Nepal News archive for 29 September 2008
Government selects ‘living goddess’ - Gulf Times (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s new Maoist government has taken over the task of selecting a girl to be a ‘living goddess’, ousting royal priests from a role they fulfilled for centuries. The strictly atheist Maoists gained power in the Himalayan country …
Move over priests — Nepal state names “living goddess” - Reuters India (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal’s new Maoist-led government has appointed a 6-year-old girl as a “living goddess” in a town near Kathmandu, for the first time snapping the link between the ancient ritual and the ousted monarchy. For centuries, the head …
Maoists appoint ‘living goddess’ - BBC South-Asia (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
Nepal’s new Maoist-led government has authorised the appointment of a six-year-old girl to be a “living goddess” in the temple town of Bhaktapur.
Maoists’ ugly view of Miss Nepal - BBC News (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
But that is where the organisers, event management company Hidden Treasure, had planned to hold the contest - such were the sensitivities it raised. At the last moment they got a letter from Kathmandu’s district government. “Keeping peace and …
Government selects ‘living goddess’ - Gulf Times (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s new Maoist government has taken over the task of selecting a girl to be a ‘living goddess’, ousting royal priests from a role they fulfilled for centuries. The strictly atheist Maoists gained power in the Himalayan country …
India-Nepal meet to discuss water resources - Statesman (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Sept. 29: Nepal and India today held a high-level meeting here to chalk out plans to harness water resources between the two countries in a comprehensive manner, including hydro-power generation, irrigation, flood control and other water …
Seven Injured as Maoist, UML Students Clash in Pokhara - Himalayan Times (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
Seven students were injured in a clash between students affiliated to the Maoists and the CPN-UML at National Higher Secondary School, Pokhara, this afternoon. The row over the appointment of principal took an ugly turn when the All Nepal National …
India-Nepal water talks resume after four years - Hindustan Times (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
Neighbours India and Nepal, who share the same Himalayan rivers and are often at loggerheads over the sharing of flowing water resources, resumed bilateral water-sharing talks after four years in the Napal capital on Monday. The three-day meeting of …
Nepali Times
Dahal wows NY (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s whirlwind tour of New York seems to have left a lot of previously skeptical people hopeful that Nepal finally has a leader with vision who is realistic about the challenges
Power play (September 23, 2008) - [read more]
An Indian minister has told a hydropower conference in Kathmandu that it is in India’s strategic interest to see its neighbours take advantage of the huge next door market for manufacturing and
Kasto jatra (September 22, 2008) - [read more]
After three days of tyre-burning and running street battles between protesters and police, the government has bowed to demands from Kathmandu’s Newar community to continue to fund the sacrifice of buffalos during their
First Maoist budget (September 19, 2008) - [read more]
It was expected that Finance Minister Baburam Bhattarai’s budget presented Friday in the Constituent Assembly would be ambitious, but it was even bolder than
Open for business (September 18, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal concluded a reasonably successful visit to India Thursday, reaching out to the government and business
“Flood-control, irrigation, hydropower” (September 16, 2008) - [read more]
India’s union water resources minister Saif Uddin Soz speaks to Navin Singh Khadka BBC Nepali Service 12 September
Dahal’s capitalist avatar (September 15, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal today donned his free market avatar and made a strong pitch to sell Nepal as an investment destination to Indian industry.
Cautious optimism (September 15, 2008) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal hit the ground running on Monday, the first day of his four-day official visit to India, by laying a wreath at the Gandhi Samadhi at Rajghat. PRASHANT JHA in NEW
Nepal News
Move over priests — Nepal state names “living goddess” (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
Nepal’s new Maoist-led government has appointed a 6-year-old girl as a “living goddess” in a town near Kathmandu, for the first time snapping the link between the ancient ritual and the ousted monarchy.
Floods, landslides kill 64 in W Nepal (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
Nepali Deputy Prime Minister informed the Constituent Assembly that 64 people had lost their lives in floods and landslides in western Nepal, Nepali national news agency RSS reported Saturday.
Pageant cancelled over ’safety threat’ (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
Subarna Chettri, president of Hidden Treasure, shows government authority letter to postpone the Miss Nepal beauty pageant as participants look on during a press conference in Kathmandu on Saturday KATHMANDU: …
Nepal cracks down on alcohol sale for ‘vice control’ (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
As part of the new Maoist-led government’s drive to remove the “widespread vices in society”, Nepal has begun cracking down on the sale of alcohol and tobacco goods in the Himalayan republic, closing duty-free …
India, Nepal officials to meet on floods (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
NEW DELHI: In the backdrop of recent floods in Bihar caused by the Kosi river, senior officials of India and Nepal will meet in Kathmandu on Monday to look at long-term solutions to the recurring problem …
Peace returns, but not tourists (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
The sweet-acrid odour of marijuana and hashish permeates the sprawling Pashupatinath temple complex as tens of thousands of pilgrims gather in Kathmandu to celebrate Maha Shivaratri, the annual festival to …
Nepal Maoists in fresh arms row (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Sep 26 : While Nepal’s Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ sought the international community’s support in New York, the country’s interim parliament saw protests …
Nepal President returns Kathmandu after hometown visit (September 27, 2008) - [read more]
Nepals President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav returned home after completing a four-day visit to his hometown, Janakpur, in Dhanusha district.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
On the Highway to People’s Republic (September 24, 2008) - [read more]
By Krishna Giri
I do not know much about Tanka P Acharya, who broke the traditional trend by visiting China, and hence can not speculate on the facts of media coverage then. However, when Maoist supremo followed Acharya’s footsteps, many Nepali and Indian tabloid have covered the news as ‘first time’ adding historic, challenging, brave etc. [...]
The Maoist Budget of Rs 236 Billion: Bold but Not Beautiful (September 20, 2008) - [read more]
In their first ever budget speech, the Maoists promise to build the infrastructures and propel the economic growth that they mercilessly destroyed and pushed back in the name of revolution during the decade-long insurgency
By Prem Khanal
the Kathmandu Post
The first fiscal-year budget of the Democratic Republic of Nepal unveiled yesterday by the Maoists-led government was extraordinarily [...]
The Koshi Deluge: A History of Disaster for Nepal (September 12, 2008) - [read more]
Impact of Koshi’s devastation
The Koshi River breached on the nose of spur 12.90 and 12.10 on the eastern embankment, 12 km north of the barrage near midnight on August 18, 2008. Immediately, five Village Development Committees (VDCs) — West Kushaha, Haripur, Sripur, Laukahi, and Bokraha of Sunsari District — of Nepal and 14 Districts in [...]
Policies and Programmes of a Maoist Led Govt (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
It’s a nice essay but nothing substantial, said chief opposition party NC’s leader Sher Bahadur deuba about the government’s program and policies document.
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With an aim to take the peace process to a logical end, the Maoist-led government today publicized its policies and programmes. Brining out new constitution on time (within two years) is hight on [...]
New YCL in Town (September 10, 2008) - [read more]
After UML, Nepali Congress follows the YCL path of the Maoist party
Following the example of the Maoists’ YCL and the CPN-UML’s Youth Force, Nepal Tarun Dal (NTD), youth wing of Nepali Congress, has formed its own separate group “to combat corruption and anarchy”. NTD aims to mobilizing the party’s youths to counter the [...]
Is New Nepal Heading Toward [Maoist] People’s Republic? (September 1, 2008) - [read more]
By Conflict Study Center
On August 21, 2008, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), CPN (UML) and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) agreed on the Common Minimum Program (CMP), Code of Conduct (CoC), Modus Operandi of the Government (MOG) and the formation of a Political Coordination Committee (PCC). The documents were signed by Prime Minister and President [...]
No Need for Panic, India (August 30, 2008) - [read more]
One word can’t describe India’s unnecessary concern about Nepali prime minister’s Beijing visit. That’s the combination of hypocrisy, double standard, childishness and hegemony. When their Sonia and Rahul Gandhi can visit China and meet Chinese leaders, why can’t the Nepali prime minister do so?
Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s first foreign trip to China has [...]
Paradigm Shift in Nepali Nationalism (August 29, 2008) - [read more]
Through out Nepal’s history, past regimes have tried to advocate for nationalism to balance diplomacy between China and India.
By Krishna Giri
Thanks to the CA members who have managed to appoint a Prime Minister after exhausting four months, 1/6th of the total time allocated to write the new constitution for new Nepal. They have not only [...]
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