Sep 8, 2008 22:43
BY IMRAN KHANPATNASept. 8: As floodwaters started receding in affected areas of Bihar, thousands have left relief camps and temporary shelters to return to their homes in still-marooned villages, afraid that their belongings might be stolen.Their return en masse has left government agencies engaged in rescue operations worried.An official in the chief ministerâÂÂs office said that people were returning to villages on their own, ignoring appeals. âÂÂIANSCong MPs ignore Indians in NepalBY SUDESHNA SARKARKATHMANDUSept. 8: A team of five parliamentarians from the Congress party wound up their junket to Nepal on Monday without meeting the two big Indian joint ventures which have been in deep labour trouble for over a week now, as well as hundreds of Indians languishing in flood relief camps in Nepal.Led by Mr K.K. Rao, the team included Ms Alka Balram Kshatriya and Ms Ratna Bai, members of the Rajya Sabha, and two MPs from Lok Sabha, Mr S. Sathyanarayana and Ms Jhansi B. LakshmiAccompanied by family members, the Indian MPs stayed at the five-star Yak and Yeti hotel in Kathmandu.During their five-day trip, supposedly undertaken to improve the Congress partyâÂÂs links with civil society in Nepal, the team did not meet officials of Dabur Nepal which suffered a loss of millions of rupees with the Maoist trade union shutting down the companyâÂÂs factory in Rampur village. âÂÂIANSÃÂ