Kathmandu, July 8 (IANS) A lower court in Nepal has convicted the country’s former Deputy Prime Minister, Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, former Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand, and 14 others in the fake Bhutanese refugee scam that rocked Nepal’s political establishment three years ago. The Kathmandu District Court found them guilty of conspiring to send Nepali citizens to the United States by disguising them as Bhutanese refugees. Although the third-country resettlement of Bhutanese refugees concluded i…
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Vijayawada, April 19 (IANS) The second and final batch of Haj pilgrims from Andhra Pradesh left for Saudi Arabia from the Vijayawada International Airport on Sunday.State Minority Welfare Minister N.M.D. Farooq flagged off the second batch. He expressed best wishes to the pilgrims, expressing hope that their journey would be successful, peaceful, and filled with joy.A total of 177 pilgrims left for Saudi Arabia. The first batch of 156 pilgrims had departed on Saturday.The pilgrims left for the a…