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Prachanda hopes for formation of new Maoist-led government in Nepal - Newstrack India (July 2, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 2 (ANI): Former Nepal Prime Minister and Unified CPN (Maoist) Chairman Prachanda has claimed that a new government under the leadership of his party would be formed within next one-and-half months. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday ...
Former Nepali PM claims of forming national gov't within months - Xinhua News Agency (July 1, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Former Prime Minister and Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M) Chairman Prachanda has claimed that his party would form a national government within next one-and-half month, The Rising Nepal reported on ...
Nepal landslide buries homes, villages killing 9 - Seattle Times (July 2, 2009) - [read more]
Landslides triggered by monsoon rains swept through three villages in Nepal's mountainous west Thursday, burying homes and killing at least nine people, a ministry official said. KATMANDU, Nepal — Landslides triggered by monsoon rains swept through ...
Microsoft out, Intranet Dashboard in at Kathmandu - Itwire.com (July 1, 2009) - [read more]
Australian outdoor clothing retailer Kathmandu has ousted Microsoft’s SharePoint platform and deployed an alternative, home-grown software solution from Intranet Dashboard, citing the higher cost of the Microsoft solution as the primary reason for ...
Landslide hits villages in Nepal's mountains, buries homes, killing 9 ... - Los Angeles Times (July 2, 2009) - [read more]
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Landslides triggered by monsoon rains swept through three villages in Nepal's mountainous west Thursday, burying homes and killing at least nine people, a ministry official said. The government was preparing to send rescue ...
Berkley teacher earns media fame in a Nepal rice field - Farmington Observer (July 1, 2009) - [read more]
Berkley High School teacher Martha Cain is on a month-long trip to Nepal as a Fulbright Scholar, an educational exchange program. In this, her third memo to home, Cain reflects on a rice festival in Pokhara, and hints at more stories to come about ...
Nepali Globetrotter Seeks Public Help After Thugs Stole His Bike - BruDirect (July 1, 2009) - [read more]
Bandar Seri Begawan - Bearing the slogans of "World Peace," "Brotherhood" and "Save the World from HIV and AIDS," Krishna Raj Baral from Nepal is in the midst of realising his plans to cycle around the world to extend his noble cause. In the current ...
U.S. to grant financial support to restore world heritage site in ... - Xinhua News Agency (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 27 (Xinhua) -- The United States Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP), 2009, will offer financial support for the restoration of the intricately carved stone sculpture of Tusha Hiti and the Bhandarkhal Tank at the Patan ...
Nepal police arrest Tibetan protesters near Tibet border - Phayul (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Dharamsala, June 26: - Thirty-five Tibetans, including eight women, were reportedly arrested by Nepal police Friday near the Tibetan border as they tried to cross over and stage a protest march in Tibet as part of a “Free Tibet” campaign. The ...
Nepal police arrest Tibetan protesters near Tibet border: Update - Phayul (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Nepalese police block Tibetan activists during a peace march on June 26. Nepalese police on Friday arrested dozens of Tibetan exiles who tried to stage a demonstration near the Tibetan border, witnesses said. (Photo: AFP/Prakash Mathema) Dharamsala ...
Nepali Times
Nepalis missing in Doha ship sink (July 2, 2009) - [read more]
Twelve Nepalis are said to be among the 29 people who have gone missing after a ship capsised off the Doha coast on
Nepal's Maoists feel heat - (June 30, 2009) [read more]
A week after the Indian government banned the Communist Party of India (Maoist), the party has published a strongly-worded letter to their Nepali comrades accusing them of abandoning the
New ministers (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal expanded his cabinet fourth time on Wednesday a month he took office. The cabinet is yet to take a full
Menon leaves - (June 21, 2009) [read more]
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivashankar Menon wrapped up his two-day
official visit to Nepal, promising support from the southern neighbour and efforts to resolve the border
Poudel wins (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
NC's vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel has been elected the leader of its parliamentary party. The PP now has an elected leader after a gap of 14
Nominations filed - (June 20, 2009) [read more]
As the NC gears up for elections to choose the members of it's parliamentary party (PP) working committee, four senior leaders file their nominations for the PP
Decision reversed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
The government has reversed the previous government's decision to sack Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal and appoint Kul Bahadur Khadka as the acting chief. The move has ignited criticism not only from the Maoists but from UML leaders as
House expands - (June 17, 2009) [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal inducted 10 new ministers on Wednesday. However, a full-fledged cabinet was not formed as three Madhesi parties failed to send their
Picking fights (June 15, 2009) - [read more]
The new cabinet, which has been expanded twice in three weeks since the government was formed, once again fails to take a complete shape. The people, on the other hand, are stuggling against the continous
Consensus is the word - (June 13, 2009) [read more]
US Assistant Secretary of State Robert O Blake has stressed the need for co-operation between the political parties to ensure the success of the peace process. Blake has also urged the Maoists to renounce violence and control the activities of the
No work, no play (June 10, 2009) - [read more]
Two weeks after Nepal got a new prime minister, the coalition partners are still haggling over the ministerial berths. The parliament session, on the other hand, has been in recess for almost a month
Vacant seats - (June 7, 2009) [read more]
The meeting held Sunday morning between UML and NC regarding the distribution of ministerial positions ended without any conclusions.
MJF pulls out (June 5, 2009) - [read more]
Upendra Yadab, chairman of MJF, has announced withdrawal of the party's support for the UML-led government. The party has also expelled Bijay Kumar Gachchhadar and six other central leaders, signaling trouble PM Madhav Kumar Nepal.
Cabinet expands - (June 5, 2009) [read more]
Eight new ministers were sworn in by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Thursday. MJF leader Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar has been appointed the deputy prime
Agreement on CMP (June 3, 2009) - [read more]
The government endorsed the Common Minimum Program on Wednesday but the task of cabinet expansion made no headway.
Nepal News
China frets at new Tibetan protests in Nepal (July 1, 2009) - [read more]
Fretting at the resumption of anti-China protests in Nepal by Tibetan refugees, Beijing has sent a delegation to Kathmandu to seek support from the new government of Nepal to quell them.
Indian arrested from Kathmandu airport (July 1, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, June 30 : An Indian man was arrested from Nepal's sole international airport in Kathmandu Tuesday.
U.S. Ambassadors Fund Supports Projects at Eight World Heritage Sites (June 30, 2009) - [read more]
The restoration of the intricately carved stone sculpture of the Tusha Hiti and Bhandarkhal Tank at the Patan Royal Palace in Kathmandu, Nepal, is one of eight projects at World Heritage Sites to receive financial support from the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation in 2009.
Manipal medical institution under fresh attack in Nepal (June 30, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Just four months after it was targeted by trade unions, the Manipal College of Medical Sciences in Nepal, one of the major Indian collaborations in the Himalayan republic, came under attack again Monday with a group of outsiders vandalising the office and manhandling doctors and nurses.
Swine flu strikes Nepal (June 30, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, June 29 : Nepal Monday reported its first case of swine flu with three members of the same family testing positive.
Journalists caught up in power tussle (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
"My parents are very worried and they are asking me to change my profession." Media workers are increasingly finding themselves caught up in the bitter struggle for power in Nepal after the fall of the Maoist-led government in May.
Soap brings message of change to rural Nepal (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
When the power cuts that frequently plague Nepal were at their worst this winter, one of the biggest frustrations for many people was missing their favourite television soap opera.
Nepal bans pockets to stamp out bribetaking at airport (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
The authority said it was issuing the garments to all officials after uncovering widespread corruption at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport.
Prachanda promises another stir (June 28, 2009) - [read more]
'We will soon launch another People's Movement,' he said addressing his workers yesterday.
Five Indians narrowly escape lynching in Nepal (June 28, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, June 28 : Five Indian men narrowly escaped being lynched in Nepal Sunday on suspicion of being child lifters after growing public fears over an increase in the number of kidnappings.
PM wants Maoists in govt (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said on Saturday that he wanted a government of national consensus with MaoistsA participation.
Pakistani foreign secretary visiting Nepal (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Shortly after the Indian foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon visited Nepal, Pakistani foreign secretary Salman Bashir is arriving in Kathmandu Saturday on a three-day official visit.
Nepal police arrest Tibet peace marchers (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Thirty-five Tibetans, including eight women, were arrested by Nepal police on Friday near the Nepal-China border as they tried to cross over and stage a protest march in Tibet.
Special rights for Tibetan refugees in Nepal (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Visiting Nepal delegation to Dharamsala has said that they wanted to introduce special rights for Tibetans in their countrys Constitution.
Former Nepali king to "break his silence" on 62nd birthday: report (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Little over a year after he left the Narayanhiti Palace following the formal declaration of the erstwhile kingdom as a federal republic by Nepal's newly elected parliament, former king Gyanendra is said to be preparing to "break his long silence" next month, local media reported on Friday.
Three dozen Tibetan refugees arrested in Sindhupalchok; Chinese envoy in Mustang (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Police have arrested around three dozen Tibetan refugees in Sindhupalchowk district Friday when they were reportedly heading towards the Chinese border for demonstrations against Chinese occupation in Tibet.
Peace process with Maoists stalled: PM (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal's new prime minister said yesterday a peace process that ended a deadly civil war in the Himalayan nation had stalled after Maoists quit the government in May.
Nepal deadlock eases, cabinet gets 6 new ministers (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, June 24 : Within 72 hours of Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon's visit to Nepal to give a push to the stagnating peace process, the political deadlock gripping Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal's nearly one-month-old government eased Wednesday with the Terai parties reining in disputes and sending ...
Girl's murder shocks Nepal amid spate of kidnappings (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
The discovery this week of the decapitated body of a 17-year-old girl abducted in Kathmandu has sent shockwaves through Nepal, where police say kidnapping for ransom is becoming a "cottage industry". High school student Khyati Shrestha was snatched on June 5 after an acquaintance lured her to the kidnapper's apartment.
World's shortest person in Nepal (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
Khagendra Thapa Magar, 15 and a half, sits in the lap of a fully grown adult friend on March 13, 2007 in Pokhara, Nepal.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Inclusive Hindutva: BJP in India (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
The Bharatiya Janata Party of India has realized that its hard-line brand of Hindutva politics doesn’t work anymore. And that’s a good news thanks to its defeat in the parliamentary polls
By Dinesh Wagle
as published in today’s Kathmandu Post
“There’s a fire raging in BJP,” said a headline in India the previous week. After the humiliating loss [...]
Happy Republic Day Nepal :) (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
The Himalayan Republic Celebrates First Republic Day Anniversary
[From a year ago: 1. Nepal is Declared a Republic!!! 2. Minute by Minute Account of the Historic Session of the CA that Declared Nepal a Republic
Republic Day rally in Pokhara, Nepal. Pic by Krishna Mani Baral
The first anniversary of the declaration of federal democratic republic of Nepal [...]
Madhav Nepal, the Moderate Communist Leader, is the Prime Minister of Nepal (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
“I announce that Madhav Kumar Nepal has been elected unopposed in the position of Prime Minister as per the Constituent Assembly’s Legislature-Parliament Business Advisory Regulations 2065.”
With that declaration from Subash Nemwang, the chair of the CA, today evening the moderate Marxist and Leninist leader became the third communist prime minister in Nepal. MK Nepal [...]
The Indian Democracy (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
Just as our April 2008 poll verdict, this Indian election, it appears, was about stability and progress of India
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF version of the page.]
A kid, carrying the Indian National Congress Party flag, walks on the street in front [...]
Madhav Kumar Nepal Set to Become Prime Minister of Nepal (May 17, 2009) - [read more]
Madhav Kumar Nepal, veteran communist leader of the Himalayan republic who have been tipped to be the prime minister of Nepal several times in the past and lost from both constituencies in the April 2008 CA elections, is finally set to become the third Communist prime minister of Nepal.
The leader of the moderate Communist Party [...]
Iron Man: Conversation With a Press Wallah (May 16, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF version. Shorter version in Nepali appeared in today's Kantipur.]
This is about this guy whom I have been seeing busy at his work all day, almost every day, since I came here to Jangpura Extension, one of south Delhi’s many [...]
EXPOSED: The Nepal Maoist’s Nationalism! (May 11, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal who resigned earlier this month lambasting, among other things, foreign (Indian) intervention in Nepali affairs, had himself asked for the higher level involvement from Delhi in matters related to the sacking of chief of the Nepali Army (which is entirely an internal matter of Nepal). Dahal made that clear in [...]
How Maoist-Delhi Relations Soured (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
The game in the background. How India played a role in the downfall of the first ever democratically elected Maoist government in Nepal.
By Akhilesh Upadhyay
KATHMANDU- The turn of events that first led to the sacking and reinstatement of Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal exposed that relations between New Delhi and the Maoists once on [...]
India and Indians: Friends of Two Different Kinds (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article appeared in today’s Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF of the page
Sometimes, I wonder why the official Nepal-India relationship doesn’t become as friendly and earthy as the down-to-earth friendship I enjoy with some Indians here in Delhi. Why doesn’t the bond between the two countries become as [...]
Army in Nepali Politics, Politics in Nepal Army [Everything You Wanted to Know] (May 5, 2009) - [read more]
UWB note: The issue resulted in the resignation of the first democratically elected (and Maoist) Prime Minister of the Republic of Nepal after his split cabinet fired the Army chief only to be rejected by the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Nepal. The country is now into a constitutional crisis with the [...]