Nepal News archive for 30 September 2008
Gurkhas win right to settle in UK - Guardian Unlimited (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
Gurkhas have won their court battle for the right to settle in Britain. Lawyers for the men who fought alongside British troops in battles over 200 years said: “Today we have seen a tremendous and historic victory for the gallant Gurkha veterans of …
Gurkhas win right to stay in Britain - Big Pond News (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
The Gurkhas have won their High Court battle for the right to settle in Britain. Recruited in Nepal, the Gurkhas have fought for Britain alongside British troops since 1815. Six claimants brought a test case against the Government, challenging what …
Proud Joanna Lumley celebrates as Gurkha heroes win immigration court … - Daily Mirror (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
Campaigner Joanna Lumley punched the air in delight yesterday after Gurkha heroes won their battle to live in the UK. A judge ruled ministers acted illegally in claiming that around 2,000 lacked proper ties to Britain and said the country owed them a …
Fun in the Sun - Popsugar (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
Sep 30 2008 - 5:08pm Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson strolled by the sea while vacationing in Cabo on Tuesday. Have You Ever Been Offended by a Movie? What to Download: New Music on iTunes The Results Are In: Recast Forrest Gump Link Time! 9/30 …
Register » - yorkshirepost (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
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Jennifer Garner and Her Lunch Buddy Hit La Pain - Popsugar (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
Photos, videos, news Have You Ever Been Offended by a Movie? What to Download: New Music on iTunes The Results Are In: Recast Forrest Gump Link Time! 9/30 Chuck Rundown: Episode One, “Chuck vs. the First Date” Movie Preview: Madonna’s Filth and …
Vieira backs criticised Wenger - SkySports (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
Arsene Wenger has done so much for the game and for Arsenal. Patrick Vieira has told skysports.com it is ‘really difficult to understand’ Uefa president Michel Platini’s criticism of Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger. Last week, Platini expressed frank …
Best of the weekend - SkySports (September 28, 2008) - [read more]
Another wonderful weekend of Premier League action saw a plethora of top-draw performances. Goalkeeping displays from the likes Boaz Myhill and Scott Carson had them close to sealing the honour. Whilst Portuguese duo Cristiano Ronaldo and Jose …
Nepali Times
Back to work (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
Ever since he was sworn in five weeks ago, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has been in Kathmandu only eight days, and he says he’s had
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.
Nepal News
India-Nepal meet to discuss water resources (September 30, 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, …
Gurkhas celebrate court win for right to settle (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
Hundreds of Gurkhas celebrated on the steps of the High Court today after winning an historic court battle for the right to settle in Britain.
Nepal blames India for fresh flooding (September 30, 2008) - [read more]
Close on the heels of anger over India’s failure to maintain the Kosi embankment that resulted in a devastating flood last month in southern Nepal and India’s Bihar state, the Himalayan republic is now blaming …
My Friend’s death in Nepal (September 29, 2008) - [read more]
I arranged my hair, and I looked at myself in front of the mirror. I lighted the stove and boiled tea in a kettle.
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 …
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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