Nepal, Aug. 11 -- The government has decided to declare four persons, who lost their lives during demonstrations in Sunsari and Siraha districts last July, as martyrs.

A meeting of the Council of Ministers held at the Office of Prime Minister and Council of Ministers in Singha Durbar today decided to declare Om Prakash Mehta, Jaya Prakash Mehta and Rabindra kumar Mehta of Sunsari and Ganesh Kumar Yadav of Siraha as martyrs, shared government Spokesperson and Minister for Education and Sports, Sasmit Pokhrel.

The meeting also decided to appoint Nirmal Kumar Upreti from Bara as the Executive Director of the Foreign Employment Board. Similarly, government Spokesperson Pokharel shared that the cabinet decided to allow the Portuguese gove...