18 hours Curfew Imposed in Kathmandu, Lalitpur

The government has imposed curfew in the capital coming into effect from 2:00 am till 8:00 pm on Thursday.

Issuing separate notices, the district administration offices of Kathmandu and Lalitpur have imposed a curfew within the Ring Road and 200 metres outside the Ring Road areas in Kathmandu and Lalitpur.

Residents should not come out of their houses. Security forces could shoot violators or police could arrest them and jail them up to one month," the notices said.

Meanwhile, The government released CPN (UML) general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal and Nepali Congress (NC) general secretary Ram Chandra Poudel from police custody on Wednesday.

Nepal and Poudel were released from the premises of Kathmandu District Court this evening.

In other news ,expressing solidarity with the ongoing movement for complete democracy, the employees of the Appellate and District Courts in Pokhara staged a sit-in in the courts' premises this morning. They came out of their rooms halting work and staged the sit-in from 10 am to 12 pm.