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on 14-May-02 07:04 PM
Here is an interesting news! (From http://www.chakrapath.com/news.htm )
"Nepal’s Ranas on a treasure hunt" by Aniek Paul, The Telegraph, Tuesday May 14, 3:02 AM
Calcutta, May 13: The Ranas who ruled Nepal for over 100 years are on a treasure hunt. Late last month and early this month, a young descendant of the family hopped from one bank to another for about a week, trying to dig out papers that establish the rights of the Ranas to investments in equities and real estate, much of it in this city. The clan of Shamsher Jung Bahadur Rana took power in the late 1840s and ruled as prime ministers till they were deposed and forced to flee Nepal in 1951. If the family now succeeds in hunting down its investments, Divyani Rana, the fiancée of Prince Dipendra, who reportedly shot his entire family and then killed himself last year, could turn out to be one of the beneficiaries. "Most documents indicating which banks held the shares for the family were either lost or left behind while we migrated to India in 1951. Recently, some of our cousins discovered in one of our ancestral homes papers indicating investments in equities. This set us on the treasure hunt," said the young man. . . . Once the Ranas got in touch with the banks, bingo! -- State Bank’s main branch here revealed accounts in which equities were held and 20-odd current accounts with handsome cash balances in some. And the treasure-digging is not over yet, neither in this bank nor in others. . . .
http://in.news.yahoo.com/020513/58/1nyni.html
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