yet to say anything about the portfolio division. nepalnews.com

The legislature parliament on Sunday elected UCPN (Maoist) vice chairman Dr Baburam Bhattarai as the 35th Prime Minister of Nepal.

UCPN (Maoist) leader Baburam Bhattarai with party chairman Pushpa Kamal …

Dr Bhattarai is also the second prime minister of the country from the Maoist party since the peace process began in 2006. He got elected to the top executive post after defeating his rival, Nepali Congress parliamentary party leader Ram Chandra Poudel, in the election held at the parliament Sunday evening.

Bhattarai received 340 votes while Poudel received 235 votes. Altogether 575 lawmakers participated in the voting.

In addition to his party UCPN (Maoist) which has 237 lawmakers in the 595-member Constituent Assembly, United Democratic Madhesi Front with 65 lawmakers and few fringe parties had also supported Bhattarai.

The prospects of Bhattarai began looking brighter after the United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF), which has a decisive voting bloc pledged to vote for him earlier in the morning.

NC’s PM candidate Ram Chandra Poudel was supported by the UML and few other parties in the voting, but it was far lower to put up a strong challenge to Bhattarai.

Voting for the Prime Minister had started in the legislature parliament after the lawmakers from different parties including the independent ones finished presenting their arguments on the PM candidates.

Pro-monarchist Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal (RPP-Nepal), which has been organising series of protests demanding dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, boycotted the election process.

The election of Bhattarai’s to the top executive post has provided a new ray of hope to the people of the country for constitution and lasting peace especially considering, as political observers say, the “flexibility” shown by his party on their constitution and peace road map floated on Thursday.

Erstwhile Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal’s six-month old government had come to an end earlier this month after he tendered his resignation on August 14.

Baburam Bhattarai was born in a village called Belbas in Khoplang VDC of Gorkha District on May 26, 1954. He was born in a low – middle class peasant family and completed his secondary school education from Amar Jyoti Janata Secondary School in Luintel, Gorkha. He scored the highest marks among total examinees in SLC examination conducted in 1970 and topped the I.Sc board again in Amrit Science Campus, Kathmandu. He later completed his PhD degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) in 1986.[3] His Ph.D. thesis was later published as a book “The Nature of Underdevelopment and Regional Structure of Nepal- A Marxist Analysis”.

He had earlier served as the finance minister in the first Maoist government led by party chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal following the Constituent Assembly election through which the Maoists emerged as the largest party in the CA. nepalnews.com

Nepali Congress (NC) veteran leader and former Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai passed away at the age of 87 while undergoing treatment at Norvic Hospital, Kathmandu Friday night.

Krishna Prasad Bhattarai (file photo )

Dr Bharat Rawat, involved in Bhattarai’s treatment, informed journalists that Bhattarai breathed his last at 11.26 pm, Friday. He was at critical stage since Wednesday.

Bhattarai was admitted to the hospital some three weeks ago after his health condition worsened.

Bhattarai is a founding member of Nepali Congress who became Prime Minister twice. He fought along with BP Koirala, Subarna Shumsere, Ganeshman Singh and Girija Prasad Koirala for democracy in 1950s. He also became the first Speaker of Nepal’s first ever parliament.

Bhattarai was jailed for eight years after the royal coup in 1960. After the restoration of democracy in 1990, Bhattarai became the Prime Minister of the interim government, in charge of making the new constitution and holding the first election.

Bhattarai was elected Nepali Congress president by its general convention in 1992. Before this, he was the acting president of the party for a long time after BP Koirala passed away.

He won the election, first time ever in his life, to the House of Representatives from Parsa in 1999 and became Prime Minister for the second time.

After his government was toppled after one year, he remained inactive from politics. He had been living with his aides in a government provided facility in Lalitpur. nepalnews.com

The anticipated performance of tourism industry in 2011 is firmly confirmed by the steady rise of arrivals in the very beginning of the month.

The figures released by Immigration Office, Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) reveal that visitor arrivals in the month of January 2011, compared to the same month last year, have increased by 26.2% to 32914.

All regions have shown positive growth in the first month of 2011. India which constitutes the major market of Nepal, has recorded positive growth of 35.5%. In the SAARC region, arrivals from Bangladesh and Pakistan have registered positive growth by 10.3% and 13.3% respectively. However, the arrivals from Srilanka declined by 47.5%. In aggregate the South Asian segment has registered a positive growth of 28.8%.

Arrivals from Asia (other than South Asia) have also recorded positive growth of 36.6% in aggregate with all markets showing improved performance. The visitor’s arrivals from China have increased significantly by 79.6%. Similarly, the arrivals from Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and South Korea have also increased by 8.2%, 51.9%, 29.1%, 3.2%and 20.3% respectively.

An overall positive growth of 14.6% has been observed from the European markets with arrivals from major generating markets such as the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Russia up by 7.5%, 35.3%, 48.9% and 40.3% respectively. However, the arrivals from France, Italy and Switzerland have declined by 17.4%, 5.0% and 5.5% respectively compared to the same month last year.

Tourist arrivals from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and USA have also registered robust growth of 23.8%, 59.7%, 9.8% and 27.6% respectively.

Nepal has enjoyed a sustained positive growth in the international visitor arrivals since June 2009 and the trend continues even in year 2011. These figures reflect rising confidence among visitors and tour operators to Nepal.  The sustained positive growth will hopefully be effective in achieving the target of Nepal Tourism Year 2011.

A total of 40,507 foreign tourists departed from TIA in January 2011. The number of Nepalese arrivals stood at 64,755 while 72,100 Nepalese departed from TIA in January 2011.NTB