Nepal News archive for 31 July 2009
9 killed in landslides in Nepal - Balita News (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 31 — At least nine persons were killed and four others missing in landslides caused by torrential rain in different parts of Nepal in the past 24 hours till Friday afternoon, local news website Nepalnews.com reported. Five persons …
High-level talks could help shore up peace in Nepal, says top UN envoy - UN News Centre (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
31 July 2009 – The top United Nations envoy to Nepal said today that she is encouraged by the South Asian leaders’ willingness to discuss issues to push the peace process forward after weeks of simmering political tensions. Last week, the …
UN concerned over delays in Nepal’s peace process - New Kerala (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 31 : The UN Friday expressed worries over delays in Nepal’s peace process by squabbles among political parties. Karin Landgren, chief of the UN Mission in Nepal, said it was a matter of urgent concern that progress in the peace …
Landslides kill nine in Nepal - Thaindian.com (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 31 (DPA) At least nine people were killed and four injured after landslides hit three districts in western Nepal, officials said Friday. The landslides followed heavy monsoonal rains since Thursday night. The largest death toll was …
Landslides kill 5 in Nepal, increasing monsoon death toll to 43 - CNN (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (CNN) — Five people died Friday in landslides in the mountains of western Nepal. That raises the death toll to 43 after landslides and floods in the monsoon season, officials said. An additional 12 people are missing, including nine …
Gayatri Devi’s ‘kin’ in Nepal mourn her death - New Kerala (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 31 : Two days after her death due to protracted illness, Rajmata Gayatri Devi, born in the royal family of Cooch Behar and married to the dashing ruler of the erstwhile kingdom of Jaipur Sawai Man Singh, is being mourned by her …
Nepal Gurkhas name beauty spot after ‘Ab Fab’ star - MSN Malaysia News (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
A beauty spot in Nepal with a view over some of the most spectacular Himalayan peaks has been named after British actress Joanna Lumley, a Gurkha veterans’ group said Friday. The star of television comedy “Absolutely Fabulous”, who led a successful …
I don’t know Nepali: Nepal vice president - Thaindian.com (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 24 (IANS) Caught in a fresh row over the use of Hindi language, Nepal’s vice president Parmanand Jha Friday virtually defied the order of the Supreme Court asking him to take oath of office once again in Nepali, saying he did not …
Nepali Times
Tiger census (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Despite the political upheaval, land encroachment, habitat loss, poaching and illegal trade, the population of tigers in Nepal has remained constant over a
Asia’s other eclipse (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
This century’s longest solar eclipse moved across Asia on 22 July wowing scientists and the public alike. Asia’s media should take as much interest in the eclipse of news about poverty, injustice and neglect in Asian
Flight of the eclipse (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
It was touted as the world’s most spectacular mountain flight: flying past Mt Everest during a total solar eclipse. But it was not to be because a massive monsoon system covered the whole of southeastern Nepal on Wednesday morning, right on the path of
Maoist rehabilitation (July 18, 2009) - [read more]
The process of discharging the disqualified Maoist combatants living in the cantonment faces difficulty to
New budget (July 13, 2009) - [read more]
Finance Minister Surendra Pandey unveiled a budget of Rs 285.93 billion for the fiscal year
Top three (July 12, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal secured third position in the ACC Women T20 U-19 Championship
by defeating
A state of lawlessness (July 11, 2009) - [read more]
The journey itself became a metaphor for the present state of the
Programs and policies (July 9, 2009) - [read more]
President Ram Baran Yadav presented the government’s programs and policies for the new fiscal year on Thursday’s budget session.
Nepal News
Landslides kill nine in Nepal (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 31 : At least nine people were killed and four injured after landslides hit three districts in western Nepal, officials said Friday.
MP heads to Nepal as political volunteer (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
NORTH Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry is heading to Nepal over the summer for volunteer work.
Nepal CA body blames Indian FS Menon (July 30, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: The Human Rights and International Relations Committee of the Constituent Assembly has said that the recently concluded a field visit made by the Nepal CA members in the district of Dang to study Nepali lands invaded by Indian security forces, publicizing a report, Tuesday July 28, 2009, have claimed that India had indeed forcefully …
Nepal gets its own Laurel and Hardy (July 30, 2009) - [read more]
In the early 20th century, two America-based actors managed to capture public imagination though at first appearance, they had nothing star-like about them.
MP Baldry volunteers for Nepal visit (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
Banbury MP Tony Baldry is heading to Nepal over the summer for volunteer work. Mr Baldry went to the region last year as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Voluntary Service Overseas organisation.
Expelled student leads attack on Indian priest in Nepal (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
A 40-year-old priest from India’s Jharkhand state, teaching underprivileged children in Nepal for almost a decade, has been attacked by a group led by an expelled student.
4 dead, 1 missing after washed away by river in Nepal (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
Four people have died and one has gone missing after they were washed away by the swelling Kamala River following the incessant monsoon rains Sunday, local news website Nepalnews.com reported on Monday.
Rains kill 28 in Nepal, Bangladesh (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
A rickshaw puller carries passengers through knee-deep water on a street in a commercial area in Dhaka yesterday.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal: A Country Cursed by a Widow? (July 19, 2009) - [read more]
By Krishna Giri
I don’t think any Nepali will raise their eyebrows when they hear- “SATI LE SARAPEKO DESH”. Right from the unification, Nepali have witnessed ongoing severity in terms of governance. Power snatching by any means has become style in Nepal. I don’t want to go back to 17th century to dig the past. Rather [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 30 July 2009
Help from India, China could help build Nepal: Gyanendra - Zee News (July 30, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Worried that Nepal’s “prolonged” period of transition to democracy would hamper its growth and cause suffering to the people, dethroned king Gyanendra has said “even a small amount” of cooperation from India and China would be sufficient …
IBM’s Smarter Planet Framework to Aid Nepal’s Vision For the Future - PR Newswire (July 30, 2009) - [read more]
ARMONK, N.Y. and KATHMANDU, Nepal, July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IBM and the High Level Commission for Information Technology (HLCIT), Government of Nepal today announced a long-term cooperation and collaboration in developing policy, frameworks …
Doon School old boy could be Nepal’s new envoy to India - New Kerala (July 30, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 30 : A 72-year-old history scholar and a former student of India’s elite Doon School is being considered for the post of Nepal’s new ambassador to Nepal. Rukma Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, a scion of one of the oldest and best-known …
Loomis to represent U.S. in Nepal, Bangladesh - Primebuzz.kcstar.com (July 30, 2009) - [read more]
A political science professor at the University of Kansas is headed for Nepal and Bangladesh at the invitation of the U.S. State Department. Burdett Loomis Burdett Loomis , a former aide to ex-Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius , will leave tomorrow on …
Nepal, China sign pact to enhance trade relations - Zee News (July 30, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Traders from Nepal and China have signed a pact to enhance cooperation, expand business relations and explore investment opportunities in various fields. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in China during a meeting of the Nepal …
Tibet: New Dangers for Tibetans in Nepal - United Nations and Peoples Organisation (July 30, 2009) - [read more]
Two new ICT reports document the dangers for Tibetans in Nepal as a result of the Chinese Government’s focus on Tibetans in this state and shifting policies in Nepal. Below is an article published by the International Campaign for Tibet : Two new …
Strikes result in plunge of most exportable products - Fibre2Fashion (July 30, 2009) - [read more]
Continuous strikes and road blockades in the country has taken its toll on the three most exported products- woolen carpets, jam and tooth powder as the export of these three products through Birgunj Customs has slipped down this year due to these …
I don’t know Nepali: Nepal vice president - Thaindian.com (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 24 (IANS) Caught in a fresh row over the use of Hindi language, Nepal’s vice president Parmanand Jha Friday virtually defied the order of the Supreme Court asking him to take oath of office once again in Nepali, saying he did not …
Nepali Times
Tiger census (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Despite the political upheaval, land encroachment, habitat loss, poaching and illegal trade, the population of tigers in Nepal has remained constant over a
Asia’s other eclipse (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
This century’s longest solar eclipse moved across Asia on 22 July wowing scientists and the public alike. Asia’s media should take as much interest in the eclipse of news about poverty, injustice and neglect in Asian
Flight of the eclipse (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
It was touted as the world’s most spectacular mountain flight: flying past Mt Everest during a total solar eclipse. But it was not to be because a massive monsoon system covered the whole of southeastern Nepal on Wednesday morning, right on the path of
Maoist rehabilitation (July 18, 2009) - [read more]
The process of discharging the disqualified Maoist combatants living in the cantonment faces difficulty to
New budget (July 13, 2009) - [read more]
Finance Minister Surendra Pandey unveiled a budget of Rs 285.93 billion for the fiscal year
Top three (July 12, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal secured third position in the ACC Women T20 U-19 Championship
by defeating
A state of lawlessness (July 11, 2009) - [read more]
The journey itself became a metaphor for the present state of the
Programs and policies (July 9, 2009) - [read more]
President Ram Baran Yadav presented the government’s programs and policies for the new fiscal year on Thursday’s budget session.
Nepal News
Nepal gets its own Laurel and Hardy (July 30, 2009) - [read more]
In the early 20th century, two America-based actors managed to capture public imagination though at first appearance, they had nothing star-like about them.
MP Baldry volunteers for Nepal visit (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
Banbury MP Tony Baldry is heading to Nepal over the summer for volunteer work. Mr Baldry went to the region last year as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Voluntary Service Overseas organisation.
Expelled student leads attack on Indian priest in Nepal (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
A 40-year-old priest from India’s Jharkhand state, teaching underprivileged children in Nepal for almost a decade, has been attacked by a group led by an expelled student.
4 dead, 1 missing after washed away by river in Nepal (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
Four people have died and one has gone missing after they were washed away by the swelling Kamala River following the incessant monsoon rains Sunday, local news website Nepalnews.com reported on Monday.
Rains kill 28 in Nepal, Bangladesh (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
A rickshaw puller carries passengers through knee-deep water on a street in a commercial area in Dhaka yesterday.
Ideological prejudices kill 200 diarrhea patients in Nepal (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Nepali media had begun to bring out news reports on the diarrhea outbreak in Jajarkot from April 2009.
New Dangers for Tibetans in Nepal (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Two new ICT reports document the dangers for Tibetans in Nepal due to the Chinese government’s focus on Tibetan issues in its relations with the Nepalese government, and shifting internal politics in Nepal.
Nepal crowds gather to greet Joanna (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Big crowds are expected to greet actress and Gurkha campaigner Joanna Lumley as she tours Nepal.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal: A Country Cursed by a Widow? (July 19, 2009) - [read more]
By Krishna Giri
I don’t think any Nepali will raise their eyebrows when they hear- “SATI LE SARAPEKO DESH”. Right from the unification, Nepali have witnessed ongoing severity in terms of governance. Power snatching by any means has become style in Nepal. I don’t want to go back to 17th century to dig the past. Rather [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 29 July 2009
New Nepali minister sworn in - Xinhua News Agency (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 29 (Xinhua) — Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Wednesday administered the office of oath and secrecy to newly appointed Minister for Environment, Science and Technology Thakur Prasad Sharma on Wednesday. The ceremony was …
Nepal’s Hindi battle escalates - Thaindian.com (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 29 (IANS) The battle over the use of Hindi for official work, that has pitted southern Nepal against the rest of the country, escalated Wednesday with embattled Vice President Parmananda Jha appealing to the nation to put fraternity …
Tackling impunity key to consolidating peace in Nepal – UN rights … - UN News Centre (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
Richard Bennett of the human rights office (OHCHR) in Nepal (file Photo) 29 July 2009 – Lack of accountability is hindering progress in the peace process in Nepal, the top United Nations human rights official in the country said today, calling for …
Nepal, Maoists must probe civil war abuses, says U.N. - Reuters India (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A U.N. human rights envoy urged Nepal’s government and the Maoist former rebels on Wednesday to probe human rights abuses in the civil war that ended in 2006, saying not a single abuser had been punished. Both government forces …
UN concerned over rights violations in Nepal - Zee News (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: The UN on Wednesday expressed concern over the failure of the government to trace hundreds of people who disappeared during the decade-long civil war in Nepal and underlined that little had been done to punish those responsible for the …
Expelled student leads attack on Indian priest in Nepal - Webindia 123 (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
A 40-year-old priest from India’s Jharkhand state, teaching underprivileged children in Nepal for almost a decade, has been attacked by a group led by an expelled student. Sanjay Ekka, who comes from Jaspur village in eastern India’s mineral-rich …
VP Jha ready to take oath in Nepali after Supreme Court verdict - New Kerala (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Jul 29 : Vice President Parmananda Jha today said he is ready to take oath of office and secrecy in Nepali language as per the Supreme Court order. ”Since I am well-versed in Nepali language, I am ready to take the oath again,” Nepalnews …
Jesuit priest beaten and injured in Kathmandu - AsiaNews.IT (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
07/29/2009 10:42 NEPAL Jesuit priest beaten and injured in Kathmandu by Kalpit Parajuli Fr. Ekka David is director of the Loyola Students Home in Kathmandu which houses 34 young poor students. The police stopped a 13 year-old barred from the …
Nepali Times
Tiger census (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Despite the political upheaval, land encroachment, habitat loss, poaching and illegal trade, the population of tigers in Nepal has remained constant over a
Asia’s other eclipse (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
This century’s longest solar eclipse moved across Asia on 22 July wowing scientists and the public alike. Asia’s media should take as much interest in the eclipse of news about poverty, injustice and neglect in Asian
Flight of the eclipse (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
It was touted as the world’s most spectacular mountain flight: flying past Mt Everest during a total solar eclipse. But it was not to be because a massive monsoon system covered the whole of southeastern Nepal on Wednesday morning, right on the path of
Maoist rehabilitation (July 18, 2009) - [read more]
The process of discharging the disqualified Maoist combatants living in the cantonment faces difficulty to
New budget (July 13, 2009) - [read more]
Finance Minister Surendra Pandey unveiled a budget of Rs 285.93 billion for the fiscal year
Top three (July 12, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal secured third position in the ACC Women T20 U-19 Championship
by defeating
A state of lawlessness (July 11, 2009) - [read more]
The journey itself became a metaphor for the present state of the
Programs and policies (July 9, 2009) - [read more]
President Ram Baran Yadav presented the government’s programs and policies for the new fiscal year on Thursday’s budget session.
Nepal News
4 dead, 1 missing after washed away by river in Nepal (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
Four people have died and one has gone missing after they were washed away by the swelling Kamala River following the incessant monsoon rains Sunday, local news website Nepalnews.com reported on Monday.
Rains kill 28 in Nepal, Bangladesh (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
A rickshaw puller carries passengers through knee-deep water on a street in a commercial area in Dhaka yesterday.
Ideological prejudices kill 200 diarrhea patients in Nepal (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Nepali media had begun to bring out news reports on the diarrhea outbreak in Jajarkot from April 2009.
New Dangers for Tibetans in Nepal (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Two new ICT reports document the dangers for Tibetans in Nepal due to the Chinese government’s focus on Tibetan issues in its relations with the Nepalese government, and shifting internal politics in Nepal.
Nepal crowds gather to greet Joanna (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Big crowds are expected to greet actress and Gurkha campaigner Joanna Lumley as she tours Nepal.
Gurkha soldier reduced to begging seek help from British actress (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Durga Bahadur Sunwar fought during World War II as part of the British Army’s Gurkha Brigade and lost his right leg.
Nepali motorcycle team returns from Qomolangma basecamp (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
The Yamaha FZ motorcycle team, which left Nepal for the north Mt. Qomolangma Basecamp in Tibet of China a week ago, returned on Sunday after competing their 1,100 km ride.
Nepal to import power from India (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: The Nepal Government will import 30 MW of power from India to meet its current electricity demands.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal: A Country Cursed by a Widow? (July 19, 2009) - [read more]
By Krishna Giri
I don’t think any Nepali will raise their eyebrows when they hear- “SATI LE SARAPEKO DESH”. Right from the unification, Nepali have witnessed ongoing severity in terms of governance. Power snatching by any means has become style in Nepal. I don’t want to go back to 17th century to dig the past. Rather [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 29 July 2009
New Nepali minister sworn in - Xinhua News Agency (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 29 (Xinhua) — Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Wednesday administered the office of oath and secrecy to newly appointed Minister for Environment, Science and Technology Thakur Prasad Sharma on Wednesday. The ceremony was …
Nepal’s Hindi battle escalates - Thaindian.com (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 29 (IANS) The battle over the use of Hindi for official work, that has pitted southern Nepal against the rest of the country, escalated Wednesday with embattled Vice President Parmananda Jha appealing to the nation to put fraternity …
Nepal, Maoists must probe civil war abuses, says U.N. - Reuters India (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A U.N. human rights envoy urged Nepal’s government and the Maoist former rebels on Wednesday to probe human rights abuses in the civil war that ended in 2006, saying not a single abuser had been punished. Both government forces …
Nepal gets its own Laurel and Hardy - Xinhua News Agency (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 29 (Xinhua) — In the early 20th century, two America-based actors managed to capture public imagination though at first appearance, they had nothing star-like about them. While one of them, Stan Laurel, was thin as a reed, the other …
Expelled student leads attack on Indian priest in Nepal - Webindia 123 (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
A 40-year-old priest from India’s Jharkhand state, teaching underprivileged children in Nepal for almost a decade, has been attacked by a group led by an expelled student. Sanjay Ekka, who comes from Jaspur village in eastern India’s mineral-rich …
VP Jha ready to take oath in Nepali after Supreme Court verdict - New Kerala (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Jul 29 : Vice President Parmananda Jha today said he is ready to take oath of office and secrecy in Nepali language as per the Supreme Court order. ”Since I am well-versed in Nepali language, I am ready to take the oath again,” Nepalnews …
Jesuit priest beaten and injured in Kathmandu - AsiaNews.IT (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
07/29/2009 10:42 NEPAL Jesuit priest beaten and injured in Kathmandu by Kalpit Parajuli Fr. Ekka David is director of the Loyola Students Home in Kathmandu which houses 34 young poor students. The police stopped a 13 year-old barred from the …
No Business, As Usual, In Nepal - Newsblaze.com (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
Nepalis are increasingly taking their grievances public by disrupting transport, schools and businesses. Birendra Giri’s friends were incensed when a gang of youths attacked him with knives on Monday evening. Giri, a member of the Nepali Congress …
Nepali Times
Tiger census (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Despite the political upheaval, land encroachment, habitat loss, poaching and illegal trade, the population of tigers in Nepal has remained constant over a
Asia’s other eclipse (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
This century’s longest solar eclipse moved across Asia on 22 July wowing scientists and the public alike. Asia’s media should take as much interest in the eclipse of news about poverty, injustice and neglect in Asian
Flight of the eclipse (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
It was touted as the world’s most spectacular mountain flight: flying past Mt Everest during a total solar eclipse. But it was not to be because a massive monsoon system covered the whole of southeastern Nepal on Wednesday morning, right on the path of
Maoist rehabilitation (July 18, 2009) - [read more]
The process of discharging the disqualified Maoist combatants living in the cantonment faces difficulty to
New budget (July 13, 2009) - [read more]
Finance Minister Surendra Pandey unveiled a budget of Rs 285.93 billion for the fiscal year
Top three (July 12, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal secured third position in the ACC Women T20 U-19 Championship
by defeating
A state of lawlessness (July 11, 2009) - [read more]
The journey itself became a metaphor for the present state of the
Programs and policies (July 9, 2009) - [read more]
President Ram Baran Yadav presented the government’s programs and policies for the new fiscal year on Thursday’s budget session.
Nepal News
4 dead, 1 missing after washed away by river in Nepal (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
Four people have died and one has gone missing after they were washed away by the swelling Kamala River following the incessant monsoon rains Sunday, local news website Nepalnews.com reported on Monday.
Rains kill 28 in Nepal, Bangladesh (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
A rickshaw puller carries passengers through knee-deep water on a street in a commercial area in Dhaka yesterday.
Ideological prejudices kill 200 diarrhea patients in Nepal (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Nepali media had begun to bring out news reports on the diarrhea outbreak in Jajarkot from April 2009.
New Dangers for Tibetans in Nepal (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Two new ICT reports document the dangers for Tibetans in Nepal due to the Chinese government’s focus on Tibetan issues in its relations with the Nepalese government, and shifting internal politics in Nepal.
Nepal crowds gather to greet Joanna (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Big crowds are expected to greet actress and Gurkha campaigner Joanna Lumley as she tours Nepal.
Gurkha soldier reduced to begging seek help from British actress (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Durga Bahadur Sunwar fought during World War II as part of the British Army’s Gurkha Brigade and lost his right leg.
Nepali motorcycle team returns from Qomolangma basecamp (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
The Yamaha FZ motorcycle team, which left Nepal for the north Mt. Qomolangma Basecamp in Tibet of China a week ago, returned on Sunday after competing their 1,100 km ride.
Nepal to import power from India (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: The Nepal Government will import 30 MW of power from India to meet its current electricity demands.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal: A Country Cursed by a Widow? (July 19, 2009) - [read more]
By Krishna Giri
I don’t think any Nepali will raise their eyebrows when they hear- “SATI LE SARAPEKO DESH”. Right from the unification, Nepali have witnessed ongoing severity in terms of governance. Power snatching by any means has become style in Nepal. I don’t want to go back to 17th century to dig the past. Rather [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 28 July 2009
Brit actress Lumley hailed as ‘Nepali cheli’ - Newstrack India (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 28 (ANI): British actress Joanna Lumley was hailed as ‘Nepali cheli (daughter)’ and felicitated for her remarkable contribution to the Gurkha cause and successful campaign to allow Gurkha soldiers and their families to settle in …
China presses Nepal to crackdown on Tibetans - group - Reuters India (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal, under increasing pressure from China, was cracking down on Tibetan refugees despite centuries of shared culture with Tibet, the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) said on Tuesday. Nepali authorities have regularly …
Brit actress Lumley meets Nepal President, PM - Newstrack India (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 28 (ANI): British actress Joanna Lumley, who is in Nepal on a five day visit after spearheading a high profile campaign to allow Gurkha soldiers and their families to settle in Britain, met President Rambaram Yadav, Prime Minister …
Nepal PM Thanks Lumley For ‘Gurkha Justice’ - Ananova (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s prime minister has thanked actress Joanna Lumley for bringing “justice” to Gurkha soldiers who served in the British army. Madhav Kumar Nepal said all Nepalese people recognised the achievements of the star, who spearheaded a campaign for …
Dragon’s influence on Nepal dangerous for Tibetans :report - Phayul (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Dharamsala, July 28 – The International Campaign for Tibet has published a new report documenting the “dangers for Tibetans in Nepal due to the Chinese government’s focus on Tibetan issues in its relations with the Nepalese government, and …
Ab Fab Lumley’s mobbed in Nepal - The Sun (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
The actress was mobbed by hundreds of veterans and well-wishers for her pivotal role in the Sun-backed campaign to allow brave Gurkhas who fought for Britain to settle here. Joanna, whose late father was an officer in the Gurkha regiment, was greeted …
84-year old’s ‘pilgrimage’ to Kathmandu to meet Lumley - Hindustan Times (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
He is 84 and depends on his carved walking stick to step out. But, these factors did not deter Harka Bahadur Pun, a Gurkha veteran, from trekking for six hours and taking a 12-hour bus ride to reach the capital to hug ‘goddess’ Joanna Lumley, India …
Nepal crowds gather to greet Joanna - Entertainment.uk.msn.com (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley is expected to be greeted by big crowds as she tours Nepal. Since arriving in the country on Sunday, the Absolutely Fabulous actress and Gurkha campaigner has been showered with thanks and tributes. Joanna received heartfelt gratitude …
Nepali Times
Tiger census (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Despite the political upheaval, land encroachment, habitat loss, poaching and illegal trade, the population of tigers in Nepal has remained constant over a
Asia’s other eclipse (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
This century’s longest solar eclipse moved across Asia on 22 July wowing scientists and the public alike. Asia’s media should take as much interest in the eclipse of news about poverty, injustice and neglect in Asian
Flight of the eclipse (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
It was touted as the world’s most spectacular mountain flight: flying past Mt Everest during a total solar eclipse. But it was not to be because a massive monsoon system covered the whole of southeastern Nepal on Wednesday morning, right on the path of
Maoist rehabilitation (July 18, 2009) - [read more]
The process of discharging the disqualified Maoist combatants living in the cantonment faces difficulty to
New budget (July 13, 2009) - [read more]
Finance Minister Surendra Pandey unveiled a budget of Rs 285.93 billion for the fiscal year
Top three (July 12, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal secured third position in the ACC Women T20 U-19 Championship
by defeating
A state of lawlessness (July 11, 2009) - [read more]
The journey itself became a metaphor for the present state of the
Programs and policies (July 9, 2009) - [read more]
President Ram Baran Yadav presented the government’s programs and policies for the new fiscal year on Thursday’s budget session.
Nepal News
Nepal crowds gather to greet Joanna (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Big crowds are expected to greet actress and Gurkha campaigner Joanna Lumley as she tours Nepal.
Gurkha soldier reduced to begging seek help from British actress (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Durga Bahadur Sunwar fought during World War II as part of the British Army’s Gurkha Brigade and lost his right leg.
Nepali motorcycle team returns from Qomolangma basecamp (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
The Yamaha FZ motorcycle team, which left Nepal for the north Mt. Qomolangma Basecamp in Tibet of China a week ago, returned on Sunday after competing their 1,100 km ride.
Nepal to import power from India (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: The Nepal Government will import 30 MW of power from India to meet its current electricity demands.
Electrocuted crows halt Nepal govt (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: A power cut caused by errant crows brought Nepalese government ministries to a halt as they returned to work this week after four days of strike action, the electricity authority said yesterday.
Gurkhas planning a hero’s welcome for British actress (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
In this file photo, British actress Joanna Lumley, left, with former Gurkha soldier Tul Bahadur Pun who saved her father’s life, during the Gurkha campaign in May, in London Nepal’s Gurkhas are planning a hero’s welcome for British actress and campaigner Joanna Lumley when she makes her first-ever visit to the Himalayan nation tomorrow.
India provides Nepal fund for education (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Indian ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood on Saturday handed over two newly-constructed school buildings worth Rs 1.96 crore to the local communities here.
Joanna Lumley leaves for Nepal trip (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley said she felt “humbled” to be travelling to Nepal, where she is expected to be greeted as a heroine by thousands of Gurkhas and their families.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal: A Country Cursed by a Widow? (July 19, 2009) - [read more]
By Krishna Giri
I don’t think any Nepali will raise their eyebrows when they hear- “SATI LE SARAPEKO DESH”. Right from the unification, Nepali have witnessed ongoing severity in terms of governance. Power snatching by any means has become style in Nepal. I don’t want to go back to 17th century to dig the past. Rather [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 27 July 2009
Nepal’s Gurkhas cheer campaigning ‘Ab Fab’ actress - Raw Story (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Hundreds of cheering Gurkha veterans gave Joanna Lumley a standing ovation on Monday as the British actress and campaigner addressed a mass rally in Kathmandu at the start of a six-day visit to Nepal. The glamorous 63-year-old star of television …
Gurkha campaigner Joanna Lumley hailed a goddess on Nepali ‘homecoming … - Hello! (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Hundreds of former serviceman and their families converged on Kathmandu airport in Nepal bearing garlands of marigolds and silk scarves to welcome Joanna Lumley this weekend. Though it was the actress and Gurkha campaigner’s first visit to the …
Nepal’s PM pays tribute to Lumley - BBC UK News (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Madhav Kumar Nepal said the Nepalese people were “rejoicing over what she has achieved”. Ms Lumley, whose father was a Gurkha regiment officer, fronted a campaign for UK settlement rights for Gurkhas. She was greeted in Nepal with garlands of flowers …
Joanna Lumley mobbed in Nepal visit - Entertainment.uk.msn.com (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley has been thanked by Nepalese leaders for her support for the Gurkhas during a trip to the country. The star, who played a pivotal role in a campaign to allow those who fought for Britain to settle here, was mobbed by well-wishers and …
In Pictures: ‘Joanna Lumley Visits Nepal’ - Monsters and Critics (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Nepalese ex-Gurkha soldiers and family members wait to welcome British Actress Joanna Lumley during her first visit in Nepal at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. 26 July 2009. Thousands of the soldiers and their families gathered …
Lumley ‘honoured’ by Nepal welcome - Ananova (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Actress Joanna Lumley has been thanked by Nepalese leaders for her support for the Gurkhas during a trip to the country. The star, who played a pivotal role in a campaign to allow those who fought for Britain to settle in the UK, was mobbed by well …
Lumley gets hero’s welcome in Nepal - Entertainment.uk.msn.com (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley has received a hero’s welcome from hundreds of Gurkhas and their families as she arrived in Nepal. The actress, who played a pivotal role in a campaign to allow those who fought for Britain to settle here, was mobbed by well-wishers and …
Dragonair to fly to Dhaka and Kathmandu - Manila Bulleting Online (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Dragonair has unveiled new arrangement for its services to Dhaka and Kathmandu starting from October 1 which will offer passengers travelling to and from Nepal a greater number of flights per week to choose from. The night flight to Kathmandu from …
Nepali Times
Asia’s other eclipse (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
This century’s longest solar eclipse moved across Asia on 22 July wowing scientists and the public alike. Asia’s media should take as much interest in the eclipse of news about poverty, injustice and neglect in Asian
Flight of the eclipse (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
It was touted as the world’s most spectacular mountain flight: flying past Mt Everest during a total solar eclipse. But it was not to be because a massive monsoon system covered the whole of southeastern Nepal on Wednesday morning, right on the path of
Maoist rehabilitation (July 18, 2009) - [read more]
The process of discharging the disqualified Maoist combatants living in the cantonment faces difficulty to
New budget (July 13, 2009) - [read more]
Finance Minister Surendra Pandey unveiled a budget of Rs 285.93 billion for the fiscal year
Top three (July 12, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal secured third position in the ACC Women T20 U-19 Championship
by defeating
A state of lawlessness (July 11, 2009) - [read more]
The journey itself became a metaphor for the present state of the
Programs and policies (July 9, 2009) - [read more]
President Ram Baran Yadav presented the government’s programs and policies for the new fiscal year on Thursday’s budget session.
Nepal’s first loss (July 8, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s unbeaten run in the ACC Women’s Twenty-20 Championship ended with Thailand’s win with 23 runs in the final league match on
Nepal News
Electrocuted crows halt Nepal govt (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: A power cut caused by errant crows brought Nepalese government ministries to a halt as they returned to work this week after four days of strike action, the electricity authority said yesterday.
Gurkhas planning a hero’s welcome for British actress (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
In this file photo, British actress Joanna Lumley, left, with former Gurkha soldier Tul Bahadur Pun who saved her father’s life, during the Gurkha campaign in May, in London Nepal’s Gurkhas are planning a hero’s welcome for British actress and campaigner Joanna Lumley when she makes her first-ever visit to the Himalayan nation tomorrow.
India provides Nepal fund for education (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Indian ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood on Saturday handed over two newly-constructed school buildings worth Rs 1.96 crore to the local communities here.
Joanna Lumley leaves for Nepal trip (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley said she felt “humbled” to be travelling to Nepal, where she is expected to be greeted as a heroine by thousands of Gurkhas and their families.
Three Indians killed in Nepal bus mishap (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
Three Indians, including a nonagenarian couple, were killed and 19 others injured when two passenger buses collided on a highway in western Nepal on Friday morning, police said.
Vice Prez vents anger over SC verdict (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 24: Vice President Paramananda Jha has expressed his displeasure over the Supreme Court verdict nullifying the oath of office he took in the Hindi language, saying the judgment was biased and predictable.
Gurkhas’ hero Lumley on Nepal trip (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley is leaving for a trip to Nepal, where she is expected to be welcomed as a heroine by thousands of Gurkhas and their families.
There were cries of pain everywhere: Nepal accident survivor (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
A 55-year-old bicycle mechanic from India’s Birsinghpur village recounted in stunned disbelief how a pilgrimage to Nepal turned into death and pain in pre-dawn darkness.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal: A Country Cursed by a Widow? (July 19, 2009) - [read more]
By Krishna Giri
I don’t think any Nepali will raise their eyebrows when they hear- “SATI LE SARAPEKO DESH”. Right from the unification, Nepali have witnessed ongoing severity in terms of governance. Power snatching by any means has become style in Nepal. I don’t want to go back to 17th century to dig the past. Rather [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 26 July 2009
Nepali PM says diarrhea epidemic gradually contained - Xinhua News Agency (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 26 (Xinhua) — Even though reports regarding the spread of diarrhea epidemic in the western parts of the country are increasing, Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Sunday claimed that epidemic is gradually contained. At a …
Brit actress Lumley set for heroine’s welcome in Nepal - Newstrack India (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
London/Kathmandu, July 26 (ANI): British actress Joanna Lumley will get a heroine’s welcome and reception when she lands in Nepal on Sunday afternoon, for spearheading a high profile campaign to allow Gurkha soldiers and their families to settle in …
Brit actress Lumley set for heroine’s welcome in Nepal - Thaindian.com (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
London/Kathmandu, July 26 (ANI): British actress Joanna Lumley will get a heroine’s welcome and reception when she lands in Nepal on Sunday afternoon, for spearheading a high profile campaign to allow Gurkha soldiers and their families to settle in …
Lumley heads to Nepal to meet Gurkhas - The Guardian (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley was expected to be greeted as a heroine by thousands of Gurkhas and their families in Nepal today. The actress, who fronted a campaign for Gurkha veterans to be allowed to settle in Britain, said she felt “humbled” to be travelling to …
Nepali PM denies arms deal with India - Xinhua News Agency (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 26 (Xinhua) — Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Sunday denied the allegation that the government is preparing to strike an arms deal with India. Addressing the State Affairs Committee under the legislative parliament, which …
Lumley to get hero’s welcome in Nepal - Channel 4 News (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
Thousands of Gurkhas and their families are expected to greet actress Joanna Lumley when she arrives in Nepal today. The actress, who was the face of the campaign to allow Gurkhas who fought for Britain to settle here, set off from Heathrow Airport …
Joanna Lumley set for hero’s welcome in Nepal for Gurkha campaign - Daily Telegraph (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
The actress, who played a pivotal role in the campaign to allow those who fought to live in Britain, said she felt “humbled” to be travelling to Nepal as she boarded a flight from London Heathrow Airport on Saturday night. Ms Lumley, whose late …
Nepal’s Gurkhas plan hero’s welcome for Lumley - Yahoo News (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU (AFP) – Nepal’s Gurkhas are planning a hero’s welcome for British actress and campaigner Joanna Lumley when she makes her first-ever visit to the Himalayan nation on Sunday. Although she has never been to Nepal, the actress’s impassioned …
Nepali Times
Asia’s other eclipse (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
This century’s longest solar eclipse moved across Asia on 22 July wowing scientists and the public alike. Asia’s media should take as much interest in the eclipse of news about poverty, injustice and neglect in Asian
Flight of the eclipse (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
It was touted as the world’s most spectacular mountain flight: flying past Mt Everest during a total solar eclipse. But it was not to be because a massive monsoon system covered the whole of southeastern Nepal on Wednesday morning, right on the path of
Maoist rehabilitation (July 18, 2009) - [read more]
The process of discharging the disqualified Maoist combatants living in the cantonment faces difficulty to
New budget (July 13, 2009) - [read more]
Finance Minister Surendra Pandey unveiled a budget of Rs 285.93 billion for the fiscal year
Top three (July 12, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal secured third position in the ACC Women T20 U-19 Championship
by defeating
A state of lawlessness (July 11, 2009) - [read more]
The journey itself became a metaphor for the present state of the
Programs and policies (July 9, 2009) - [read more]
President Ram Baran Yadav presented the government’s programs and policies for the new fiscal year on Thursday’s budget session.
Nepal’s first loss (July 8, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s unbeaten run in the ACC Women’s Twenty-20 Championship ended with Thailand’s win with 23 runs in the final league match on
Nepal News
India provides Nepal fund for education (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Indian ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood on Saturday handed over two newly-constructed school buildings worth Rs 1.96 crore to the local communities here.
Joanna Lumley leaves for Nepal trip (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley said she felt “humbled” to be travelling to Nepal, where she is expected to be greeted as a heroine by thousands of Gurkhas and their families.
Three Indians killed in Nepal bus mishap (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
Three Indians, including a nonagenarian couple, were killed and 19 others injured when two passenger buses collided on a highway in western Nepal on Friday morning, police said.
Vice Prez vents anger over SC verdict (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 24: Vice President Paramananda Jha has expressed his displeasure over the Supreme Court verdict nullifying the oath of office he took in the Hindi language, saying the judgment was biased and predictable.
Gurkhas’ hero Lumley on Nepal trip (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley is leaving for a trip to Nepal, where she is expected to be welcomed as a heroine by thousands of Gurkhas and their families.
There were cries of pain everywhere: Nepal accident survivor (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
A 55-year-old bicycle mechanic from India’s Birsinghpur village recounted in stunned disbelief how a pilgrimage to Nepal turned into death and pain in pre-dawn darkness.
Nepal to rebuild royal massacre house (July 23, 2009) - [read more]
Eight years after Nepal’s crown prince gunned down most of his royal family, the government is to rebuild the house where the massacre took place, the prime minister’s spokesman said Thursday.
No rest for Nepal’s royal ghosts (July 23, 2009) - [read more]
More than eight years after its royal family perished in a shocking massacre in the tightly guarded palace and 14 months after the kingdom of Nepal gave the coup de grace to its once-revered institution of monarchy, the royal ghosts have been resurrected with the new government announcing it would rebuild the massacre site.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal: A Country Cursed by a Widow? (July 19, 2009) - [read more]
By Krishna Giri
I don’t think any Nepali will raise their eyebrows when they hear- “SATI LE SARAPEKO DESH”. Right from the unification, Nepali have witnessed ongoing severity in terms of governance. Power snatching by any means has become style in Nepal. I don’t want to go back to 17th century to dig the past. Rather [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 26 July 2009
Nepali PM says diarrhea epidemic gradually contained - Xinhua News Agency (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 26 (Xinhua) — Even though reports regarding the spread of diarrhea epidemic in the western parts of the country are increasing, Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Sunday claimed that epidemic is gradually contained. At a …
Brit actress Lumley set for heroine’s welcome in Nepal - Newstrack India (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
London/Kathmandu, July 26 (ANI): British actress Joanna Lumley will get a heroine’s welcome and reception when she lands in Nepal on Sunday afternoon, for spearheading a high profile campaign to allow Gurkha soldiers and their families to settle in …
Brit actress Lumley set for heroine’s welcome in Nepal - Thaindian.com (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
London/Kathmandu, July 26 (ANI): British actress Joanna Lumley will get a heroine’s welcome and reception when she lands in Nepal on Sunday afternoon, for spearheading a high profile campaign to allow Gurkha soldiers and their families to settle in …
Lumley heads to Nepal to meet Gurkhas - The Guardian (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley was expected to be greeted as a heroine by thousands of Gurkhas and their families in Nepal today. The actress, who fronted a campaign for Gurkha veterans to be allowed to settle in Britain, said she felt “humbled” to be travelling to …
Nepali PM denies arms deal with India - Xinhua News Agency (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 26 (Xinhua) — Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Sunday denied the allegation that the government is preparing to strike an arms deal with India. Addressing the State Affairs Committee under the legislative parliament, which …
Lumley to get hero’s welcome in Nepal - Channel 4 News (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
Thousands of Gurkhas and their families are expected to greet actress Joanna Lumley when she arrives in Nepal today. The actress, who was the face of the campaign to allow Gurkhas who fought for Britain to settle here, set off from Heathrow Airport …
Joanna Lumley set for hero’s welcome in Nepal for Gurkha campaign - Daily Telegraph (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
The actress, who played a pivotal role in the campaign to allow those who fought to live in Britain, said she felt “humbled” to be travelling to Nepal as she boarded a flight from London Heathrow Airport on Saturday night. Ms Lumley, whose late …
Nepal’s Gurkhas plan hero’s welcome for Lumley - Yahoo News (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU (AFP) – Nepal’s Gurkhas are planning a hero’s welcome for British actress and campaigner Joanna Lumley when she makes her first-ever visit to the Himalayan nation on Sunday. Although she has never been to Nepal, the actress’s impassioned …
Nepali Times
Asia’s other eclipse (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
This century’s longest solar eclipse moved across Asia on 22 July wowing scientists and the public alike. Asia’s media should take as much interest in the eclipse of news about poverty, injustice and neglect in Asian
Flight of the eclipse (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
It was touted as the world’s most spectacular mountain flight: flying past Mt Everest during a total solar eclipse. But it was not to be because a massive monsoon system covered the whole of southeastern Nepal on Wednesday morning, right on the path of
Maoist rehabilitation (July 18, 2009) - [read more]
The process of discharging the disqualified Maoist combatants living in the cantonment faces difficulty to
New budget (July 13, 2009) - [read more]
Finance Minister Surendra Pandey unveiled a budget of Rs 285.93 billion for the fiscal year
Top three (July 12, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal secured third position in the ACC Women T20 U-19 Championship
by defeating
A state of lawlessness (July 11, 2009) - [read more]
The journey itself became a metaphor for the present state of the
Programs and policies (July 9, 2009) - [read more]
President Ram Baran Yadav presented the government’s programs and policies for the new fiscal year on Thursday’s budget session.
Nepal’s first loss (July 8, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s unbeaten run in the ACC Women’s Twenty-20 Championship ended with Thailand’s win with 23 runs in the final league match on
Nepal News
India provides Nepal fund for education (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Indian ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood on Saturday handed over two newly-constructed school buildings worth Rs 1.96 crore to the local communities here.
Joanna Lumley leaves for Nepal trip (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley said she felt “humbled” to be travelling to Nepal, where she is expected to be greeted as a heroine by thousands of Gurkhas and their families.
Three Indians killed in Nepal bus mishap (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
Three Indians, including a nonagenarian couple, were killed and 19 others injured when two passenger buses collided on a highway in western Nepal on Friday morning, police said.
Vice Prez vents anger over SC verdict (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 24: Vice President Paramananda Jha has expressed his displeasure over the Supreme Court verdict nullifying the oath of office he took in the Hindi language, saying the judgment was biased and predictable.
Gurkhas’ hero Lumley on Nepal trip (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley is leaving for a trip to Nepal, where she is expected to be welcomed as a heroine by thousands of Gurkhas and their families.
There were cries of pain everywhere: Nepal accident survivor (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
A 55-year-old bicycle mechanic from India’s Birsinghpur village recounted in stunned disbelief how a pilgrimage to Nepal turned into death and pain in pre-dawn darkness.
Nepal to rebuild royal massacre house (July 23, 2009) - [read more]
Eight years after Nepal’s crown prince gunned down most of his royal family, the government is to rebuild the house where the massacre took place, the prime minister’s spokesman said Thursday.
No rest for Nepal’s royal ghosts (July 23, 2009) - [read more]
More than eight years after its royal family perished in a shocking massacre in the tightly guarded palace and 14 months after the kingdom of Nepal gave the coup de grace to its once-revered institution of monarchy, the royal ghosts have been resurrected with the new government announcing it would rebuild the massacre site.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal: A Country Cursed by a Widow? (July 19, 2009) - [read more]
By Krishna Giri
I don’t think any Nepali will raise their eyebrows when they hear- “SATI LE SARAPEKO DESH”. Right from the unification, Nepali have witnessed ongoing severity in terms of governance. Power snatching by any means has become style in Nepal. I don’t want to go back to 17th century to dig the past. Rather [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 25 July 2009
Joanna Lumley to look into Gurkha woes in Nepal - Times of India (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: British actress Joanna Lumley, who became the most recognised face in her own country of the British Gurkha soldiers’ fight for an end to discrimination, will be arriving in Nepal on a six-day visit Sunday for a first-hand assessment of …
India provides Nepal Rs 1.9 crore for school buildings - Hindustan Times (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood on Saturday handed over two newly constructed school buildings worth Rs 1.96 crore to the local communities in Kathmandu. The school buildings for Sri Amar Singh Model Higher Secondary School in Pokhara and …
Gurkhas’ hero Lumley on Nepal trip - Entertainment.uk.msn.com (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley is leaving for a trip to Nepal, where she is expected to be welcomed as a heroine by thousands of Gurkhas and their families. The Absolutely Fabulous actress’s role in a campaign to allow those who fought for Britain to settle here was …
Gurkha soldier reduced to begging seek help from British actress - New Kerala (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 25 : Durga Bahadur Sunwar fought during World War II as part of the British Army’s Gurkha Brigade and lost his right leg. Today the 78-year-old lives in abject poverty in Nepal’s Lumbini region, having received no compensation or …
Peace process in Nepal has stagnated: UN - Hindustan Times (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
Efforts to bring stability in Nepal are suffering setbacks, Karin Landgren, the special representative of the UN secretary-general for Nepal, said here. “The peace process has stagnated in Nepal to a certain degree,” she said at a press briefing on …
Police in UP bust racket of girl running from Nepal to Gulf countries - Newstrack India (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
Gorakhpur, July 25 (ANI): Police officials of Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district recently detained five women, who were allegedly being taken to Gulf countries for flesh trade. Passports recovered from them indicated that they are citizens of Nepal …
YCL cadre murdered in Terai - New Kerala (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Jul 25 : An unidentified group gunned down the central leader of the Unified CPN (Maoist) affiliated Young Communist League (YCL), Laxman Yadav, in Rautahat. ”His body appeared to have bullet injuries. Yadav was also the member of the …
Nepali president, PM get black belts - Xinhua News Agency (July 18, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 18 (Xinhua) — World Taekwondo Federation and World Taekwondo Headquarters awarded Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, Constituent Assembly chairperson Subash Chandra Nembang and Minister for Youth and …
Nepali Times
Asia’s other eclipse (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
This century’s longest solar eclipse moved across Asia on 22 July wowing scientists and the public alike. Asia’s media should take as much interest in the eclipse of news about poverty, injustice and neglect in Asian
Flight of the eclipse (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
It was touted as the world’s most spectacular mountain flight: flying past Mt Everest during a total solar eclipse. But it was not to be because a massive monsoon system covered the whole of southeastern Nepal on Wednesday morning, right on the path of
Maoist rehabilitation (July 18, 2009) - [read more]
The process of discharging the disqualified Maoist combatants living in the cantonment faces difficulty to
New budget (July 13, 2009) - [read more]
Finance Minister Surendra Pandey unveiled a budget of Rs 285.93 billion for the fiscal year
Top three (July 12, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal secured third position in the ACC Women T20 U-19 Championship
by defeating
A state of lawlessness (July 11, 2009) - [read more]
The journey itself became a metaphor for the present state of the
Programs and policies (July 9, 2009) - [read more]
President Ram Baran Yadav presented the government’s programs and policies for the new fiscal year on Thursday’s budget session.
Nepal’s first loss (July 8, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s unbeaten run in the ACC Women’s Twenty-20 Championship ended with Thailand’s win with 23 runs in the final league match on
Nepal News
Gurkhas’ hero Lumley on Nepal trip (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley is leaving for a trip to Nepal, where she is expected to be welcomed as a heroine by thousands of Gurkhas and their families.
There were cries of pain everywhere: Nepal accident survivor (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
A 55-year-old bicycle mechanic from India’s Birsinghpur village recounted in stunned disbelief how a pilgrimage to Nepal turned into death and pain in pre-dawn darkness.
Nepal to rebuild royal massacre house (July 23, 2009) - [read more]
Eight years after Nepal’s crown prince gunned down most of his royal family, the government is to rebuild the house where the massacre took place, the prime minister’s spokesman said Thursday.
No rest for Nepal’s royal ghosts (July 23, 2009) - [read more]
More than eight years after its royal family perished in a shocking massacre in the tightly guarded palace and 14 months after the kingdom of Nepal gave the coup de grace to its once-revered institution of monarchy, the royal ghosts have been resurrected with the new government announcing it would rebuild the massacre site.
Spectacular panorama captured of the Himalayas from hot air balloon (July 23, 2009) - [read more]
Everest: British film maker and adventure cameraman Leo Dickinson took the photograph on a record-breaking balloon flight over Everest Photo: SWNS The remarkable photograph overlooks the world’s highest peaks and was taken in the stratosphere at an altitude of 36,000ft. It is believed to be the highest panoramic picture taken by hand from a …
Solar eclipse bodes ill for India, Nepal, China, says soothsayer (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 22 One of Nepal’s best-known astrologers, a globe-trotter who has attended astrological meets in Britain, Japan, France and Germany, warned that Wednesday’s solar eclipse would cause further unrest in India, Nepal and China.
Police shoot dead rebel leader in central Nepal (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
Nepali police on Wednesday claimed that a military commander of Terai-based rebel group TeraiMadhesh Rastra Mukti Sena has been shot dead in police firing in Janakpur, some 120 km south of capital Kathmandu.
Natural phenomenon eclipse, adopt by tough rituals in Nepal (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
Being unaware of the fact that solar eclipse is a natural phenomenon, Nepali people perform toughest rituals regarding religious beliefs.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal: A Country Cursed by a Widow? (July 19, 2009) - [read more]
By Krishna Giri
I don’t think any Nepali will raise their eyebrows when they hear- “SATI LE SARAPEKO DESH”. Right from the unification, Nepali have witnessed ongoing severity in terms of governance. Power snatching by any means has become style in Nepal. I don’t want to go back to 17th century to dig the past. Rather [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 24 July 2009
There were cries of pain everywhere: Nepal accident survivor - Thaindian.com (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 24 (IANS) A 55-year-old bicycle mechanic from India’s Birsinghpur village recounted in stunned disbelief how a pilgrimage to Nepal turned into death and pain in pre-dawn darkness. Ram Bahadur Gupta was one of the lucky passengers in …
After Nepal Maoists, UN objects to Indian arms sale - Times of India (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: After Nepal’s former ruling party, the Maoists, warned the government that the resumption of arms sale by India would derail the fragile peace process, the UN is now asking Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal not to go through any such …
Nepal probes elephant ‘attacks’ - BBC South-Asia (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
Elephants from India are being blamed for the attacks Nepalese officials are visiting an area in the far east of the country to investigate attacks by elephants migrating from neighbouring India. More than 200 elephants are believed to have entered …
Peace process in Nepal stagnating, key UN official warns - New Kerala (July 23, 2009) - [read more]
United Nations, Jul 24 : The peace process in Nepal has stagnated, the top UN envoy to the South Asian Nation has said, as the Security Council extended the world body’s mission there for an additional six months. Yesterday’s unanimous Council …
UN extends Nepal peace mission - Financial Times (July 23, 2009) - [read more]
UNITED NATIONS, July 23 – The UN Security Council on Thursday extended the mandate of the UN mission in Nepal for another six months but urged the government to resume a stalled peace process to allow the mission to leave in January. Under a 2006 …
All parties equally responsible for Nepal crisis: UN - Deccan Herald (July 23, 2009) - [read more]
All sides are to be blamed equally for the stagnation in the current peace process in Nepal, a top UN official said and hoped the leaders of political parties will rise above their differences to resolve the crisis. Addressing a press conference at …
UN extends Nepal mission - Zee News (July 23, 2009) - [read more]
New York: The UN Security Council on Thursday decided to extend its mission in Nepal by six months until January next year. The decision was taken through a vote by the Security Council members. The UN mission in Nepal would now remain till January …
Indian pilgrim, 96, wife, 90, killed in road accident - New Kerala (July 23, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 24 : A pilgrimage to the revered Pashupatinath temple of Nepal turned into a death trap for a group of Indian pilgrims with three dying in an early morning road smash in western Nepal Friday. A bus, carrying mostly elderly Indian …
Nepali Times
Asia’s other eclipse (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
This century’s longest solar eclipsed moved across Asia on 22 July wowing scientists and the public alike. Asia’s media should take as much interest in the eclipse of news about poverty, injustice and neglect in Asian
Flight of the eclipse (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
It was touted as the world’s most spectacular mountain flight: flying past Mt Everest during a total solar eclipse. But it was not to be because a massive monsoon system covered the whole of southeastern Nepal on Wednesday morning, right on the path of
Maoist rehabilitation (July 18, 2009) - [read more]
The process of discharging the disqualified Maoist combatants living in the cantonment faces difficulty to
New budget (July 13, 2009) - [read more]
Finance Minister Surendra Pandey unveiled a budget of Rs 285.93 billion for the fiscal year
Top three (July 12, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal secured third position in the ACC Women T20 U-19 Championship
by defeating
A state of lawlessness (July 11, 2009) - [read more]
The journey itself became a metaphor for the present state of the
Programs and policies (July 9, 2009) - [read more]
President Ram Baran Yadav presented the government’s programs and policies for the new fiscal year on Thursday’s budget session.
Nepal’s first loss (July 8, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s unbeaten run in the ACC Women’s Twenty-20 Championship ended with Thailand’s win with 23 runs in the final league match on
Nepal News
Nepal to rebuild royal massacre house (July 23, 2009) - [read more]
Eight years after Nepal’s crown prince gunned down most of his royal family, the government is to rebuild the house where the massacre took place, the prime minister’s spokesman said Thursday.
No rest for Nepal’s royal ghosts (July 23, 2009) - [read more]
More than eight years after its royal family perished in a shocking massacre in the tightly guarded palace and 14 months after the kingdom of Nepal gave the coup de grace to its once-revered institution of monarchy, the royal ghosts have been resurrected with the new government announcing it would rebuild the massacre site.
Spectacular panorama captured of the Himalayas from hot air balloon (July 23, 2009) - [read more]
Everest: British film maker and adventure cameraman Leo Dickinson took the photograph on a record-breaking balloon flight over Everest Photo: SWNS The remarkable photograph overlooks the world’s highest peaks and was taken in the stratosphere at an altitude of 36,000ft. It is believed to be the highest panoramic picture taken by hand from a …
Solar eclipse bodes ill for India, Nepal, China, says soothsayer (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 22 One of Nepal’s best-known astrologers, a globe-trotter who has attended astrological meets in Britain, Japan, France and Germany, warned that Wednesday’s solar eclipse would cause further unrest in India, Nepal and China.
Police shoot dead rebel leader in central Nepal (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
Nepali police on Wednesday claimed that a military commander of Terai-based rebel group TeraiMadhesh Rastra Mukti Sena has been shot dead in police firing in Janakpur, some 120 km south of capital Kathmandu.
Natural phenomenon eclipse, adopt by tough rituals in Nepal (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
Being unaware of the fact that solar eclipse is a natural phenomenon, Nepali people perform toughest rituals regarding religious beliefs.
Post-election optimism fades in Nepal (July 21, 2009) - [read more]
In this file picture, Nepalese Maoist leaders Baburam Bhattarai, Hishila Yami, Ram Bahadur Thapa alies Badal and Pushpa Kamal Dahal, alias Prachanda pose in the village of Gaam in the western Rolpa disctrict of Nepal When Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal stood for prime minister last August, his party pronounced it a “golden dawn” for Nepal after …
Buddhist priest to exorcise ‘ghosts of war’ in Nepal (July 20, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 17 : As Nepal’s new government Friday began the process of releasing child soldiers held in Maoist camps as a step towards bolstering the peace process, a Buddhist priest said he would add to the efforts by exorcising the ‘ghosts of war’. Born Phurba Tasi Gurung in one of the biggest and most inaccessible districts of Nepal, the …
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal: A Country Cursed by a Widow? (July 19, 2009) - [read more]
By Krishna Giri
I don’t think any Nepali will raise their eyebrows when they hear- “SATI LE SARAPEKO DESH”. Right from the unification, Nepali have witnessed ongoing severity in terms of governance. Power snatching by any means has become style in Nepal. I don’t want to go back to 17th century to dig the past. Rather [...]
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 [...]