Tuesday, April 11 2006 12:23 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Kathmandu: Nepal's Royal Government clamped daytime curfew for the fourth consecutive day today (Apr 11, 2006) amidst reports of serious differences among cabinet members over the policy towards agitating pro-democracy parties.

The curfew has been imposed from 12 pm to 5 pm.

Largescale protests were expected to take place during the day with the seven-party alliance for restoration of democracy saying that their struggle will not end without the King returning soverign power to the people.

With the indefinite strike entering the sixth day, life continued to be crippled in Kathmandu valley. Prices of vegetables, fruits and foodgrains have spiralled and sales have dropped to 50 per cent in the capital's main fruits and vegetable market at Kalimati.

People rushed to the market to accumulate daily necessities as the curfew relaxed in the morning.

As the royal government faced flak from the UN and the US over the harsh action against demonstrators, a senior cabinet minister's party has asked the government to initiate a dialogue with the opposition parties.

Angad said the company would market the Caparo T1 in the niche low volume segment of the market.

"This ultra high performance road and track car is designed for low volume production to demonstrate the company's technical know-how and competence in whole vehicle design," he added.

The car will be powered by a 2.4 litre, V8 engine, which the company has branded as Caparo V8, and has the capacity to deliver 480 bhp at 10,500 rpm.

"The car is also highly developed aerodynamically and is designed to offer a unique race car peroformance experience that is simply not achieved by the current generations of sports cars," he said.

Caparo has also recruited ex-Ricardo head of computer aided engineering Mark Finley as managing director, whose first task is to recruit an elite team of around 30 professional engineers with the skills necessary for handling sophisticated engineering design contracts from car makers and first tier suppliers.