Bizarre baby born in Dolakha

Charikot, Dolakha, - The birth of a bizarre-looking baby in Charikot, the headquarters of Dolakha district, on Wednesday, drew a huge number of onlookers to witness the astonishing sight.
The neck-less baby with its head almost totally sunk into the upper part of the body and with extraordinarily large eyeballs literally popping out of the eye-sockets, was born to Nir Bahadur Karki and Suntali Karki at the Gaurishnkar Hospital in Charikot.
The Karki couple is a permanent resident of Dolakha?s Bhirkot VDC.
The bizarre baby, however, died after half an hour of its birth, Suntali, the mother, informed. It was taken to the hospital after its death.
The news about such a baby being brought to the hospital spread like wildfire and there were hundreds gathered at the hospital to have a look. The police had to be deployed to control the crowd.
?We wouldn?t have been able to save it, even if it had been brought here alive,? said a nurse attending to the mother at the hospital, ?This is an extremely abnormal case.?
The ?baby? weighed 2kg at birth and was born after the normal nine-month gestation period.
Suntali, already a mother of two normal daughters, was not suffering from any illness during the pregnancy.
Nir Bahadur, the father, says he does not feel any remorse for the newly-born baby?s death. ?I am happy that nothing happened to my wife,? he said.

We have evidence to prove palace's involvement in Sunday's blasts: Dr Bhattarai

Maoist leader Dr Baburam Bhattarai has claimed that his party has found "evidence" to show that the royal palace was behind Sunday's serial bomb blasts in the capital.
"The palace is planning a coup by holding the Maoists responsible for the chaos it is unleashing," Dr Bhattarai said at a function here on Thursday, "We have already collected evidence, which we will make public within the next few days."
The Maoist second-in-command further claimed that the royalists had carried out the explosions to thwart the establishment of a republic and to take the army out of the barracks to stage a coup.
He also alleged that the Nepal Army was accusing the Maoists of carrying out the explosions.
"As the army still favours the royal palace, it has made the allegation only to cover up the palace's conspiracy," he said. "The allegation is completely false."
He also urged all political parties to become serious about the 22 prerequisites cited by the Maoists to stop conspiracies hatched by the royalists and to overthrow the institution of monarchy.
"The Maoists will be compelled to take to the streets if the parliamentary parties do not agree to declare a republic through the interim parliament," he said, adding that their agitation could also be directed against the parliamentary parties "if they do not give up the tendency to retain the monarchy in one form or the other."
The royal palace has already refuted reports in some newspapers that linked Crown Prince Paras to the serial blasts.
Issuing a statement on Wednesday, the royal palace press secretariat said the news reports were false and published with the ill intention to defame the palace and the crown prince.
Similarly, the Nepal Army, too, has condemned the media reports, which tried to "link the army to Sunday’s blasts".
Terming the news reports a "well-planned and false propaganda" carried out by some media organizations, the NA has appealed to the people to be alert against "this kind of conspiracy, and against the elements, who want to impose their atrocious and extremist ideology."

UK vicars' yoga ban stems from ignorance: Baba Ramdev

Reacting sharply to the ban imposed on yoga by two churches in England [Images] in their halls, yoga exponent Baba Ramdev and a Catholic priest on Saturday said the decision stems from "ignorance"."To relate yoga with religion is nothing but ignorance. There is nothing to suggest in the yoga texts that it is against Christianity," Baba Ramdev said.Delhi Catholic Archdiocese spokesperson Emmanuel Dominic said the action was "stupidity because of lack of sufficient knowledge about what yoga is."Describing yoga as a sham and un-Christian, priests of two churches in England have banned a children's exercise class from their church halls because it is teaching yoga.Louise Woodcock, 41, who was looking for a new home for her Yum Yum Yoga class for toddlers was turned away by the Silver Street Baptist Church and St James's Anglican Church in Taunton, Somerset.Dominic, a yoga practioner, said the decision was not official of either of the Church of England or of the Catholic Church or the Protestant Church.
"Two small parishes are small thing. These are the individual opinions of the two priests," he said.