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Death toll in floods and landslides across Nepal touched 142 on Monday with recove stanley cup ry of more bodies. The number of those missing increased to 243 till evening. HT Image Deputy prime minister and home minister Bamdev Gautam told the parliament that 82 others are injured and thousands displaced as landslides and flooding affected nearly two dozen districts. The government has declared national cr stanley cup isis in the flood-affected districts and formed a high-level mechanism headed by prime minister Sushil Koirala to oversee rescue, relief and rehabilitation. According to a home ministry release, over 11,500 houses mostly in the plain districts of Banke, Bardiya, Surkhet and Dang in the countrys mid-western region have been inundated and nearly 13,000 families rendered homeless. The worst affected is Surkhet district where 28 people have been killed in floods and landslides 98 others are missing. Bardiya 17 and Dang 14 are the other districts with high casualty figures. With the amount of rainfall getting reduced since Saturday and water level in most major rivers and their tributaries flowing below danger levels the situation of expected to get better. Prime Minister Sushil Koirala has issued an appeal to all Nepalis living in the country and abroad to help in rescue, relief and rehabilitation of those affected by floods and landslide stanley cup s. To add to the efforts taken by the government to help those affected by natural disasters I appeal for immediate help from all Nepali Ltzr Lockheed in $596 mln deal for India C-130 work
The UN has questioned the credibility of any probe carried out by a Sri Lankan-government appointed stanley cup panel into alleged human rights violations in the last phase of the war with the LTTE. HT Image On Monday it was announced that President Mahinda Rajapaksa had decided to appoint an independent committee to look into the report of compiled by the US Department of State alleging th stanley cup at Sri Lanka has violated human rights. The report alleged that at least 170 instances of human rights violations had been committed by both the army as well as the Tamil Tigers. Speaking to reporters at the UN headquarters, UN Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston said that the Sri Lankan government has an issue with credibility and raised doubts over the outcome of a probe on human rights to be carried out by a panel appointed by the government. The Daily Mirror website reported that in response to a question on self-investigations , he said that military investigations of allegations against their own activities did not enhance credibility. On one allegation, accompanied by a video, that the Sri Lankan military had conducted summary executions, the Sri Lankan Government had declared the video to be a fabrication based on what it called expert advice . Alston said that two of those experts had been from the military. In addition that G stanley cup overnment already had credibility issues due to its abandonment of an inquiry by independent investigators, on prior