Nepal: Riots as Maoist governments cut sacrifice subsidy – Daily Telegraph (October 3, 2008) – [read more]
Nepalese protesters gather to protest against the government’s decision to cut budget of a festival at Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu Photo: AFP/GETTY Last week the finance minister, presenting the national budget, announced that a £100 …

Tigers and charity in Kathmandu – Daily Telegraph (August 30, 2008) – [read more]
I’d been looking forward to our walk in the jungle until our guide delivered his warning. “If we see a tiger,” he said, “we should walk back slowly, looking it in the eye without turning our backs. And no running away.” The guide, I noted …

Cholera mitigation campaign launched in Nepal – Xinhua News Agency (September 4, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) — Guthi, a non-governmental organization in Nepal, launched a cholera mitigation campaign with a slogan of “Build Good Habit, Drink Pure Water” in the assistance of the Nepali government, UNICEF and UN-HABITAT. Every year …

India won’t ban Nepali Gorkhas from Army – Times of India (September 14, 2008) – [read more]
NEW DELHI: Even as Nepal’s first Maoist PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ begins his visit to India, Delhi is not too perturbed about his earlier declaration that Nepali Gorkhas should not be allowed to join the Indian Army. ( Watch ) For one …

Nepali president urges citizens to participate in nation building – Xinhua News Agency (September 8, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) — Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav urged all citizens to participate in nation building on Monday. Speaking at the felicitation of meritorious students of different levels on the occasion of the Education Day and the …

Quake measuring 5.7 hits western Nepal – Reuters India (September 24, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – An earthquake measuring 5.7 struck western Nepal on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said. The quake, centred 400 km northwest of Kathmandu, was at a depth of 10 km, the USGS said. There were no immediate reports of …

Hundreds protest Nepal crackdown on “nude” discos – Reuters (September 14, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Hundreds of disco workers protested in Kathmandu on Monday against a government crackdown on “nude dancing” in its bid to improve the deteriorating law and order. Police have raided scores of discos, nightclubs and dance bars in …

Nepal’s Maoist PM to reassure India over China fears – Reuters India (September 13, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s new Maoist prime minister, Prachanda, arrives in New Delhi on Sunday seeking to allay fears that Kathmandu would now move closer to China, dumping its traditional friendship with India. Such doubts gained ground in New …

Nepali Times

Yeti Twin Otter crashes (October 8, 2008) – [read more]
A Yeti Airlines Twin Otter crashed near the Tenzing Hillary Airport, Lukla, on Wednesday morning, killing the 18 on board. Only one survived the

National convention (October 8, 2008) – [read more]
The Maoists central committee meeting ends with the decision to hold a national convention . The convention will decide the people’s republic vs federal democratic republic

Crucial Maoists meeting (October 5, 2008) – [read more]
An ongoing Maoists central committee is seeing debate between the party’s rigidly idealistic and pragmatic wings.

Dateline Varanasi (October 2, 2008) – [read more]
For two days last week, Varanasi was the venue for intensive discussions on the consolidation of the peace process in Nepal.

Gurkhas greet verdict (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
The decision by the High Court in London, on Tuesday, to remove the immigration restrictions on Gurkha veterans who retired before 1997 has been greeted with jubilation by some Gurkha families in Nepal. Others say they will still have to fight discrimination.

Yadav’s turn (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav arrived in New York just after his prime minister left on Sunday evening, and although he is not getting the same attention, Yadav is addressing the Madhes issue head on in discussions

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

Nepal News

President endorses ‘child goddess’ (October 9, 2008) – [read more]

ARMY FUNCTION: Nepal’s President Ram Baran Yadav salutes as he receives the guard of honour next to Army Chief Rukmangat Katuwal in Kathmandu yesterday.

12 Germans, 2 Australians among 18 killed in Nepal air crash (October 8, 2008) – [read more]

Kathmandu, Oct 8 Eighteen passengers including twelve German and two Australian tourists were killed when a small Nepalese private airliner crashed early this morning near the world’s highest peak Mt Everest.

NEPAL: Huge challenges in preparing for natural disasters (October 8, 2008) – [read more]

KATHMANDU , 8 October 2008 – Nepal is becoming a disaster hotspot, with natural hazards increasing over the past two decades, according to aid agencies.

Army integration will be completed without hassles, says Nepal Home Minister (October 8, 2008) – [read more]

South East Asia News.Net Monday 6th October, 2008 Kathmandu, Oct 6 : Nepal Home Minister Bamdev Gautam has said that the army integration will be completed without hassles.

Nepal plane crash kills 18 (October 7, 2008) – [read more]

“A Yeti Airlines plane has crashed at Lukla airport while it was landing,” said airport official Mohan Adhikari.

Nepal ex-king goes to temple (October 7, 2008) – [read more]

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s deposed king yesterday visited a Hindu temple in his first public appearance since the abolition of the monarchy in the Himalayan nation.

3-year-old anointed new a living goddessa in ancient ceremony in Nepal (October 7, 2008) – [read more]

Religious authorities in Nepal anointed a three-year-old girl as a living goddess Tuesday in a tradition dating back centuries.

Nepal’s new Kumari takes seat as living Goddess (October 7, 2008) – [read more]

Three-year-old Matina Shakya will take her seat as the living goddess in Kumari Ghar in Nepali capital Kathmandu on Tuesday.

United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal

Bad Ass Economy: Inflation Soars to 13pc (October 6, 2008) – [read more]
A press statement issued by Nepal Rastra Bank said that food and beverage prices shot up by 13.4 percent while non-food and service rates were up 12.7 percent.
Propelled by a remarkable rise in the prices of food and non-food commodities, the rate of inflation during the first month of the current fiscal year climbed to [...]

Maoist New Nepal: Industrial Capitalism Covered by Socialism (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
By Bishnu Pathak and Neil Horning
The reactions to the budget from the nation’s policymakers and critics are often guided by four motives. Those who made the budget in the past regard it as imbalanced and untenable and heap praise on their own budget. Others who suffered defeat in the CA polls from the Maoists [...]

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 [...]

Small passenger plane crashes in Nepal, 18 dead – Boston Globe (October 8, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – A small private plane crashed in the remote mountains of northeast Nepal Wednesday, killing at least 18 people, mostly foreigners, airline and airport officials said. Twelve Germans and two Australians were among the dead. The …

Nepal: Riots as Maoist governments cut sacrifice subsidy – Daily Telegraph (October 3, 2008) – [read more]
Nepalese protesters gather to protest against the government’s decision to cut budget of a festival at Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu Photo: AFP/GETTY Last week the finance minister, presenting the national budget, announced that a £100 …

Tigers and charity in Kathmandu – Daily Telegraph (August 30, 2008) – [read more]
I’d been looking forward to our walk in the jungle until our guide delivered his warning. “If we see a tiger,” he said, “we should walk back slowly, looking it in the eye without turning our backs. And no running away.” The guide, I noted …

Cholera mitigation campaign launched in Nepal – Xinhua News Agency (September 4, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) — Guthi, a non-governmental organization in Nepal, launched a cholera mitigation campaign with a slogan of “Build Good Habit, Drink Pure Water” in the assistance of the Nepali government, UNICEF and UN-HABITAT. Every year …

India won’t ban Nepali Gorkhas from Army – Times of India (September 14, 2008) – [read more]
NEW DELHI: Even as Nepal’s first Maoist PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ begins his visit to India, Delhi is not too perturbed about his earlier declaration that Nepali Gorkhas should not be allowed to join the Indian Army. ( Watch ) For one …

Nepali president urges citizens to participate in nation building – Xinhua News Agency (September 8, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) — Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav urged all citizens to participate in nation building on Monday. Speaking at the felicitation of meritorious students of different levels on the occasion of the Education Day and the …

Quake measuring 5.7 hits western Nepal – Reuters India (September 24, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – An earthquake measuring 5.7 struck western Nepal on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said. The quake, centred 400 km northwest of Kathmandu, was at a depth of 10 km, the USGS said. There were no immediate reports of …

Hundreds protest Nepal crackdown on “nude” discos – Reuters (September 14, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Hundreds of disco workers protested in Kathmandu on Monday against a government crackdown on “nude dancing” in its bid to improve the deteriorating law and order. Police have raided scores of discos, nightclubs and dance bars in …

Nepali Times

Yeti Twin Otter crashes (October 8, 2008) – [read more]
A Yeti Airlines Twin Otter crashed near the Tenzing-Hillary Airport, Lukla, on Wednesday morning, killing the 18 on board. Only one survived the

National convention (October 8, 2008) – [read more]
The Maoists central committee meeting ends with the decision to hold a national convention . The convention will decide the people’s republic vs federal democratic republic

Crucial Maoists meeting (October 5, 2008) – [read more]
An ongoing Maoists central committee is seeing debate between the party’s rigidly idealistic and pragmatic wings.

Dateline Varanasi (October 2, 2008) – [read more]
For two days last week, Varanasi was the venue for intensive discussions on the consolidation of the peace process in Nepal.

Gurkhas greet verdict (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
The decision by the High Court in London, on Tuesday, to remove the immigration restrictions on Gurkha veterans who retired before 1997 has been greeted with jubilation by some Gurkha families in Nepal. Others say they will still have to fight discrimination.

Yadav’s turn (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav arrived in New York just after his prime minister left on Sunday evening, and although he is not getting the same attention, Yadav is addressing the Madhes issue head on in discussions

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

Nepal News

Nepal plane crash kills 18 (October 7, 2008) – [read more]

“A Yeti Airlines plane has crashed at Lukla airport while it was landing,” said airport official Mohan Adhikari.

Nepal ex-king goes to temple (October 7, 2008) – [read more]

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s deposed king yesterday visited a Hindu temple in his first public appearance since the abolition of the monarchy in the Himalayan nation.

3-year-old anointed new a living goddessa in ancient ceremony in Nepal (October 7, 2008) – [read more]

Religious authorities in Nepal anointed a three-year-old girl as a living goddess Tuesday in a tradition dating back centuries.

Nepal’s new Kumari takes seat as living Goddess (October 7, 2008) – [read more]

Three-year-old Matina Shakya will take her seat as the living goddess in Kumari Ghar in Nepali capital Kathmandu on Tuesday.

Madhav Kumar Nepal likely to lead political coordination committee (October 6, 2008) – [read more]

Kathmandu, Oct 6 : Former General Secretary of the Unified Marxist Leninist Madhav Kumar Nepal is likely to lead the high-level political coordination committee.

Blast mars Nepal’s biggest festival (October 6, 2008) – [read more]

By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Oct 6 : A bomb exploded in Nepal’s turbulent southern plains Monday morning injuring three children and marring the celebration of the Himalayan republic’s biggest festival …

Skydivers Jump Over Everest (October 6, 2008) – [read more]

Everest Skydive team member prepares to land at Shyangboche airport after a parachute jump over Mount Everest some 120 kilometers north east of Kathmandu, 03 Oct 2008 Three skydivers in Nepal entered the record …

‘Four Women’ in Vienna fest (October 5, 2008) – [read more]

VIENNA: Two Indian films and a documentary from Nepal will be screened at the Viennale, the largest and most exciting film event in Austria that opens here Oct 17.

United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal

Bad Ass Economy: Inflation Soars to 13pc (October 6, 2008) – [read more]
A press statement issued by Nepal Rastra Bank said that food and beverage prices shot up by 13.4 percent while non-food and service rates were up 12.7 percent.
Propelled by a remarkable rise in the prices of food and non-food commodities, the rate of inflation during the first month of the current fiscal year climbed to [...]

Maoist New Nepal: Industrial Capitalism Covered by Socialism (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
By Bishnu Pathak and Neil Horning
The reactions to the budget from the nation’s policymakers and critics are often guided by four motives. Those who made the budget in the past regard it as imbalanced and untenable and heap praise on their own budget. Others who suffered defeat in the CA polls from the Maoists [...]

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 [...]

Nepal: Riots as Maoist governments cut sacrifice subsidy – Daily Telegraph (October 3, 2008) – [read more]
Nepalese protesters gather to protest against the government’s decision to cut budget of a festival at Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu Photo: AFP/GETTY Last week the finance minister, presenting the national budget, announced that a £100 …

Tigers and charity in Kathmandu – Daily Telegraph (August 30, 2008) – [read more]
I’d been looking forward to our walk in the jungle until our guide delivered his warning. “If we see a tiger,” he said, “we should walk back slowly, looking it in the eye without turning our backs. And no running away.” The guide, I noted …

Cholera mitigation campaign launched in Nepal – Xinhua News Agency (September 4, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) — Guthi, a non-governmental organization in Nepal, launched a cholera mitigation campaign with a slogan of “Build Good Habit, Drink Pure Water” in the assistance of the Nepali government, UNICEF and UN-HABITAT. Every year …

India won’t ban Nepali Gorkhas from Army – Times of India (September 14, 2008) – [read more]
NEW DELHI: Even as Nepal’s first Maoist PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ begins his visit to India, Delhi is not too perturbed about his earlier declaration that Nepali Gorkhas should not be allowed to join the Indian Army. ( Watch ) For one …

Nepali president urges citizens to participate in nation building – Xinhua News Agency (September 8, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) — Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav urged all citizens to participate in nation building on Monday. Speaking at the felicitation of meritorious students of different levels on the occasion of the Education Day and the …

Quake measuring 5.7 hits western Nepal – Reuters India (September 24, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – An earthquake measuring 5.7 struck western Nepal on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said. The quake, centred 400 km northwest of Kathmandu, was at a depth of 10 km, the USGS said. There were no immediate reports of …

Hundreds protest Nepal crackdown on “nude” discos – Reuters (September 14, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Hundreds of disco workers protested in Kathmandu on Monday against a government crackdown on “nude dancing” in its bid to improve the deteriorating law and order. Police have raided scores of discos, nightclubs and dance bars in …

Nepal’s Maoist PM to reassure India over China fears – Reuters India (September 13, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s new Maoist prime minister, Prachanda, arrives in New Delhi on Sunday seeking to allay fears that Kathmandu would now move closer to China, dumping its traditional friendship with India. Such doubts gained ground in New …

Nepali Times

Crucial Maoists meeting (October 5, 2008) – [read more]
An ongoing Maoists central committee is seeing debate between the party’s rigidly idealistic and pragmatic wings.

Dateline Varanasi (October 2, 2008) – [read more]
For two days last week, Varanasi was the venue for intensive discussions on the consolidation of the peace process in Nepal.

Gurkhas greet verdict (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
The decision by the High Court in London, on Tuesday, to remove the immigration restrictions on Gurkha veterans who retired before 1997 has been greeted with jubilation by some Gurkha families in Nepal. Others say they will still have to fight discrimination.

Yadav’s turn (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav arrived in New York just after his prime minister left on Sunday evening, and although he is not getting the same attention, Yadav is addressing the Madhes issue head on in discussions

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

Nepal News

Nepal’s new Kumari takes seat as living Goddess (October 7, 2008) – [read more]

Three-year-old Matina Shakya will take her seat as the living goddess in Kumari Ghar in Nepali capital Kathmandu on Tuesday.

Madhav Kumar Nepal likely to lead political coordination committee (October 6, 2008) – [read more]

Kathmandu, Oct 6 : Former General Secretary of the Unified Marxist Leninist Madhav Kumar Nepal is likely to lead the high-level political coordination committee.

Blast mars Nepal’s biggest festival (October 6, 2008) – [read more]

By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Oct 6 : A bomb exploded in Nepal’s turbulent southern plains Monday morning injuring three children and marring the celebration of the Himalayan republic’s biggest festival …

Skydivers Jump Over Everest (October 6, 2008) – [read more]

Everest Skydive team member prepares to land at Shyangboche airport after a parachute jump over Mount Everest some 120 kilometers north east of Kathmandu, 03 Oct 2008 Three skydivers in Nepal entered the record …

‘Four Women’ in Vienna fest (October 5, 2008) – [read more]

VIENNA: Two Indian films and a documentary from Nepal will be screened at the Viennale, the largest and most exciting film event in Austria that opens here Oct 17.

Assailants attack mosque (October 5, 2008) – [read more]

At least six people were injured when a powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in south-eastern Nepal, media reports said on Sunday.

Dutch tourist dies in accident in western Nepal (October 5, 2008) – [read more]

Local officials say a Dutch tourist taking a picture of a river in western Nepal during a hike has fallen into a gorge and died.

Four hurt in Nepal mosque blast – police (October 5, 2008) – [read more]

Four people were injured in a small bomb blast at a mosque in southeast Nepal, police said on Sunday.

United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal

Bad Ass Economy: Inflation Soars to 13pc (October 6, 2008) – [read more]
A press statement issued by Nepal Rastra Bank said that food and beverage prices shot up by 13.4 percent while non-food and service rates were up 12.7 percent.
Propelled by a remarkable rise in the prices of food and non-food commodities, the rate of inflation during the first month of the current fiscal year climbed to [...]

Maoist New Nepal: Industrial Capitalism Covered by Socialism (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
By Bishnu Pathak and Neil Horning
The reactions to the budget from the nation’s policymakers and critics are often guided by four motives. Those who made the budget in the past regard it as imbalanced and untenable and heap praise on their own budget. Others who suffered defeat in the CA polls from the Maoists [...]

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 [...]

Nepal president endorses child goddess – Times of India (October 6, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Maoist president has endorsed the choice of a three-year-old girl to be worshipped as a goddess, officials said on Monday, upholding an age-old tradition despite his government’s atheist stance. The selection of the child goddess …

Nepal gets a new Kumari – Nation – Thailand (October 6, 2008) – [read more]
Matina Shakya, 3, will be installed as the Kumari of Kathmandu on Tuesday coinciding with the Hindu festival of Dashain, the official Gorkhapatra newspaper said. As part of the tradition, Matina, along with her parents were introduced to Nepalese …

Three Indians nabbed in Nepal’s anti-sleaze drive – Thaindian.com (October 6, 2008) – [read more]
Kathmandu, Oct 6 (IANS) Three Indians were among the first foreigners to feel the pinch of the anti-sleaze drive begun by Nepal’s new Maoist government, landing behind bars for allegedly having sex in a restaurant in a border town.The three men …

RIGHTS-NEPAL: Return to Peace Threatened by Vigilante Groups – Inter Press Service (October 6, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sep 18 (IPS) – Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s defence in parliament of continued vigilante action by the Young Communist League (YCL), the youth wing of his Communist Party of Nepal – Maoist (CPN-M), has disappointed rights …

Blast mars Nepal’s biggest festival – MSN India (October 6, 2008) – [read more]
Kathmandu: A bomb exploded in Nepal’s turbulent southern plains on Monday morning injuring three children and marring the celebration of the Himalayan republic’s biggest festival Dashain, despite a truce called by warring armed groups. The explosion …

Nepali major parties divided on form of republic – Xinhua News Agency (October 2, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) — Leaders of the major three Nepali political parties have disagreed with each other on the form of republic the future Nepal would embrace through the new constitution, which is to be drafted by the Constituent Assembly …

Former PM: Nepali opposition party not to join gov’t – Xinhua News Agency (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) — Nepali Congress (NC) President and former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has said his party would not join the government led by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M). Speaking at a tea party hosted on the …

Nepal ex-king urges peace in first post-ouster appearance – Reuters India (October 3, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s ousted King Gyanendra called for peace in the embattled nascent republic on Thursday, in his first public appearance since the Himalayan nation ended centuries-old monarchy. Nepal abandoned its 239-year-old monarchy in …

Nepali Times

Crucial Maoists meeting (October 5, 2008) – [read more]
An ongoing Maoists central committee is seeing debate between the party’s rigidly idealistic and pragmatic wings.

Dateline Varanasi (October 2, 2008) – [read more]
For two days last week, Varanasi was the venue for intensive discussions on the consolidation of the peace process in Nepal.

Gurkhas greet verdict (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
The decision by the High Court in London, on Tuesday, to remove the immigration restrictions on Gurkha veterans who retired before 1997 has been greeted with jubilation by some Gurkha families in Nepal. Others say they will still have to fight discrimination.

Yadav’s turn (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav arrived in New York just after his prime minister left on Sunday evening, and although he is not getting the same attention, Yadav is addressing the Madhes issue head on in discussions

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

Nepal News

Skydivers Jump Over Everest (October 6, 2008) – [read more]

Everest Skydive team member prepares to land at Shyangboche airport after a parachute jump over Mount Everest some 120 kilometers north east of Kathmandu, 03 Oct 2008 Three skydivers in Nepal entered the record …

‘Four Women’ in Vienna fest (October 5, 2008) – [read more]

VIENNA: Two Indian films and a documentary from Nepal will be screened at the Viennale, the largest and most exciting film event in Austria that opens here Oct 17.

Assailants attack mosque (October 5, 2008) – [read more]

At least six people were injured when a powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in south-eastern Nepal, media reports said on Sunday.

Dutch tourist dies in accident in western Nepal (October 5, 2008) – [read more]

Local officials say a Dutch tourist taking a picture of a river in western Nepal during a hike has fallen into a gorge and died.

Four hurt in Nepal mosque blast – police (October 5, 2008) – [read more]

Four people were injured in a small bomb blast at a mosque in southeast Nepal, police said on Sunday.

Nepal Maoists not committed to democracy, says Koirala (October 4, 2008) – [read more]

South East Asia News.Net Saturday 4th October, 2008 Kathmandu, Oct 4 : Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala has accused the Maoist leadership of not showing commitment to democracy in Nepal.

Nepal calls armed rebel groups in south for peace talks (October 4, 2008) – [read more]

KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s Maoist-led coalition government invited armed rebel groups in the country’s southern plains for talks and named three government negotiators, a senior cabinet minister said Saturday.

More than a dozen armed groups are fighting a low-intensity insurgency in the Himalayan nation’s southern plains bordering India called Madhesh, demanding greater regional autonomy.

Dozens of people have died in violence in the south since Nepal’s Maoist former rebels ended their civil war and joined a peace process in 2006. They now head the coalition government after emerging as the largest group in elections for a special assembly in April.

Nepal tourist arrivals record steady growth (October 3, 2008) – [read more]

The number of tourist arrivals in Nepal in the first nine months of 2008 rose by 2 per cent over the same period last year, officials said Friday.

United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal

Maoist New Nepal: Industrial Capitalism Covered by Socialism (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
By Bishnu Pathak and Neil Horning
The reactions to the budget from the nation’s policymakers and critics are often guided by four motives. Those who made the budget in the past regard it as imbalanced and untenable and heap praise on their own budget. Others who suffered defeat in the CA polls from the Maoists [...]

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 [...]

Blast at Nepali mosque leaves 4 injured – Xinhua News Agency (October 4, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) — An unidentified gang detonated a powerful bomb at a mosque in eastern Nepal, leaving four injured, local news website eKantipur reported on Sunday. The blast occurred at around 8:15 p.m. local time (1430 GMT) on Saturday …

Four hurt in Nepal mosque blast – police – Reuters India (October 4, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Four people were injured in a small bomb blast at a mosque in southeast Nepal, police said on Sunday. There was no major damage to the mosque after the blast late on Saturday, police official Gopal Pradhan said from Biratnagar …

Bomb explosion in Nepal injures six – Thaindian.com (October 4, 2008) – [read more]
Kathmandu, Oct 5 (DPA) At least six people were injured when a powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in south-eastern Nepal, media reports said Sunday.The blast targeted the mosque at Hattimuda village in Morang district, about 400 km south-east …

Nepal police hunt for mosque bomb blast suspects – Gulf News (October 4, 2008) – [read more]
Kathmandu: Police are hunting for suspects in a bomb blast at a mosque in southeast Nepal that left four people injured, police said on Sunday. There was no major damage to the mosque after the blast late on Saturday, police official Gopal Pradhan …

Dutch tourist dies after falling into ravine – Earthtimes (October 4, 2008) – [read more]
Kathmandu – A Dutch tourist died after falling several metres down a narrow ravine in western Nepal, media reports said Sunday. Peter Ross, 49, fell near the western town of Pokhara, about 200 kilometres west of Kathmandu, Saturday afternoon, Nepal …

Skydivers make unprecedented jump over Everest – Reuters (October 4, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Three skydivers made the first ever parachute jump over Mount Everest on Sunday, organizers and participants said, culminating years of preparation. About 32 skydivers from more than 10 countries including Britain, Canada, the …

Flood scene improves – Times of India (October 4, 2008) – [read more]
PATNA: The flood situation in the Kosi region continued to improve with the discharge into the Kosi river from Barah Kshetra in Nepal showing a further declining trend. According to the state water resources department, the discharge into the Kosi …

Nepal invites rebel groups for peace talks – Gulf Times (October 4, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Maoist-led coalition government invited armed rebel groups in the country’s southern plains for talks and named three government negotiators, a senior cabinet minister said yesterday. More than a dozen armed groups are fighting …

Nepali Times

Dateline Varanasi (October 2, 2008) – [read more]
For two days last week, Varanasi was the venue for intensive discussions on the consolidation of the peace process in Nepal.

Gurkhas greet verdict (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
The decision by the High Court in London, on Tuesday, to remove the immigration restrictions on Gurkha veterans who retired before 1997 has been greeted with jubilation by some Gurkha families in Nepal. Others say they will still have to fight discrimination.

Yadav’s turn (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav arrived in New York just after his prime minister left on Sunday evening, and although he is not getting the same attention, Yadav is addressing the Madhes issue head on in discussions

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

Nepal News

Nepal Maoists not committed to democracy, says Koirala (October 4, 2008) – [read more]

South East Asia News.Net Saturday 4th October, 2008 Kathmandu, Oct 4 : Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala has accused the Maoist leadership of not showing commitment to democracy in Nepal.

Nepal calls armed rebel groups in south for peace talks (October 4, 2008) – [read more]

KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s Maoist-led coalition government invited armed rebel groups in the country’s southern plains for talks and named three government negotiators, a senior cabinet minister said Saturday.

More than a dozen armed groups are fighting a low-intensity insurgency in the Himalayan nation’s southern plains bordering India called Madhesh, demanding greater regional autonomy.

Dozens of people have died in violence in the south since Nepal’s Maoist former rebels ended their civil war and joined a peace process in 2006. They now head the coalition government after emerging as the largest group in elections for a special assembly in April.

Nepal tourist arrivals record steady growth (October 3, 2008) – [read more]

The number of tourist arrivals in Nepal in the first nine months of 2008 rose by 2 per cent over the same period last year, officials said Friday.

Nepali major parties divided on form of republic (October 3, 2008) – [read more]

Leaders of the major three Nepali political parties have disagreed with each other on the form of republic the future Nepal would embrace through the new constitution, which is to be drafted by the Constituent …

Ex-Nepalese King Gyanendra meets Indian Spiritual guru (October 2, 2008) – [read more]

South East Asia News.Net Thursday 2nd October, 2008 Kathmandu, Oct 2 : Former Nepalese King Gyanendra Shah on Thursday met visiting Indian guru Jagadguru Kripaluji Maharaj at a Hindu religious sanctuary, …

Nearly 250 Nepalis stranded in Kabul (October 2, 2008) – [read more]

At least 250 Nepali youths have been left stranded in Kabul after their employment agent allegedly fled without providing them the promised employment.

Gurkha soldiers win legal battle to settle in Britain (October 1, 2008) – [read more]

Gurkha veterans who fought for Britain Tuesday won a landmark legal battle to be allowed to settle in Britain following a High Court ruling on immigration rights.

Nepali Congress leader accuses UN mission of supporting Maoists (October 1, 2008) – [read more]

Nepali Congress acting president Sushil Koirala today said that the United Nations Mission in Nepal has always tilted in favour of the Maoists since the peace process began.

United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal

Maoist New Nepal: Industrial Capitalism Covered by Socialism (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
By Bishnu Pathak and Neil Horning
The reactions to the budget from the nation’s policymakers and critics are often guided by four motives. Those who made the budget in the past regard it as imbalanced and untenable and heap praise on their own budget. Others who suffered defeat in the CA polls from the Maoists [...]

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 [...]

Nepalis displaced by insurgency rising in flooded area – Xinhua News Agency (October 3, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) — The number of people displaced from southeastern Nepal’s Saptari district is rising due to poor security and increasing activities like killing, abduction and extortion of the armed groups, local newspaper The Rising …

Nepal government invites rebels groups to talks – Thaindian.com (October 3, 2008) – [read more]
Kathmandu, Oct 4 (DPA) Nepal’s Maoist-led government has called on dozens of armed groups operating across the country for talks to end hostilities, official reports said Saturday.Most of the armed rebel groups are based in the southern plains …

Nepali CA to start work on new constitution – Focus Infomation (October 3, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU. Nepali Constituent Assembly (CA) Chairman Subas Nemwang said Friday that new constitution would be drafted right on time even though the last four months have passed without much action in this direction, Xinhua reported. Speaking at a …

Nepal government invites rebels groups for talks – Earthtimes (October 3, 2008) – [read more]
Kathmandu – Nepal’s Maoist-led government has called on dozens of armed groups operating across the country for talks to end hostilities, official reports said Saturday. Most of the armed rebel groups are based in the southern Nepalese plains known …

Nepal ex-king urges peace in first post-ouster appearance – Reuters India (October 3, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s ousted King Gyanendra called for peace in the embattled nascent republic on Thursday, in his first public appearance since the Himalayan nation ended centuries-old monarchy. Nepal abandoned its 239-year-old monarchy in …

Former PM: Nepali opposition party not to join gov’t – Xinhua News Agency (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) — Nepali Congress (NC) President and former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has said his party would not join the government led by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M). Speaking at a tea party hosted on the …

Aarushi case: Accused Rajkumar in Nepal, CBI clueless – Hindustan Times (October 3, 2008) – [read more]
Rajkumar, one of the three suspects in the murder of teenager Aarushi Talwar and her domestic help Hemraj, has been in Nepal for the last week, his lawyer said. But the CBI maintained it was unaware of his whereabouts. Rajkumar is an accused in the …

Man kills family, self in Patan – Times of India (October 3, 2008) – [read more]
AHMEDABAD: A labourer allegedly committed suicide after poisoning his wife and two daughters in Radhanpur town of Patan district, police said on Friday. The labourer, 35, hanged himself after administering a poisonous substance to his wife, 28, and …

Nepali Times

Dateline Varanasi (October 2, 2008) – [read more]
For two days last week, Varanasi was the venue for intensive discussions on the consolidation of the peace process in Nepal.

Gurkhas greet verdict (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
The decision by the High Court in London, on Tuesday, to remove the immigration restrictions on Gurkha veterans who retired before 1997 has been greeted with jubilation by some Gurkha families in Nepal. Others say they will still have to fight discrimination.

Yadav’s turn (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav arrived in New York just after his prime minister left on Sunday evening, and although he is not getting the same attention, Yadav is addressing the Madhes issue head on in discussions

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

Nepal News

Nepal tourist arrivals record steady growth (October 3, 2008) – [read more]

The number of tourist arrivals in Nepal in the first nine months of 2008 rose by 2 per cent over the same period last year, officials said Friday.

Nepali major parties divided on form of republic (October 3, 2008) – [read more]

Leaders of the major three Nepali political parties have disagreed with each other on the form of republic the future Nepal would embrace through the new constitution, which is to be drafted by the Constituent …

Ex-Nepalese King Gyanendra meets Indian Spiritual guru (October 2, 2008) – [read more]

South East Asia News.Net Thursday 2nd October, 2008 Kathmandu, Oct 2 : Former Nepalese King Gyanendra Shah on Thursday met visiting Indian guru Jagadguru Kripaluji Maharaj at a Hindu religious sanctuary, …

Nearly 250 Nepalis stranded in Kabul (October 2, 2008) – [read more]

At least 250 Nepali youths have been left stranded in Kabul after their employment agent allegedly fled without providing them the promised employment.

Gurkha soldiers win legal battle to settle in Britain (October 1, 2008) – [read more]

Gurkha veterans who fought for Britain Tuesday won a landmark legal battle to be allowed to settle in Britain following a High Court ruling on immigration rights.

Nepali Congress leader accuses UN mission of supporting Maoists (October 1, 2008) – [read more]

Nepali Congress acting president Sushil Koirala today said that the United Nations Mission in Nepal has always tilted in favour of the Maoists since the peace process began.

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.

United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal

Maoist New Nepal: Industrial Capitalism Covered by Socialism (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
By Bishnu Pathak and Neil Horning
The reactions to the budget from the nation’s policymakers and critics are often guided by four motives. Those who made the budget in the past regard it as imbalanced and untenable and heap praise on their own budget. Others who suffered defeat in the CA polls from the Maoists [...]

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 [...]

Nepal ex-king goes to temple – Gulf Times (October 2, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s deposed king yesterday visited a Hindu temple in his first public appearance since the abolition of the monarchy in the Himalayan nation. Former king Gyanendra Shah – regarded by loyalists as the incarnation of a Hindu god – has …

Aarushi murder accused Krishna, Rajkumar flee to Nepal – Times of India (October 2, 2008) – [read more]
NEW DELHI: Krishna and Rajkumar, prime accused in the Noida double murder case, have left the country for Nepal following their release from jail on bail that has raised questions over the fate of the case. ( Watch ) “Rajkumar’s parents are in Nepal …

Nepali PM briefs partymen on his U.S. trip – Xinhua News Agency (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) — A day after concluding his New York visit which he described as “successful”, Nepali Prime Minister Prachanda said the international community including the U.S. is ready to extend all necessary support to the Communist …

Deposed king goes public – News.com.au (October 2, 2008) – [read more]
NEPAL’S deposed king has visited a Hindu temple in his first public appearance since the abolition of the monarchy in the Himalayan nation. Former king Gyanendra Shah – regarded by loyalists as the incarnation of a Hindu god – has been living a quiet …

Youth Unemployment Pain and Depression In Nepal – Newsblaze.com (October 2, 2008) – [read more]
This is a real Story. These days, my friend Bimal is mostly found staying at home. As far as he can manage he does not go out at all, but if he does come out he selects the shortest route if possible, but if he fails to do so, prefers an isolated way …

Noida double murder case: Raj Kumar leaves country – Hindustan Times (October 2, 2008) – [read more]
Raj Kumar Sharma, one of the three main accused in the Noida twin murder case, allegedly left the country for Nepal around two weeks ago. This could prove as a setback for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)’s probe. Sharma and two others are …

Nepal names newest ‘living goddess’ – Stuff (September 29, 2008) – [read more]
THANK GODDESS: Shreeya Bajracharya smiles as she poses for the photographer as the newly appointed Goddess Kumari at Bhaktapur in Kathmandu. Nepal’s new Maoist-led government has appointed a 6-year-old girl as a “living goddess” in the ancient city …

Six-year-old Shreeya Bajracharya appointed as “living goddess” – MSN UK News (September 29, 2008) – [read more]
A six-year-old girl has been appointed as a “ living goddess ” in a Nepalese town near Kathmandu by the country’s new Maoist-led government. The appointment of Shreeya Bajracharya is the first time a Kumari (or living goddess) has been named by …

Nepali Times

Dateline Varanasi (October 2, 2008) – [read more]
For two days last week, Varanasi was the venue for intensive discussions on the consolidation of the peace process in Nepal.

Gurkhas greet verdict (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
The decision by the High Court in London, on Tuesday, to remove the immigration restrictions on Gurkha veterans who retired before 1997 has been greeted with jubilation by some Gurkha families in Nepal. Others say they will still have to fight discrimination.

Yadav’s turn (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav arrived in New York just after his prime minister left on Sunday evening, and although he is not getting the same attention, Yadav is addressing the Madhes issue head on in discussions

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

Nepal News

Ex-Nepalese King Gyanendra meets Indian Spiritual guru (October 2, 2008) – [read more]

South East Asia News.Net Thursday 2nd October, 2008 Kathmandu, Oct 2 : Former Nepalese King Gyanendra Shah on Thursday met visiting Indian guru Jagadguru Kripaluji Maharaj at a Hindu religious sanctuary, …

Nearly 250 Nepalis stranded in Kabul (October 2, 2008) – [read more]

At least 250 Nepali youths have been left stranded in Kabul after their employment agent allegedly fled without providing them the promised employment.

Gurkha soldiers win legal battle to settle in Britain (October 1, 2008) – [read more]

Gurkha veterans who fought for Britain Tuesday won a landmark legal battle to be allowed to settle in Britain following a High Court ruling on immigration rights.

Nepali Congress leader accuses UN mission of supporting Maoists (October 1, 2008) – [read more]

Nepali Congress acting president Sushil Koirala today said that the United Nations Mission in Nepal has always tilted in favour of the Maoists since the peace process began.

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.

United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal

Maoist New Nepal: Industrial Capitalism Covered by Socialism (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
By Bishnu Pathak and Neil Horning
The reactions to the budget from the nation’s policymakers and critics are often guided by four motives. Those who made the budget in the past regard it as imbalanced and untenable and heap praise on their own budget. Others who suffered defeat in the CA polls from the Maoists [...]

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.
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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 [...]

India and Nepal agree to tame Kosi by March – Gulf Times (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU: Often at loggerheads over water resources, India and Nepal decided to bury the hatchet at the resumption of talks after four years, agreeing to focus on taming by March the raging Kosi river that has played havoc in both countries this …

Britain: Brave Gurkhas Win Another War – The Moderate Voice (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
The Gurkhas , who originally hail from Nepal, enjoy a pride of place in the pantheon of the British and the Indian armed forces. They still serve with dedication and loyalty the army regiments in these two countries. So it was a well-deserved victory …

Nepali PM briefs partymen on his U.S. trip – Xinhua News Agency (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) — A day after concluding his New York visit which he described as “successful”, Nepali Prime Minister Prachanda said the international community including the U.S. is ready to extend all necessary support to the Communist …

The debt we owe the Gurkhas – Daily Telegraph (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
Lance Corporal Ram Bahadur Limbu won his Victoria Cross in a mostly forgotten war, the Indonesian Confrontation, in Borneo in 1965. First, he charged a machine-gun nest, knocking it out with a hand grenade. Then he made two forays into open ground to …

India and Nepal agree to tame Kosi by March – Gulf Times (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU: Often at loggerheads over water resources, India and Nepal decided to bury the hatchet at the resumption of talks after four years, agreeing to focus on taming by March the raging Kosi river that has played havoc in both countries this …

Nepal’s Evolving Identity – Nation (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
Three years ago, Nepal was mired in civil war. Ten years of conflict between national security forces and Maoist rebels had cost the nation an estimated 13,000 lives. King Gyanendra had declared a state of emergency, dissolving the democratically …

Homepage \ SriLanka/Bangladesh – Gulf Times (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
Muslims attend special prayers during Eid al-Fitr at the Kashmiri Mashjid in Kathmandu yesterday. The Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan concluded yesterday and is followed by the three-day Eid al-Fitr festival. The Nepal government was for the …

Gurkhas celebrate victory – Financial Times (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
Former Gurkha soldiers cheered and waved their regiment’s flag outside the High Court in London on Tuesday after they won a long-running fight to secure the right to retire in Britain. Members of the famous unit, which has fought for Britain since …

Nepali Times

Gurkhas greet verdict (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
The decision by the High Court in London, on Tuesday, to remove the immigration restrictions on Gurkha veterans who retired before 1997 has been greeted with jubilation by some Gurkha families in Nepal. Others say they will still have to fight discrimination.

Yadav’s turn (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav arrived in New York just after his prime minister left on Sunday evening, and although he is not getting the same attention, Yadav is addressing the Madhes issue head on in discussions

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

Nepal News

Gurkha soldiers win legal battle to settle in Britain (October 1, 2008) – [read more]

Gurkha veterans who fought for Britain Tuesday won a landmark legal battle to be allowed to settle in Britain following a High Court ruling on immigration rights.

Nepali Congress leader accuses UN mission of supporting Maoists (October 1, 2008) – [read more]

Nepali Congress acting president Sushil Koirala today said that the United Nations Mission in Nepal has always tilted in favour of the Maoists since the peace process began.

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.

United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal

Maoist New Nepal: Industrial Capitalism Covered by Socialism (October 1, 2008) – [read more]
By Bishnu Pathak and Neil Horning
The reactions to the budget from the nation’s policymakers and critics are often guided by four motives. Those who made the budget in the past regard it as imbalanced and untenable and heap praise on their own budget. Others who suffered defeat in the CA polls from the Maoists [...]

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 [...]