Ex-ambassador Richard’s dead body found four months after his disappearance

London, Sept 1

The dead body of former Ambassador of the United Kingdom for Nepal Richard Morris was found on Monday. British police had intensified the search for diplomat Morris who went missing while he was on morning walk at a park near his home at Bentley on last 6 May.
Hampshire Police found his dead body at Alice Halt forest where he used to go for physical exercise in a routine manner.
Though the dead body is yet to be officially identified the police here have informed his family about the recent development.
Earlier, the East Hampshire Police Office had appealed to the general public thrice to support the search for the missing diplomat.
Richard Morris served as an ambassador to Nepal from 2015 to 2019. In the recent statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the UK, it was noted that Morris was a very significant personality and had been recognized as a person capable of maintaining wider relations as a diplomat.
He is survived by three children and a spouse.
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04- Lalitpur metropolis to bring disable-friendly cab into use
Lalitpur, Sept 1 (RSS): The Lalitpur metropolitan city is bringing disable-friendly cab into use. In order to facilitate the mobility of the people with physical disability, the metropolis has signed a tripartite agreement with Swabalamban Jeewan Paddati Kendra Lalitpur and Swabalamban Jeewan Paddati Kendra Eureka Japan on Monday.
Lalitpur metropolis mayor Chiribabu Maharjan shared that a disable-friendly cab is to be operated considering the convenience of the people with disabilities. “As disable people are struggling to travel through other kinds of vehicles, we are bringing into use a cab within the metropolis to facilitate their movement”, he added.
The disable people can get into the cab with their wheel chairs. It has a capacity to accommodate four wheel chair users and their aids.
The metropolis said it would bear all the expenses involved on driver salary, fuel, maintenance and transport tax. The Swabalamban Jeewan Paddati Kendra Lalitpur would take decisions on where and how to operate the cab.
LMC chief administration officer Bishnu Prasad Koirala shared that according to the agreement Lalitpur metropolis would spend Rs 2 million, Kendra Lalitpur Rs 300,000 and Kendra Eureka Rs 1.5 million.
He further said, “The cab is so far the first one coming into operation for the people with physical disabilities.
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05- Parliamentary committee directs government to live up standards in prison health
Kathmandu, Sept 1 (RSS): Following the confirmation of COVID-19 among jailbirds, the parliamentary committee has directed the government to seriously take its earlier recommendations and directives regarding the management of prisoners and bring them into implementation in a prompt manner.
The State Affairs and Good Governance Committee issued an order to the government in view of the spike of coronavirus infections in central and other jails across the country.
Committee President Shashi Shrestha said that the directive was issued to the government to arrange PCR testing of jailbirds and security personnel of all prisons where coronavirus infection was already contracted. The virtual meeting of the committee on Sunday took the decision to direct the government to make such an arrangement.
There are 74 prisons in 72 districts of the country. The committee had already recommended the home ministry to keep inmates in open jail and parole, form parole boards and make separate clusters of inmates based on their health status in a bid to allay virus transmission risk.(RSS)