or the first time in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, public bus services are being started from tonight. The Kathmandu Metropolitan City in coordination with the Federation of Nepalese Transport entrepreneurs are launching the bus services which will run from eight till eleven in the evening. Fourteen metro buses will be operated along six different routes in the city .

For those who work late or have go out in the evenings and have to depend on the public transport , the night buses in the capital will become a boon. In an experimental basis the fourteen buses with thirty seats will have the same fare as during the day time. According to the Kathmandu Metropolitian City officials the buses will have two armed security personnel and CCTV and will be accompanied by police control room vehicles while security personnel will keep a watch on bus stops. 
According to the public response in the service hours , routes and number of buses will be revised. As per the agreement the Federation of Transport Entrepreneurs is receiving an of forty five lakh nepali rupees as assistance to meet the fuel and salary expenses from the Metropolitan authority .

he Chennai High Court today directed Tamilnadu to frame guidelines on the safety of the school vehicles and buses which are used for ferrying students.

The first Bench comprising Chief Justice M.Y.Iqbal and Justice T.S.Sivagnanam said that the Government should frame the guidelines within two weeks. 

It said that the draft should be submitted to the Court which would look into it and give its suggestions to improve the safety aspects in school buses. After the incident in which Shruthi, a second standard student was killed when she fell through a hole on the floor of the bus and crushed to death at Tambaram. 

Four persons including the Correspondent of the School and the driver were arrested and the RTO who issued safety certificate to the bus was suspended from service yesterday.