Nepal News archive for 30 September 2008
Gurkhas win right to settle in UK - Guardian Unlimited (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
Gurkhas have won their court battle for the right to settle in Britain. Lawyers for the men who fought alongside British troops in battles over 200 years said: “Today we have seen a tremendous and historic victory for the gallant Gurkha veterans of …
Gurkhas win right to stay in Britain - Big Pond News (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
The Gurkhas have won their High Court battle for the right to settle in Britain. Recruited in Nepal, the Gurkhas have fought for Britain alongside British troops since 1815. Six claimants brought a test case against the Government, challenging what …
Proud Joanna Lumley celebrates as Gurkha heroes win immigration court … - Daily Mirror (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
Campaigner Joanna Lumley punched the air in delight yesterday after Gurkha heroes won their battle to live in the UK. A judge ruled ministers acted illegally in claiming that around 2,000 lacked proper ties to Britain and said the country owed them a …
Fun in the Sun - Popsugar (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
Sep 30 2008 - 5:08pm Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson strolled by the sea while vacationing in Cabo on Tuesday. Have You Ever Been Offended by a Movie? What to Download: New Music on iTunes The Results Are In: Recast Forrest Gump Link Time! 9/30 …
Register » - yorkshirepost (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
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Jennifer Garner and Her Lunch Buddy Hit La Pain - Popsugar (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
Photos, videos, news Have You Ever Been Offended by a Movie? What to Download: New Music on iTunes The Results Are In: Recast Forrest Gump Link Time! 9/30 Chuck Rundown: Episode One, “Chuck vs. the First Date” Movie Preview: Madonna’s Filth and …
Vieira backs criticised Wenger - SkySports (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
Arsene Wenger has done so much for the game and for Arsenal. Patrick Vieira has told skysports.com it is ‘really difficult to understand’ Uefa president Michel Platini’s criticism of Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger. Last week, Platini expressed frank …
Best of the weekend - SkySports (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
Another wonderful weekend of Premier League action saw a plethora of top-draw performances. Goalkeeping displays from the likes Boaz Myhill and Scott Carson had them close to sealing the honour. Whilst Portuguese duo Cristiano Ronaldo and Jose …
Nepali Times
Back to work (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
Ever since he was sworn in five weeks ago, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has been in Kathmandu only eight days, and he says he’s had
Dahal wows NY (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s whirlwind tour of New York seems to have left a lot of previously skeptical people hopeful that Nepal finally has a leader with vision who is realistic about the challenges
Power play (September 23, 2008) - [read more]
An Indian minister has told a hydropower conference in Kathmandu that it is in India’s strategic interest to see its neighbours take advantage of the huge next door market for manufacturing and
Kasto jatra (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
After three days of tyre-burning and running street battles between protesters and police, the government has bowed to demands from Kathmandu’s Newar community to continue to fund the sacrifice of buffalos during their
First Maoist budget (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
It was expected that Finance Minister Baburam Bhattarai’s budget presented Friday in the Constituent Assembly would be ambitious, but it was even bolder than
Open for business (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal concluded a reasonably successful visit to India Thursday, reaching out to the government and business
“Flood-control, irrigation, hydropower” (September 16, 2008) - [read more]
India’s union water resources minister Saif Uddin Soz speaks to Navin Singh Khadka BBC Nepali Service 12 September
Dahal’s capitalist avatar (September 15, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal today donned his free market avatar and made a strong pitch to sell Nepal as an investment destination to Indian industry.
Nepal News
India-Nepal meet to discuss water resources (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Sept. 29: Nepal and India today held a high-level meeting here to chalk out plans to harness water resources between the two countries in a comprehensive manner, including hydro-power generation, …
Gurkhas celebrate court win for right to settle (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
Hundreds of Gurkhas celebrated on the steps of the High Court today after winning an historic court battle for the right to settle in Britain.
Nepal blames India for fresh flooding (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
Close on the heels of anger over India’s failure to maintain the Kosi embankment that resulted in a devastating flood last month in southern Nepal and India’s Bihar state, the Himalayan republic is now blaming …
My Friend’s death in Nepal (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
I arranged my hair, and I looked at myself in front of the mirror. I lighted the stove and boiled tea in a kettle.
Move over priests — Nepal state names “living goddess” (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
Nepal’s new Maoist-led government has appointed a 6-year-old girl as a “living goddess” in a town near Kathmandu, for the first time snapping the link between the ancient ritual and the ousted monarchy.
Floods, landslides kill 64 in W Nepal (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
Nepali Deputy Prime Minister informed the Constituent Assembly that 64 people had lost their lives in floods and landslides in western Nepal, Nepali national news agency RSS reported Saturday.
Pageant cancelled over ’safety threat’ (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
Subarna Chettri, president of Hidden Treasure, shows government authority letter to postpone the Miss Nepal beauty pageant as participants look on during a press conference in Kathmandu on Saturday KATHMANDU: …
Nepal cracks down on alcohol sale for ‘vice control’ (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
As part of the new Maoist-led government’s drive to remove the “widespread vices in society”, Nepal has begun cracking down on the sale of alcohol and tobacco goods in the Himalayan republic, closing duty-free …
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
On the Highway to People’s Republic (September 24, 2008) - [read more]
By Krishna Giri
I do not know much about Tanka P Acharya, who broke the traditional trend by visiting China, and hence can not speculate on the facts of media coverage then. However, when Maoist supremo followed Acharya’s footsteps, many Nepali and Indian tabloid have covered the news as ‘first time’ adding historic, challenging, brave etc. [...]
The Maoist Budget of Rs 236 Billion: Bold but Not Beautiful (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
In their first ever budget speech, the Maoists promise to build the infrastructures and propel the economic growth that they mercilessly destroyed and pushed back in the name of revolution during the decade-long insurgency
By Prem Khanal
the Kathmandu Post
The first fiscal-year budget of the Democratic Republic of Nepal unveiled yesterday by the Maoists-led government was extraordinarily [...]
The Koshi Deluge: A History of Disaster for Nepal (September 12, 2008) - [read more]
Impact of Koshi’s devastation
The Koshi River breached on the nose of spur 12.90 and 12.10 on the eastern embankment, 12 km north of the barrage near midnight on August 18, 2008. Immediately, five Village Development Committees (VDCs) — West Kushaha, Haripur, Sripur, Laukahi, and Bokraha of Sunsari District — of Nepal and 14 Districts in [...]
Policies and Programmes of a Maoist Led Govt (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
It’s a nice essay but nothing substantial, said chief opposition party NC’s leader Sher Bahadur deuba about the government’s program and policies document.
……………………………………………….
With an aim to take the peace process to a logical end, the Maoist-led government today publicized its policies and programmes. Brining out new constitution on time (within two years) is hight on [...]
New YCL in Town (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
After UML, Nepali Congress follows the YCL path of the Maoist party
Following the example of the Maoists’ YCL and the CPN-UML’s Youth Force, Nepal Tarun Dal (NTD), youth wing of Nepali Congress, has formed its own separate group “to combat corruption and anarchy”. NTD aims to mobilizing the party’s youths to counter the [...]
Is New Nepal Heading Toward [Maoist] People’s Republic? (September 1, 2008) - [read more]
By Conflict Study Center
On August 21, 2008, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), CPN (UML) and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) agreed on the Common Minimum Program (CMP), Code of Conduct (CoC), Modus Operandi of the Government (MOG) and the formation of a Political Coordination Committee (PCC). The documents were signed by Prime Minister and President [...]
No Need for Panic, India (August 30, 2008) - [read more]
One word can’t describe India’s unnecessary concern about Nepali prime minister’s Beijing visit. That’s the combination of hypocrisy, double standard, childishness and hegemony. When their Sonia and Rahul Gandhi can visit China and meet Chinese leaders, why can’t the Nepali prime minister do so?
Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s first foreign trip to China has [...]
Paradigm Shift in Nepali Nationalism (August 29, 2008) - [read more]
Through out Nepal’s history, past regimes have tried to advocate for nationalism to balance diplomacy between China and India.
By Krishna Giri
Thanks to the CA members who have managed to appoint a Prime Minister after exhausting four months, 1/6th of the total time allocated to write the new constitution for new Nepal. They have not only [...]
Nepal News archive for 29 September 2008
Government selects ‘living goddess’ - Gulf Times (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s new Maoist government has taken over the task of selecting a girl to be a ‘living goddess’, ousting royal priests from a role they fulfilled for centuries. The strictly atheist Maoists gained power in the Himalayan country …
Move over priests — Nepal state names “living goddess” - Reuters India (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal’s new Maoist-led government has appointed a 6-year-old girl as a “living goddess” in a town near Kathmandu, for the first time snapping the link between the ancient ritual and the ousted monarchy. For centuries, the head …
Maoists appoint ‘living goddess’ - BBC South-Asia (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
Nepal’s new Maoist-led government has authorised the appointment of a six-year-old girl to be a “living goddess” in the temple town of Bhaktapur.
Maoists’ ugly view of Miss Nepal - BBC News (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
But that is where the organisers, event management company Hidden Treasure, had planned to hold the contest - such were the sensitivities it raised. At the last moment they got a letter from Kathmandu’s district government. “Keeping peace and …
Government selects ‘living goddess’ - Gulf Times (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s new Maoist government has taken over the task of selecting a girl to be a ‘living goddess’, ousting royal priests from a role they fulfilled for centuries. The strictly atheist Maoists gained power in the Himalayan country …
India-Nepal meet to discuss water resources - Statesman (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Sept. 29: Nepal and India today held a high-level meeting here to chalk out plans to harness water resources between the two countries in a comprehensive manner, including hydro-power generation, irrigation, flood control and other water …
Seven Injured as Maoist, UML Students Clash in Pokhara - Himalayan Times (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
Seven students were injured in a clash between students affiliated to the Maoists and the CPN-UML at National Higher Secondary School, Pokhara, this afternoon. The row over the appointment of principal took an ugly turn when the All Nepal National …
India-Nepal water talks resume after four years - Hindustan Times (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
Neighbours India and Nepal, who share the same Himalayan rivers and are often at loggerheads over the sharing of flowing water resources, resumed bilateral water-sharing talks after four years in the Napal capital on Monday. The three-day meeting of …
Nepali Times
Dahal wows NY (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s whirlwind tour of New York seems to have left a lot of previously skeptical people hopeful that Nepal finally has a leader with vision who is realistic about the challenges
Power play (September 23, 2008) - [read more]
An Indian minister has told a hydropower conference in Kathmandu that it is in India’s strategic interest to see its neighbours take advantage of the huge next door market for manufacturing and
Kasto jatra (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
After three days of tyre-burning and running street battles between protesters and police, the government has bowed to demands from Kathmandu’s Newar community to continue to fund the sacrifice of buffalos during their
First Maoist budget (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
It was expected that Finance Minister Baburam Bhattarai’s budget presented Friday in the Constituent Assembly would be ambitious, but it was even bolder than
Open for business (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal concluded a reasonably successful visit to India Thursday, reaching out to the government and business
“Flood-control, irrigation, hydropower” (September 16, 2008) - [read more]
India’s union water resources minister Saif Uddin Soz speaks to Navin Singh Khadka BBC Nepali Service 12 September
Dahal’s capitalist avatar (September 15, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal today donned his free market avatar and made a strong pitch to sell Nepal as an investment destination to Indian industry.
Cautious optimism (September 15, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal hit the ground running on Monday, the first day of his four-day official visit to India, by laying a wreath at the Gandhi Samadhi at Rajghat. PRASHANT JHA in NEW
Nepal News
Move over priests — Nepal state names “living goddess” (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
Nepal’s new Maoist-led government has appointed a 6-year-old girl as a “living goddess” in a town near Kathmandu, for the first time snapping the link between the ancient ritual and the ousted monarchy.
Floods, landslides kill 64 in W Nepal (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
Nepali Deputy Prime Minister informed the Constituent Assembly that 64 people had lost their lives in floods and landslides in western Nepal, Nepali national news agency RSS reported Saturday.
Pageant cancelled over ’safety threat’ (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
Subarna Chettri, president of Hidden Treasure, shows government authority letter to postpone the Miss Nepal beauty pageant as participants look on during a press conference in Kathmandu on Saturday KATHMANDU: …
Nepal cracks down on alcohol sale for ‘vice control’ (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
As part of the new Maoist-led government’s drive to remove the “widespread vices in society”, Nepal has begun cracking down on the sale of alcohol and tobacco goods in the Himalayan republic, closing duty-free …
India, Nepal officials to meet on floods (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
NEW DELHI: In the backdrop of recent floods in Bihar caused by the Kosi river, senior officials of India and Nepal will meet in Kathmandu on Monday to look at long-term solutions to the recurring problem …
Peace returns, but not tourists (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
The sweet-acrid odour of marijuana and hashish permeates the sprawling Pashupatinath temple complex as tens of thousands of pilgrims gather in Kathmandu to celebrate Maha Shivaratri, the annual festival to …
Nepal Maoists in fresh arms row (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Sep 26 : While Nepal’s Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ sought the international community’s support in New York, the country’s interim parliament saw protests …
Nepal President returns Kathmandu after hometown visit (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
Nepals President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav returned home after completing a four-day visit to his hometown, Janakpur, in Dhanusha district.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
On the Highway to People’s Republic (September 24, 2008) - [read more]
By Krishna Giri
I do not know much about Tanka P Acharya, who broke the traditional trend by visiting China, and hence can not speculate on the facts of media coverage then. However, when Maoist supremo followed Acharya’s footsteps, many Nepali and Indian tabloid have covered the news as ‘first time’ adding historic, challenging, brave etc. [...]
The Maoist Budget of Rs 236 Billion: Bold but Not Beautiful (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
In their first ever budget speech, the Maoists promise to build the infrastructures and propel the economic growth that they mercilessly destroyed and pushed back in the name of revolution during the decade-long insurgency
By Prem Khanal
the Kathmandu Post
The first fiscal-year budget of the Democratic Republic of Nepal unveiled yesterday by the Maoists-led government was extraordinarily [...]
The Koshi Deluge: A History of Disaster for Nepal (September 12, 2008) - [read more]
Impact of Koshi’s devastation
The Koshi River breached on the nose of spur 12.90 and 12.10 on the eastern embankment, 12 km north of the barrage near midnight on August 18, 2008. Immediately, five Village Development Committees (VDCs) — West Kushaha, Haripur, Sripur, Laukahi, and Bokraha of Sunsari District — of Nepal and 14 Districts in [...]
Policies and Programmes of a Maoist Led Govt (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
It’s a nice essay but nothing substantial, said chief opposition party NC’s leader Sher Bahadur deuba about the government’s program and policies document.
……………………………………………….
With an aim to take the peace process to a logical end, the Maoist-led government today publicized its policies and programmes. Brining out new constitution on time (within two years) is hight on [...]
New YCL in Town (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
After UML, Nepali Congress follows the YCL path of the Maoist party
Following the example of the Maoists’ YCL and the CPN-UML’s Youth Force, Nepal Tarun Dal (NTD), youth wing of Nepali Congress, has formed its own separate group “to combat corruption and anarchy”. NTD aims to mobilizing the party’s youths to counter the [...]
Is New Nepal Heading Toward [Maoist] People’s Republic? (September 1, 2008) - [read more]
By Conflict Study Center
On August 21, 2008, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), CPN (UML) and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) agreed on the Common Minimum Program (CMP), Code of Conduct (CoC), Modus Operandi of the Government (MOG) and the formation of a Political Coordination Committee (PCC). The documents were signed by Prime Minister and President [...]
No Need for Panic, India (August 30, 2008) - [read more]
One word can’t describe India’s unnecessary concern about Nepali prime minister’s Beijing visit. That’s the combination of hypocrisy, double standard, childishness and hegemony. When their Sonia and Rahul Gandhi can visit China and meet Chinese leaders, why can’t the Nepali prime minister do so?
Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s first foreign trip to China has [...]
Paradigm Shift in Nepali Nationalism (August 29, 2008) - [read more]
Through out Nepal’s history, past regimes have tried to advocate for nationalism to balance diplomacy between China and India.
By Krishna Giri
Thanks to the CA members who have managed to appoint a Prime Minister after exhausting four months, 1/6th of the total time allocated to write the new constitution for new Nepal. They have not only [...]
Nepal News archive for 28 September 2008
India, Nepal officials to meet on floods - Times of India (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
NEW DELHI: In the backdrop of recent floods in Bihar caused by the Kosi river, senior officials of India and Nepal will meet in Kathmandu on Monday to look at long-term solutions to the recurring problem besides exploring ways to better utilise the …
Nepal crippled by strike against federal plans - International Herald Tribune (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU : Shops were closed and vehicles stayed off the roads across Nepal on Sunday during a strike called against a plan to turn the Himalayan nation into a federal state, officials and witnesses said. Major political parties and the Maoist-led …
NEPALI PUP ART - New York Post (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
Vintage items that depict or take the shape of dogs are hot collectibles. But what to do if you really have no use for quaint, K9-themed figurines that break when you sneeze? Californian Michelle Page has the answer: Danger Dogs. These irresistible …
Floods, landslides kill 64 in W Nepal - Xinhua News Agency (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) — Nepali Deputy Prime Minister informed the Constituent Assembly (CA) that 64 people had lost their lives in floods and landslides in western Nepal, Nepali national news agency RSS reported Saturday. Deputy Prime …
Nepali home minister: Nobody should enter House bearing arms - Xinhua News Agency (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) — Nepali Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Bamdev Gautam said nobody should enter into Constituent Assembly (CA) bearing arms, Nepali national news agency RSS reported Saturday. Responding to the …
Officials from India and Nepal to discuss floods - Statesman (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
NEW DELHI, Sept. 28: In the backdrop of recent floods in Bihar caused by the Kosi river, senior officials of India and Nepal will meet in Kathmandu tomorrow to look at long-term solutions to the recurring problem besides exploring ways to better …
Nepal bans recruitment of maids to Gulf - Gulf Times (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
NEPAL doesn’t permit its women to take up employment as housemaids in the GCC states, a top Nepalese embassy official said yesterday. Giving this information to Gulf Times, the embassy spokesman said it had come to the mission’s notice of late …
Nepal wages war on sleaze - Central Chronicle (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Sept 28: Nepal ’s new Maoist government has declared war on sleaze in the capital Kathmandu , saying the increasing numbers of massage parlours and nude dance bars are driving up crime and immorality. The ultra-leftists pledged radical …
Nepali Times
Power play (September 23, 2008) - [read more]
An Indian minister has told a hydropower conference in Kathmandu that it is in India’s strategic interest to see its neighbours take advantage of the huge next door market for manufacturing and
Kasto jatra (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
After three days of tyre-burning and running street battles between protesters and police, the government has bowed to demands from Kathmandu’s Newar community to continue to fund the sacrifice of buffalos during their
First Maoist budget (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
It was expected that Finance Minister Baburam Bhattarai’s budget presented Friday in the Constituent Assembly would be ambitious, but it was even bolder than
Open for business (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal concluded a reasonably successful visit to India Thursday, reaching out to the government and business
“Flood-control, irrigation, hydropower” (September 16, 2008) - [read more]
India’s union water resources minister Saif Uddin Soz speaks to Navin Singh Khadka BBC Nepali Service 12 September
Dahal’s capitalist avatar (September 15, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal today donned his free market avatar and made a strong pitch to sell Nepal as an investment destination to Indian industry.
Cautious optimism (September 15, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal hit the ground running on Monday, the first day of his four-day official visit to India, by laying a wreath at the Gandhi Samadhi at Rajghat. PRASHANT JHA in NEW
Off to Delhi (September 14, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal left on Sunday evening for an official visit to India after getting his government’s policies and programs approved by the constituent assembly.
Nepal News
Nepal cracks down on alcohol sale for ‘vice control’ (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
As part of the new Maoist-led government’s drive to remove the “widespread vices in society”, Nepal has begun cracking down on the sale of alcohol and tobacco goods in the Himalayan republic, closing duty-free …
India, Nepal officials to meet on floods (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
NEW DELHI: In the backdrop of recent floods in Bihar caused by the Kosi river, senior officials of India and Nepal will meet in Kathmandu on Monday to look at long-term solutions to the recurring problem …
Peace returns, but not tourists (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
The sweet-acrid odour of marijuana and hashish permeates the sprawling Pashupatinath temple complex as tens of thousands of pilgrims gather in Kathmandu to celebrate Maha Shivaratri, the annual festival to …
Nepal Maoists in fresh arms row (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Sep 26 : While Nepal’s Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ sought the international community’s support in New York, the country’s interim parliament saw protests …
Nepal President returns Kathmandu after hometown visit (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
Nepals President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav returned home after completing a four-day visit to his hometown, Janakpur, in Dhanusha district.
Stuck in India, GMR Energy forays into Nepal (September 26, 2008) - [read more]
With limited opportunities in its home country, Indian infrastructure major GMR Group is trying to widen its portfolio through four hydropower projects in Nepal, a top company official said.
South Asia fights disease from floods, seeks aid (September 26, 2008) - [read more]
Doctors and health workers struggled to treat thousands of villagers suffering from water-borne diseases in India’s east on Thursday, officials said, as the death toll mounted from weeks of flooding in South …
Flood fallout: India opens office to help move Nepali goods (September 25, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Sep 23 : The Indian government Tuesday moved to make amends for the disaster triggered by the Kosi river in southern Nepal and its adjoining Bihar state in India by opening an office in the Terai …
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
On the Highway to People’s Republic (September 24, 2008) - [read more]
By Krishna Giri
I do not know much about Tanka P Acharya, who broke the traditional trend by visiting China, and hence can not speculate on the facts of media coverage then. However, when Maoist supremo followed Acharya’s footsteps, many Nepali and Indian tabloid have covered the news as ‘first time’ adding historic, challenging, brave etc. [...]
The Maoist Budget of Rs 236 Billion: Bold but Not Beautiful (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
In their first ever budget speech, the Maoists promise to build the infrastructures and propel the economic growth that they mercilessly destroyed and pushed back in the name of revolution during the decade-long insurgency
By Prem Khanal
the Kathmandu Post
The first fiscal-year budget of the Democratic Republic of Nepal unveiled yesterday by the Maoists-led government was extraordinarily [...]
The Koshi Deluge: A History of Disaster for Nepal (September 12, 2008) - [read more]
Impact of Koshi’s devastation
The Koshi River breached on the nose of spur 12.90 and 12.10 on the eastern embankment, 12 km north of the barrage near midnight on August 18, 2008. Immediately, five Village Development Committees (VDCs) — West Kushaha, Haripur, Sripur, Laukahi, and Bokraha of Sunsari District — of Nepal and 14 Districts in [...]
Policies and Programmes of a Maoist Led Govt (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
It’s a nice essay but nothing substantial, said chief opposition party NC’s leader Sher Bahadur deuba about the government’s program and policies document.
……………………………………………….
With an aim to take the peace process to a logical end, the Maoist-led government today publicized its policies and programmes. Brining out new constitution on time (within two years) is hight on [...]
New YCL in Town (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
After UML, Nepali Congress follows the YCL path of the Maoist party
Following the example of the Maoists’ YCL and the CPN-UML’s Youth Force, Nepal Tarun Dal (NTD), youth wing of Nepali Congress, has formed its own separate group “to combat corruption and anarchy”. NTD aims to mobilizing the party’s youths to counter the [...]
Is New Nepal Heading Toward [Maoist] People’s Republic? (September 1, 2008) - [read more]
By Conflict Study Center
On August 21, 2008, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), CPN (UML) and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) agreed on the Common Minimum Program (CMP), Code of Conduct (CoC), Modus Operandi of the Government (MOG) and the formation of a Political Coordination Committee (PCC). The documents were signed by Prime Minister and President [...]
No Need for Panic, India (August 30, 2008) - [read more]
One word can’t describe India’s unnecessary concern about Nepali prime minister’s Beijing visit. That’s the combination of hypocrisy, double standard, childishness and hegemony. When their Sonia and Rahul Gandhi can visit China and meet Chinese leaders, why can’t the Nepali prime minister do so?
Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s first foreign trip to China has [...]
Paradigm Shift in Nepali Nationalism (August 29, 2008) - [read more]
Through out Nepal’s history, past regimes have tried to advocate for nationalism to balance diplomacy between China and India.
By Krishna Giri
Thanks to the CA members who have managed to appoint a Prime Minister after exhausting four months, 1/6th of the total time allocated to write the new constitution for new Nepal. They have not only [...]
Nepal News archive for 27 September 2008
Floods, landslides kill 64 in W Nepal - Xinhua News Agency (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) — Nepali Deputy Prime Minister informed the Constituent Assembly (CA) that 64 people had lost their lives in floods and landslides in western Nepal, Nepali national news agency RSS reported Saturday. Deputy Prime …
Nepali leaders train guns at Maoists in Prachanda’s absence - Hindustan Times (September 26, 2008) - [read more]
As Nepal’s Maoist Prime Minister Prachanda is having his first political exposure in the US, the insurgent-turned political party is caught in a political assault. Subash Nemwang, chairman of the Constituent Assembly on Friday directed the …
Nepse Stumbles From Four to Three-Figures - Himalayan Times (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
HOME Nepse Stumbles From Four to Three-Figures THT Online Kathmandu, September 28 Although last week the Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index managed to gain 8.19 points on the closing day to hit the market at 1004.28 points, this week it fell steeply …
Nepal trek for Eleanor - This is Dorset (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
GOING UP IN THE WORLD: Dorset student Eleanor Chichester ADVENTUROUS student Eleanor Chichester is setting out on one of the most gruelling treks in the world - all in the name of science. The Bangor University student, from Winterborne Kingston, is …
TeliaSonera expands in Asia - Financial Times (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
TeliaSonera, the Nordic telecommunications company that this summer rejected a $41bn bid from France Telecom, has expanded its Asian business by acquiring controlling stakes in operators in Cambodia and Nepal for SKr3.2bn ($480m). The acquisition was …
Nepalese flood kills at least 16 - United Press International (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
KAILALI, Nepal, Sept. 27 (UPI) — At least 16 people were killed by floods in Nepal’s Kailali district, the Nepal Red Cross Society said Saturday. The Kantipur Report said 17 people were still missing. The newspaper reported two bodies were recovered …
Nepal Maoists force beauty contest to be put off - That’s Cricket (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu:Determined Maoists forced the Nepal government to put off its plan to allow a controversial beauty pageant in the capital. Dabur Vatika Miss Nepal 2008 was called off once again at the eleventh hour after the government, apparently bowing …
Nepal has no problem with Bangladesh: Nepalese PM - New Nation (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
The new Prime Minister of Nepal, Pushpa Kumar Dahal Prachanda, Friday said Nepal has no problem with Bangladesh and the countries have friendship for a long time. He said his government will carry out fresh talks with India on various issues …
Nepali Times
Power play (September 23, 2008) - [read more]
An Indian minister has told a hydropower conference in Kathmandu that it is in India’s strategic interest to see its neighbours take advantage of the huge next door market for manufacturing and
Kasto jatra (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
After three days of tyre-burning and running street battles between protesters and police, the government has bowed to demands from Kathmandu’s Newar community to continue to fund the sacrifice of buffalos during their
First Maoist budget (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
It was expected that Finance Minister Baburam Bhattarai’s budget presented Friday in the Constituent Assembly would be ambitious, but it was even bolder than
Open for business (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal concluded a reasonably successful visit to India Thursday, reaching out to the government and business
“Flood-control, irrigation, hydropower” (September 16, 2008) - [read more]
India’s union water resources minister Saif Uddin Soz speaks to Navin Singh Khadka BBC Nepali Service 12 September
Dahal’s capitalist avatar (September 15, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal today donned his free market avatar and made a strong pitch to sell Nepal as an investment destination to Indian industry.
Cautious optimism (September 15, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal hit the ground running on Monday, the first day of his four-day official visit to India, by laying a wreath at the Gandhi Samadhi at Rajghat. PRASHANT JHA in NEW
Off to Delhi (September 14, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal left on Sunday evening for an official visit to India after getting his government’s policies and programs approved by the constituent assembly.
Nepal News
Nepal Maoists in fresh arms row (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Sep 26 : While Nepal’s Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ sought the international community’s support in New York, the country’s interim parliament saw protests …
Nepal President returns Kathmandu after hometown visit (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
Nepals President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav returned home after completing a four-day visit to his hometown, Janakpur, in Dhanusha district.
Stuck in India, GMR Energy forays into Nepal (September 26, 2008) - [read more]
With limited opportunities in its home country, Indian infrastructure major GMR Group is trying to widen its portfolio through four hydropower projects in Nepal, a top company official said.
South Asia fights disease from floods, seeks aid (September 26, 2008) - [read more]
Doctors and health workers struggled to treat thousands of villagers suffering from water-borne diseases in India’s east on Thursday, officials said, as the death toll mounted from weeks of flooding in South …
Flood fallout: India opens office to help move Nepali goods (September 25, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Sep 23 : The Indian government Tuesday moved to make amends for the disaster triggered by the Kosi river in southern Nepal and its adjoining Bihar state in India by opening an office in the Terai …
NEA signs power import deal with PTC-India (September 25, 2008) - [read more]
Nepal Electricity Authority today signed an agreement with Power Trading Corporation of India to import additional 60 MW electricity.
Is everybody ready for global cooling? (September 25, 2008) - [read more]
A weekly roundup of newsbites from the Truth is Stranger than Fiction department.
India calls for synergy through energy (September 24, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Sept 23 : Union Minister of State for Commerce and Power Jairam Ramesh has called for the creation of a new architecture of bilateral cooperation whose distinctiveness would be synergy through …
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
On the Highway to People’s Republic (September 24, 2008) - [read more]
By Krishna Giri
I do not know much about Tanka P Acharya, who broke the traditional trend by visiting China, and hence can not speculate on the facts of media coverage then. However, when Maoist supremo followed Acharya’s footsteps, many Nepali and Indian tabloid have covered the news as ‘first time’ adding historic, challenging, brave etc. [...]
The Maoist Budget of Rs 236 Billion: Bold but Not Beautiful (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
In their first ever budget speech, the Maoists promise to build the infrastructures and propel the economic growth that they mercilessly destroyed and pushed back in the name of revolution during the decade-long insurgency
By Prem Khanal
the Kathmandu Post
The first fiscal-year budget of the Democratic Republic of Nepal unveiled yesterday by the Maoists-led government was extraordinarily [...]
The Koshi Deluge: A History of Disaster for Nepal (September 12, 2008) - [read more]
Impact of Koshi’s devastation
The Koshi River breached on the nose of spur 12.90 and 12.10 on the eastern embankment, 12 km north of the barrage near midnight on August 18, 2008. Immediately, five Village Development Committees (VDCs) — West Kushaha, Haripur, Sripur, Laukahi, and Bokraha of Sunsari District — of Nepal and 14 Districts in [...]
Policies and Programmes of a Maoist Led Govt (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
It’s a nice essay but nothing substantial, said chief opposition party NC’s leader Sher Bahadur deuba about the government’s program and policies document.
……………………………………………….
With an aim to take the peace process to a logical end, the Maoist-led government today publicized its policies and programmes. Brining out new constitution on time (within two years) is hight on [...]
New YCL in Town (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
After UML, Nepali Congress follows the YCL path of the Maoist party
Following the example of the Maoists’ YCL and the CPN-UML’s Youth Force, Nepal Tarun Dal (NTD), youth wing of Nepali Congress, has formed its own separate group “to combat corruption and anarchy”. NTD aims to mobilizing the party’s youths to counter the [...]
Is New Nepal Heading Toward [Maoist] People’s Republic? (September 1, 2008) - [read more]
By Conflict Study Center
On August 21, 2008, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), CPN (UML) and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) agreed on the Common Minimum Program (CMP), Code of Conduct (CoC), Modus Operandi of the Government (MOG) and the formation of a Political Coordination Committee (PCC). The documents were signed by Prime Minister and President [...]
No Need for Panic, India (August 30, 2008) - [read more]
One word can’t describe India’s unnecessary concern about Nepali prime minister’s Beijing visit. That’s the combination of hypocrisy, double standard, childishness and hegemony. When their Sonia and Rahul Gandhi can visit China and meet Chinese leaders, why can’t the Nepali prime minister do so?
Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s first foreign trip to China has [...]
Paradigm Shift in Nepali Nationalism (August 29, 2008) - [read more]
Through out Nepal’s history, past regimes have tried to advocate for nationalism to balance diplomacy between China and India.
By Krishna Giri
Thanks to the CA members who have managed to appoint a Prime Minister after exhausting four months, 1/6th of the total time allocated to write the new constitution for new Nepal. They have not only [...]
Nepal News archive for 25 September 2008
Nepal blames India for fresh flooding - Hindustan Times (September 25, 2008) - [read more]
Close on the heels of anger over India’s failure to maintain the Kosi embankment that resulted in a devastating flood last month in southern Nepal and India’s Bihar state, the Himalayan republic is now blaming India for a fresh deluge in the western …
Coke bottler runs into labour trouble in Nepal - Thaindian.com (September 25, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Sep 25 (IANS) After multinationals Dabur Nepal and United Telecom Ltd, it’s now the turn of Bottlers Nepal, the sole bottler of Coca-Cola products in Nepal, to run into labour trouble in the Himalayan republic with production slowing …
Chandigarh to host International Students Peace Festival - Hindustan Times (September 25, 2008) - [read more]
This city is all set to host its third annual International Students Peace Festival from Sep 28 to Oct 1. The education department of Chandigarh, Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, New Delhi, Commonwealth Youth Asia Centre, Chandigarh and a local non …
FACTBOX: Africa, Asia, Europe: bans and recalls on China milk - Reuters (September 25, 2008) - [read more]
(Reuters) - France, South Korea, Vietnam, India and Nepal have joined more than a dozen countries that have banned China dairy imports, while others from Australia to Yemen recalled products by Thursday, fearing potentially lethal melamine-tainted …
Bihar flood situation improves; action plan ready - Times of India (September 25, 2008) - [read more]
PATNA: Bihar government has prepared an extensive action plan for completing Kosi breach closure work by November 30 as overall flood situation in the state registered marked improvement with major rivers maintaining receding trends. The water level …
Giant India-Nepal hydel projects may finally get going - Freshnews (September 25, 2008) - [read more]
Two giant hydropower projects that were to be jointly undertaken by the governments of India and Nepal but did not get off the ground for years due to political distrust could now be finally rolling out with a bilateral meeting in Kathmandu next week …
Nepal’s New PM Makes the Rounds - Time (September 21, 2008) - [read more]
Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, right, sought to allay Indian fears that his Himalayan nation would shift its focus away from New Delhi toward their other giant neighbor, China When Pushpa Kamal Dahal departed for the 2008 …
UPDATE 1-HK sets lower fuel surcharges for six airlines - Reuters (September 25, 2008) - [read more]
HONG KONG, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Hong Kong’s Civil Aviation Department said on Thursday it approved lower fuel surcharges levied by six airlines for the next two months, representing cuts up to 10-15 percent from the existing levels. The move was made …
Nepali Times
Power play (September 23, 2008) - [read more]
An Indian minister has told a hydropower conference in Kathmandu that it is in India’s strategic interest to see its neighbours take advantage of the huge next door market for manufacturing and
Kasto jatra (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
After three days of tyre-burning and running street battles between protesters and police, the government has bowed to demands from Kathmandu’s Newar community to continue to fund the sacrifice of buffalos during their
First Maoist budget (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
It was expected that Finance Minister Baburam Bhattarai’s budget presented Friday in the Constituent Assembly would be ambitious, but it was even bolder than
Open for business (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal concluded a reasonably successful visit to India Thursday, reaching out to the government and business
“Flood-control, irrigation, hydropower” (September 16, 2008) - [read more]
India’s union water resources minister Saif Uddin Soz speaks to Navin Singh Khadka BBC Nepali Service 12 September
Dahal’s capitalist avatar (September 15, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal today donned his free market avatar and made a strong pitch to sell Nepal as an investment destination to Indian industry.
Cautious optimism (September 15, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal hit the ground running on Monday, the first day of his four-day official visit to India, by laying a wreath at the Gandhi Samadhi at Rajghat. PRASHANT JHA in NEW
Off to Delhi (September 14, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal left on Sunday evening for an official visit to India after getting his government’s policies and programs approved by the constituent assembly.
Nepal News
Is everybody ready for global cooling? (September 25, 2008) - [read more]
A weekly roundup of newsbites from the Truth is Stranger than Fiction department.
India calls for synergy through energy (September 24, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Sept 23 : Union Minister of State for Commerce and Power Jairam Ramesh has called for the creation of a new architecture of bilateral cooperation whose distinctiveness would be synergy through …
Nepal President urges all to abandon violence (September 24, 2008) - [read more]
Nepal President Dr. Rambaran Yadav has urged all groups in Terai involved in violence to renounce their ways and join the process of building a new Nepal.
Indian Embassy sets up camp office in Biratnagar (September 23, 2008) - [read more]
The camp office of the Indian Embassy in Biratngar, which has been established for facilitating movement of goods and vehicles to India and from the eastern region to central and western regions, came into …
Indo-Nepal Power Summit 2008 begins in Kathmandu (September 23, 2008) - [read more]
The third Indo-Nepal Power Summit 2008 will begin in Nepali capital Kathmandu on Tuesday to explore the possibilities of hydropower project cooperation between Nepal and India.
Landslide, flood kill 45 in far-western Nepal (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
Nature’s fury continues unabated in Nepali far-western region as the death toll climbed to 45 on Sunday.
Nepal Riots as Maoist governments cut sacrifice subsidy (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
Nepal’s Maoist government has sparked rioting and allegations of launching a “cultural revolution” by withdrawing funding for animal sacrifices at a popular religious festival.
UML not in favor of traditional parliamentary system in Nepal (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
South East Asia News.Net Sunday 21st September, 2008 Kathmandu, Sept 21 : UML General Secretary Jhal Nath Khanal today said that his party will also not accept the British model of traditional parliamentary …
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
On the Highway to People’s Republic (September 24, 2008) - [read more]
By Krishna Giri
I do not know much about Tanka P Acharya, who broke the traditional trend by visiting China, and hence can not speculate on the facts of media coverage then. However, when Maoist supremo followed Acharya’s footsteps, many Nepali and Indian tabloid have covered the news as ‘first time’ adding historic, challenging, brave etc. [...]
The Maoist Budget of Rs 236 Billion: Bold but Not Beautiful (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
In their first ever budget speech, the Maoists promise to build the infrastructures and propel the economic growth that they mercilessly destroyed and pushed back in the name of revolution during the decade-long insurgency
By Prem Khanal
the Kathmandu Post
The first fiscal-year budget of the Democratic Republic of Nepal unveiled yesterday by the Maoists-led government was extraordinarily [...]
The Koshi Deluge: A History of Disaster for Nepal (September 12, 2008) - [read more]
Impact of Koshi’s devastation
The Koshi River breached on the nose of spur 12.90 and 12.10 on the eastern embankment, 12 km north of the barrage near midnight on August 18, 2008. Immediately, five Village Development Committees (VDCs) — West Kushaha, Haripur, Sripur, Laukahi, and Bokraha of Sunsari District — of Nepal and 14 Districts in [...]
Policies and Programmes of a Maoist Led Govt (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
It’s a nice essay but nothing substantial, said chief opposition party NC’s leader Sher Bahadur deuba about the government’s program and policies document.
……………………………………………….
With an aim to take the peace process to a logical end, the Maoist-led government today publicized its policies and programmes. Brining out new constitution on time (within two years) is hight on [...]
New YCL in Town (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
After UML, Nepali Congress follows the YCL path of the Maoist party
Following the example of the Maoists’ YCL and the CPN-UML’s Youth Force, Nepal Tarun Dal (NTD), youth wing of Nepali Congress, has formed its own separate group “to combat corruption and anarchy”. NTD aims to mobilizing the party’s youths to counter the [...]
Is New Nepal Heading Toward [Maoist] People’s Republic? (September 1, 2008) - [read more]
By Conflict Study Center
On August 21, 2008, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), CPN (UML) and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) agreed on the Common Minimum Program (CMP), Code of Conduct (CoC), Modus Operandi of the Government (MOG) and the formation of a Political Coordination Committee (PCC). The documents were signed by Prime Minister and President [...]
No Need for Panic, India (August 30, 2008) - [read more]
One word can’t describe India’s unnecessary concern about Nepali prime minister’s Beijing visit. That’s the combination of hypocrisy, double standard, childishness and hegemony. When their Sonia and Rahul Gandhi can visit China and meet Chinese leaders, why can’t the Nepali prime minister do so?
Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s first foreign trip to China has [...]
Paradigm Shift in Nepali Nationalism (August 29, 2008) - [read more]
Through out Nepal’s history, past regimes have tried to advocate for nationalism to balance diplomacy between China and India.
By Krishna Giri
Thanks to the CA members who have managed to appoint a Prime Minister after exhausting four months, 1/6th of the total time allocated to write the new constitution for new Nepal. They have not only [...]
Nepal News archive for 24 September 2008
Indo-Nepal Power Summit 2008 begins in Kathmandu - Xinhua News Agency (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) — The third Indo-Nepal Power Summit 2008 will begin in Nepali capital Kathmandu on Tuesday to explore the possibilities of hydropower project cooperation between Nepal and India. According to The Himalayan Times daily …
Rs 4,500 cr needed to repair Kosi damage - Hindustan Times (September 23, 2008) - [read more]
Going by the Bihar government’s estimates, the reconstruction of 3 lakh-odd Kosi-devastated rural houses will be the most capital intensive. In his financial assistance wish list presented to the Prime Minister in New Delhi on September 12, Chief …
Landslide, flood kill 45 in far-western Nepal - Xinhua News Agency (September 21, 2008) - [read more]
Landslide, flood death toll reaches 45 in far-western Nepal KATHMANDU, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) — Nature’s fury continues unabated in Nepali far-western region as the death toll climbed to 45 on Sunday. Over 35 people are still missing due to incessant …
Nepal’s New PM Makes the Rounds - Time (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, right, sought to allay Indian fears that his Himalayan nation would shift its focus away from New Delhi toward their other giant neighbor, China When Pushpa Kamal Dahal departed for the 2008 …
New Milford nurse set for climb of life - Danbury News-Times (September 23, 2008) - [read more]
Imagine walking on a treadmill for three hours. In hiking boots. If you think that sounds hard, imagine walking seven or eight hours at altitudes reaching 14,000 feet in the Himalayas. Or even six or seven hours in 90-degree heat with a backpack that …
Lawyers’ protest shuts down courts in Nepal - International Herald Tribune (September 21, 2008) - [read more]
KATMANDU, Nepal : Thousands of lawyers across Nepal launched a boycott of the courts Monday to protest the Supreme Court’s decision to ban the bar association chairman after he alleged widespread corruption among the country’s judiciary. The Supreme …
New Indo-Nepal economic pact in pipeline - Freshnews (September 23, 2008) - [read more]
A new economic pact between India and Nepal is in the pipeline with its seeds sown during Nepal’s new Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda’s maiden official visit to India earlier this month. Jairam Ramesh, the Indian minister of state …
Nepal Army far from politics, says COAS Katawal - Newstrack India (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Sept 22 (ANI): Chief of Army Staff General (COAS) Rookmangud Katawal has said the army was and would always remain detached from politics and would not make any compromise if the country’s territorial integrity is in danger. Addressing a …
Nepali Times
Power play (September 23, 2008) - [read more]
An Indian minister has told a hydropower conference in Kathmandu that it is in India’s strategic interest to see its neighbours take advantage of the huge next door market for manufacturing and
Kasto jatra (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
After three days of tyre-burning and running street battles between protesters and police, the government has bowed to demands from Kathmandu’s Newar community to continue to fund the sacrifice of buffalos during their
First Maoist budget (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
It was expected that Finance Minister Baburam Bhattarai’s budget presented Friday in the Constituent Assembly would be ambitious, but it was even bolder than
Open for business (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal concluded a reasonably successful visit to India Thursday, reaching out to the government and business
“Flood-control, irrigation, hydropower” (September 16, 2008) - [read more]
India’s union water resources minister Saif Uddin Soz speaks to Navin Singh Khadka BBC Nepali Service 12 September
Dahal’s capitalist avatar (September 15, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal today donned his free market avatar and made a strong pitch to sell Nepal as an investment destination to Indian industry.
Cautious optimism (September 15, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal hit the ground running on Monday, the first day of his four-day official visit to India, by laying a wreath at the Gandhi Samadhi at Rajghat. PRASHANT JHA in NEW
Off to Delhi (September 14, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal left on Sunday evening for an official visit to India after getting his government’s policies and programs approved by the constituent assembly.
Nepal News
Indian Embassy sets up camp office in Biratnagar (September 23, 2008) - [read more]
The camp office of the Indian Embassy in Biratngar, which has been established for facilitating movement of goods and vehicles to India and from the eastern region to central and western regions, came into …
Indo-Nepal Power Summit 2008 begins in Kathmandu (September 23, 2008) - [read more]
The third Indo-Nepal Power Summit 2008 will begin in Nepali capital Kathmandu on Tuesday to explore the possibilities of hydropower project cooperation between Nepal and India.
Landslide, flood kill 45 in far-western Nepal (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
Nature’s fury continues unabated in Nepali far-western region as the death toll climbed to 45 on Sunday.
Nepal Riots as Maoist governments cut sacrifice subsidy (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
Nepal’s Maoist government has sparked rioting and allegations of launching a “cultural revolution” by withdrawing funding for animal sacrifices at a popular religious festival.
UML not in favor of traditional parliamentary system in Nepal (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
South East Asia News.Net Sunday 21st September, 2008 Kathmandu, Sept 21 : UML General Secretary Jhal Nath Khanal today said that his party will also not accept the British model of traditional parliamentary …
At Least 24 Dead In Nepal Floods (September 21, 2008) - [read more]
Floods and landslides following heavy rains last week have killed at least 24 people in Nepal’s far west, officials said.
12 killed in landslide in western Nepal (September 21, 2008) - [read more]
At least 12 people died in landslide in western Nepal in past few days, local media reported on Sunday.
500 Nepali kids still languishing as slaves in Indian circuses (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
Mumbai, Sept.20 : At least 500 Nepalese children have been sold into slavery to Indian circuses over the past year, according to a new report issued in Kathmandu.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
The Maoist Budget of Rs 236 Billion: Bold but Not Beautiful (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
In their first ever budget speech, the Maoists promise to build the infrastructures and propel the economic growth that they mercilessly destroyed and pushed back in the name of revolution during the decade-long insurgency
By Prem Khanal
the Kathmandu Post
The first fiscal-year budget of the Democratic Republic of Nepal unveiled yesterday by the Maoists-led government was extraordinarily [...]
The Koshi Deluge: A History of Disaster for Nepal (September 12, 2008) - [read more]
Impact of Koshi’s devastation
The Koshi River breached on the nose of spur 12.90 and 12.10 on the eastern embankment, 12 km north of the barrage near midnight on August 18, 2008. Immediately, five Village Development Committees (VDCs) — West Kushaha, Haripur, Sripur, Laukahi, and Bokraha of Sunsari District — of Nepal and 14 Districts in [...]
Policies and Programmes of a Maoist Led Govt (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
It’s a nice essay but nothing substantial, said chief opposition party NC’s leader Sher Bahadur deuba about the government’s program and policies document.
……………………………………………….
With an aim to take the peace process to a logical end, the Maoist-led government today publicized its policies and programmes. Brining out new constitution on time (within two years) is hight on [...]
New YCL in Town (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
After UML, Nepali Congress follows the YCL path of the Maoist party
Following the example of the Maoists’ YCL and the CPN-UML’s Youth Force, Nepal Tarun Dal (NTD), youth wing of Nepali Congress, has formed its own separate group “to combat corruption and anarchy”. NTD aims to mobilizing the party’s youths to counter the [...]
Is New Nepal Heading Toward [Maoist] People’s Republic? (September 1, 2008) - [read more]
By Conflict Study Center
On August 21, 2008, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), CPN (UML) and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) agreed on the Common Minimum Program (CMP), Code of Conduct (CoC), Modus Operandi of the Government (MOG) and the formation of a Political Coordination Committee (PCC). The documents were signed by Prime Minister and President [...]
No Need for Panic, India (August 30, 2008) - [read more]
One word can’t describe India’s unnecessary concern about Nepali prime minister’s Beijing visit. That’s the combination of hypocrisy, double standard, childishness and hegemony. When their Sonia and Rahul Gandhi can visit China and meet Chinese leaders, why can’t the Nepali prime minister do so?
Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s first foreign trip to China has [...]
Paradigm Shift in Nepali Nationalism (August 29, 2008) - [read more]
Through out Nepal’s history, past regimes have tried to advocate for nationalism to balance diplomacy between China and India.
By Krishna Giri
Thanks to the CA members who have managed to appoint a Prime Minister after exhausting four months, 1/6th of the total time allocated to write the new constitution for new Nepal. They have not only [...]
Editors Announce New Papers in Nepal (August 26, 2008) - [read more]
The editors who recently resigned from Kantipur Publications have announced the new publishing company and two new newspapers.
The new company, the Nhu Republic Media, will bring out Nhu Nepal, Nepali daily, and the New Republic, English daily in about three months, said an SMS message sent out by one of the editors of a paper. [...]
Nepal News archive for 23 September 2008
South Asia floods kill 33, displaces thousands - Reuters UK (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Rescue workers evacuated some 200,000 people after flooding by one of India’s largest rivers killed 16 people at the weekend, while overflowing rivers inundated parts of Nepal and killed 17 people, officials said on …
Indo-Nepal Power Summit 2008 begins in Kathmandu - Xinhua News Agency (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) — The third Indo-Nepal Power Summit 2008 will begin in Nepali capital Kathmandu on Tuesday to explore the possibilities of hydropower project cooperation between Nepal and India. According to The Himalayan Times daily …
Thousands of Nepalese stranded by flood in far west region - Xinhua News Agency (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) — Though Nepal Army and police began rescue operation in the flood-hit areas in Kailali district in far-western Nepal on Monday, thousands of people were still locked up in their houses in some villages because of …
Nepal’s New PM Makes the Rounds - Time (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, right, sought to allay Indian fears that his Himalayan nation would shift its focus away from New Delhi toward their other giant neighbor, China When Pushpa Kamal Dahal departed for the 2008 …
South Asia floods kill 33, displaces thousands - Reuters UK (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Rescue workers evacuated some 200,000 people after flooding by one of India’s largest rivers killed 16 people at the weekend, while overflowing rivers inundated parts of Nepal and killed 17 people, officials said on …
Himalayan News Service - Himalayan Times (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
HOME PM in New York for UN meet Himalayan News Service Kathmandu, September 22: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” arrived in New York from Frankfurt late tonight (shortly after 1 pm New York time) as the head of a 12-member Nepali …
Tibetan children face punishment for studying in India - Thaindian.com (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Sep 23 (IANS) Thousands of Tibetan children and their families face stiff punishment at the hands of the Chinese government for enrolling in schools in India run by the Tibetan government in exile headed by their spiritual leader the Dalai …
Kiran Bhandari/Yubraj Puri - Himalayan Times (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
Businessmen are forced to pay as much as Rs 2.5 lakhs to ferry one truckload of goods from Khasa of Tibetan Autonomous Region of China to Kathmandu, thanks to the syndicate system of trucks and containers operating on the Araniko Highway. The Trucks …
Nepali Times
Kasto jatra (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
After three days of tyre-burning, running street battles between protesters and police, the government has bowed to demands from Kathmandu’s Newar community to continue to fund the sacrifice of buffalos during their
First Maoist budget (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
It was expected that Finance Minister Baburam Bhattarai’s budget presented Friday in the Constituent Assembly would be ambitious, but it was even bolder than
Open for business (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal concluded a reasonably successful visit to India Thursday, reaching out to the government and business
“Flood-control, irrigation, hydropower” (September 16, 2008) - [read more]
India’s union water resources minister Saif Uddin Soz speaks to Navin Singh Khadka BBC Nepali Service 12 September
Dahal’s capitalist avatar (September 15, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal today donned his free market avatar and made a strong pitch to sell Nepal as an investment destination to Indian industry.
Cautious optimism (September 15, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal hit the ground running on Monday, the first day of his four-day official visit to India, by laying a wreath at the Gandhi Samadhi at Rajghat. PRASHANT JHA in NEW
Off to Delhi (September 14, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal left on Sunday evening for an official visit to India after getting his government’s policies and programs approved by the constituent assembly.
Ambitious plan (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
The government has unveiled its program and policies for the new fiscal year, but many analysts say the targets are too ambitious and are
Nepal News
Landslide, flood kill 45 in far-western Nepal (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
Nature’s fury continues unabated in Nepali far-western region as the death toll climbed to 45 on Sunday.
Nepal Riots as Maoist governments cut sacrifice subsidy (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
Nepal’s Maoist government has sparked rioting and allegations of launching a “cultural revolution” by withdrawing funding for animal sacrifices at a popular religious festival.
UML not in favor of traditional parliamentary system in Nepal (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
South East Asia News.Net Sunday 21st September, 2008 Kathmandu, Sept 21 : UML General Secretary Jhal Nath Khanal today said that his party will also not accept the British model of traditional parliamentary …
At Least 24 Dead In Nepal Floods (September 21, 2008) - [read more]
Floods and landslides following heavy rains last week have killed at least 24 people in Nepal’s far west, officials said.
12 killed in landslide in western Nepal (September 21, 2008) - [read more]
At least 12 people died in landslide in western Nepal in past few days, local media reported on Sunday.
500 Nepali kids still languishing as slaves in Indian circuses (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
Mumbai, Sept.20 : At least 500 Nepalese children have been sold into slavery to Indian circuses over the past year, according to a new report issued in Kathmandu.
Unholy row in Nepal over secular budget (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Sep 20 : Violence erupted in Basantapur Durbar Square, the heart of Kathmandu city and a prime tourist draw where the palace of living goddess Kumari is located, Saturday as local …
Engaging Kathmandu (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the first elected prime minister of the republic of Nepal, seems to be doing his best to live down the alias of his underground days, Prachanda, the fierce one.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
The Maoist Budget of Rs 236 Billion: Bold but Not Beautiful (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
In their first ever budget speech, the Maoists promise to build the infrastructures and propel the economic growth that they mercilessly destroyed and pushed back in the name of revolution during the decade-long insurgency
By Prem Khanal
the Kathmandu Post
The first fiscal-year budget of the Democratic Republic of Nepal unveiled yesterday by the Maoists-led government was extraordinarily [...]
The Koshi Deluge: A History of Disaster for Nepal (September 12, 2008) - [read more]
Impact of Koshi’s devastation
The Koshi River breached on the nose of spur 12.90 and 12.10 on the eastern embankment, 12 km north of the barrage near midnight on August 18, 2008. Immediately, five Village Development Committees (VDCs) — West Kushaha, Haripur, Sripur, Laukahi, and Bokraha of Sunsari District — of Nepal and 14 Districts in [...]
Policies and Programmes of a Maoist Led Govt (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
It’s a nice essay but nothing substantial, said chief opposition party NC’s leader Sher Bahadur deuba about the government’s program and policies document.
……………………………………………….
With an aim to take the peace process to a logical end, the Maoist-led government today publicized its policies and programmes. Brining out new constitution on time (within two years) is hight on [...]
New YCL in Town (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
After UML, Nepali Congress follows the YCL path of the Maoist party
Following the example of the Maoists’ YCL and the CPN-UML’s Youth Force, Nepal Tarun Dal (NTD), youth wing of Nepali Congress, has formed its own separate group “to combat corruption and anarchy”. NTD aims to mobilizing the party’s youths to counter the [...]
Is New Nepal Heading Toward [Maoist] People’s Republic? (September 1, 2008) - [read more]
By Conflict Study Center
On August 21, 2008, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), CPN (UML) and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) agreed on the Common Minimum Program (CMP), Code of Conduct (CoC), Modus Operandi of the Government (MOG) and the formation of a Political Coordination Committee (PCC). The documents were signed by Prime Minister and President [...]
No Need for Panic, India (August 30, 2008) - [read more]
One word can’t describe India’s unnecessary concern about Nepali prime minister’s Beijing visit. That’s the combination of hypocrisy, double standard, childishness and hegemony. When their Sonia and Rahul Gandhi can visit China and meet Chinese leaders, why can’t the Nepali prime minister do so?
Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s first foreign trip to China has [...]
Paradigm Shift in Nepali Nationalism (August 29, 2008) - [read more]
Through out Nepal’s history, past regimes have tried to advocate for nationalism to balance diplomacy between China and India.
By Krishna Giri
Thanks to the CA members who have managed to appoint a Prime Minister after exhausting four months, 1/6th of the total time allocated to write the new constitution for new Nepal. They have not only [...]
Editors Announce New Papers in Nepal (August 26, 2008) - [read more]
The editors who recently resigned from Kantipur Publications have announced the new publishing company and two new newspapers.
The new company, the Nhu Republic Media, will bring out Nhu Nepal, Nepali daily, and the New Republic, English daily in about three months, said an SMS message sent out by one of the editors of a paper. [...]
Nepal News archive for 22 September 2008
Landslide, flood death toll reached 25 in western Nepal - Xinhua News Agency (September 21, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) — At least 25 people died in landslides and floods in some districts in western Nepal following incessant rainfall for past few days, local media reported on Sunday. According to eKantipur.com report, seven people died …
(Adds deaths in Nepal) - Reuters UK (September 21, 2008) - [read more]
BHUBANESWAR, India, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Rescue workers evacuated some 200,000 people after flooding by one of India’s largest rivers killed 16 people at the weekend, while overflowing rivers inundated parts of Nepal and killed 17 people, officials …
Nepali PM calls for durable peace and economic development - Xinhua News Agency (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) — On the occasion of International Peace Day, Prime Minister Prachanda has said that sustainable peace and equitable socio-cultural-economic development were the common aspirations and needs of the Nepali people, and …
Three more churches attacked in Karnataka - Times of India (September 21, 2008) - [read more]
BANGALORE: In fresh attacks, three more churches were on Sunday targeted in the city even as security was scaled up for trouble-free Sunday prayers, two days after the Centre issued its second advisory to Karnataka to rein in communal forces. ( Watch …
The meaning of Islam is peace - Hindustan Times (September 21, 2008) - [read more]
Apropos of Firoz Ali’s letter Ashamed to be Muslim (September 17) , I think he hasn’t understood Islam fully. The word Islam has its roots in the Arabic word ‘Salaam’ meaning peace. Terrorism is a crime against humanity perpetrated by humans …
21 killed in floods, landslides in Nepal - Hindustan Times (September 21, 2008) - [read more]
At least 21 people have been killed and thousands displaced due to massive floods and landslides in four districts of western Nepal. Twelve people were killed in Kailai district, five in Doti and two each in Gulmi and Palpa districts due to floods …
South Asia floods kill 33 and displace thousands - Boston Globe (September 21, 2008) - [read more]
BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Rescue workers evacuated some 200,000 people after flooding by one of India’s largest rivers killed 16 people at the weekend, while overflowing rivers inundated parts of Nepal and killed 17 people, officials said on …
South Asia floods kill 33, displaces thousands - Reuters India (September 21, 2008) - [read more]
BHUBANESWAR (Reuters) - Rescue workers evacuated some 200,000 people after flooding by one of India’s largest rivers killed 16 people at the weekend, while overflowing rivers inundated parts of Nepal and killed 17 people, officials said on Sunday …
Nepali Times
First Maoist budget (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
It was expected that Finance Minister Baburam Bhattarai’s budget presented Friday in the Constituent Assembly would be ambitious, but it was even bolder than
Open for business (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal concluded a reasonably successful visit to India Thursday, reaching out to the government and business
“Flood-control, irrigation, hydropower” (September 16, 2008) - [read more]
India’s union water resources minister Saif Uddin Soz speaks to Navin Singh Khadka BBC Nepali Service 12 September
Dahal’s capitalist avatar (September 15, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal today donned his free market avatar and made a strong pitch to sell Nepal as an investment destination to Indian industry.
Cautious optimism (September 15, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal hit the ground running on Monday, the first day of his four-day official visit to India, by laying a wreath at the Gandhi Samadhi at Rajghat. PRASHANT JHA in NEW
Off to Delhi (September 14, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal left on Sunday evening for an official visit to India after getting his government’s policies and programs approved by the constituent assembly.
Ambitious plan (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
The government has unveiled its program and policies for the new fiscal year, but many analysts say the targets are too ambitious and are
Trickle up (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
Only economic and political devolution will improve service
Nepal News
12 killed in landslide in western Nepal (September 21, 2008) - [read more]
At least 12 people died in landslide in western Nepal in past few days, local media reported on Sunday.
500 Nepali kids still languishing as slaves in Indian circuses (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
Mumbai, Sept.20 : At least 500 Nepalese children have been sold into slavery to Indian circuses over the past year, according to a new report issued in Kathmandu.
Unholy row in Nepal over secular budget (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Sep 20 : Violence erupted in Basantapur Durbar Square, the heart of Kathmandu city and a prime tourist draw where the palace of living goddess Kumari is located, Saturday as local …
Engaging Kathmandu (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the first elected prime minister of the republic of Nepal, seems to be doing his best to live down the alias of his underground days, Prachanda, the fierce one.
Nepal Maoist party directs Matrika to apologise (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Sept 19 : The central secretariat members of the CPN today directed its member and Minister for Land Reforms and Management Matrika Yadav to apologise for his unruly behaviour, as he accused Deputy …
Two Indians among 14 killed in Nepal bus accident (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: At least 14 people, among them two Indians, have been killed and dozens injured when a passenger bus fell into a swollen river after veering off a mountain highway, police said.
Formal recognition to third gender in Nepal (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
A 21-year-old lesbian has become the first person in Nepal to be officially recognised as a third gender person under the Maoist-led new government, a move being hailed as a landmark for sexual minorities in a …
500 Nepali children sold to Indian circus companies: report (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Sep 18: More than 500 Nepali children below the age of 14 have been sold to various circus companies in India last year, Nepal’s RSS news agency reported Thursday, quoting a new report.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
The Maoist Budget of Rs 236 Billion: Bold but Not Beautiful (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
In their first ever budget speech, the Maoists promise to build the infrastructures and propel the economic growth that they mercilessly destroyed and pushed back in the name of revolution during the decade-long insurgency
By Prem Khanal
the Kathmandu Post
The first fiscal-year budget of the Democratic Republic of Nepal unveiled yesterday by the Maoists-led government was extraordinarily [...]
The Koshi Deluge: A History of Disaster for Nepal (September 12, 2008) - [read more]
Impact of Koshi’s devastation
The Koshi River breached on the nose of spur 12.90 and 12.10 on the eastern embankment, 12 km north of the barrage near midnight on August 18, 2008. Immediately, five Village Development Committees (VDCs) — West Kushaha, Haripur, Sripur, Laukahi, and Bokraha of Sunsari District — of Nepal and 14 Districts in [...]
Policies and Programmes of a Maoist Led Govt (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
It’s a nice essay but nothing substantial, said chief opposition party NC’s leader Sher Bahadur deuba about the government’s program and policies document.
……………………………………………….
With an aim to take the peace process to a logical end, the Maoist-led government today publicized its policies and programmes. Brining out new constitution on time (within two years) is hight on [...]
New YCL in Town (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
After UML, Nepali Congress follows the YCL path of the Maoist party
Following the example of the Maoists’ YCL and the CPN-UML’s Youth Force, Nepal Tarun Dal (NTD), youth wing of Nepali Congress, has formed its own separate group “to combat corruption and anarchy”. NTD aims to mobilizing the party’s youths to counter the [...]
Is New Nepal Heading Toward [Maoist] People’s Republic? (September 1, 2008) - [read more]
By Conflict Study Center
On August 21, 2008, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), CPN (UML) and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) agreed on the Common Minimum Program (CMP), Code of Conduct (CoC), Modus Operandi of the Government (MOG) and the formation of a Political Coordination Committee (PCC). The documents were signed by Prime Minister and President [...]
No Need for Panic, India (August 30, 2008) - [read more]
One word can’t describe India’s unnecessary concern about Nepali prime minister’s Beijing visit. That’s the combination of hypocrisy, double standard, childishness and hegemony. When their Sonia and Rahul Gandhi can visit China and meet Chinese leaders, why can’t the Nepali prime minister do so?
Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s first foreign trip to China has [...]
Paradigm Shift in Nepali Nationalism (August 29, 2008) - [read more]
Through out Nepal’s history, past regimes have tried to advocate for nationalism to balance diplomacy between China and India.
By Krishna Giri
Thanks to the CA members who have managed to appoint a Prime Minister after exhausting four months, 1/6th of the total time allocated to write the new constitution for new Nepal. They have not only [...]
Editors Announce New Papers in Nepal (August 26, 2008) - [read more]
The editors who recently resigned from Kantipur Publications have announced the new publishing company and two new newspapers.
The new company, the Nhu Republic Media, will bring out Nhu Nepal, Nepali daily, and the New Republic, English daily in about three months, said an SMS message sent out by one of the editors of a paper. [...]
Nepal News archive for 21 September 2008
Secular budget triggers unholy row in Nepal - Daily News and Analysis (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Riot police were called to restore order as violence, arson and looting erupted on Saturday at the heart of the capital as its Newar community went on the rampage, protesting the secular budget unveiled on Friday that slashed allocations …
Nepali new budget focus on economic development - Xinhua News Agency (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) — Nepali Finance Minister Baburam Bhattarai has said that the priority of the first budget of the Federal Republic of Nepal would be to provide relief to the conflict affected citizens, ensure equal opportunities to all …
Nepal gives formal recognition to third gender - Hindustan Times (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
A 21-year-old lesbian has become the first person in Nepal to be officially recognised as a third gender person under the Maoist-led new government, a move being hailed as a landmark for sexual minorities in a country still dominated by a strong …
Bus crash kills 14 in Nepal - Reuters India (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept 19 (Reuters) - A packed bus veered off a hilly road in Nepal and plunged 150 metres (yards) into a river on Friday killing at least 14 people and injuring 36 others, police said. The cause of the accident in Dhading, about 25 km (15 …
Fourteen die in Nepal bus plunge - Hindustan Times (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
At least 14 people were killed and 26 others injured on Friday when a bus careered off a mountain highway in Nepal, police said. The bus was en route to Kathmandu from the south when it plunged 150 metres (500 feet) into a river. “There may be more …
10,000 children trafficked into NE annually from B’desh, Nepal - Times of India (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
SHILLONG: Not less than 10,000 people, mostly children, are trafficked into the Northeast with a good number smuggled in from Bangladesh, Nepal and other South East Asian countries, surveys by NGOs reveal. Most of those trafficked are then engaged as …
UPDATE 1-Nepal’s Maoists waive farm loans in first budget - Reuters India (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Nepal’s Maoist-led coalition will waive more than $135 million of bank loans for small farmers hit by a decade-long civil war and natural disasters, the finance minister said on Friday in his first budget speech. During …
Nepal Maoists table first budget - BBC News (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
Some of its measures are likely to be highly popular, including the cancellation of debts and a series of allowances for the poorest people. Others are likely to provide a measure of reassurance for people believing in capitalism but afraid that the …
Nepali Times
Adoption safeguards urged (September 1, 2008) - [read more]
Two international child rights organizations have urged the Nepal government not to allow the resumption of adoption of Nepali children by foreigners until domestic safeguards are in
Cabinet complete (August 31, 2008) - [read more]
Sixteen days after the Maoists chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal took oath as Prime Minister and five months after elections, Nepal finally has a new
Deputy PM Gautam (August 29, 2008) - [read more]
UML decides to join the government after the PM agrees to have Bam Deb Gautam second in line in the
Balancing India and China (August 27, 2008) - [read more]
Reacting to the negative fallout in the Indian media of his visit to China this week, Prime Minsiter Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said he will make his first “political visit” to India in the near
Eight sworn in (August 22, 2008) - [read more]
The Maoists and MJF ministers took their oath this Friday to form the new cabinet. But the third ally, UML, pulled out from the ceremony when internal differences regarding the protocol list could not be
Over 50,000 displaced (August 21, 2008) - [read more]
The aftermath of the flood has been devastating for more than 50,000 people. PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal assures intensive rescue and relief for all affected but the flood victims are still waiting for basic provisions like
The Big Flood (August 20, 2008) - [read more]
The breach in the east embankment of the Kosi on Monday could be a sign of bigger flood catastrophes to come because the 40-year-old border barrage has outlived its lifespan, experts
A divided alliance (August 18, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal takes the oath of office and secrecy even as the coalition wrangle over the division of the ministries continues.
Nepal News
Unholy row in Nepal over secular budget (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Sep 20 : Violence erupted in Basantapur Durbar Square, the heart of Kathmandu city and a prime tourist draw where the palace of living goddess Kumari is located, Saturday as local …
Engaging Kathmandu (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the first elected prime minister of the republic of Nepal, seems to be doing his best to live down the alias of his underground days, Prachanda, the fierce one.
Nepal Maoist party directs Matrika to apologise (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Sept 19 : The central secretariat members of the CPN today directed its member and Minister for Land Reforms and Management Matrika Yadav to apologise for his unruly behaviour, as he accused Deputy …
Two Indians among 14 killed in Nepal bus accident (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: At least 14 people, among them two Indians, have been killed and dozens injured when a passenger bus fell into a swollen river after veering off a mountain highway, police said.
Formal recognition to third gender in Nepal (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
A 21-year-old lesbian has become the first person in Nepal to be officially recognised as a third gender person under the Maoist-led new government, a move being hailed as a landmark for sexual minorities in a …
500 Nepali children sold to Indian circus companies: report (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Sep 18: More than 500 Nepali children below the age of 14 have been sold to various circus companies in India last year, Nepal’s RSS news agency reported Thursday, quoting a new report.
Rare rhinos endangered by loss of habitat (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
South Asia’s endangered Great One-horned Rhinoceros is being driven out of its natural habitat in search of food into the hands of illegal poachers, experts said on Thursday.
Nepali opposition chief says to follow socialism (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
Former Prime Minister and president of the opposition party Nepali Congress Girija Prasad Koirala Thursday said his party follows the principles of socialism.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
The Maoist Budget of Rs 236 Billion: Bold but Not Beautiful (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
In their first ever budget speech, the Maoists promise to build the infrastructures and propel the economic growth that they mercilessly destroyed and pushed back in the name of revolution during the decade-long insurgency
By Prem Khanal
the Kathmandu Post
The first fiscal-year budget of the Democratic Republic of Nepal unveiled yesterday by the Maoists-led government was extraordinarily [...]
The Koshi Deluge: A History of Disaster for Nepal (September 12, 2008) - [read more]
Impact of Koshi’s devastation
The Koshi River breached on the nose of spur 12.90 and 12.10 on the eastern embankment, 12 km north of the barrage near midnight on August 18, 2008. Immediately, five Village Development Committees (VDCs) — West Kushaha, Haripur, Sripur, Laukahi, and Bokraha of Sunsari District — of Nepal and 14 Districts in [...]
Policies and Programmes of a Maoist Led Govt (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
It’s a nice essay but nothing substantial, said chief opposition party NC’s leader Sher Bahadur deuba about the government’s program and policies document.
……………………………………………….
With an aim to take the peace process to a logical end, the Maoist-led government today publicized its policies and programmes. Brining out new constitution on time (within two years) is hight on [...]
New YCL in Town (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
After UML, Nepali Congress follows the YCL path of the Maoist party
Following the example of the Maoists’ YCL and the CPN-UML’s Youth Force, Nepal Tarun Dal (NTD), youth wing of Nepali Congress, has formed its own separate group “to combat corruption and anarchy”. NTD aims to mobilizing the party’s youths to counter the [...]
Is New Nepal Heading Toward [Maoist] People’s Republic? (September 1, 2008) - [read more]
By Conflict Study Center
On August 21, 2008, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), CPN (UML) and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) agreed on the Common Minimum Program (CMP), Code of Conduct (CoC), Modus Operandi of the Government (MOG) and the formation of a Political Coordination Committee (PCC). The documents were signed by Prime Minister and President [...]
No Need for Panic, India (August 30, 2008) - [read more]
One word can’t describe India’s unnecessary concern about Nepali prime minister’s Beijing visit. That’s the combination of hypocrisy, double standard, childishness and hegemony. When their Sonia and Rahul Gandhi can visit China and meet Chinese leaders, why can’t the Nepali prime minister do so?
Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s first foreign trip to China has [...]
Paradigm Shift in Nepali Nationalism (August 29, 2008) - [read more]
Through out Nepal’s history, past regimes have tried to advocate for nationalism to balance diplomacy between China and India.
By Krishna Giri
Thanks to the CA members who have managed to appoint a Prime Minister after exhausting four months, 1/6th of the total time allocated to write the new constitution for new Nepal. They have not only [...]
Editors Announce New Papers in Nepal (August 26, 2008) - [read more]
The editors who recently resigned from Kantipur Publications have announced the new publishing company and two new newspapers.
The new company, the Nhu Republic Media, will bring out Nhu Nepal, Nepali daily, and the New Republic, English daily in about three months, said an SMS message sent out by one of the editors of a paper. [...]
Nepal News archive for 19 September 2008
Nepali Congress follows socialism says Koirala - Thaindian.com (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Sept 18 (ANI): Former Nepals Prime Minister and president of Nepali Congress Girija Prasad Koirala today said his party follows the principles of socialism, which are a combined form of parliamentary democracy and communism. Addressing a …
Nepal’s new gov’t vows to raise salaries, rebuild - MSN MoneyCentral (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Nepal’s new government led by former communist rebels unveiled its first budget Friday, promising to raise government workers’ salaries and to rebuild the country’s war-ravaged infrastructure. Finance Minster Baburam Bhattarai …
Indian among 14 killed in Nepal bus accident - Daily News and Analysis (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU; At least 14 people, including an Indian, were killed and 37 injured when a packed passenger bus skidded off the road and plunged into a river in a western Nepalese district on Friday. The bus, heading to Kathmandu from Birgunj bordering …
Asia to lose major tourist attraction - News.com.au (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
SOUTH Asia’s tourism industry is in jeopardy, with news that the endangered Great One-horned Rhinoceros is in dire straights - a major draw-card for their economy. The Rhino is being driven out of its natural habitat in search of food into the hands …
Nepal government budget focuses on infrastructure building, relief - Earthtimes (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu - Nepal’s Maoist-led government presented its first annual budget since abolishing the monarchy on Friday, focused mainly on infrastructure building and social development. Finance Minister Babu Ram Bhattarai, who is the second highest …
Bus crash kills 14 in Nepal - Independent Online (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu - A packed bus veered off a hilly road in Nepal and plunged 150 metres into a river on Friday killing at least 14 people and injuring 36 others, police said. The cause of the accident in Dhading, about 25 km west of Kathmandu, was not …
Engaging Kathmandu - Times of India (September 17, 2008) - [read more]
Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the first elected prime minister of the republic of Nepal, seems to be doing his best to live down the alias of his underground days, Prachanda, the fierce one. In his first visit to India after becoming the PM, Dahal, dressed in …
Nepal gives formal recognition to third gender - Hindustan Times (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
A 21-year-old lesbian has become the first person in Nepal to be officially recognised as a third gender person under the Maoist-led new government, a move being hailed as a landmark for sexual minorities in a country still dominated by a strong …
Nepali Times
Adoption safeguards urged (September 1, 2008) - [read more]
Two international child rights organizations have urged the Nepal government not to allow the resumption of adoption of Nepali children by foreigners until domestic safeguards are in
Cabinet complete (August 31, 2008) - [read more]
Sixteen days after the Maoists chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal took oath as Prime Minister and five months after elections, Nepal finally has a new
Deputy PM Gautam (August 29, 2008) - [read more]
UML decides to join the government after the PM agrees to have Bam Deb Gautam second in line in the
Balancing India and China (August 27, 2008) - [read more]
Reacting to the negative fallout in the Indian media of his visit to China this week, Prime Minsiter Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said he will make his first “political visit” to India in the near
Eight sworn in (August 22, 2008) - [read more]
The Maoists and MJF ministers took their oath this Friday to form the new cabinet. But the third ally, UML, pulled out from the ceremony when internal differences regarding the protocol list could not be
Over 50,000 displaced (August 21, 2008) - [read more]
The aftermath of the flood has been devastating for more than 50,000 people. PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal assures intensive rescue and relief for all affected but the flood victims are still waiting for basic provisions like
The Big Flood (August 20, 2008) - [read more]
The breach in the east embankment of the Kosi on Monday could be a sign of bigger flood catastrophes to come because the 40-year-old border barrage has outlived its lifespan, experts
A divided alliance (August 18, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal takes the oath of office and secrecy even as the coalition wrangle over the division of the ministries continues.
Nepal News
Two Indians among 14 killed in Nepal bus accident (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: At least 14 people, among them two Indians, have been killed and dozens injured when a passenger bus fell into a swollen river after veering off a mountain highway, police said.
Formal recognition to third gender in Nepal (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
A 21-year-old lesbian has become the first person in Nepal to be officially recognised as a third gender person under the Maoist-led new government, a move being hailed as a landmark for sexual minorities in a …
500 Nepali children sold to Indian circus companies: report (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Sep 18: More than 500 Nepali children below the age of 14 have been sold to various circus companies in India last year, Nepal’s RSS news agency reported Thursday, quoting a new report.
Rare rhinos endangered by loss of habitat (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
South Asia’s endangered Great One-horned Rhinoceros is being driven out of its natural habitat in search of food into the hands of illegal poachers, experts said on Thursday.
Nepali opposition chief says to follow socialism (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
Former Prime Minister and president of the opposition party Nepali Congress Girija Prasad Koirala Thursday said his party follows the principles of socialism.
Stress on review of unequal ties (September 17, 2008) - [read more]
Senior leader of the CPN-Maoist Mohan Baidhya ‘Kiran’ Saturday said that the government had all rights to sign in the bilateral and multilateral treaties, as it is the elected body.. However, he said that the …
6,768 pass KLT for Korean jobs (September 16, 2008) - [read more]
A total of 6,768 examinees have passed the Korean Language Test (KLT), a first step in the process of getting jobs in South Korea under employment permit system (EPS), according to the Human Resource Department of Korea’s (HRD-Korea) website www.eps.go.kr. Of the total of 31,511 applicants for the KLT, only had appeared in the exams held on March 29 and 30 in Kathmandu. The Tribhuvan University (TU) had conducted the exams for KLT in Kathmandu with the help of HRD-Korea and the department of labour and employment promotion (DoLEP). However, all the answer sheets were taken to South Korea for the final markings by the HRD-Korea. Those passed examinees will now have to go through a physical and health check-up at the government designated public health institutions, Keshar Bahadur Baniya, director general at DoLEP said. “After satisfactory results in health check-up, DoLEP will further investigate on past criminal records and academic as well as vocational qualifications of the candidate. Then the names will be sent to HRD-Korea to create a roster,” he informed. The roster will have details about the job seekers including a CV, police report and medical report, which will be circulated to the Korean employers. The South Korean employers have rights to select workers from the roster-list and then they will recruit through HRD-Korea. “There will be a tripartite contract between the government, employer and worker, then the visa processing will be started. Once visa is confirmed, the government will provide the selected workers with a preliminary trainings,” Baniya added. The government has already announced that the total cost for the whole process will not exceed $970 (around Rs 63,050) including $17 for the KLT and air tickets. Those selected for the jobs under the EPS will be paid no less than $900 as monthly salary excluding lodging, fooding and medical expenses. About 5,500 job aspirants are likely to get jobs in South Korea from among those successful examinees of the KLT. South Korea has emerged as the most preferred destination for Nepali jobseekers because of better earnings and cheaper initial cost to get job under EPS. Nepal and South Korea had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in July last year. The accord has set proficiency of the Korean language as a major condition of eligibility for employment in South Korea.
Nepal’s focus on India, China (September 16, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Nepal would give priority to strengthen relations with India and China, according to the government’s programmes and policies for 2008-09. Unveiling the document, President Ram Baran Yadav said: …
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The Koshi Deluge: A History of Disaster for Nepal (September 12, 2008) - [read more]
Impact of Koshi’s devastation
The Koshi River breached on the nose of spur 12.90 and 12.10 on the eastern embankment, 12 km north of the barrage near midnight on August 18, 2008. Immediately, five Village Development Committees (VDCs) — West Kushaha, Haripur, Sripur, Laukahi, and Bokraha of Sunsari District — of Nepal and 14 Districts in [...]
Policies and Programmes of a Maoist Led Govt (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
It’s a nice essay but nothing substantial, said chief opposition party NC’s leader Sher Bahadur deuba about the government’s program and policies document.
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With an aim to take the peace process to a logical end, the Maoist-led government today publicized its policies and programmes. Brining out new constitution on time (within two years) is hight on [...]
New YCL in Town (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
After UML, Nepali Congress follows the YCL path of the Maoist party
Following the example of the Maoists’ YCL and the CPN-UML’s Youth Force, Nepal Tarun Dal (NTD), youth wing of Nepali Congress, has formed its own separate group “to combat corruption and anarchy”. NTD aims to mobilizing the party’s youths to counter the [...]
Is New Nepal Heading Toward [Maoist] People’s Republic? (September 1, 2008) - [read more]
By Conflict Study Center
On August 21, 2008, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), CPN (UML) and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) agreed on the Common Minimum Program (CMP), Code of Conduct (CoC), Modus Operandi of the Government (MOG) and the formation of a Political Coordination Committee (PCC). The documents were signed by Prime Minister and President [...]
No Need for Panic, India (August 30, 2008) - [read more]
One word can’t describe India’s unnecessary concern about Nepali prime minister’s Beijing visit. That’s the combination of hypocrisy, double standard, childishness and hegemony. When their Sonia and Rahul Gandhi can visit China and meet Chinese leaders, why can’t the Nepali prime minister do so?
Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s first foreign trip to China has [...]
Paradigm Shift in Nepali Nationalism (August 29, 2008) - [read more]
Through out Nepal’s history, past regimes have tried to advocate for nationalism to balance diplomacy between China and India.
By Krishna Giri
Thanks to the CA members who have managed to appoint a Prime Minister after exhausting four months, 1/6th of the total time allocated to write the new constitution for new Nepal. They have not only [...]
Editors Announce New Papers in Nepal (August 26, 2008) - [read more]
The editors who recently resigned from Kantipur Publications have announced the new publishing company and two new newspapers.
The new company, the Nhu Republic Media, will bring out Nhu Nepal, Nepali daily, and the New Republic, English daily in about three months, said an SMS message sent out by one of the editors of a paper. [...]
Problem of Seniority in the Cabinet (and List of New Ministers) (August 23, 2008) - [read more]
…that led the UML to stay away from the oath taking ceremony. Only eight ministers were sworn-in yesterday as UML said they won’t join govt without 2nd ranking in the cabinet
The UML proposed that its senior leader Bam Dev Gautam be ranked in the second position after PM Dahal while the Maoists presented their senior [...]