र यो एही देश हो, एउटा पार्टीको नेताको छोरो हुँदैमा उस्ले दुई करोड पाउछ।
सत्य हो , यो देश सतीले सरापेको हैन शहीदले सरापेको हो। "
Doug Hardman wakes up every morning with a song in his head—a vague memory of his days on stage.
Inside his tepee in the woods outside Lakewood, NJ, at the homeless Tent City, the roosters wake early and the mornings are already cooler. A musician who lost his Florida home in the housing crisis, Hardman says he floats in and out of Tent City, that he's proud of his kids, and misses the life he no longer has.
He has a lot of company out here.
Homelessness among people 65 and older -- the U.S. Census Agency’s definition of the elderly -- is on track to increase 33 percent by 2020, and more than double by 2050, according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH).
'Black magic woman' beaten black and blue
HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE
KATHMANDU: A group of locals on the outskirts of the Capital city today beat up a woman, accusing her of practising witchcraft.
According to police, six persons in Jorpati today thrashed Sunita Pudasaini (36), a native of Gothatar VDC, and inflicted serious injury on her eyes. Superstition though rife in outlying regions, it was an absurd and inhumane act by the locals, that too living quite close to the Capital city, who went blind to the consequences of their actions and meted out torture to the woman to an extent that doctors attending to the victim, according to an investigating official, said she could go blind. The victim has been admitted to Tilganga Eye Hospital.
Police have arrested all the six persons involved in the incident and they have been identified as Gyanendra Dahal (35) and his wife Tara Dahal (26) of Kavre, Dilip Rimilsina (28) and his wife Sita Timilsina (27) of Jorpati, Bhawani Shankar Gautam (65) of Kavre and Mandira Dahal (20) of Jorpati.
Pudasaini was staying at her aunt’s house in Jorpati for the past few weeks. According to police, the perpetrators had attacked Pudasaini accusing her of casting black magic spells and making them ill.
Though charging a person with witchcraft and subjecting her to torture is punishable by law, hundreds of women, especially those from the so-called lower caste, in the country, suffer abuse at the hands of superstitious people.
On February 17, a mob had burnt a 40-year-old woman alive in a village in Chitwan accusing her of practising witchcraft and casting black magic spells.
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