Nepal News archive for 27 November 2008
Airports security up after Mumbai attacks - ABS-CBN (November 27, 2008) - [read more]
Security at the country’s airports has been intensified Friday following the carnage in Mumbai, India that has killed at least 100 people. The Philippine National Police-Aviation Security Group said that it has placed more personnel at air terminals …
Colgate Palmolive’s Nepal officials freed after high drama - Thaindian.com (November 21, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Nov 21 (IANS) Two senior officials of oral care giant Colgate Palmolive India Ltd’s Nepal subsidiary, who were captured by a wing of a ruling political party Thursday, have been freed and are on their way to India, Nepal police said …
Mystery “Buddha boy” in Nepal vanishes, again - Los Angeles Times (November 22, 2008) - [read more]
Ram Bahadur Bamjan, center in white, is surrounded by Buddhist monks in Nijgadh town, about 100 miles south of Katmandu, Nepal. KATHMANDU — A teenage Nepali boy many believe is an incarnation of Lord Buddha went missing after blessing thousands of …
Colgate Palmolive’s Nepal officials freed after high drama - Newstrack India (November 20, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Nov 21 (IANS) Two senior officials of oral care giant Colgate Palmolive India Ltd?s Nepal subsidiary, who were captured by a wing of a ruling political party Thursday, have been freed and are on their way to India, Nepal police said Friday …
Wanted: Politicians - Business Standard (November 27, 2008) - [read more]
Politicians in South Asian countries do not work for the people, they work for the benefit of cartoonists — this appeared the consensus at the first-ever South Asian Cartoonist’s Congress last weekend, in Kathmandu, which assembled together 40 …
Colgate Palmolive’s Nepal chief handed over to police - Silicon India (November 21, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu: There was massive upheaval at the factory of Colgate Palmolive India’s subsidiary in Nepal Thursday with the company announcing the sale of Colgate Palmolive (Nepal)after 20 years of operations to Nepali company Everest Hygiene Products …
IT?s happening in Bhaktapur - TMCnet (November 20, 2008) - [read more]
Laxman Shrestha, leans down to press the start button of the newly installed computer at Bhaktapur DDC. It is an old and slow machine that takes five minutes to boot up. But it?s better than nothing in Nepal?s most IT-savvy DDC office. Shrestha works …
Indian embassy downplays attack on diplomat’s car in Nepal - Thaindian.com (November 21, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Nov 21 (IANS) A day after the car of an Indian diplomat was stoned by a mob in Kathmandu, the Indian embassy here tried to downplay the incident Friday, saying that it was not a specific “attack on an Indian diplomat or Indian interests …
Nepali Times
Parties beware (November 24, 2008) - [read more]
The latest examples of violent attacks across the country show that unless the political parties rein in their militant youth wings, they will finish off the mother
Himalmedia staff get death threats (November 22, 2008) - [read more]
Three staff of Himalmedia have been getting death threats by phone since Thursday and have been moved to safe houses, the management of the publishing house
Agreeing to disagree (November 22, 2008) - [read more]
The conference of over 1,000 Maoist national level cadres kicked off on Friday to discuss the two political documents presented by party chairman and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Mohan
Nepali Times reporter awarded (November 17, 2008) - [read more]
Nepali Times reporter Mallika Aryal has been presented the Young Development Journalist 2008 Award by the Asian Development Bank Institute at a ceremony in Tokyo on 14
Another attack on Himal (November 17, 2008) - [read more]
Eight masked men attacked the distributor of Himalmedia at Maitighar on Sunday night, setting fire to issues of the Nepali magazine, Himal
Constitution timetable (November 15, 2008) - [read more]
Worried by the political wrangling that is delaying the writing of the new
constitution, the CA Secretariat this week unveiled its desired timetable
that it hopes will focus the minds of assembly members and the
Nearing a deal (November 10, 2008) - [read more]
The meeting of the Constituent Assembly regulation drafting committee finally passed the house rules of procedure on Sunday after months of wrangling that had delayed the constitution writing
Uncertainties all over (November 6, 2008) - [read more]
The meeting of the CA regulation drafting committee ended inconclusively on Wednesday. The sticking point was still on whether or not members should obey the party whip on issues.
Nepal News
India, Nepal to sign updated extradition treaty (November 27, 2008) - [read more]
There would be better management of the 1,800 km open border between India and Nepal and both the neighbours would soon sign an updated extradition treaty… Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee …
Nepal’s Maoists find revolution is going slow (November 26, 2008) - [read more]
By Deepesh Shrestha ‘Its been hard for the Maoists to transform their strategy and tactics from the period of war to being in charge of the government’ Nepal’s Maoists mark their 100th day in office this week, …
Nepal President invited to visit India (November 26, 2008) - [read more]
Tajikistan News.Net Wednesday 26th November, 2008 Kathmandu, Nov 26 : Visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee handed over the invitation by President Pratibha Patil to Nepal President Dr.
Thumb for Decades of Violence (November 25, 2008) - [read more]
Married at the age of 12, Radha Neupane has been a victim of domestic violence for two decades.
Colgate-Palmolive after-sale row continues in Nepal (November 24, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Nov 24 : Four days after oral care giant Colgate-Palmolive announced the handover of its wholly owned Nepal subsidiary to a Nepali company, dispute by workers continued to dog the sale with two other …
Global recession could hit Nepal’s remittance income: IMF (November 24, 2008) - [read more]
The ongoing global economic crisis could hit the remittance earnings for Nepal, according to officials of International Monetary Fund .
Pranab’s visit under close scrutiny in Nepal (November 24, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: India’s External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee begins his three-day official trip to Nepal Monday, eclipsing visits by a British minister and a senior UN official who also arrive in Kathmandu the …
China changes Nepal ambassador after Tibet fiasco (November 23, 2008) - [read more]
Asia Pacific News.Net Sunday 23rd November, 2008 China has replaced its envoy to Nepal, Zheng Xianglin, apparently over his failure to effectively block anti-China protests here that lasted almost five months …
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Army Integration….Nepali Congress Speaks (November 22, 2008) - [read more]
For the record: Nepali Congress “will not let the integration happen if the Maoists continued their criminal activities.”
Nepali Congress (NC) President Girija Prasad Koirala today said he is not in favour of integration of the Maoist combatants into the Nepal Army (NA). He said that the NC, the opposition party in the Constituent Assembly, will [...]
Now That They Are in Power, Maoist Comrades Start New Fight (November 17, 2008) - [read more]
Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” and Mohan Baidya at loggerheads
By Renu Kshetry
The central committee (CC) meeting of CPN (Maoist) held on Monday (yesterday) saw party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and leader of the hard-line faction Mohan Baidya present separate political documents. Prime Minister Dahal presented three options on republicanism - the federal democratic republic, people’s republic [...]
Selling poverty (November 13, 2008) - [read more]
Fundraising literature ditches efforts to portray the complexity, diversity and positive signs in Nepal in favour of a plethora of statistics that prove the extent of Nepal’s poverty and backwardness.
By James Sharrock in The Kathmandu Post
Around this time just before Christmas INGOs and development organisations across Europe are gearing up for their big Christmas [...]
Obama in America (November 4, 2008) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Congratulations America! Thanks for electing Barack Obama the president of your country. Wish I was in Chicago. This is time for celebration. History has been made, in a spectacular fashion. Yesterday evening when TV was showing black people standing in lines to vote, my mom asked: America ma pani kala hunchhan ra? [Are [...]
Ian Martin of UNMIN Speaks to the Press (October 16, 2008) - [read more]
The UN Secretary-General will visit Nepal latter this month, is spokesperson said Thursday. While in Nepal, the Secretary-General will meet with the President, the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister and members of the Constituent Assembly. The Secretary-General will also visit Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, the spokesperson said.
Ian Martin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General [...]
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. [...]
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