Nepal News archive for 28 November 2008
ISI chief to go to India - Saudi Gazette (November 28, 2008) - [read more]
NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD – In an unprecedented move, Pakistan said Friday it would send the head of the Pakistani military’s Inter Services Intelligence agency (ISI) to India to share information about the attacks in Mumbai, at the request of Indian …
DT and TFT cartoonists win laurels in Nepal - Daily Times (November 28, 2008) - [read more]
PESHAWAR: Zahoor of Daily Times and Sabir Nazar of The Friday Times were adjudged among the best cartoonists of S Asia at the first-ever regional Cartoon Congress November 14-15 in Kathmandu in Nepal. A total of 36 cartoonists from Bangladesh, India …
Nepali ex-PM: politicization of army unacceptable - Xinhua News Agency (November 22, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) — Nepali Congress (NC) president and former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala Saturday said he would not let the politicization of Nepal Army happen at any rate, local newspaper The Himalayan Times reported on Sunday …
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 …
NC not in favour of Maoist integration into Nepal Army: Koirala - New Kerala (November 23, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Nov 22: Nepali Congress (NC) president and former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala has said he is not in favour of integration of the Maoist combatants into the Nepal Army. ”The NC is against the army integration now since the Maoists …
Indian first secy caught in Kathmandu mob fury - Economic Times (November 20, 2008) - [read more]
NEW DELHI: Ahead of external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee’s visit to Nepal, an Indian diplomat unwittingly became the target of mob violence in Kathmandu where violent anti-Maoist protests have broken out over the murder of two men allegedly …
Latest Pictures - Newstrack India (November 28, 2008) - [read more]
New Delhi , Nov 11 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Tuesday said he was satisfied with the distribution of party tickets to contest the assembly… younger boys. I am not unhappy with the distribution of tickets ,” Rahul Gandhi New …
Chinese FM to visit - Himalayan Times (November 28, 2008) - [read more]
Foreign Minister of China Yang Jiechi is paying a three-day official visit to Nepal at the invitation of Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav. He will arrive in Kathmandu on December 2. Minister Jiechi will sign an agreement on economic and technical …
Nepali Times
CA vice-chair elected (November 29, 2008) - [read more]
The vice-chair of the CA has been finally filled after the elections on Friday. Maoist CA member Purna Kumari Subedi got elected to the position with a landslide
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
Nepal News
Nepal accused of rights violation (November 28, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: The United Nations Human Rights Committee has accused Nepal of violation of its human rights obligations in relation to an enforced disappearance case.
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 …
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
A Nepali Survives The Mumbai Attack (November 27, 2008) - [read more]
Purushottam Basyal Was Making Chinese Cuisine When Terrorists Stormed Into Taj Mahal Palace Hotel In Mumbai
By Dinesh Wagle in New Delhi
Wagle Street Journal
[Read it here in Nepali on the front page of Kantipur]
Purushottam Basyal, who hails from Malungwa village in Syangja district, works a Chef specializing in Chinese cuisine at the Taj Palace. He was [...]
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 [...]
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