Nepal News archive for 29 June 2009
Karishma earns the honour of carrying Nepal’s flag - Himalayan Times (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Record breaking Nepali swimmer Karishma Karki carried the national flag at the march-pass during the opening ceremony of the first Youth Asian Games in Singapore today. Olympian Karki, who won 12 gold medals at a single meet during the …
NTY 2011 not so far off, but tourist police out on a limb - Himalayan Times (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Nepal is a nation that markets itself as a tourist destination. Also, the government has come up with an ambitious programme of attracting a million tourists under the Nepal Tourism Year 2011 scheme. Sadly though, the tourist police wing …
FAPCCI signs MoU with Israel-India, Lanka, Nepal Chambers - New Kerala (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
Hyderabad, Jun 29 : A Memorandum of Understanding(MOU) was signed between the Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry(FAPCCI)and Israel-India, Sri Lanka and Nepal Chamber of Commerce to foster friendship and to promote trade …
Rights groups from Nepal declare solidarity for Tibetan exiles - Phayul (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
The delegation consists of members representing Sambad Nepal, an NGO based in Pokhara in Western Nepal that actively works in promoting human rights, and Human Rights Organisation of Nepal (HURON). The group said they were in Dharamsala, the seat of …
Nepal confirms first H1N1 flu cases - Reuters (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal confirmed on Monday its first cases of H1N1 flu virus, in three members of a family who had returned from the United States, the Himalayan nation’s health ministry said. The three — a 44-year-old man, his 38-year-old wife …
Visiting MPs from Nepal pledge support for Tibet - Phayul (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
Dharamsala, June 24: A group of visiting Nepali Parliamentary members are pledging to speak for Tibet and the plight of Tibetan refugees in Nepal after they return to their country at the end of their three-day visit here. A handout photo shows …
Nepal police detain Tibetan exiles near border with China - Earthtimes (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu - Nepalese police arrested nine Tibetan exiles Friday who were trying to make their way to the Tibetan border as part of their Free Tibet campaign. A group of several dozen Tibetan exiles hired a bus in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and …
Feature: Kidnappers stalk school students in Nepal - Xinhua News Agency (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 23 (Xinhua) — High schools in Nepal remained closed on Tuesday while students brought traffic to a standstill in the vicinity of a school in capital Kathmandu to protest against the brutal murder of a teenager and the growing …
Nepali Times
New ministers (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal expanded his cabinet fourth time on Wednesday a month he took office. The cabinet is yet to take a full
Menon leaves (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivashankar Menon wrapped up his two-day
official visit to Nepal, promising support from the southern neighbour and efforts to resolve the border
Poudel wins (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
NC’s vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel has been elected the leader of its parliamentary party. The PP now has an elected leader after a gap of 14
Nominations filed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
As the NC gears up for elections to choose the members of it’s parliamentary party (PP) working committee, four senior leaders file their nominations for the PP
Decision reversed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
The government has reversed the previous government’s decision to sack Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal and appoint Kul Bahadur Khadka as the acting chief. The move has ignited criticism not only from the Maoists but from UML leaders as
House expands (June 17, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal inducted 10 new ministers on Wednesday. However, a full-fledged cabinet was not formed as three Madhesi parties failed to send their
Picking fights (June 15, 2009) - [read more]
The new cabinet, which has been expanded twice in three weeks since the government was formed, once again fails to take a complete shape. The people, on the other hand, are stuggling against the continous
Consensus is the word (June 13, 2009) - [read more]
US Assistant Secretary of State Robert O Blake has stressed the need for co-operation between the political parties to ensure the success of the peace process. Blake has also urged the Maoists to renounce violence and control the activities of the
Nepal News
Journalists caught up in power tussle (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
“My parents are very worried and they are asking me to change my profession.” Media workers are increasingly finding themselves caught up in the bitter struggle for power in Nepal after the fall of the Maoist-led government in May.
Soap brings message of change to rural Nepal (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
When the power cuts that frequently plague Nepal were at their worst this winter, one of the biggest frustrations for many people was missing their favourite television soap opera.
Nepal bans pockets to stamp out bribetaking at airport (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
The authority said it was issuing the garments to all officials after uncovering widespread corruption at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport.
Prachanda promises another stir (June 28, 2009) - [read more]
‘We will soon launch another People’s Movement,’ he said addressing his workers yesterday.
Five Indians narrowly escape lynching in Nepal (June 28, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, June 28 : Five Indian men narrowly escaped being lynched in Nepal Sunday on suspicion of being child lifters after growing public fears over an increase in the number of kidnappings.
PM wants Maoists in govt (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said on Saturday that he wanted a government of national consensus with MaoistsA participation.
Pakistani foreign secretary visiting Nepal (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Shortly after the Indian foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon visited Nepal, Pakistani foreign secretary Salman Bashir is arriving in Kathmandu Saturday on a three-day official visit.
Nepal police arrest Tibet peace marchers (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Thirty-five Tibetans, including eight women, were arrested by Nepal police on Friday near the Nepal-China border as they tried to cross over and stage a protest march in Tibet.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Inclusive Hindutva: BJP in India (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
The Bharatiya Janata Party of India has realized that its hard-line brand of Hindutva politics doesn’t work anymore. And that’s a good news thanks to its defeat in the parliamentary polls
By Dinesh Wagle
as published in today’s Kathmandu Post
“There’s a fire raging in BJP,” said a headline in India the previous week. After the humiliating loss [...]
Happy Republic Day Nepal 
(May 29, 2009) - [read more]
The Himalayan Republic Celebrates First Republic Day Anniversary
[From a year ago: 1. Nepal is Declared a Republic!!! 2. Minute by Minute Account of the Historic Session of the CA that Declared Nepal a Republic
Republic Day rally in Pokhara, Nepal. Pic by Krishna Mani Baral
The first anniversary of the declaration of federal democratic republic of Nepal [...]
Madhav Nepal, the Moderate Communist Leader, is the Prime Minister of Nepal (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
“I announce that Madhav Kumar Nepal has been elected unopposed in the position of Prime Minister as per the Constituent Assembly’s Legislature-Parliament Business Advisory Regulations 2065.”
With that declaration from Subash Nemwang, the chair of the CA, today evening the moderate Marxist and Leninist leader became the third communist prime minister in Nepal. MK Nepal [...]
The Indian Democracy (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
Just as our April 2008 poll verdict, this Indian election, it appears, was about stability and progress of India
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF version of the page.]
A kid, carrying the Indian National Congress Party flag, walks on the street in front [...]
Madhav Kumar Nepal Set to Become Prime Minister of Nepal (May 17, 2009) - [read more]
Madhav Kumar Nepal, veteran communist leader of the Himalayan republic who have been tipped to be the prime minister of Nepal several times in the past and lost from both constituencies in the April 2008 CA elections, is finally set to become the third Communist prime minister of Nepal.
The leader of the moderate Communist Party [...]
Iron Man: Conversation With a Press Wallah (May 16, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF version. Shorter version in Nepali appeared in today's Kantipur.]
This is about this guy whom I have been seeing busy at his work all day, almost every day, since I came here to Jangpura Extension, one of south Delhi’s many [...]
EXPOSED: The Nepal Maoist’s Nationalism! (May 11, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal who resigned earlier this month lambasting, among other things, foreign (Indian) intervention in Nepali affairs, had himself asked for the higher level involvement from Delhi in matters related to the sacking of chief of the Nepali Army (which is entirely an internal matter of Nepal). Dahal made that clear in [...]
How Maoist-Delhi Relations Soured (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
The game in the background. How India played a role in the downfall of the first ever democratically elected Maoist government in Nepal.
By Akhilesh Upadhyay
KATHMANDU- The turn of events that first led to the sacking and reinstatement of Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal exposed that relations between New Delhi and the Maoists once on [...]
Nepal News archive for 28 June 2009
Soap brings message of change to rural Nepal - MSN Indonesia News (June 28, 2009) - [read more]
When the power cuts that frequently plague Nepal were at their worst this winter, one of the biggest frustrations for many people was missing their favourite television soap opera. Every Sunday night for a year, entire villages across the country …
Nepal coalition looks shaky - Financial Times (June 28, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s ruling coalition was struggling for stability at the weekend. Disputes over the allocation of cabinet portfolios underscored the uneasy balance Madhav Kumar Nepal, prime minister, must strike in guiding the 22-party alliance. After four weeks …
Pakistan, Nepal committed to enhancing bilateral ties - Daily Times (June 28, 2009) - [read more]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Nepal reaffirmed their commitment to deepening bilateral cooperation in all areas of common interest during a meeting between Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir and Nepalese Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala on Sunday. During the …
Another army-Maoist row in Nepal - Times of India (June 28, 2009) - [read more]
Even as the Maoists sent their top two leaders of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to Germany to learn how the two armies of West and East Germany were fused to form one national army so that the knowledge could be put to use during the merger of …
China-Nepal Boda Hospital opens in Kathmandu - Xinhua News Agency (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 21 (Xinhua) — The China-Nepal Boda Hospital, the first largest hospital established by the private sector was inaugurated in Kathmandu on Sunday morning amid a formal ceremony. The hospital was inaugurated according to the Chinese …
Visiting MPs from Nepal pledge support for Tibet - Phayul (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
Dharamsala, June 24: A group of visiting Nepali Parliamentary members are pledging to speak for Tibet and the plight of Tibetan refugees in Nepal after they return to their country at the end of their three-day visit here. A handout photo shows …
Feature: Kidnappers stalk school students in Nepal - Xinhua News Agency (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 23 (Xinhua) — High schools in Nepal remained closed on Tuesday while students brought traffic to a standstill in the vicinity of a school in capital Kathmandu to protest against the brutal murder of a teenager and the growing …
Darjeeling man held in Nepal for teen’s brutal murder - Thaindian.com (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, June 23 (IANS) A 42-year-old former school teacher, who migrated to Nepal from the hill town of Darjeeling in India’s West Bengal state, was arrested for the brutal murder of a high school student that Tuesday continued to send shock …
Nepali Times
New ministers (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal expanded his cabinet fourth time on Wednesday a month he took office. The cabinet is yet to take a full
Menon leaves (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivashankar Menon wrapped up his two-day
official visit to Nepal, promising support from the southern neighbour and efforts to resolve the border
Poudel wins (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
NC’s vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel has been elected the leader of its parliamentary party. The PP now has an elected leader after a gap of 14
Nominations filed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
As the NC gears up for elections to choose the members of it’s parliamentary party (PP) working committee, four senior leaders file their nominations for the PP
Decision reversed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
The government has reversed the previous government’s decision to sack Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal and appoint Kul Bahadur Khadka as the acting chief. The move has ignited criticism not only from the Maoists but from UML leaders as
House expands (June 17, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal inducted 10 new ministers on Wednesday. However, a full-fledged cabinet was not formed as three Madhesi parties failed to send their
Picking fights (June 15, 2009) - [read more]
The new cabinet, which has been expanded twice in three weeks since the government was formed, once again fails to take a complete shape. The people, on the other hand, are stuggling against the continous
Consensus is the word (June 13, 2009) - [read more]
US Assistant Secretary of State Robert O Blake has stressed the need for co-operation between the political parties to ensure the success of the peace process. Blake has also urged the Maoists to renounce violence and control the activities of the
Nepal News
Prachanda promises another stir (June 28, 2009) - [read more]
‘We will soon launch another People’s Movement,’ he said addressing his workers yesterday.
Five Indians narrowly escape lynching in Nepal (June 28, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, June 28 : Five Indian men narrowly escaped being lynched in Nepal Sunday on suspicion of being child lifters after growing public fears over an increase in the number of kidnappings.
PM wants Maoists in govt (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said on Saturday that he wanted a government of national consensus with MaoistsA participation.
Pakistani foreign secretary visiting Nepal (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Shortly after the Indian foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon visited Nepal, Pakistani foreign secretary Salman Bashir is arriving in Kathmandu Saturday on a three-day official visit.
Nepal police arrest Tibet peace marchers (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Thirty-five Tibetans, including eight women, were arrested by Nepal police on Friday near the Nepal-China border as they tried to cross over and stage a protest march in Tibet.
Special rights for Tibetan refugees in Nepal (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Visiting Nepal delegation to Dharamsala has said that they wanted to introduce special rights for Tibetans in their countrys Constitution.
Former Nepali king to “break his silence” on 62nd birthday: report (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Little over a year after he left the Narayanhiti Palace following the formal declaration of the erstwhile kingdom as a federal republic by Nepal’s newly elected parliament, former king Gyanendra is said to be preparing to “break his long silence” next month, local media reported on Friday.
Three dozen Tibetan refugees arrested in Sindhupalchok; Chinese envoy in Mustang (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Police have arrested around three dozen Tibetan refugees in Sindhupalchowk district Friday when they were reportedly heading towards the Chinese border for demonstrations against Chinese occupation in Tibet.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Inclusive Hindutva: BJP in India (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
The Bharatiya Janata Party of India has realized that its hard-line brand of Hindutva politics doesn’t work anymore. And that’s a good news thanks to its defeat in the parliamentary polls
By Dinesh Wagle
as published in today’s Kathmandu Post
“There’s a fire raging in BJP,” said a headline in India the previous week. After the humiliating loss [...]
Happy Republic Day Nepal (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
The Himalayan Republic Celebrates First Republic Day Anniversary
[From a year ago: 1. Nepal is Declared a Republic!!! 2. Minute by Minute Account of the Historic Session of the CA that Declared Nepal a Republic
Republic Day rally in Pokhara, Nepal. Pic by Krishna Mani Baral
The first anniversary of the declaration of federal democratic republic of Nepal [...]
Madhav Nepal, the Moderate Communist Leader, is the Prime Minister of Nepal (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
“I announce that Madhav Kumar Nepal has been elected unopposed in the position of Prime Minister as per the Constituent Assembly’s Legislature-Parliament Business Advisory Regulations 2065.”
With that declaration from Subash Nemwang, the chair of the CA, today evening the moderate Marxist and Leninist leader became the third communist prime minister in Nepal. MK Nepal [...]
The Indian Democracy (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
Just as our April 2008 poll verdict, this Indian election, it appears, was about stability and progress of India
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF version of the page.]
A kid, carrying the Indian National Congress Party flag, walks on the street in front [...]
Madhav Kumar Nepal Set to Become Prime Minister of Nepal (May 17, 2009) - [read more]
Madhav Kumar Nepal, veteran communist leader of the Himalayan republic who have been tipped to be the prime minister of Nepal several times in the past and lost from both constituencies in the April 2008 CA elections, is finally set to become the third Communist prime minister of Nepal.
The leader of the moderate Communist Party [...]
Iron Man: Conversation With a Press Wallah (May 16, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF version. Shorter version in Nepali appeared in today's Kantipur.]
This is about this guy whom I have been seeing busy at his work all day, almost every day, since I came here to Jangpura Extension, one of south Delhi’s many [...]
EXPOSED: The Nepal Maoist’s Nationalism! (May 11, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal who resigned earlier this month lambasting, among other things, foreign (Indian) intervention in Nepali affairs, had himself asked for the higher level involvement from Delhi in matters related to the sacking of chief of the Nepali Army (which is entirely an internal matter of Nepal). Dahal made that clear in [...]
How Maoist-Delhi Relations Soured (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
The game in the background. How India played a role in the downfall of the first ever democratically elected Maoist government in Nepal.
By Akhilesh Upadhyay
KATHMANDU- The turn of events that first led to the sacking and reinstatement of Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal exposed that relations between New Delhi and the Maoists once on [...]
Nepal News archive for 27 June 2009
Journalists caught up in Nepal’s power struggle - Khaleej Times (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU - Nepalese journalist Gyanendra Mishra believes he was lucky to survive an attack by gunmen earlier this year. The 25-year-old radio producer suffered bullet wounds to his left shoulder when three armed men attacked him in broad daylight …
Nepal sees only 12 days free of strikes in 6 months - Xinhua News Agency (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 28 (Xinhua) — Nepal’s statistics showed that in the past six months only 12 days were free of any kind of strike, local media reported Sunday. According to a report of The Himalayan Times daily, strikes or bandhs have lasted for 166 …
Top Pak official due in Nepal for talks - Gulf Times (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Less than a week after India sent its Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon to Kathmandu to discuss border problems with Nepal’s new government as well as the halted peace process, Pakistan is sending its foreign secretary here for talks. Salman …
US to grant aid for world heritage site - Gulf Times (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
The United States Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP), 2009, will offer financial support for the restoration of the intricately carved stone sculpture of Tusha Hiti and the Bhandarkhal Tank at the Patan Royal Palace in Nepali …
Chinese team collects Nepali lake water for Asian Games - Xinhua News Agency (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 21 (Xinhua) — A 14-member Chinese team led by Jeng Weiyu, deputy director of Guangzhou Asian Games promotion department, arrived in Pokhara in Nepal on Saturday to collect water from different lakes over there. The team arrived in …
Know-how on Nepal’s law and justice - Himalayan Times (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Ananta Raj Luitel Book: Justice, Collection of Research Articles on Law, Justice and Legal System Editor: Shesh Raj Shiwakoti Published by Pairavi Prakashan Price 225 KATHMANDU: Pairavi Prakashan’s second volume of Justice is in market, 16 years …
Visiting MPs from Nepal pledge support for Tibet - Phayul (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
Dharamsala, June 24: A group of visiting Nepali Parliamentary members are pledging to speak for Tibet and the plight of Tibetan refugees in Nepal after they return to their country at the end of their three-day visit here. A handout photo shows …
Postal worker delivers word of God in Nepal - Shelby Star (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
ELLENBORO - If you shouldered bags of mail around Shelby neighborhoods for a living, do you think you’d travel 15,000 miles to do the same in your time away from work? David Brewer, a 15-year veteran of the U.S. Postal Service, is used to the …
Nepali Times
New ministers (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal expanded his cabinet fourth time on Wednesday a month he took office. The cabinet is yet to take a full
Menon leaves (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivashankar Menon wrapped up his two-day
official visit to Nepal, promising support from the southern neighbour and efforts to resolve the border
Poudel wins (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
NC’s vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel has been elected the leader of its parliamentary party. The PP now has an elected leader after a gap of 14
Nominations filed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
As the NC gears up for elections to choose the members of it’s parliamentary party (PP) working committee, four senior leaders file their nominations for the PP
Decision reversed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
The government has reversed the previous government’s decision to sack Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal and appoint Kul Bahadur Khadka as the acting chief. The move has ignited criticism not only from the Maoists but from UML leaders as
House expands (June 17, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal inducted 10 new ministers on Wednesday. However, a full-fledged cabinet was not formed as three Madhesi parties failed to send their
Picking fights (June 15, 2009) - [read more]
The new cabinet, which has been expanded twice in three weeks since the government was formed, once again fails to take a complete shape. The people, on the other hand, are stuggling against the continous
Consensus is the word (June 13, 2009) - [read more]
US Assistant Secretary of State Robert O Blake has stressed the need for co-operation between the political parties to ensure the success of the peace process. Blake has also urged the Maoists to renounce violence and control the activities of the
Nepal News
PM wants Maoists in govt (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said on Saturday that he wanted a government of national consensus with MaoistsA participation.
Pakistani foreign secretary visiting Nepal (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Shortly after the Indian foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon visited Nepal, Pakistani foreign secretary Salman Bashir is arriving in Kathmandu Saturday on a three-day official visit.
Nepal police arrest Tibet peace marchers (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Thirty-five Tibetans, including eight women, were arrested by Nepal police on Friday near the Nepal-China border as they tried to cross over and stage a protest march in Tibet.
Special rights for Tibetan refugees in Nepal (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Visiting Nepal delegation to Dharamsala has said that they wanted to introduce special rights for Tibetans in their countrys Constitution.
Former Nepali king to “break his silence” on 62nd birthday: report (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Little over a year after he left the Narayanhiti Palace following the formal declaration of the erstwhile kingdom as a federal republic by Nepal’s newly elected parliament, former king Gyanendra is said to be preparing to “break his long silence” next month, local media reported on Friday.
Three dozen Tibetan refugees arrested in Sindhupalchok; Chinese envoy in Mustang (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Police have arrested around three dozen Tibetan refugees in Sindhupalchowk district Friday when they were reportedly heading towards the Chinese border for demonstrations against Chinese occupation in Tibet.
Peace process with Maoists stalled: PM (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s new prime minister said yesterday a peace process that ended a deadly civil war in the Himalayan nation had stalled after Maoists quit the government in May.
Nepal deadlock eases, cabinet gets 6 new ministers (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, June 24 : Within 72 hours of Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon’s visit to Nepal to give a push to the stagnating peace process, the political deadlock gripping Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s nearly one-month-old government eased Wednesday with the Terai parties reining in disputes and sending …
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Inclusive Hindutva: BJP in India (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
The Bharatiya Janata Party of India has realized that its hard-line brand of Hindutva politics doesn’t work anymore. And that’s a good news thanks to its defeat in the parliamentary polls
By Dinesh Wagle
as published in today’s Kathmandu Post
“There’s a fire raging in BJP,” said a headline in India the previous week. After the humiliating loss [...]
Happy Republic Day Nepal (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
The Himalayan Republic Celebrates First Republic Day Anniversary
[From a year ago: 1. Nepal is Declared a Republic!!! 2. Minute by Minute Account of the Historic Session of the CA that Declared Nepal a Republic
Republic Day rally in Pokhara, Nepal. Pic by Krishna Mani Baral
The first anniversary of the declaration of federal democratic republic of Nepal [...]
Madhav Nepal, the Moderate Communist Leader, is the Prime Minister of Nepal (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
“I announce that Madhav Kumar Nepal has been elected unopposed in the position of Prime Minister as per the Constituent Assembly’s Legislature-Parliament Business Advisory Regulations 2065.”
With that declaration from Subash Nemwang, the chair of the CA, today evening the moderate Marxist and Leninist leader became the third communist prime minister in Nepal. MK Nepal [...]
The Indian Democracy (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
Just as our April 2008 poll verdict, this Indian election, it appears, was about stability and progress of India
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF version of the page.]
A kid, carrying the Indian National Congress Party flag, walks on the street in front [...]
Madhav Kumar Nepal Set to Become Prime Minister of Nepal (May 17, 2009) - [read more]
Madhav Kumar Nepal, veteran communist leader of the Himalayan republic who have been tipped to be the prime minister of Nepal several times in the past and lost from both constituencies in the April 2008 CA elections, is finally set to become the third Communist prime minister of Nepal.
The leader of the moderate Communist Party [...]
Iron Man: Conversation With a Press Wallah (May 16, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF version. Shorter version in Nepali appeared in today's Kantipur.]
This is about this guy whom I have been seeing busy at his work all day, almost every day, since I came here to Jangpura Extension, one of south Delhi’s many [...]
EXPOSED: The Nepal Maoist’s Nationalism! (May 11, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal who resigned earlier this month lambasting, among other things, foreign (Indian) intervention in Nepali affairs, had himself asked for the higher level involvement from Delhi in matters related to the sacking of chief of the Nepali Army (which is entirely an internal matter of Nepal). Dahal made that clear in [...]
How Maoist-Delhi Relations Soured (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
The game in the background. How India played a role in the downfall of the first ever democratically elected Maoist government in Nepal.
By Akhilesh Upadhyay
KATHMANDU- The turn of events that first led to the sacking and reinstatement of Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal exposed that relations between New Delhi and the Maoists once on [...]
Nepal News archive for 26 June 2009
CAN names final 14 for Women’s T20 - Himalayan Times (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) on Friday named the final 14 players for the ACC Women’s Twenty20 Championship to be held in Malaysia from July 3-11. The team was picked by the National Selection Committee headed by Arun Kumar Aryal …
Army top brass at PM’s door - Himalayan Times (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal and other senior officials of the Nepali Army this afternoon met with Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal at his office in Singhadurbar. According to an NA official, who attended the meeting, the CoAS …
Chinese team collects Nepali lake water for Asian Games - Xinhua News Agency (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 21 (Xinhua) — A 14-member Chinese team led by Jeng Weiyu, deputy director of Guangzhou Asian Games promotion department, arrived in Pokhara in Nepal on Saturday to collect water from different lakes over there. The team arrived in …
China-Nepal Boda Hospital opens in Kathmandu - Xinhua News Agency (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 21 (Xinhua) — The China-Nepal Boda Hospital, the first largest hospital established by the private sector was inaugurated in Kathmandu on Sunday morning amid a formal ceremony. The hospital was inaugurated according to the Chinese …
India, Nepal agree to fast-track cooperation amid protests (Lead) - Thaindian.com (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, June 20 (IANS) Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon Saturday began his two-day visit to Nepal with an agreement on fast-track cooperation even as police arrested nearly two dozen protesters trying to show black flags to the envoy and …
India and Nepal agree on fast-track co-operation - Gulf Times (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
Indian foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon yesterday began his two-day visit to Nepal with an agreement on fast-track co-operation even as police arrested nearly two dozen protesters trying to show black flags to the envoy and holding a demonstration …
Darjeeling man held in Nepal for teen’s brutal murder - Thaindian.com (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, June 23 (IANS) A 42-year-old former school teacher, who migrated to Nepal from the hill town of Darjeeling in India’s West Bengal state, was arrested for the brutal murder of a high school student that Tuesday continued to send shock …
Man Released After Being Beaten in Custody in Kathmandu - Newsblaze.com (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
A Nepali man, Manoj Pandit was Freed from custody in Kathmandu, Nepal today. Pandit was arrested outside the Indian embassay for raising the issue of Nepal’s broken border. On his release, Pandit said, “Friends I was being arrested by our government …
Nepali Times
New ministers (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal expanded his cabinet fourth time on Wednesday a month he took office. The cabinet is yet to take a full
Menon leaves (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivashankar Menon wrapped up his two-day
official visit to Nepal, promising support from the southern neighbour and efforts to resolve the border
Poudel wins (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
NC’s vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel has been elected the leader of its parliamentary party. The PP now has an elected leader after a gap of 14
Nominations filed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
As the NC gears up for elections to choose the members of it’s parliamentary party (PP) working committee, four senior leaders file their nominations for the PP
Decision reversed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
The government has reversed the previous government’s decision to sack Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal and appoint Kul Bahadur Khadka as the acting chief. The move has ignited criticism not only from the Maoists but from UML leaders as
House expands (June 17, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal inducted 10 new ministers on Wednesday. However, a full-fledged cabinet was not formed as three Madhesi parties failed to send their
Picking fights (June 15, 2009) - [read more]
The new cabinet, which has been expanded twice in three weeks since the government was formed, once again fails to take a complete shape. The people, on the other hand, are stuggling against the continous
Consensus is the word (June 13, 2009) - [read more]
US Assistant Secretary of State Robert O Blake has stressed the need for co-operation between the political parties to ensure the success of the peace process. Blake has also urged the Maoists to renounce violence and control the activities of the
Nepal News
Former Nepali king to “break his silence” on 62nd birthday: report (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Little over a year after he left the Narayanhiti Palace following the formal declaration of the erstwhile kingdom as a federal republic by Nepal’s newly elected parliament, former king Gyanendra is said to be preparing to “break his long silence” next month, local media reported on Friday.
Three dozen Tibetan refugees arrested in Sindhupalchok; Chinese envoy in Mustang (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Police have arrested around three dozen Tibetan refugees in Sindhupalchowk district Friday when they were reportedly heading towards the Chinese border for demonstrations against Chinese occupation in Tibet.
Peace process with Maoists stalled: PM (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s new prime minister said yesterday a peace process that ended a deadly civil war in the Himalayan nation had stalled after Maoists quit the government in May.
Nepal deadlock eases, cabinet gets 6 new ministers (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, June 24 : Within 72 hours of Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon’s visit to Nepal to give a push to the stagnating peace process, the political deadlock gripping Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s nearly one-month-old government eased Wednesday with the Terai parties reining in disputes and sending …
Girl’s murder shocks Nepal amid spate of kidnappings (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
The discovery this week of the decapitated body of a 17-year-old girl abducted in Kathmandu has sent shockwaves through Nepal, where police say kidnapping for ransom is becoming a “cottage industry”. High school student Khyati Shrestha was snatched on June 5 after an acquaintance lured her to the kidnapper’s apartment.
World’s shortest person in Nepal (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
Khagendra Thapa Magar, 15 and a half, sits in the lap of a fully grown adult friend on March 13, 2007 in Pokhara, Nepal.
France urges Nepal to extradite alleged pedophile (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
French government has urged Nepal to extradite a French national arrested in Nepal in charge of sexual abuse.
Nepali cabinet expanded with 5 more ministers sworn in (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
The cabinet of Nepal has been expanded with five more ministers sworn in on Wednesday afternoon.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Happy Republic Day Nepal (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
The Himalayan Republic Celebrates First Republic Day Anniversary
[From a year ago: 1. Nepal is Declared a Republic!!! 2. Minute by Minute Account of the Historic Session of the CA that Declared Nepal a Republic
Republic Day rally in Pokhara, Nepal. Pic by Krishna Mani Baral
The first anniversary of the declaration of federal democratic republic of Nepal [...]
Madhav Nepal, the Moderate Communist Leader, is the Prime Minister of Nepal (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
“I announce that Madhav Kumar Nepal has been elected unopposed in the position of Prime Minister as per the Constituent Assembly’s Legislature-Parliament Business Advisory Regulations 2065.”
With that declaration from Subash Nemwang, the chair of the CA, today evening the moderate Marxist and Leninist leader became the third communist prime minister in Nepal. MK Nepal [...]
The Indian Democracy (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
Just as our April 2008 poll verdict, this Indian election, it appears, was about stability and progress of India
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF version of the page.]
A kid, carrying the Indian National Congress Party flag, walks on the street in front [...]
Madhav Kumar Nepal Set to Become Prime Minister of Nepal (May 17, 2009) - [read more]
Madhav Kumar Nepal, veteran communist leader of the Himalayan republic who have been tipped to be the prime minister of Nepal several times in the past and lost from both constituencies in the April 2008 CA elections, is finally set to become the third Communist prime minister of Nepal.
The leader of the moderate Communist Party [...]
Iron Man: Conversation With a Press Wallah (May 16, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF version. Shorter version in Nepali appeared in today's Kantipur.]
This is about this guy whom I have been seeing busy at his work all day, almost every day, since I came here to Jangpura Extension, one of south Delhi’s many [...]
EXPOSED: The Nepal Maoist’s Nationalism! (May 11, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal who resigned earlier this month lambasting, among other things, foreign (Indian) intervention in Nepali affairs, had himself asked for the higher level involvement from Delhi in matters related to the sacking of chief of the Nepali Army (which is entirely an internal matter of Nepal). Dahal made that clear in [...]
How Maoist-Delhi Relations Soured (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
The game in the background. How India played a role in the downfall of the first ever democratically elected Maoist government in Nepal.
By Akhilesh Upadhyay
KATHMANDU- The turn of events that first led to the sacking and reinstatement of Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal exposed that relations between New Delhi and the Maoists once on [...]
India and Indians: Friends of Two Different Kinds (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article appeared in today’s Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF of the page
Sometimes, I wonder why the official Nepal-India relationship doesn’t become as friendly and earthy as the down-to-earth friendship I enjoy with some Indians here in Delhi. Why doesn’t the bond between the two countries become as [...]
Nepal News archive for 26 June 2009
CAN names final 14 for Women’s T20 - Himalayan Times (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) on Friday named the final 14 players for the ACC Women’s Twenty20 Championship to be held in Malaysia from July 3-11. The team was picked by the National Selection Committee headed by Arun Kumar Aryal …
Army top brass at PM’s door - Himalayan Times (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal and other senior officials of the Nepali Army this afternoon met with Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal at his office in Singhadurbar. According to an NA official, who attended the meeting, the CoAS …
Chinese team collects Nepali lake water for Asian Games - Xinhua News Agency (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 21 (Xinhua) — A 14-member Chinese team led by Jeng Weiyu, deputy director of Guangzhou Asian Games promotion department, arrived in Pokhara in Nepal on Saturday to collect water from different lakes over there. The team arrived in …
China-Nepal Boda Hospital opens in Kathmandu - Xinhua News Agency (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 21 (Xinhua) — The China-Nepal Boda Hospital, the first largest hospital established by the private sector was inaugurated in Kathmandu on Sunday morning amid a formal ceremony. The hospital was inaugurated according to the Chinese …
India, Nepal agree to fast-track cooperation amid protests (Lead) - Thaindian.com (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, June 20 (IANS) Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon Saturday began his two-day visit to Nepal with an agreement on fast-track cooperation even as police arrested nearly two dozen protesters trying to show black flags to the envoy and …
India and Nepal agree on fast-track co-operation - Gulf Times (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
Indian foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon yesterday began his two-day visit to Nepal with an agreement on fast-track co-operation even as police arrested nearly two dozen protesters trying to show black flags to the envoy and holding a demonstration …
Darjeeling man held in Nepal for teen’s brutal murder - Thaindian.com (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, June 23 (IANS) A 42-year-old former school teacher, who migrated to Nepal from the hill town of Darjeeling in India’s West Bengal state, was arrested for the brutal murder of a high school student that Tuesday continued to send shock …
Man Released After Being Beaten in Custody in Kathmandu - Newsblaze.com (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
A Nepali man, Manoj Pandit was Freed from custody in Kathmandu, Nepal today. Pandit was arrested outside the Indian embassay for raising the issue of Nepal’s broken border. On his release, Pandit said, “Friends I was being arrested by our government …
Nepali Times
New ministers (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal expanded his cabinet fourth time on Wednesday a month he took office. The cabinet is yet to take a full
Menon leaves (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivashankar Menon wrapped up his two-day
official visit to Nepal, promising support from the southern neighbour and efforts to resolve the border
Poudel wins (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
NC’s vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel has been elected the leader of its parliamentary party. The PP now has an elected leader after a gap of 14
Nominations filed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
As the NC gears up for elections to choose the members of it’s parliamentary party (PP) working committee, four senior leaders file their nominations for the PP
Decision reversed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
The government has reversed the previous government’s decision to sack Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal and appoint Kul Bahadur Khadka as the acting chief. The move has ignited criticism not only from the Maoists but from UML leaders as
House expands (June 17, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal inducted 10 new ministers on Wednesday. However, a full-fledged cabinet was not formed as three Madhesi parties failed to send their
Picking fights (June 15, 2009) - [read more]
The new cabinet, which has been expanded twice in three weeks since the government was formed, once again fails to take a complete shape. The people, on the other hand, are stuggling against the continous
Consensus is the word (June 13, 2009) - [read more]
US Assistant Secretary of State Robert O Blake has stressed the need for co-operation between the political parties to ensure the success of the peace process. Blake has also urged the Maoists to renounce violence and control the activities of the
Nepal News
Former Nepali king to “break his silence” on 62nd birthday: report (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Little over a year after he left the Narayanhiti Palace following the formal declaration of the erstwhile kingdom as a federal republic by Nepal’s newly elected parliament, former king Gyanendra is said to be preparing to “break his long silence” next month, local media reported on Friday.
Three dozen Tibetan refugees arrested in Sindhupalchok; Chinese envoy in Mustang (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Police have arrested around three dozen Tibetan refugees in Sindhupalchowk district Friday when they were reportedly heading towards the Chinese border for demonstrations against Chinese occupation in Tibet.
Peace process with Maoists stalled: PM (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s new prime minister said yesterday a peace process that ended a deadly civil war in the Himalayan nation had stalled after Maoists quit the government in May.
Nepal deadlock eases, cabinet gets 6 new ministers (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, June 24 : Within 72 hours of Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon’s visit to Nepal to give a push to the stagnating peace process, the political deadlock gripping Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s nearly one-month-old government eased Wednesday with the Terai parties reining in disputes and sending …
Girl’s murder shocks Nepal amid spate of kidnappings (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
The discovery this week of the decapitated body of a 17-year-old girl abducted in Kathmandu has sent shockwaves through Nepal, where police say kidnapping for ransom is becoming a “cottage industry”. High school student Khyati Shrestha was snatched on June 5 after an acquaintance lured her to the kidnapper’s apartment.
World’s shortest person in Nepal (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
Khagendra Thapa Magar, 15 and a half, sits in the lap of a fully grown adult friend on March 13, 2007 in Pokhara, Nepal.
France urges Nepal to extradite alleged pedophile (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
French government has urged Nepal to extradite a French national arrested in Nepal in charge of sexual abuse.
Nepali cabinet expanded with 5 more ministers sworn in (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
The cabinet of Nepal has been expanded with five more ministers sworn in on Wednesday afternoon.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Happy Republic Day Nepal (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
The Himalayan Republic Celebrates First Republic Day Anniversary
[From a year ago: 1. Nepal is Declared a Republic!!! 2. Minute by Minute Account of the Historic Session of the CA that Declared Nepal a Republic
Republic Day rally in Pokhara, Nepal. Pic by Krishna Mani Baral
The first anniversary of the declaration of federal democratic republic of Nepal [...]
Madhav Nepal, the Moderate Communist Leader, is the Prime Minister of Nepal (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
“I announce that Madhav Kumar Nepal has been elected unopposed in the position of Prime Minister as per the Constituent Assembly’s Legislature-Parliament Business Advisory Regulations 2065.”
With that declaration from Subash Nemwang, the chair of the CA, today evening the moderate Marxist and Leninist leader became the third communist prime minister in Nepal. MK Nepal [...]
The Indian Democracy (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
Just as our April 2008 poll verdict, this Indian election, it appears, was about stability and progress of India
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF version of the page.]
A kid, carrying the Indian National Congress Party flag, walks on the street in front [...]
Madhav Kumar Nepal Set to Become Prime Minister of Nepal (May 17, 2009) - [read more]
Madhav Kumar Nepal, veteran communist leader of the Himalayan republic who have been tipped to be the prime minister of Nepal several times in the past and lost from both constituencies in the April 2008 CA elections, is finally set to become the third Communist prime minister of Nepal.
The leader of the moderate Communist Party [...]
Iron Man: Conversation With a Press Wallah (May 16, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF version. Shorter version in Nepali appeared in today's Kantipur.]
This is about this guy whom I have been seeing busy at his work all day, almost every day, since I came here to Jangpura Extension, one of south Delhi’s many [...]
EXPOSED: The Nepal Maoist’s Nationalism! (May 11, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal who resigned earlier this month lambasting, among other things, foreign (Indian) intervention in Nepali affairs, had himself asked for the higher level involvement from Delhi in matters related to the sacking of chief of the Nepali Army (which is entirely an internal matter of Nepal). Dahal made that clear in [...]
How Maoist-Delhi Relations Soured (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
The game in the background. How India played a role in the downfall of the first ever democratically elected Maoist government in Nepal.
By Akhilesh Upadhyay
KATHMANDU- The turn of events that first led to the sacking and reinstatement of Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal exposed that relations between New Delhi and the Maoists once on [...]
India and Indians: Friends of Two Different Kinds (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article appeared in today’s Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF of the page
Sometimes, I wonder why the official Nepal-India relationship doesn’t become as friendly and earthy as the down-to-earth friendship I enjoy with some Indians here in Delhi. Why doesn’t the bond between the two countries become as [...]
Nepal News archive for 25 June 2009
Dethroned Nepal king’s palace now a tourist haunt - Dayton Daily News (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
KATMANDU, Nepal — Pity the king. He has had to flee his palace, with its Graceland-meets-the-Himalayas decor, and decamp to a house up the hill. His only son, the hard-living former crown prince, has moved to Singapore. And now, in a crowning …
Kidnappings shock Nepal - Gulf Times (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
Students argue with the police, demanding that the murderer of their fellow student Khyati Shrestha be punished, in Kathmandu yesterday The discovery this week of the decapitated body of a 17-year-old girl abducted in Kathmandu has sent shockwaves …
Swine flu alert on Nepal’s borders with India and China - AsiaNews.IT (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
Nepali authorities had announced a special programme to stop the spread of the A-H1N1 virus, but on many border posts instructions and specialised staff have not yet arrived. Health Ministry tries to be reassuring, saying that it is ready top meet …
Chinese team collects Nepali lake water for Asian Games - People’s Daily Online (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
A 14-member Chinese team led by Jeng Weiyu, deputy director of Guangzhou Asian Games promotion department, arrived in Pokhara in Nepal on Saturday to collect water from different lakes over there. The team arrived in Pokhara, a tourist destination of …
Finding shadows of a king, and a troubled nation’s history, in Nepal’s … - Newsday (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Pity the king. He has had to flee his palace, with its Graceland-meets-the-Himalayas decor, and decamp to a house up the hill. His only son, the hard-living former crown prince, has moved to Singapore. And now, in a crowning …
INTERVIEW-Nepal PM says Maoist peace process stalled - Reuters UK (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 25 (Reuters) - Nepal’s new prime minister said on Thursday a peace process that ended a deadly civil war in the Himalayan nation had stalled after Maoists quit the government in May. Madhav Kumar Nepal replaced Maoist Prime Minister …
China-Nepal Boda Hospital opens in Kathmandu - Xinhua News Agency (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 21 (Xinhua) — The China-Nepal Boda Hospital, the first largest hospital established by the private sector was inaugurated in Kathmandu on Sunday morning amid a formal ceremony. The hospital was inaugurated according to the Chinese …
Special rights for Tibetan refugees in Nepal - Newstrack India (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
Dharamsala, June 25 (ANI): Visiting Nepal delegation to Dharamsala has said that they wanted to introduce special rights for Tibetans in their country’s Constitution. Six parliamentarians met the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to discuss …
Nepali Times
New ministers (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal expanded his cabinet fourth time on Wednesday a month he took office. The cabinet is yet to take a full
Menon leaves (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivashankar Menon wrapped up his two-day
official visit to Nepal, promising support from the southern neighbour and efforts to resolve the border
Poudel wins (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
NC’s vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel has been elected the leader of its parliamentary party. The PP now has an elected leader after a gap of 14
Nominations filed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
As the NC gears up for elections to choose the members of it’s parliamentary party (PP) working committee, four senior leaders file their nominations for the PP
Decision reversed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
The government has reversed the previous government’s decision to sack Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal and appoint Kul Bahadur Khadka as the acting chief. The move has ignited criticism not only from the Maoists but from UML leaders as
House expands (June 17, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal inducted 10 new ministers on Wednesday. However, a full-fledged cabinet was not formed as three Madhesi parties failed to send their
Picking fights (June 15, 2009) - [read more]
The new cabinet, which has been expanded twice in three weeks since the government was formed, once again fails to take a complete shape. The people, on the other hand, are stuggling against the continous
Consensus is the word (June 13, 2009) - [read more]
US Assistant Secretary of State Robert O Blake has stressed the need for co-operation between the political parties to ensure the success of the peace process. Blake has also urged the Maoists to renounce violence and control the activities of the
Nepal News
Girl’s murder shocks Nepal amid spate of kidnappings (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
The discovery this week of the decapitated body of a 17-year-old girl abducted in Kathmandu has sent shockwaves through Nepal, where police say kidnapping for ransom is becoming a “cottage industry”. High school student Khyati Shrestha was snatched on June 5 after an acquaintance lured her to the kidnapper’s apartment.
World’s shortest person in Nepal (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
Khagendra Thapa Magar, 15 and a half, sits in the lap of a fully grown adult friend on March 13, 2007 in Pokhara, Nepal.
France urges Nepal to extradite alleged pedophile (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
French government has urged Nepal to extradite a French national arrested in Nepal in charge of sexual abuse.
Nepali cabinet expanded with 5 more ministers sworn in (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
The cabinet of Nepal has been expanded with five more ministers sworn in on Wednesday afternoon.
Scientists begin glacial lake studies (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
Scientists in Nepal have embarked on the first field study of Himalayan glacial lakes, some of which are swelling dangerously due to global warming, BBC reported Tuesday.
Feature: Kidnappers stalk school students in Nepal (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
High schools in Nepal remained closed on Tuesday while students brought traffic to a standstill in the vicinity of a school in capital Kathmandu to protest against the brutal murder of a teenager and the growing targeting of school children by kidnappers.
Nepal Maoists likely to join govt within two months (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
CPN leader KP Sharma Oli has said that the Maoists would join the government within two months.
Maoist protests disrupt Indian official’s visit (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
Maoist activists and supporters hold a sit-in demonstration in front of the main secretariat, Singha Durbar, in Kathmandu yesterday Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon’s two-day visit to Nepal was disrupted yesterday by nationwide protests called by the Maoists to vent their anger at the government for revoking an earlier government’s …
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Happy Republic Day Nepal (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
The Himalayan Republic Celebrates First Republic Day Anniversary
[From a year ago: 1. Nepal is Declared a Republic!!! 2. Minute by Minute Account of the Historic Session of the CA that Declared Nepal a Republic
Republic Day rally in Pokhara, Nepal. Pic by Krishna Mani Baral
The first anniversary of the declaration of federal democratic republic of Nepal [...]
Madhav Nepal, the Moderate Communist Leader, is the Prime Minister of Nepal (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
“I announce that Madhav Kumar Nepal has been elected unopposed in the position of Prime Minister as per the Constituent Assembly’s Legislature-Parliament Business Advisory Regulations 2065.”
With that declaration from Subash Nemwang, the chair of the CA, today evening the moderate Marxist and Leninist leader became the third communist prime minister in Nepal. MK Nepal [...]
The Indian Democracy (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
Just as our April 2008 poll verdict, this Indian election, it appears, was about stability and progress of India
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF version of the page.]
A kid, carrying the Indian National Congress Party flag, walks on the street in front [...]
Madhav Kumar Nepal Set to Become Prime Minister of Nepal (May 17, 2009) - [read more]
Madhav Kumar Nepal, veteran communist leader of the Himalayan republic who have been tipped to be the prime minister of Nepal several times in the past and lost from both constituencies in the April 2008 CA elections, is finally set to become the third Communist prime minister of Nepal.
The leader of the moderate Communist Party [...]
Iron Man: Conversation With a Press Wallah (May 16, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF version. Shorter version in Nepali appeared in today's Kantipur.]
This is about this guy whom I have been seeing busy at his work all day, almost every day, since I came here to Jangpura Extension, one of south Delhi’s many [...]
EXPOSED: The Nepal Maoist’s Nationalism! (May 11, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal who resigned earlier this month lambasting, among other things, foreign (Indian) intervention in Nepali affairs, had himself asked for the higher level involvement from Delhi in matters related to the sacking of chief of the Nepali Army (which is entirely an internal matter of Nepal). Dahal made that clear in [...]
How Maoist-Delhi Relations Soured (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
The game in the background. How India played a role in the downfall of the first ever democratically elected Maoist government in Nepal.
By Akhilesh Upadhyay
KATHMANDU- The turn of events that first led to the sacking and reinstatement of Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal exposed that relations between New Delhi and the Maoists once on [...]
India and Indians: Friends of Two Different Kinds (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article appeared in today’s Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF of the page
Sometimes, I wonder why the official Nepal-India relationship doesn’t become as friendly and earthy as the down-to-earth friendship I enjoy with some Indians here in Delhi. Why doesn’t the bond between the two countries become as [...]
Nepal News archive for 24 June 2009
Scientists begin Himalayan glacial lake studies in Nepal - People’s Daily Online (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
Scientists in Nepal have embarked on the first field study of Himalayan glacial lakes, some of which are swelling dangerously due to global warming, reported nepalnews.com. According to the website, in May, the scientists completed the field visit of …
Man Released After Being Beaten in Custody in Kathmandu - Newsblaze.com (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
A Nepali man, Manoj Pandit was Freed from custody in Kathmandu, Nepal today. Pandit was arrested outside the Indian embassay for raising the issue of Nepal’s broken border. On his release, Pandit said, “Friends I was being arrested by our government …
Nepali Mt. Qomolangma climber to make it to Guinness Book - People’s Daily Online (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
Nepali Mt. Qomolangma climber Min Bahadur Sherchan, 78, who was shocked in February to learn that the Guinness Book had recognized a Japanese climber instead of him as the oldest man to climb the peak, will soon make it to the Guinness Book, an …
Nepal Cabinet expanded for 4th time; 2 nominees sulk - Zee News (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, June 24: Nepal’s one-month old government saw its fourth cabinet expansion on Wednesday with the induction of five new ministers, even as two others sulked over the posts being offered to them, compounding trouble for Premier Madhav Kumar …
Over 50,000 fall ill due to heatwave in Nepal district - Gulf Times (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
Over 50,000 people have been taken ill due to the heatwave in west Nepal, officials at the district public health office (DPHO) said. In the past one week, district-based hospitals and health centres in Achham district, some 330km southwest of …
Nepali cabinet expanded with 5 more ministers sworn in - Xinhua News Agency (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 24 (Xinhua) — The cabinet of Nepal has been expanded with five more ministers sworn in on Wednesday afternoon. Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, in the presence of President Ram Baran Yadav, administered the oath of office …
Nepal cabinet expanded amid confusion - Times of India (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s nearly one-month-old government Wednesday finally showed some progress with Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal naming eight more ministers, indicating a truce with the warring Terai parties that had stayed away due to power …
INTERVIEW-Nepal’s poor suffer as strikes hit food security - WFP - Reuters AlertNet (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
Protesters are seen through burning tyres during a general strike in Kathmandu. Angry protesters stoned vehicles and shut down shops and schools in the Nepali capital as a strike demanding a separate Newar autonomous province took hold. REUTERS …
Nepali Times
Menon leaves (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivashankar Menon wrapped up his two-day
official visit to Nepal, promising support from the southern neighbour and efforts to resolve the border
Poudel wins (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
NC’s vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel has been elected the leader of its parliamentary party. The PP now has an elected leader after a gap of 14
Nominations filed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
As the NC gears up for elections to choose the members of it’s parliamentary party (PP) working committee, four senior leaders file their nominations for the PP
Decision reversed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
The government has reversed the previous government’s decision to sack Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal and appoint Kul Bahadur Khadka as the acting chief. The move has ignited criticism not only from the Maoists but from UML leaders as
House expands (June 17, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal inducted 10 new ministers on Wednesday. However, a full-fledged cabinet was not formed as three Madhesi parties failed to send their
Picking fights (June 15, 2009) - [read more]
The new cabinet, which has been expanded twice in three weeks since the government was formed, once again fails to take a complete shape. The people, on the other hand, are stuggling against the continous
Consensus is the word (June 13, 2009) - [read more]
US Assistant Secretary of State Robert O Blake has stressed the need for co-operation between the political parties to ensure the success of the peace process. Blake has also urged the Maoists to renounce violence and control the activities of the
No work, no play (June 10, 2009) - [read more]
Two weeks after Nepal got a new prime minister, the coalition partners are still haggling over the ministerial berths. The parliament session, on the other hand, has been in recess for almost a month
Nepal News
Nepali cabinet expanded with 5 more ministers sworn in (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
The cabinet of Nepal has been expanded with five more ministers sworn in on Wednesday afternoon.
Scientists begin glacial lake studies (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
Scientists in Nepal have embarked on the first field study of Himalayan glacial lakes, some of which are swelling dangerously due to global warming, BBC reported Tuesday.
Feature: Kidnappers stalk school students in Nepal (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
High schools in Nepal remained closed on Tuesday while students brought traffic to a standstill in the vicinity of a school in capital Kathmandu to protest against the brutal murder of a teenager and the growing targeting of school children by kidnappers.
Nepal Maoists likely to join govt within two months (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
CPN leader KP Sharma Oli has said that the Maoists would join the government within two months.
Maoist protests disrupt Indian official’s visit (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
Maoist activists and supporters hold a sit-in demonstration in front of the main secretariat, Singha Durbar, in Kathmandu yesterday Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon’s two-day visit to Nepal was disrupted yesterday by nationwide protests called by the Maoists to vent their anger at the government for revoking an earlier government’s …
Achham may to face acute food shortage (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: People in Achham of far-western Nepal are likely to face acute food shortage as extended drought compounded by high temperatures has destroyed 50 percent of the crops in the impoverished district, the Kathmandu Post reported Monday.
NEPAL: Repatriation or resettlement for Bhutanese refugees? (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Over the past year thousands of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal have resettled in third countries - mainly the USA - but many others, especially the elderly, hope only for repatriation to Bhutan.
No link between Nepal Maoists and Lalgarh: Menon (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Despite the growing violence in Nepal with the Maoists beginning new protests against the government and the upsurge in Maoist activities in India’s Orissa, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal states, Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon Sunday ruled out any links between the two, saying there was no evidence.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Happy Republic Day Nepal (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
The Himalayan Republic Celebrates First Republic Day Anniversary
[From a year ago: 1. Nepal is Declared a Republic!!! 2. Minute by Minute Account of the Historic Session of the CA that Declared Nepal a Republic
Republic Day rally in Pokhara, Nepal. Pic by Krishna Mani Baral
The first anniversary of the declaration of federal democratic republic of Nepal [...]
Madhav Nepal, the Moderate Communist Leader, is the Prime Minister of Nepal (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
“I announce that Madhav Kumar Nepal has been elected unopposed in the position of Prime Minister as per the Constituent Assembly’s Legislature-Parliament Business Advisory Regulations 2065.”
With that declaration from Subash Nemwang, the chair of the CA, today evening the moderate Marxist and Leninist leader became the third communist prime minister in Nepal. MK Nepal [...]
The Indian Democracy (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
Just as our April 2008 poll verdict, this Indian election, it appears, was about stability and progress of India
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF version of the page.]
A kid, carrying the Indian National Congress Party flag, walks on the street in front [...]
Madhav Kumar Nepal Set to Become Prime Minister of Nepal (May 17, 2009) - [read more]
Madhav Kumar Nepal, veteran communist leader of the Himalayan republic who have been tipped to be the prime minister of Nepal several times in the past and lost from both constituencies in the April 2008 CA elections, is finally set to become the third Communist prime minister of Nepal.
The leader of the moderate Communist Party [...]
Iron Man: Conversation With a Press Wallah (May 16, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF version. Shorter version in Nepali appeared in today's Kantipur.]
This is about this guy whom I have been seeing busy at his work all day, almost every day, since I came here to Jangpura Extension, one of south Delhi’s many [...]
EXPOSED: The Nepal Maoist’s Nationalism! (May 11, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal who resigned earlier this month lambasting, among other things, foreign (Indian) intervention in Nepali affairs, had himself asked for the higher level involvement from Delhi in matters related to the sacking of chief of the Nepali Army (which is entirely an internal matter of Nepal). Dahal made that clear in [...]
How Maoist-Delhi Relations Soured (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
The game in the background. How India played a role in the downfall of the first ever democratically elected Maoist government in Nepal.
By Akhilesh Upadhyay
KATHMANDU- The turn of events that first led to the sacking and reinstatement of Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal exposed that relations between New Delhi and the Maoists once on [...]
India and Indians: Friends of Two Different Kinds (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article appeared in today’s Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF of the page
Sometimes, I wonder why the official Nepal-India relationship doesn’t become as friendly and earthy as the down-to-earth friendship I enjoy with some Indians here in Delhi. Why doesn’t the bond between the two countries become as [...]
Nepal News archive for 23 June 2009
Berkley teacher encounters monsoon rains, plans mountain climb - Farmington Observer (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
In this second posting, Berkley teacher Martha Cain travels west from Kathmandu to Pokhara, “the bread basket of Nepal,” and begins her role as a teacher. Greeting family and friends! Well, we made it safely from Kathmandu to Pokhara. The drive …
Ex-teacher arrested for girl’s murder - Gulf Times (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
A 42-year-old former school teacher, who migrated to Nepal from the hill town of Darjeeling in India’s West Bengal state, was arrested yesterday for the brutal murder of a high school student that continued to send shock waves and trigger protests …
Khagendra Thapa Magar soon to be world’s smallest man - Daily Telegraph (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
The teenager, who is 18 in October, is just two feet tall and is set to take the official crown from 2ft 5in He Ping Ping of China. Born in the remote Baglung District 125 miles from the capital Kathmandu, he weighs only 10lbs, Khagendra has become a …
Chinese team collects Nepali lake water for Asian Games - People’s Daily Online (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
A 14-member Chinese team led by Jeng Weiyu, deputy director of Guangzhou Asian Games promotion department, arrived in Pokhara in Nepal on Saturday to collect water from different lakes over there. The team arrived in Pokhara, a tourist destination of …
Darjeeling man held in Nepal for teen’s brutal murder - New Kerala (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, June 23 : A 42-year-old former school teacher, who migrated to Nepal from the hill town of Darjeeling in India’s West Bengal state, was arrested for the brutal murder of a high school student that Tuesday continued to send shock waves and …
Increased violence could derail peace process in Nepal, UN cautions - UN News Centre (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
Richard Bennett of the human rights office (OHCHR) in Nepal (file Photo) 11 June 2009 – The United Nations human rights office in Nepal today expressed its concern that increased violence by political parties and affiliated groups, as well as …
Little Buddha: Meet the 2ft teenager set to become world’s smallest … - Daily Mail (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
At just two feet tall, Khagendra Thapa Magar is just four months away from being named the world’s smallest man. Excitedly awaiting his 18th birthday in October of this year, Khagendra and his family are in contact with Guinness to take the official …
Nepali PM expands cabinet amid bickering - The Money Times (June 17, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, June 17 Nepal’s Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Wednesday expanded his 11-member cabinet to induct 10 new ministers. However, the protracted squabble with allies over power sharing continued even three weeks after Nepal assuming office …
Nepali Times
Menon leaves (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivashankar Menon wrapped up his two-day
official visit to Nepal, promising support from the southern neighbour and efforts to resolve the border
Poudel wins (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
NC’s vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel has been elected the leader of its parliamentary party. The PP now has an elected leader after a gap of 14
Nominations filed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
As the NC gears up for elections to choose the members of it’s parliamentary party (PP) working committee, four senior leaders file their nominations for the PP
Decision reversed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
The government has reversed the previous government’s decision to sack Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal and appoint Kul Bahadur Khadka as the acting chief. The move has ignited criticism not only from the Maoists but from UML leaders as
House expands (June 17, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal inducted 10 new ministers on Wednesday. However, a full-fledged cabinet was not formed as three Madhesi parties failed to send their
Picking fights (June 15, 2009) - [read more]
The new cabinet, which has been expanded twice in three weeks since the government was formed, once again fails to take a complete shape. The people, on the other hand, are stuggling against the continous
Consensus is the word (June 13, 2009) - [read more]
US Assistant Secretary of State Robert O Blake has stressed the need for co-operation between the political parties to ensure the success of the peace process. Blake has also urged the Maoists to renounce violence and control the activities of the
No work, no play (June 10, 2009) - [read more]
Two weeks after Nepal got a new prime minister, the coalition partners are still haggling over the ministerial berths. The parliament session, on the other hand, has been in recess for almost a month
Nepal News
Nepal Maoists likely to join govt within two months (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
CPN leader KP Sharma Oli has said that the Maoists would join the government within two months.
Maoist protests disrupt Indian official’s visit (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
Maoist activists and supporters hold a sit-in demonstration in front of the main secretariat, Singha Durbar, in Kathmandu yesterday Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon’s two-day visit to Nepal was disrupted yesterday by nationwide protests called by the Maoists to vent their anger at the government for revoking an earlier government’s …
Achham may to face acute food shortage (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: People in Achham of far-western Nepal are likely to face acute food shortage as extended drought compounded by high temperatures has destroyed 50 percent of the crops in the impoverished district, the Kathmandu Post reported Monday.
NEPAL: Repatriation or resettlement for Bhutanese refugees? (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Over the past year thousands of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal have resettled in third countries - mainly the USA - but many others, especially the elderly, hope only for repatriation to Bhutan.
No link between Nepal Maoists and Lalgarh: Menon (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Despite the growing violence in Nepal with the Maoists beginning new protests against the government and the upsurge in Maoist activities in India’s Orissa, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal states, Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon Sunday ruled out any links between the two, saying there was no evidence.
China-Nepal Boda Hospital opens in Kathmandu (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
The China-Nepal Boda Hospital, the first largest hospital established by the private sector was inaugurated in Kathmandu on Sunday morning amid a formal ceremony.
Chinese team collects Nepali water for Asian Games (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
A 14-member Chinese team led by Jeng Weiyu, deputy director of Guangzhou Asian Games promotion department, arrived in Pokhara in Nepal on Saturday to collect water from different lakes over there.
End of another dynastic rule in Nepal (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: A 66-year-old Sanskrit scholar and follower of Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violence doctrine became Nepal’s `prime minister in waiting’, ending the longest dynastic rule in the country’s party politics.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Happy Republic Day Nepal (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
The Himalayan Republic Celebrates First Republic Day Anniversary
[From a year ago: 1. Nepal is Declared a Republic!!! 2. Minute by Minute Account of the Historic Session of the CA that Declared Nepal a Republic
Republic Day rally in Pokhara, Nepal. Pic by Krishna Mani Baral
The first anniversary of the declaration of federal democratic republic of Nepal [...]
Madhav Nepal, the Moderate Communist Leader, is the Prime Minister of Nepal (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
“I announce that Madhav Kumar Nepal has been elected unopposed in the position of Prime Minister as per the Constituent Assembly’s Legislature-Parliament Business Advisory Regulations 2065.”
With that declaration from Subash Nemwang, the chair of the CA, today evening the moderate Marxist and Leninist leader became the third communist prime minister in Nepal. MK Nepal [...]
The Indian Democracy (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
Just as our April 2008 poll verdict, this Indian election, it appears, was about stability and progress of India
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF version of the page.]
A kid, carrying the Indian National Congress Party flag, walks on the street in front [...]
Madhav Kumar Nepal Set to Become Prime Minister of Nepal (May 17, 2009) - [read more]
Madhav Kumar Nepal, veteran communist leader of the Himalayan republic who have been tipped to be the prime minister of Nepal several times in the past and lost from both constituencies in the April 2008 CA elections, is finally set to become the third Communist prime minister of Nepal.
The leader of the moderate Communist Party [...]
Iron Man: Conversation With a Press Wallah (May 16, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF version. Shorter version in Nepali appeared in today's Kantipur.]
This is about this guy whom I have been seeing busy at his work all day, almost every day, since I came here to Jangpura Extension, one of south Delhi’s many [...]
EXPOSED: The Nepal Maoist’s Nationalism! (May 11, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal who resigned earlier this month lambasting, among other things, foreign (Indian) intervention in Nepali affairs, had himself asked for the higher level involvement from Delhi in matters related to the sacking of chief of the Nepali Army (which is entirely an internal matter of Nepal). Dahal made that clear in [...]
How Maoist-Delhi Relations Soured (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
The game in the background. How India played a role in the downfall of the first ever democratically elected Maoist government in Nepal.
By Akhilesh Upadhyay
KATHMANDU- The turn of events that first led to the sacking and reinstatement of Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal exposed that relations between New Delhi and the Maoists once on [...]
India and Indians: Friends of Two Different Kinds (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article appeared in today’s Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF of the page
Sometimes, I wonder why the official Nepal-India relationship doesn’t become as friendly and earthy as the down-to-earth friendship I enjoy with some Indians here in Delhi. Why doesn’t the bond between the two countries become as [...]
Nepal News archive for 22 June 2009
Berkley teacher finds Kathmandu crowded, but people polite - Farmington Observer (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Berkley High School teacher Martha Cain is traveling and teaching in Nepal as a Fulbright Scholar, an educational exchange program. This is her first report on her experiences in that country. Future reports are dependent on the availability of …
India keen on peace in Nepal: Menon - Hindustan Times (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon, winding up his two-day visit to Kathmandu on Sunday, said that India is keen on the peace process and multiparty democracy in Nepal. He also said that New Delhi has an interest in the success of the peace process …
NEPAL: Repatriation or resettlement for Bhutanese refugees? - Reuters AlertNet (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Pahalman Bhattarai, aged 96, is Nepal’s oldest Bhutanese refugee. “I’m getting old. My dying wish is to return to my home in Bhutan,” he told IRIN at the Beldangi refugee camp in Nepal’s southeastern Jhapa District. Like many elderly Bhutanese …
Suspected swine flu patient flies into Varanasi from Nepal - Daily News and Analysis (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Varanasi: A 35-year-old Uruguayan national has been admitted to a hospital in the city after he displayed symptoms of swine flu. The man landed at Babatpur international airport from Kathmandu yesterday on an Indian Airlines flight, along with a …
Prachanda announces another ‘people’s movement’ in Nepal - Hindustan Times (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Terming UML as a “black sheep” among the communists, Nepal’s former Premier and Maoist chief Prachanda has said he will launch the “people’s movement-III” by forging an alliance with “nationalist forces” to establish civilian …
Nepal Maoists likely to join govt within two months - New Kerala (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Speaking to journalists at Tribhuvan International Airport here on Sunday on his arrival after completing his ten-day visit to India, Oli said the peace process would not succeed without the participation of Maoists. “Peace process will not reach a …
Prachanda promises another stir - Statesman (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, 22 June: Terming UML as a “black sheep” among the communists, Nepal’s former Premier and Maoist chief Prachanda has said he will launch the “People’s Movement-III” by forging an alliance with “nationalist forces” to …
Prachanda announces another ‘movement’ in Nepal - Freshnews (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Terming UML as a “black sheep” among the communists, Nepal’s former Premier and Maoist chief Prachanda has said he will launch the “people’s movement-III” by forging an alliance with “nationalist forces” to establish civilian …
Nepali Times
Menon leaves (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivashankar Menon wrapped up his two-day
official visit to Nepal, promising support from the southern neighbour and efforts to resolve the border
Poudel wins (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
NC’s vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel has been elected the leader of its parliamentary party. The PP now has an elected leader after a gap of 14
Nominations filed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
As the NC gears up for elections to choose the members of it’s parliamentary party (PP) working committee, four senior leaders file their nominations for the PP
Decision reversed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
The government has reversed the previous government’s decision to sack Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal and appoint Kul Bahadur Khadka as the acting chief. The move has ignited criticism not only from the Maoists but from UML leaders as
House expands (June 17, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal inducted 10 new ministers on Wednesday. However, a full-fledged cabinet was not formed as three Madhesi parties failed to send their
Picking fights (June 15, 2009) - [read more]
The new cabinet, which has been expanded twice in three weeks since the government was formed, once again fails to take a complete shape. The people, on the other hand, are stuggling against the continous
Consensus is the word (June 13, 2009) - [read more]
US Assistant Secretary of State Robert O Blake has stressed the need for co-operation between the political parties to ensure the success of the peace process. Blake has also urged the Maoists to renounce violence and control the activities of the
No work, no play (June 10, 2009) - [read more]
Two weeks after Nepal got a new prime minister, the coalition partners are still haggling over the ministerial berths. The parliament session, on the other hand, has been in recess for almost a month
Nepal News
NEPAL: Repatriation or resettlement for Bhutanese refugees? (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Over the past year thousands of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal have resettled in third countries - mainly the USA - but many others, especially the elderly, hope only for repatriation to Bhutan.
No link between Nepal Maoists and Lalgarh: Menon (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Despite the growing violence in Nepal with the Maoists beginning new protests against the government and the upsurge in Maoist activities in India’s Orissa, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal states, Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon Sunday ruled out any links between the two, saying there was no evidence.
China-Nepal Boda Hospital opens in Kathmandu (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
The China-Nepal Boda Hospital, the first largest hospital established by the private sector was inaugurated in Kathmandu on Sunday morning amid a formal ceremony.
Chinese team collects Nepali water for Asian Games (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
A 14-member Chinese team led by Jeng Weiyu, deputy director of Guangzhou Asian Games promotion department, arrived in Pokhara in Nepal on Saturday to collect water from different lakes over there.
End of another dynastic rule in Nepal (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: A 66-year-old Sanskrit scholar and follower of Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violence doctrine became Nepal’s `prime minister in waiting’, ending the longest dynastic rule in the country’s party politics.
Strike cripples life in Nepal’s capital (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Vehicles were forced off the streets and shops closed in Nepal’s capital Monday by former communist rebels who called a general strike to protest the murder of one of their local leaders.
Winds of change greet Shivshankar Menon in Nepal (June 19, 2009) - [read more]
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon’s much awaited two-day visit to Nepal to bail out the jeopardised peace process began Saturday amidst new winds of change blowing through the fledgling republic.
Nepal cabinet overturns Army Chief’s sacking order (June 19, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, June 19 : Lawmakers of the CPN have criticised the Nepal cabinet decision to overturn the previous government’s decision taken on March 3 to sack Army Chief Rookmangud Katawal and appoint Lieutenant General Kul Bahadur Khadka as the acting chief.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Happy Republic Day Nepal (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
The Himalayan Republic Celebrates First Republic Day Anniversary
[From a year ago: 1. Nepal is Declared a Republic!!! 2. Minute by Minute Account of the Historic Session of the CA that Declared Nepal a Republic
Republic Day rally in Pokhara, Nepal. Pic by Krishna Mani Baral
The first anniversary of the declaration of federal democratic republic of Nepal [...]
Madhav Nepal, the Moderate Communist Leader, is the Prime Minister of Nepal (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
“I announce that Madhav Kumar Nepal has been elected unopposed in the position of Prime Minister as per the Constituent Assembly’s Legislature-Parliament Business Advisory Regulations 2065.”
With that declaration from Subash Nemwang, the chair of the CA, today evening the moderate Marxist and Leninist leader became the third communist prime minister in Nepal. MK Nepal [...]
The Indian Democracy (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
Just as our April 2008 poll verdict, this Indian election, it appears, was about stability and progress of India
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF version of the page.]
A kid, carrying the Indian National Congress Party flag, walks on the street in front [...]
Madhav Kumar Nepal Set to Become Prime Minister of Nepal (May 17, 2009) - [read more]
Madhav Kumar Nepal, veteran communist leader of the Himalayan republic who have been tipped to be the prime minister of Nepal several times in the past and lost from both constituencies in the April 2008 CA elections, is finally set to become the third Communist prime minister of Nepal.
The leader of the moderate Communist Party [...]
Iron Man: Conversation With a Press Wallah (May 16, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF version. Shorter version in Nepali appeared in today's Kantipur.]
This is about this guy whom I have been seeing busy at his work all day, almost every day, since I came here to Jangpura Extension, one of south Delhi’s many [...]
EXPOSED: The Nepal Maoist’s Nationalism! (May 11, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal who resigned earlier this month lambasting, among other things, foreign (Indian) intervention in Nepali affairs, had himself asked for the higher level involvement from Delhi in matters related to the sacking of chief of the Nepali Army (which is entirely an internal matter of Nepal). Dahal made that clear in [...]
How Maoist-Delhi Relations Soured (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
The game in the background. How India played a role in the downfall of the first ever democratically elected Maoist government in Nepal.
By Akhilesh Upadhyay
KATHMANDU- The turn of events that first led to the sacking and reinstatement of Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal exposed that relations between New Delhi and the Maoists once on [...]
India and Indians: Friends of Two Different Kinds (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article appeared in today’s Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF of the page
Sometimes, I wonder why the official Nepal-India relationship doesn’t become as friendly and earthy as the down-to-earth friendship I enjoy with some Indians here in Delhi. Why doesn’t the bond between the two countries become as [...]
Nepal News archive for 22 June 2009
India keen on peace in Nepal: Menon - Hindustan Times (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon, winding up his two-day visit to Kathmandu on Sunday, said that India is keen on the peace process and multiparty democracy in Nepal. He also said that New Delhi has an interest in the success of the peace process …
Suspected swine flu patient flies into Varanasi from Nepal - Daily News and Analysis (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Varanasi: A 35-year-old Uruguayan national has been admitted to a hospital in the city after he displayed symptoms of swine flu. The man landed at Babatpur international airport from Kathmandu yesterday on an Indian Airlines flight, along with a …
Prachanda announces another ‘movement’ in Nepal - Freshnews (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Terming UML as a “black sheep” among the communists, Nepal’s former Premier and Maoist chief Prachanda has said he will launch the “people’s movement-III” by forging an alliance with “nationalist forces” to establish civilian …
Nepali PM expands cabinet amid bickering - The Money Times (June 17, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, June 17 Nepal’s Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Wednesday expanded his 11-member cabinet to induct 10 new ministers. However, the protracted squabble with allies over power sharing continued even three weeks after Nepal assuming office …
No screening of tourists arriving via Nepal route - Times of India (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
VARANASI: While these two scenes, witnessed on Monday morning during a reality check of TOI, were enough to expose the preparations for preventing the spread of swine flu virus in the region, a day after the city witnessed its first suspected case of …
Strike disrupts normal life in Nepali capital - Xinhua News Agency (June 15, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 15 (Xinhua) — Normal life has been disrupted in Nepali capital Kathmandu and two other districts in the valley on Monday with the bandh called on by Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M) cadres. A woman walks past a …
Ahead of Nepal PM’s visit, Menon goes to Kathmandu Saturday - New Kerala (June 18, 2009) - [read more]
New Delhi, June 18 : Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon leaves for Kathmandu Saturday amid continuing political instability in the Himalayan state for a two-day trip that is expected to set the stage for Nepal’s new Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal …
The splintering in Kathmandu - Indian Express (June 15, 2009) - [read more]
Speculation has begun over how long the coalition government led by Madhav Kumar Nepal will survive. The prime minister has failed, three weeks after he took over, to give full and final shape to the cabinet. Terai-based parties are reconsidering …
Nepali Times
Menon leaves (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivashankar Menon wrapped up his two-day
official visit to Nepal, promising support from the southern neighbour and efforts to resolve the border
Poudel wins (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
NC’s vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel has been elected the leader of its parliamentary party. The PP now has an elected leader after a gap of 14
Nominations filed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
As the NC gears up for elections to choose the members of it’s parliamentary party (PP) working committee, four senior leaders file their nominations for the PP
Decision reversed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
The government has reversed the previous government’s decision to sack Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal and appoint Kul Bahadur Khadka as the acting chief. The move has ignited criticism not only from the Maoists but from UML leaders as
House expands (June 17, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal inducted 10 new ministers on Wednesday. However, a full-fledged cabinet was not formed as three Madhesi parties failed to send their
Picking fights (June 15, 2009) - [read more]
The new cabinet, which has been expanded twice in three weeks since the government was formed, once again fails to take a complete shape. The people, on the other hand, are stuggling against the continous
Consensus is the word (June 13, 2009) - [read more]
US Assistant Secretary of State Robert O Blake has stressed the need for co-operation between the political parties to ensure the success of the peace process. Blake has also urged the Maoists to renounce violence and control the activities of the
No work, no play (June 10, 2009) - [read more]
Two weeks after Nepal got a new prime minister, the coalition partners are still haggling over the ministerial berths. The parliament session, on the other hand, has been in recess for almost a month
Nepal News
NEPAL: Repatriation or resettlement for Bhutanese refugees? (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Over the past year thousands of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal have resettled in third countries - mainly the USA - but many others, especially the elderly, hope only for repatriation to Bhutan.
No link between Nepal Maoists and Lalgarh: Menon (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Despite the growing violence in Nepal with the Maoists beginning new protests against the government and the upsurge in Maoist activities in India’s Orissa, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal states, Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon Sunday ruled out any links between the two, saying there was no evidence.
China-Nepal Boda Hospital opens in Kathmandu (June 22, 2009) - [read more]
The China-Nepal Boda Hospital, the first largest hospital established by the private sector was inaugurated in Kathmandu on Sunday morning amid a formal ceremony.
Chinese team collects Nepali water for Asian Games (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
A 14-member Chinese team led by Jeng Weiyu, deputy director of Guangzhou Asian Games promotion department, arrived in Pokhara in Nepal on Saturday to collect water from different lakes over there.
End of another dynastic rule in Nepal (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: A 66-year-old Sanskrit scholar and follower of Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violence doctrine became Nepal’s `prime minister in waiting’, ending the longest dynastic rule in the country’s party politics.
Strike cripples life in Nepal’s capital (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Vehicles were forced off the streets and shops closed in Nepal’s capital Monday by former communist rebels who called a general strike to protest the murder of one of their local leaders.
Winds of change greet Shivshankar Menon in Nepal (June 19, 2009) - [read more]
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon’s much awaited two-day visit to Nepal to bail out the jeopardised peace process began Saturday amidst new winds of change blowing through the fledgling republic.
Nepal cabinet overturns Army Chief’s sacking order (June 19, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, June 19 : Lawmakers of the CPN have criticised the Nepal cabinet decision to overturn the previous government’s decision taken on March 3 to sack Army Chief Rookmangud Katawal and appoint Lieutenant General Kul Bahadur Khadka as the acting chief.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Happy Republic Day Nepal (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
The Himalayan Republic Celebrates First Republic Day Anniversary
[From a year ago: 1. Nepal is Declared a Republic!!! 2. Minute by Minute Account of the Historic Session of the CA that Declared Nepal a Republic
Republic Day rally in Pokhara, Nepal. Pic by Krishna Mani Baral
The first anniversary of the declaration of federal democratic republic of Nepal [...]
Madhav Nepal, the Moderate Communist Leader, is the Prime Minister of Nepal (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
“I announce that Madhav Kumar Nepal has been elected unopposed in the position of Prime Minister as per the Constituent Assembly’s Legislature-Parliament Business Advisory Regulations 2065.”
With that declaration from Subash Nemwang, the chair of the CA, today evening the moderate Marxist and Leninist leader became the third communist prime minister in Nepal. MK Nepal [...]
The Indian Democracy (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
Just as our April 2008 poll verdict, this Indian election, it appears, was about stability and progress of India
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF version of the page.]
A kid, carrying the Indian National Congress Party flag, walks on the street in front [...]
Madhav Kumar Nepal Set to Become Prime Minister of Nepal (May 17, 2009) - [read more]
Madhav Kumar Nepal, veteran communist leader of the Himalayan republic who have been tipped to be the prime minister of Nepal several times in the past and lost from both constituencies in the April 2008 CA elections, is finally set to become the third Communist prime minister of Nepal.
The leader of the moderate Communist Party [...]
Iron Man: Conversation With a Press Wallah (May 16, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF version. Shorter version in Nepali appeared in today's Kantipur.]
This is about this guy whom I have been seeing busy at his work all day, almost every day, since I came here to Jangpura Extension, one of south Delhi’s many [...]
EXPOSED: The Nepal Maoist’s Nationalism! (May 11, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal who resigned earlier this month lambasting, among other things, foreign (Indian) intervention in Nepali affairs, had himself asked for the higher level involvement from Delhi in matters related to the sacking of chief of the Nepali Army (which is entirely an internal matter of Nepal). Dahal made that clear in [...]
How Maoist-Delhi Relations Soured (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
The game in the background. How India played a role in the downfall of the first ever democratically elected Maoist government in Nepal.
By Akhilesh Upadhyay
KATHMANDU- The turn of events that first led to the sacking and reinstatement of Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal exposed that relations between New Delhi and the Maoists once on [...]
India and Indians: Friends of Two Different Kinds (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article appeared in today’s Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF of the page
Sometimes, I wonder why the official Nepal-India relationship doesn’t become as friendly and earthy as the down-to-earth friendship I enjoy with some Indians here in Delhi. Why doesn’t the bond between the two countries become as [...]