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Nepali Army soldiers deployed in Haiti under the United Nations Peace Keeping Mission are safe, the Nepal Army said on Wednesday. However, one soldier was injured in the earhquake. Over 1,100 Nepalis are part of the United Nations Stabilisation Misssion in Haiti (MINUSTAH) since 2004. The Army said all Nepali peace keepers are safe and that they have been pressed into service for the relief and rescue efforts in Haiti. MINUSTAH's mandate is to restore a secure and stable environement, to promote the political process and to strengthen Haiti's government instituions and rule-of-law structures.

I would like to thank World Wide Nepalese Students Organisation, which is run by a group of enthusiastic young people, for organising essay competition and providing a platform for me to make committments of the activities that I will be doing in my life to combat Climate Change from my side.

Guess, for the first time in my life I have achieved a bicycle for being one of the prize winners. I think, this is one of the rear prizes, that is given and of course, it has marked the awareness that we should use human muscles at individual level to prevent emission :). The other top essayists were provided with CFL bulbs and jute bag including bicycles.

The context behind the essay contest was that the world leaders, then December 18 in Copenhagen, did not come up with some agreement to deal with the climate change.

Whatever, the leaders do, it doesnt affect me including the individuals of the world to fight against global warming and climate change.

My essay was as follows:

As of 18 December 2009, the Earth's population estimated by the US Census Bureau is 6.804 billion. I cover 1.46X 10-10 part of the total population. I am a unit to produce carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, fluorinated gases as I use fuels in different forms, produce solid waste, use pesticides and herbicides for growing plants, use refrigerators that produce chlorofluorocarbons.

Greenhouse gases in atmosphere absorb and emit radiation within the thermal infrared range. Production of such green houses has destroyed ozone layer and has increased the temperature of earth; without them, Earth's surface would be on average about 33 °C colder than at present. The consequent rise in temperature of earth has lead to environmental, socio-economic and health problems. The gradual rise in sea level, gene mutation in microbes, variations in seasons, probability of outbursting of glaciers and fall of weak mountains has threatened humanity and enhanced hostility population.

What I do has direct impact in environment. Before thinking about global change, I should be the change. So from today onwards, I am to use eco-friendly things which have less impact in climate and environment. Use of CFL bulbs, use of bicycles or hybrid cars, turning off the computer monitor when it is not in use, use of paper or cloth bag, less use of clothes and meat are some of things I am to apply in my daily life to protect earth.

Worldwide Nepalese Students' Organisation - Nepal (WNSO-Nepal) is calling Nepalese Youth (ages 17 - 28) to submit their commitment essays on the topic : "I'm not emitting anymore".


The context behind the essay contest is that the world leaders, this December 18 in Copenhagen, may or may not come up with some agreement to deal with the climate change. After 5 days from that day in Kathmandu, we are giving away 15 bicycles plus other things as prizes to the top 15 essayists. The December 18 is the commencing day of UNFCCC COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Interested youth (ages 17-28, until 23 December 2009) are called to submit the handwritten-scanned essay (max. 240 words in English language) along with scanned citizenship and campus ID card (if applicable) to iycm-essays@wnso.org. The last date of submission is December 20, 2009.
Please don't forget to include your contact number on e-mail.

Conditions:
1) The selected top 15 essays along with the names of respective essayists will be published on the websites.
Prizes:
The distribution of such prizes is an iconic to exhibit that Nepalese youth have begun to stop the emissions of green house gases.



The top 15 essayists will get prizes as:
1) Top 5 : a bicycle and a CFL pack each
2) Next 5: a bicycle and a Jute bag each
3) Next 5: a bicycle
Venue of December 23 event will be made public very shortly.
For further details:



Worldwide Nepalese Students' Organisation - Nepal (WNSO-Nepal), Dillibazar, Kathmandu, Nepal 012143143 , info@wnso.org.np , http://www.wnso.org.np/

COPENHAGEN: U.N. climate talks were thrown into disarray Monday as developing countries blocked negotiations, demanding that rich countries raise their pledges for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Representatives from developing countries said they refused to participate in any working groups at the 192-nation summit until the issue was resolved.

The move was a setback for the Copenhagen talks, which were already faltering over long-running disputes between rich and poor nations over emissions cuts and financing for developing countries to deal withclimate change.

Makwanpur is facing shortage of urea fertilizer, the most essential ingredient of modern agriculture. The crisis has hit winter crops and seasonal vegetables, the main sources of livelihood of farmers in the district. The Birgunj branch office of Agricultural Materials Corporations, a state-owned body assigned to import and supply fertilizer, had shipped 95 quintals of urea some weeks ago to various VDCs and Hetauda municipality. However, farmers said the supply was far less than the demand. The district agricultural development office said it is will bring 1,500 metric tonnes of fertilizer.

To the fury of United Nations officials in Kabul, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced that it planned to open 155 more polling stations — up from 6,167 to 6,322 — than during the first vote on August 20, despite repeated claims by the UN that there would be a reduction.
Ever since an official inquiry uncovered almost 1m fraudulent votes cast in favour of the president, Hamid Karzai, the country’s western backers have insisted fewer centres would be opened in the run-off on November 7. But the IEC said assurances by Afghanistan’s security chiefs that conditions had improved in some areas of the country allowed for the opening of more centres. In the first round, polling stations operated in areas that were so insecure that election monitors were unable to deter wholesale ballot stuffing. Karzai’s main opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, has said he would only participate if 500 polling centres were closed and the head of the IEC was sacked.
UN staff said the IEC decision meant voting would still take place in areas where fraud was known to have been committed first time round or in areas where almost no one turned out to vote. A western diplomat closely involved in organising the vote said the news was a “punch in the stomach because everything we asked them to do they rejected”. He said it had shattered morale among election workers, already at a low ebb after six UN members of staff involved in election preparations were killed by a Taliban hit squad in an attack on a guesthouse in Kabul on Wednesday.
“This coming on top of yesterday’s incident — there really is only so much you can take for this progress,” he said. Another official said the decision was “absurd” and that “one really has to question the motives of the IEC”. Despite claims that fraud would be reduced in the second round, election observers believe a clean vote is impossible.

Japan will fund a programme costing up to five billion dollars to help build roads and boost agriculture in conflict-torn Afghanistan, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has outlined the proposal, which would include water control and irrigation technology, the Nikkei business daily reported.
The five-year programme, starting next year, would also help provide job training for former Taliban with stipends of 100-200 dollars a month, while giving time with Japanese companies in Japan, the newspaper said.
Hatoyama plans to announce the initiative, which would be on top of existing financial support for Afghanistan, when US President Barack Obama visits Japan in mid-November, it said.
Hatoyama's centre-left government, which won a general election on August 30, has already told the United States it will end a naval refuelling mission that supports the war in Afghanistan.

Diarrhoea claimed one life in the flood-hit Gangapur area today. The deceased has been identified at 55-year-old Kani Godiya.
Her five-year-old daughter Sudha and three-year-old daughter Asha are undergoing treatment in a local health post. Their condition is said to be critical. Ram Bahadur Chand of District Public Health Office, however, said he had not got details about the outbreak since most health workers were on leave. Diarrhoea cases have also been found in Phuletekra and Kachanapur villages. A medical team had returned from the area before Tihar. Meanwhile, diarrhoea patients have been increasing at Bheri Zonal Hospital in Nepalgunj. Hospital sources said cases of diarrhoea, typhoid and pneumonia were on the rise.

Ford Motor Co. reached a tentative deal with its main union that includes the same concessions granted to rivals General Motors and Chrysler as they restructured under bankruptcy protection, union sources said Tuesday.

The United Auto Workers said the deal will be presented to union delegates Tuesday, but declined to confirm the details until its members have an opportunity to vote.

However, union sources said it includes key changes such as a no-strike clause for the 2011 contract which would extend through 2015, work rule changes and a six-year wage freeze for any new hires.

The agreement - which would cover about 41,000 Ford workers - follows the historical pattern of replicating contracts at the Detroit Three automakers to avoid unfair advantages.

Ford also received major concessions in February such as the elimination of automatic cost of living adjustments, dramatically reduced health care costs and deferral of previously agreed future raises.

The contract changes have run into opposition from some local union officials and workers.

"Accepting a no-strike clause would be like letting the company bust the union," said Gary Walkowicz, a committeeman at the Dearborn Truck Plant who has been critical of the union's concessions in the past.

"We would have no bargaining power in 2011 when Ford might be making big profits again," Walkowicz said in a note which was circulated on the Internet.

"Not only would this mean that we would not get back the concessions we have already lost, it would also mean an arbitrator could lower our wages even further."

Ford declined to comment on the content of the deal, but said it would help the company "improve its current and long-term competitiveness in the United States."

World leaders announced Friday the Group of 20 developed and developing nations would become the top economic forum, spreading influence to emerging powers such as China and India.
The dramatic shift was announced by the White House as President Barack Obama hosted his first major summit in Pittsburgh, which was marred by occasional violence as anti-capitalist protesters clashed with police.
"Today, leaders endorsed the G20 as the premier forum for their international economic cooperation," a statement said.
"This decision brings to the table the countries needed to build a stronger, more balanced global economy, reform the financial system, and lift the lives of the poorest."
The G8, which included only wealthy nations Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United States, has served as the premier economic forum for decades and held closely watched annual summits.
The announcement came as G20 leaders closed in on a deal to tighten financial regulations after last year's meltdown, with China signaling emerging countries would be granted more clout on the IMF.

Leaders have agreed to restructure the world economy by reducing imbalances between countries running massive deficits and those with surpluses, according to a draft of the G20 summit communique seen Friday.
Ahead of the summit of the leaders of the world's biggest economies, big exporters like Germany and China had disagreed with major debtors like the United States on the need for measures to adderess these imbalances.
But the draft final summit communique, seen by AFP, suggested that the members were ready to endorse a plan that would see China encouraging its own people to spend more at home and the United States to cut its yawning deficit.
"We recognize that the process to ensure more balanced global growth must be undertaken in an orderly manner. All G20 members agree to address the respective weaknesses of their economies," the agreement read.
"G20 members with sustained, significant external deficits pledge to undertake policies to support private savings and undertake fiscal consolidation while maintaining open markets and strengthening export sectors.
"G20 members with sustained, significant external surpluses pledge to strengthen domestic sources of growth," it read.
The G20 leaders are to announce the results of their two-day summit in the US city of Pittsburgh later Friday.

Iran has told the U.N. nuclear agency that it is running a new, previously undeclared, facility to enrich uranium, officials told The Associated Press Friday.
Iran is under three sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to freeze enrichment. The officials said that Iran revealed the existence of a second enrichment plant in a letter sent Monday to International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei.
It had previously said it was operating only one plant, which is being monitored by the IAEA.
The Islamic Republic insists that it has the right to the activity to generate fuel for what it says will be a nationwide chain of nuclear reactors.
But because enrichment can make both nuclear fuel and weapons-grade uranium, the international community fears Tehran will use the technology to generate the fissile material used on the tip of nuclear warheads.
The revelation further burdens the chances of progress in scheduled Oct. 1 talks between Iran and six world powers.
At that planned meeting the first in more than a year the five permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany will be pressing Iran to scale back on its enrichment activities. But Tehran has declared that it will not bargain on enrichment.