Thaindian News

Kathmandu, July 22 (IANS) One of Nepal’s best-known astrologers, a globe-trotter who has attended astrological meets in Britain, Japan, France and Germany, warned that Wednesday’s solar eclipse would cause further unrest in India, Nepal and China.
Bhoj Raj Upadhyay, who was asked to comment on the century’s longest solar eclipse by Nepal’s private television channels, predicted that in India, the eclipse would foment civil and financial crises as well as religious conflict.

“Sagittarius is India’s sign,” the astrologer said during a three-hour live television programme during the eclipse. During the eclipse, the sun is covered and the harmful influences that were warded off by it become stronger.

“They will increase the turmoil in India.”

As the eclipse travelled to China, where the ascendant sign was Pisces or the fish, Upadhyay said there would be greater accidents and financial crisis.

With Nepal — which falls under the Scorpio sign — being sandwiched between its two giant neighbours, the crises on both sides were bound to affect the nascent republic as well, the soothsayer said.

As if to give credence to his prophecy, trouble erupted in several districts in Nepal.

The Tamang community has called shutdowns in 10 districts where it has a sizeable population, demanding an autonomous state for themselves.

They clashed with police in Chitwan district in southern Nepal Wednesday as security forces sought to open the obstructed highway, leading to the arrest of 26 protesters.

Kathmandu valley headed for fresh woes with residents of a nearby landfill site, where the valley’s garbage is dumped, warning that they would not allow the disposal of garbage since the government had failed to implement welfare measures.