KATHMANDU: Overweight police officers in Nepal must slim down if they want to advance their careers as part of a new anti-obesity drive launched by the nation’s force, a spokesman said yesterday. The Nepal Police Headquarters has set up a three-man team to inspect the 60,000-strong national force after its chief last December found some officers were looking too chubby and that their uniforms were untidy. “We want to make sure our members are fit and their uniforms are neat and clean,” police spokesman Keshav Adhikari said. “Those who have put on weight should maintain a daily workout routine and even do yoga,” he added, saying that it was harder for overweight officers to catch “slim and fit” criminals.
Court rejects ‘close Ohi’ plea
TOKYO: A Japanese court yesterday rejected a petition to close down the country’s only two operating nuclear reactors, in the first legal ruling on atomic power since the Fukushima disaster a little over two years ago. Anti-nuclear advocates sought to have the reactors at Kansai Electric Power’s Ohi plant in western Japan shut down because seismologists suspect parts of the station sit above an active faultline, which would be against Japanese law on nuclear siting. The injunction on Ohi was rejected by the court, Kansai Electric spokesman Akihiro Aoike said by phone.
China ships in disputed waters
TOKYO: Three Chinese government ships entered the territorial waters of disputed Tokyo-controlled islands yesterday, Japan’s coastguard said. The three surveillance ships were navigating in the 12-nautical-mile zone around the Senkakus, which Beijing claims and calls the Diaoyus, as of 9.20am, the coastguard said. AGENCIES
