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Seven-party alliance leaders Astalaxmi Shakya, Krishna Gopal Shrestha Bachaspati Devkota, Yogendra Sangraula and Gobinda Koirala are among the arrested.

Sources at the Nepali Congress party said that around 100 leaders, party activists and students have been arrested during the protests.

Shukra Raj Sharma, Sushil Man Sherchan and Ram Chandra Adhikari were among the NC leaders arrested in the morning, party sources said.

Clashes between protestors and riot police were taking place in Patan, Bhaktapur, Kirtipur and Kalanki till late evening.

In Patan, situation remained tense as the protestors torched a motorcycle, vandalized a temporary police booth, set fire to the post office and hurled stones at police, who in turn fired rubber bullets and dozens of tear gas shells to disperse the protestors. Nepal Students Union (NSU) activist Anil Khanal was hit by a rubber bullet in the leg. He is undergoing treatment at Patan Hospital.

In the same incident Ravi Maharjan and Umesh Kumar Paudel of the NSU were seriously injured in baton charge and tear gas shell firing by the police.

Demonstrators in Patan also torched the post office at Patan Dhoka and two motorcycles. Protestors vandalized a private car and set on fire a taxi for defying the general strike.

In Gongabu, a student activist of Nepal Students Union-Democratic was injured in police baton-charge. They have locked the Gongabu VDC office.

In the Central Campus at Kirtipur, police entered the student's ladies’ hostel and resorted to baton-charge. Student leader Pranaya Singh Munna said that half a dozen students were injured in the police action. Police arrested seven students from the hostel.

This is the first time that the policemen forcefully entered the ladies’ hostel and beat-up the students indiscriminately.

The students vandalised two statues in Tribhuvan University premises. Two students were hit and injured by a police van.

The protestors have locked up the Kirtipur Municipality Office and took two security men under control for a while.

In Bhaktapur, the protestors entered the Municipality Office, set fire to documents and locked the office. They have also vandalised the Land Revenue and Education offices.

In Butwal, teargas shells fired indiscriminately by police at the Pushpa Lal Chowk landed in the nearby Lumbini Nursing Home leaving some half a dozen patients unconscious.

Civil servants join protests

Meanwhile, expressing their solidarity with the ongoing agitation of the seven-party alliance, civil servants have joined in the protests.

On the second day of the general strike today, employees at Nepal Rastra Bank, the central bank of Nepal, stopped banking operations and staged a demonstration in the premises of the office at Thapathali. Official works were also halted in all the other branch offices of the bank.

Likewise, protest demonstrations were staged at Rastriya Banijya Bank, Nepal Bank, Nepal Telecom, Agricultural Development Bank, Nepal Electricity Authority, Food Corporations, among others. The employees halted their works throughout the day today.

Doctors’ demonstrations

Doctors today staged protest demonstrations at TU Teaching Hospital and Kanti Hospital at Maharajgunj, Ayurved Hospital, Naradevi and B.P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan.

Dozens of health professionals at Teaching Hospital observed a silent rally within the premises of the hospital.

NYT, IHT published this yesterday

 Nepal police fail to stem protests for democracy

NepalNews..

Maoists leading and controlling anti-govt. protests: Minister Thapa

Demonstration continues across the country; protestors set fire to Lalitpur post office

Guardian, UK..

Hundreds arrested in Nepal protest

Once again.. the developments in Nepal could lead sooner or later to a new kind of society. We should follow this developments.... Aeh... this is just my opinion... aeh... nothing else....