Nepal minister quits amid uproar

KATHMANDU: Nepal's newlyappointed Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Gajendra Bahadur Hamal has stepped down from his post on the third day after his formal induction, amid an uproar. "Now the ministry will be with the prime minister himself and will decide about it later,” said an aide at the prime minister's secretariat. Hamal is the brother-in-law of Chief Justice of Nepal Cholendra Shamsher JB Rana.