Nepal’s MJF withdraws from gov’t – Presstv (June 5, 2009) – [read more]
Upendra Yadav, MJF Chairman, attends a news conference in Kathmandu. Just after 11 days in power, Nepal’s new communist-led ruling coalition receives its first jolt with its regional ally, the MJF, withdrawing support. Madhesi Janadhikar Forum …
Arrested cleric ran Lashkar’s Nepal hub – Hindu (June 5, 2009) – [read more]
NEW DELHI: An alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba operative held on Thursday ran a logistical hub that funnelled dozens of jihadists through Nepal to targets across in India, Delhi Police sources have told The Hindu . Working with fugitive Lashkar commander …
Nepali villagers allege harassment by Indian forces – The Money Times (June 3, 2009) – [read more]
Residents of some villages in Dang district in midwestern Nepal, once a stronghold of the Maoist party, are now living under an open sky in a forest in the Deukhuri area of the district, Nepal’s biggest private television station Kantipur reported …
General strike disrupts Nepalese capital Kathmandu – Monsters and Critics (May 31, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu – A one-day general strike called by an ethnic group Monday disrupted normal life in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and surrounding areas. The strike was called by the Newar community, an ethnic group predominantly living in Kathmandu …
Nepali party demands referendum, seeking revival of monarchy – Xinhua News Agency (June 3, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 3 (Xinhua) — The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Nepal) (RPP-N) on Wednesday kicked off a campaign for the restoration of monarchy in the nascent Himalayan republic, asking for a national referendum. The RPP-N, the only party having …
SSB becomes Nepal’s new villain – Times of India (June 4, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU: The Seema Suraksha Bal (SSB), India’s paramilitary forces deployed along the Indo-Nepal border, have become the new villain in the Himalayan republic with growing allegations of attacks and rape against them. On Thursday, common complaints …
Kathmandu Valley strike called, more challenges for government – Newstrack India (May 31, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, May 31 (IANS) Struggling with infighting among its allies, Nepal’s new Communist government faces more challenges this week with a dominant community calling a shutdown in Kathmandu valley Monday and the Maoist party announcing `token …
Nepali PM inaugurates Chinese aided hospital – Xinhua News Agency (May 30, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, May 30 (Xinhua) — Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Saturday inaugurated much awaited Civil Servants Hospital (CSH) amid a formal program in Nepali capital Kathmandu. After the inauguration session organized by the Civil …
Nepali Times
MJF pulls out (June 5, 2009) – [read more]
Upendra Yadab, chairman of MJF, has announced withdrawal of the party’s support for the UML-led government. The party has also expelled Bijay Kumar Gachchhadar and six other central leaders, signaling trouble PM Madhav Kumar Nepal.
Cabinet expands (June 5, 2009) – [read more]
Eight new ministers were sworn in by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Thursday. MJF leader Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar has been appointed the deputy prime
Agreement on CMP (June 3, 2009) – [read more]
The government endorsed the Common Minimum Program on Wednesday but the task of cabinet expansion made no headway.
Divided alliance (May 30, 2009) – [read more]
The UML led coalition has run into political quandary even before it had a chance to take off as its partners are embroiled in serious internal
Tables turned (May 27, 2009) – [read more]
The meeting of new coalition partners held on Wednesday decided to revoke the decisions made by the former government. This is likely to deepen the polarisation between the ruling coalition and the Maoists even further in the days to
Nepal to nation (May 26, 2009) – [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar, in his first address to the nation, urged the Maoists to join the government to bring the peace process to a logical
On the job (May 26, 2009) – [read more]
Having been sworn in, newly elected prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal is now preparing to form the next cabinet. PM Nepal has stressed on the need of political consensus in order to find a solution to the present problems in the country.
Nepal sworn in (May 25, 2009) – [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal was sworn in on Monday morning, two days after being elected for the
Nepal News
Nepal government totters after new ministers’ entry (June 5, 2009) – [read more]
Within 24 hours of inducting eight new members into the cabinet, Nepal’s new coalition government headed by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal was plunged into a fresh crisis Friday with a key ally threatening to withdraw support.
Nepal: Arrest in Deadly Church Bombing Doesn’t Comfort Christians (June 5, 2009) – [read more]
Vikash and Deepa Patrick had been married for nearly four months before the young couple living in Patna in eastern India managed to go on their honeymoon here.
Himalaya – Changing Landscapes photo exhibition now in Germany (June 5, 2009) – [read more]
Himalaya – Changing Landscapes photo exhibition now in Germany /EIN News/ The Himalaya – Changing Landscapes outdoor exhibition by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development is currently on show at the Robert – Schuman – Platz in Bonn, Germany.
South Asian meet on health research begins in Nepal (June 5, 2009) – [read more]
The third meeting of the Forum for South Asian Health Research has started here in Nepali capital Kathmandu on Thursday.
Court rules Sobhraj guilty again (June 4, 2009) – [read more]
IANS/Kathmandu Once known for his adroitness in escaping from the most stringently guarded prisons across the world, yesteryear’s crime maestro Charles Sobhraj now seems fated to languish in Nepal’s dingy central jail for life with a lower court yesterday delivering a guilty verdict that has grave implications for the murder case he has been …
Nepal in grip of anti-India frenzy (June 4, 2009) – [read more]
Maoist supporters and activists shout anti-India slogans near the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu yesterday Nepal’s ruling Communist party and the Maoists yesterday joined forces to condemn the growing “encroachment” of the republic’s border areas by India and “atrocities” by India’s border security forces while student organisations said it would …
NC sends new faces to government under Koirala’s leadership (June 4, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, Jun 4 : Despite protests by some senior leaders, Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala is firm on his stance over sending the party in the government under the leadership of his daughter Sujata Koirala and including all new faces.
People flee Nepal border villages for fear of Indian forces (June 3, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU: More than 2,000 people have reportedly fled their homes in Nepal villages bordering India after alleged assault, rape and intimidation by Indian security forces patrolling the border.
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 [...]
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