Nepal News archive for 30 November 2008
Indian Forces End Mumbai Siege - Wall Street Journal (November 29, 2008) - [read more]
Commandos leave after a successful operation at the Taj Mahal hotel. MUMBAI – Indian commandos killed the last remaining terrorists holed up at a luxury Mumbai hotel Saturday, ending a 60-hour rampage through India’s business capital by suspected …
Nepal Three Star Lift Gold Cup - Goal.com (November 30, 2008) - [read more]
One bullet, one kill’ - This bone chilling tagline of the Hollywood movie ‘Sniper’ could easily reflect the temperament of Nepal Three Star in their 1-0 victory over Army XI in Saturday’s final to lift the 30th All India Governor’s Gold Cup here at …
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 …
A thankfulness as high as Mount Everest - Biloxi Sun Herald (November 29, 2008) - [read more]
T he sun cracked open like an egg, spreading its yolk across the sky, turning the snow atop Mount Everest into Monet’s orange-hued pallet. The moon, claiming its rightful place in the night sky, returned the snow to white. “When I admire the wonder …
Pranab’s three-day visit under close scrutiny in Nepal - Thaindian.com (November 24, 2008) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Nov 24 (IANS) 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 same day.Mukherjee’s …
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 …
Nepal: open for business - Times Online (November 22, 2008) - [read more]
It’s the year 2065 and change is in the air in Kathmandu. A new living goddess, the Kumari Devi, has just taken up residence in her city-centre temple. Aged just three and a half, she faces a decade of worshipful house arrest before being retired …
Mystery “Buddha boy” in Nepal vanishes, again - Reuters India (November 22, 2008) - [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A teenage Nepali boy many believe is an incarnation of Lord Buddha went missing after blessing thousands of supporters, police said on Saturday. Ram Bahadur Bamjon, 17, blessed devotees for nearly 10 days in the remote forest of …
Nepali Times
Interview: Per Stig Moller (November 29, 2008) - [read more]
Despite an emergency landing by his Danish Air Force aircraft in Cyprus and being stranded in Thailand because of the closure of Bangkok airport, Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller made it to Kathmandu for a two-day
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
Nepal News
Nine killed in bus accident in eastern Nepal (November 29, 2008) - [read more]
At least nine persons were killed and over three dozen have been injured when two vehicles collided head in Jhapa district in eastern Nepal on Thursday night.
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 .
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Tomorrow: Thoughts of a Nepali Student in New York (November 29, 2008) - [read more]
The real question is what will each of us give back to the country to which we owe our identity? Or will there be no members of our generations to shoulder the responsibility – will there just be a void?
By Nisha Shrestha
This article titled was originally published in the Nov 1-15 issue of [...]
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 [...]
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