Nepal News archive for 30 October 2008

Trip to Nepal is eye-opener – Indianapolis Star (October 29, 2008) – [read more]
It might not be everyone’s idea of a dream vacation, but for New Palestine residents Betty and Bill Widbin, traveling to Nepal was an experience they will never forget. “We received a teacher’s creativity grant through the Lilly Endowment to go to …

Nepali PM commits to institutionalize Dalits people’s rights in CA – Xinhua News Agency (October 23, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) — Nepali Prime Minister Prachanda Thursday committed to institutionalizing the rights of Dalit people (marginilazed group) from the Constituent Assembly. Prachanda said that number of people from Dalit community …

Int’l folk music festival to be held in Nepal – Xinhua News Agency (October 24, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) — To mark 100 years of music recording in Nepal and 25 years of commercialization of Nepali music through the establishment of Music Nepal, the Nepal Music Center (NMC) is hosting a four-day international folk music …

Chinese invite draws Nepal opposition ire – Times of India (October 23, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU: They had forgiven Beijing for arming deposed king Gyanendra in his war on the Maoists and the political parties. But on Thursday, the secretive Chinese government came under fire in parliament from Nepal’s main opposition party, former …

Nepal’s ousted king gets 15 days to pay power bills – Reuters UK (October 23, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s ousted King Gyanendra and his relatives must pay huge unpaid electricity bills within 15 days or lose the power supply to their homes, the Himalayan nation’s state utility said Thursday. Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA …

Ex-Nepal king faces power cut over dues – Times of India (October 23, 2008) – [read more]
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s ousted King Gyanendra and his relatives must pay huge unpaid electricity bills within 15 days or lose the power supply to their homes, the Himalayan nation’s state utility said on Thursday. Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA …

After Dashain Cocktail – Scoop (October 29, 2008) – [read more]
Nepalis celebrated the 15-day long festival called Dashain in October 2008. During the celebration of this festival, they drank a lot of various home-brewed drinks, also imported and locally distilled liquors. They sacrificed thousands of different …

Maoists want PLA man as Nepalese Army chief, says Nepali Congress – Thaindian.com (October 24, 2008) – [read more]
Kathmandu, Oct 24 (ANI): The Nepali Congress (NC) has claimed that the Maoists are trying to promote a former People’’s Liberation Army (PLA) commander to the coveted post of Chief of Nepal Army (NA). Nepali Congress leader Shovakar Parajuli on …

Nepali Times

Special head (October 26, 2008) – [read more]
As the political parties approach the sensitive issue of army integration, the tug of war has again started on who would head the special committee for the

Himalmedia CEO attacked (October 25, 2008) – [read more]
The CEO of Himalmedia, Ashutosh Tiwari, was attacked by two unidentified
men in motorcycles who threw rocks into a van that was bringing him to the
office on Friday

What’s in a name? (October 19, 2008) – [read more]
The race is on between the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Martxist-Leninist) to change their names to just Comunist Party of

Baburam in DC (October 13, 2008) – [read more]
“Our ultimate goal is communism,” said Finance Minister Baburam Bhattarai at a talk in Washington DC last week, adding somewhat apologetically, “I don’t want to be

Dasain on the Kosi (October 11, 2008) – [read more]

Terrain warning (October 9, 2008) – [read more]
It has happened again. CFIT, the most dreaded acronym in Nepali aviation, has cost another 18 lives.

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

Nepal News

Nepal PM vows to integrate former rebel fighters (October 29, 2008) – [read more]

Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda addressing a press conference in Kathmandu yesterday.

Czech flees India (October 29, 2008) – [read more]

Siliguri: A Czech national who was sentenced to three years imprisonment by a court for collecting rare insects from a national park in Darjeeling has fled India after jumping bail, the police said on Tuesday.

Nepalese-Driven Peace Process Globally Acclaimed (October 28, 2008) – [read more]

Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 2:38 pm Press Release: United Nations The world has recognized the strides towards peace Nepalis have made, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a new report made public today, …

Rastriya Janashakti Party says Maoists integration threatens peace in Nepal (October 28, 2008) – [read more]

Kathmandu, Oct 25 : The Chairman of Rastriya Janashakti Party Surya Bahadur Thapa has said that the integration of Maoist combatants into the national army would pose serious threats to democracy, peace and …

Nepal astrologers predict victory for Obama (October 27, 2008) – [read more]

Kathmandu: They made predictions – some with success and some without – about the end of the country’s royal dynasty and the end of the Maoist insurgency.

Nepal, India ready to amend trade treaty (October 26, 2008) – [read more]

Kathmandu, Oct 22 : Nepal’s Commerce Secretary Purushottam Ojha has said that both Nepal and India have agreed to amend the bilateral trade treaty within three months.

Municipal officer killed (October 25, 2008) – [read more]

KATHMANDU: As Nepal’s Maoist government failed to start negotiations with underground rebels from Terai even three weeks after the formation of a ministerial talks team, blood continued to spill in the restive …

Int’l folk music festival to be held in Nepal (October 25, 2008) – [read more]

To mark 100 years of music recording in Nepal and 25 years of commercialization of Nepali music through the establishment of Music Nepal, the Nepal Music Center is hosting a four-day international folk music …

United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal

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. [...]

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 [...]