Nepal News archive for 31 August 2009
Nepal’s ex-prince Paras linked to Dawood’s fake currency racket - Hindustan Times (August 31, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s ex-prince Paras, son of the former Nepal king Gyanendra, has been linked to a fake currency racket run by India’s most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim. This was revealed by two Nepali nationals caught by the Madhya Pradesh ATS. The two …
Former Nepal prince fake note kingpin? - Economic Times (August 31, 2009) - [read more]
BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh anti-terror squad on Monday arrested two Nepalese with fake Indian currency notes (FICN) who, on being interrogated, made the startling disclosure that the kingpin of the racket was none other than Nepal’s former crown …
Regional conference on climate change to be held in Nepal - People’s Daily Online (August 31, 2009) - [read more]
A two-day regional gathering on climate change will start on Monday in Nepali capital Kathmandu. The conference will discuss the risks caused by global warning among South Asian countries as well as to find out a common agenda to be put forth at the …
Oath & language ~ Nepal V-P not out of the woods - Statesman (August 31, 2009) - [read more]
NEPAL’s Vice-President, Mr Parmanand Jha, has found himself at the centre of controversy ever since he took the oath of office and secrecy in Hindi in July last year, instead of the official Nepali. The oath was written in Nepali but Jha is said to …
Nepal ex-prince kingpin of fake notes racket? - Times of India (August 31, 2009) - [read more]
BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh anti-terror squad on Monday arrested two Nepalese with fake Indian currency notes (FICN) who, on being interrogated, made the startling disclosure that the kingpin of the racket was none other than Nepal’s former crown …
Nepal Vice President refuses to take oath in Nepali, vacates office - New Kerala (August 31, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 31 : Nepal Vice President Paramananda Jha vacated his office today following his refusal to take a fresh oath in Nepali as per the August 23 Supreme Court verdict, according to reports in Himalayan Times and Kathmandu Post. The …
Nepali chases ‘Korean dream’ - Korea Herald (August 31, 2009) - [read more]
JEONJU, North Jeolla Province - Shiba Raj Pokharel is a bit of an ethnic rarity in a city not exactly known for its diverse range of expats (or their cuisines). It doesn’t seem to bother him. Raj, as he prefers to call himself, said there are around …
Supreme Court against vice president who refuses oath of office in … - AsiaNews.IT (August 31, 2009) - [read more]
Parmananda Jha took his oath of office in Hindi. The Supreme Court has ruled it was unlawful, demanding he retake it in Nepali or resign. Kathmandu (AsiaNews) – The ultimatum by the Supreme Court of Nepal to Vice President Parmananda Jha to re-take …
Nepali Times
Jha defies court (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
The Vice President Parmananda Jha refuses to retake his oath but won’t resign.
New chairperson (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
NC nominee CA member Nilambar Acharya has been elected chairperson of the Constitutional Committee.
Airport delays (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu airport is seeing major delays of up to three hours on Thursday morning after cracks were discovered on the southern and northern thresholds of the only
Stalemates ahoy (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
The Hindi oath row has caused another political
Homecoming (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returned to Kathmandu on Saturday afternoon after five-day official visit to India.
James J Donnelly, teacher (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
He found his greatest reward in the successes, small or big, of his students.
Trust-building (August 20, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s visit to India ends on subdued note
Goodwill visit (August 18, 2009) - [read more]
The prime minister’s upcoming trip to India is strictly a goodwill visit, say authorities.
Nepal News
1st climate talks in Himalayas (August 31, 2009) - [read more]
NEPAL’S prime minister opened the first climate change conference of Himalayan nations on Monday with a warning about the dangers of melting glaciers, floods and violent storms for the region.
Nepal conduit for fake Indian currency from Pakistan (August 31, 2009) - [read more]
The arrest of a Nepali youth from Uttar Pradesh’s border town of Rupadiha with fake Indian currency notes has exposed how Nepal was being used as a conduit for counterfeit Indian notes printed in Pakistan, police said Monday.
Asian countries to meet over swine flu next month (August 31, 2009) - [read more]
New Delhi, Aug 31 : Health ministers from 11 Asian countries, including India, and World Health Organisation experts are set to meet in Nepal in September to discuss swine flu preparedness with apprehensions that the influenza A virus may become more virulent during winter.
16th SAARC summit to be held in Bhutan (August 31, 2009) - [read more]
The 16th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Summit is scheduled to be held in the Bhutanese capital Thimphu on April 28-29, 2010, a Nepali local media reported on Saturday.
Nepal’s armed groups (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
Based on evidences like threat notes, phone calls, fax copies and pamphlets collected from crime scenes, the Ministry of Home Affairs has recently released names of 109 armed groups and outfits assumed to be operating inside the country.
Armed Indian cop arrested in Nepal (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
BIRATNAGAR: The police on Wednesday arrested two persons, among which one claimed to be an Indian police, along with arms from Sanishchaur of Morang.
Glacial melt threatens Nepal (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
OVER two decades, Funuru Sherpa has watched the lake above his native village of Dengboche in Nepal’s Himalayas grow, as the glacier that feeds it melts.
Nepal vice-president under fresh attack (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Within hours of Nepala s government announcing it would take stringent action against an obscure armed group that had exploded a bomb nearA beleaguered Vice-President Paramananda Jhaa s residence Friday night, attackers tried to set off a second bomb that, however, was detected by police and neutralised before it could cause any damage.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal’s Political Impasse (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
Ending his five-day official and ‘mandatory’ India tour, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returns to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal that is going through the turbulent times: Opposition threatening to bring down a shaky coalition, anti-nationalist forces based in Nepal-India border launching vicious attacks against the State in Terai and a fragile peace process [...]
Face Value: Being a Nepali in India (August 9, 2009) - [read more]
What are Nepalis and Indians supposed to look like? Search me!
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article first appeared in today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF page It’s also available in eKantipur, and the official web page of the Post.
I often carry my passport these days in Delhi whenever I go out. Not that a [...]
Maoist Showdown Begins in Nepal, Again (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
Maoists block the house proceedings and have warned to stage a series of protests from both the streets and the parliament if the issue of civilian supremacy is not resolved. Prime Minister Nepal makes it clear to the Maoist chairman Prachanda that there will be no discussion on resolution motion against the President
Prime Minister Madhav [...]
Life and Death in Kandahar (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
Chopper crash survivor retells
By Dinesh Wagle
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page. Here is Nepali version PDF with more details that appeared in Kantipur daily.]
NEW DELHI- Bishnu Malla was probably the happiest man in the flight when he left Kathmandu two and half months ago. The [...]
Never Again: Maoists in Nepal and India (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s Maoist conflict has thankfully ended while India seems to have begun its own.
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page.]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
“An amazing, heart gripping and emotionally loaded showcase of the reasons why not to go to war! Hope [these] photos… act as a [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 30 August 2009
Regional conference on climate change to be held in Nepal - Xinhua News Agency (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) — A two-day regional gathering on climate change will start on Monday in Nepali capital Kathmandu. The conference will discuss the risks caused by global warning among South Asian countries as well as to find out a common …
Parliamentarians’ seminar on climate change held in Nepal - Xinhua News Agency (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) — A day-long seminar of parliamentarians of three South Asian countries to formulate a common concept on the climate change to tackle its challenges was held in Nepal on Sunday. Parliamentarians from Nepal, Bangladesh and …
Arduous life in Nepal’s parched hills - BBC South-Asia (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
Nestling on the side of a forested hill in western Nepal, the village of Bhattegaun is a collection of straw and thatched huts dotted between small fields of wheat and rice. Farming is poor. There are no irrigation channels and the villagers rely on …
Nepal VP spurns oath deadline - Hindustan Times (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
Terming it as “unconstitutional” a defiant Nepalese Vice President on Sunday refused to obey Supreme Court’s directive asking him to re-take oath of office in Nepali language or resign from his post. While the government asked Vice President …
Jha defiance plunges Nepal into crisis - Statesman (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, 30 AUG: Nepal’s embattled Vice President today boycotted an oath taking ceremony scheduled by the government, defying a week-long deadline set by the Supreme Court to take a fresh oath of office in the Nepali language, thereby plunging …
South Asian Nations Meet to Combat Climate Threat to Himalayas - Bloomberg (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — South Asian nations are discussing how to prevent climate change in the Himalayan mountains, the world’s highest range, bringing more natural disasters to an area where 750 million people regularly face floods and drought …
West piles pressure on Nepal - Gulf News (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Western powers pressed Nepal yesterday for an independent probe into the fate of people missing during a decade-long civil war, piling pressure on the government over an issue seen as crucial for lasting peace in the country. The Red Cross …
Nepal vice president spurns oath deadline - New Kerala (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 30 : Nepal’s three-month-old government was plunged into a constitutional crisis Sunday with embattled Vice President Paramananda Jha rejecting a double deadline set for him by the government and Supreme Court to take his oath of …
Nepali Times
Jha defies court (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
The Vice President Parmananda Jha refuses to retake his oath but won’t resign.
New chairperson (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
NC nominee CA member Nilambar Acharya has been elected chairperson of the Constitutional Committee.
Airport delays (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu airport is seeing major delays of up to three hours on Thursday morning after cracks were discovered on the southern and northern thresholds of the only
Stalemates ahoy (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
The Hindi oath row has caused another political
Homecoming (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returned to Kathmandu on Saturday afternoon after five-day official visit to India.
James J Donnelly, teacher (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
He found his greatest reward in the successes, small or big, of his students.
Trust-building (August 20, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s visit to India ends on subdued note
Goodwill visit (August 18, 2009) - [read more]
The prime minister’s upcoming trip to India is strictly a goodwill visit, say authorities.
Nepal News
Armed Indian cop arrested in Nepal (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
BIRATNAGAR: The police on Wednesday arrested two persons, among which one claimed to be an Indian police, along with arms from Sanishchaur of Morang.
Glacial melt threatens Nepal (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
OVER two decades, Funuru Sherpa has watched the lake above his native village of Dengboche in Nepal’s Himalayas grow, as the glacier that feeds it melts.
Nepal vice-president under fresh attack (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Within hours of Nepala s government announcing it would take stringent action against an obscure armed group that had exploded a bomb nearA beleaguered Vice-President Paramananda Jhaa s residence Friday night, attackers tried to set off a second bomb that, however, was detected by police and neutralised before it could cause any damage.
On his 51st birthday, MJ lives on - in Nepal (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
More than two months after he died of a drug overdose, which has now been ruled as homicide, `King of pop’ Michael Jackson lives on - in Nepal.
Aid agency: Climate change causing ‘deeply worrying’ food shortages for millions in Nepal (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
Millions of people in Nepal face severe food shortages because global climate change has disrupted weather patterns and slashed crop yields in the Himalayan nation, an international aid agency warned Friday.
Himalayan nations to hold first climate talks (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: South Asian ministers will gather in Nepal next week for talks on the threat that climate change poses to the Himalayas and to the 1.3 billion people dependent on water flowing from the mountains.
Nepal’s V-P challenges Supreme Court verdict (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
Madhesi activists and their supporters are detained during a protest near the Supreme Court in Kathmandu yesterday.
Mumbai attacks case witness saw accused exchange maps (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
Mumbai: A key witness in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case told a court yesterday that he had seen two Lashkar-e-Taiba activists exchanging maps of various targets in the city.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal’s Political Impasse (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
Ending his five-day official and ‘mandatory’ India tour, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returns to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal that is going through the turbulent times: Opposition threatening to bring down a shaky coalition, anti-nationalist forces based in Nepal-India border launching vicious attacks against the State in Terai and a fragile peace process [...]
Face Value: Being a Nepali in India (August 9, 2009) - [read more]
What are Nepalis and Indians supposed to look like? Search me!
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article first appeared in today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF page It’s also available in eKantipur, and the official web page of the Post.
I often carry my passport these days in Delhi whenever I go out. Not that a [...]
Maoist Showdown Begins in Nepal, Again (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
Maoists block the house proceedings and have warned to stage a series of protests from both the streets and the parliament if the issue of civilian supremacy is not resolved. Prime Minister Nepal makes it clear to the Maoist chairman Prachanda that there will be no discussion on resolution motion against the President
Prime Minister Madhav [...]
Life and Death in Kandahar (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
Chopper crash survivor retells
By Dinesh Wagle
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page. Here is Nepali version PDF with more details that appeared in Kantipur daily.]
NEW DELHI- Bishnu Malla was probably the happiest man in the flight when he left Kathmandu two and half months ago. The [...]
Never Again: Maoists in Nepal and India (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s Maoist conflict has thankfully ended while India seems to have begun its own.
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page.]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
“An amazing, heart gripping and emotionally loaded showcase of the reasons why not to go to war! Hope [these] photos… act as a [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 29 August 2009
Nepal vice-president gets death threats over Hindi - Gulf Times (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
Madhesi activists and their supporters burn an effigy of Supreme Court chief justice Min Bahadur Rayamajhi during a protest in Kathmandu yesterday. They were protesting against a Supreme Court verdict that required Vice President Paramananda Jha to …
The Established System in Nepal - Newsblaze.com (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
I support the opinion of John Child about the established system in Nepal. The Nepalese language is one of the symbols of Nepalese unity. The language is not the problem of Nepal. But some Indian agents are going to disturb the Nepalese unity. You …
No last word on Nepal’s Hindi row - Times of India (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Last year’s photograph takes pride of place in Paramananda Jha’s drawing room. It has Jha dressed in dhoti-kurta and a jacket, being sworn in as the Nepalese republic’s first vice-president. But that momentous occasion captured on …
Melting glaciers threaten ‘Nepal tsunami’ - Terra Daily (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
Over two decades, Funuru Sherpa has watched the lake above his native village of Dengboche in Nepal’s Himalayas grow, as the glacier that feeds it melts. The 29-year-old, who runs a busy Internet cafe for tourists visiting the Everest region …
Bombers target Nepal’s vice-president again (Lead) - Thaindian.com (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 29 (IANS) Nepal’s embattled Vice-President Paramananda Jha, who had survived unscathed a bomb attack near his residence Friday, had a second narrow escape Saturday after police unearthed another bomb and defused it. Kathmandu police …
One more bomb defused near Nepali vice president’s house - Xinhua News Agency (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) — Another bomb on Saturday was found near the residence of Vice President, Paramananda Jha, in Nepali capital Kathmandu. A bomb specialist team of Nepali police defused the bomb following the information received on …
Nepal plans to lift restrictions on recruitment of maids to Mideast - Gulf News (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
Dubai: Nepal is considering lifting a ban on the recruitment of housemaids in the Middle East, said Mohammad Aftab Alam, the Nepalese Minister of Labour and Transport Management. Alam who is in Dubai for the third two-day Non-Resident Nepalese (NRN …
Bombers target Nepal’s vice-president again (Lead) - Webindia 123 (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s embattled Vice-President Paramananda Jha, who had survived unscathed a bomb attack near his residence Friday, had a second narrow escape Saturday after police unearthed another bomb and defused it. Kathmandu police said the second bomb had …
Nepali Times
New chairperson (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
NC nominee CA member Nilambar Acharya has been elected chairperson of the Constitutional Committee.
Airport delays (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu airport is seeing major delays of up to three hours on Thursday morning after cracks were discovered on the southern and northern thresholds of the only
Stalemates ahoy (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
The Hindi oath row has caused another political
Homecoming (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returned to Kathmandu on Saturday afternoon after five-day official visit to India.
James J Donnelly, teacher (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
He found his greatest reward in the successes, small or big, of his students.
Trust-building (August 20, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s visit to India ends on subdued note
Goodwill visit (August 18, 2009) - [read more]
The prime minister’s upcoming trip to India is strictly a goodwill visit, say authorities.
‘Where Worlds Collide’ (August 10, 2009) - [read more]
353 new Himalyan species commemorated as part of a WWF initiative to bring attention to a looming ecological crisis in the Eastern Himalayas.
Nepal News
On his 51st birthday, MJ lives on - in Nepal (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
More than two months after he died of a drug overdose, which has now been ruled as homicide, `King of pop’ Michael Jackson lives on - in Nepal.
Aid agency: Climate change causing ‘deeply worrying’ food shortages for millions in Nepal (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
Millions of people in Nepal face severe food shortages because global climate change has disrupted weather patterns and slashed crop yields in the Himalayan nation, an international aid agency warned Friday.
Himalayan nations to hold first climate talks (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: South Asian ministers will gather in Nepal next week for talks on the threat that climate change poses to the Himalayas and to the 1.3 billion people dependent on water flowing from the mountains.
Nepal’s V-P challenges Supreme Court verdict (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
Madhesi activists and their supporters are detained during a protest near the Supreme Court in Kathmandu yesterday.
Mumbai attacks case witness saw accused exchange maps (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
Mumbai: A key witness in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case told a court yesterday that he had seen two Lashkar-e-Taiba activists exchanging maps of various targets in the city.
Nepal begins to implement PAN system (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
The Nepali government has begun a drive to implement the Permanent Account Number system in a bid to keep track of all monetary transactions in the country and prevent tax evasion, according to local media Tuesday.
‘Bamboo schools’ bring hope to Nepal’s poor (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
When Uttam Sanjel began giving reading classes to street children in the Nepalese capital in the 1990s, he had little idea what his small teaching scheme would one day turn into.
Who killed Nepal’s king? Another theory surfaces (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Eight tumultuous years after the massacre of Nepal’s king Birendra and his entire family in the tightly guarded royal palace, fresh theories are still surfacing in this country about who plotted the bloodbath.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal’s Political Impasse (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
Ending his five-day official and ‘mandatory’ India tour, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returns to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal that is going through the turbulent times: Opposition threatening to bring down a shaky coalition, anti-nationalist forces based in Nepal-India border launching vicious attacks against the State in Terai and a fragile peace process [...]
Face Value: Being a Nepali in India (August 9, 2009) - [read more]
What are Nepalis and Indians supposed to look like? Search me!
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article first appeared in today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF page It’s also available in eKantipur, and the official web page of the Post.
I often carry my passport these days in Delhi whenever I go out. Not that a [...]
Maoist Showdown Begins in Nepal, Again (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
Maoists block the house proceedings and have warned to stage a series of protests from both the streets and the parliament if the issue of civilian supremacy is not resolved. Prime Minister Nepal makes it clear to the Maoist chairman Prachanda that there will be no discussion on resolution motion against the President
Prime Minister Madhav [...]
Life and Death in Kandahar (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
Chopper crash survivor retells
By Dinesh Wagle
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page. Here is Nepali version PDF with more details that appeared in Kantipur daily.]
NEW DELHI- Bishnu Malla was probably the happiest man in the flight when he left Kathmandu two and half months ago. The [...]
Never Again: Maoists in Nepal and India (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s Maoist conflict has thankfully ended while India seems to have begun its own.
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page.]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
“An amazing, heart gripping and emotionally loaded showcase of the reasons why not to go to war! Hope [these] photos… act as a [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 28 August 2009
Nepal’s V-P challenges Supreme Court verdict - Gulf Times (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
Madhesi activists and their supporters are detained during a protest near the Supreme Court in Kathmandu yesterday. The activists and their supporters were protesting against a Supreme Court verdict that required Vice President Paramananda Jha to …
Nepal’s Hindi war: Embattled vice president strikes back (Lead) - New Kerala (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 28 : Nepal’s ongoing ‘Hindi battle’ saw a new twist Friday with embattled Vice President Paramananda Jha, who had been ordered by the apex court to re-take his oath of office in Nepali by Sunday or face dismissal, striking back. Jha, a …
Nepal’s Hindi war: Embattled vice president strikes back (Lead) - Thaindian.com (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 28 (IANS) Nepal’s ongoing “Hindi battle” saw a new twist Friday with embattled Vice President Paramananda Jha, who had been ordered by the apex court to re-take his oath of office in Nepali by Sunday or face dismissal, striking …
Blast near Nepal VP’s home, one hurt - Times of India (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: A blast went off just outside the home of Nepal’s vice president in a Kathmandu suburb on Friday, injuring one person, police said. Vice President Paramananda Jha, who was at home at the time, was unhurt, his family said. “It was a big …
Blast near Nepal vice president’s home, one hurt - Reuters India (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A blast went off just outside the home of Nepal’s vice president in a Kathmandu suburb on Friday, injuring one person, police said. Vice President Paramananda Jha, who was at home at the time, was unhurt, his family said. “It …
Dialect Dialectic in Nepal - Newsblaze.com (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
The squabble in Nepal over the vice president’s oath has gotten messier as leaders consider invoking a provision in the interim constitution that allows the cabinet and prime minister to reverse court decisions. The Maoists look like the only winners …
Nepal’s Hindi war boomerangs on judiciary - Times of India (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s snowballing Hindi war Friday boomeranged back on the republic’s controversial judiciary with Vice-President Paramananda Jha, the man at the heart of the battle, firing back a double salvo. The 65-year-old former Supreme Court judge …
Nepal army personnel must be held accountable for rights abuses, says … - UN News Centre (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
Richard Bennett of the human rights office (OHCHR) in Nepal (file Photo) 28 August 2009 – A senior United Nations official in Nepal has stressed the need to investigate alleged human rights violations committed by members of the national army …
Nepali Times
New chairperson (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
NC nominee CA member Nilambar Acharya has been elected chairperson of the Constitutional Committee.
Airport delays (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu airport is seeing major delays of up to three hours on Thursday morning after cracks were discovered on the southern and northern thresholds of the only
Stalemates ahoy (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
The Hindi oath row has caused another political
Homecoming (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returned to Kathmandu on Saturday afternoon after five-day official visit to India.
James J Donnelly, teacher (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
He found his greatest reward in the successes, small or big, of his students.
Trust-building (August 20, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s visit to India ends on subdued note
Goodwill visit (August 18, 2009) - [read more]
The prime minister’s upcoming trip to India is strictly a goodwill visit, say authorities.
‘Where Worlds Collide’ (August 10, 2009) - [read more]
353 new Himalyan species commemorated as part of a WWF initiative to bring attention to a looming ecological crisis in the Eastern Himalayas.
Nepal News
Nepal’s V-P challenges Supreme Court verdict (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
Madhesi activists and their supporters are detained during a protest near the Supreme Court in Kathmandu yesterday.
Mumbai attacks case witness saw accused exchange maps (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
Mumbai: A key witness in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case told a court yesterday that he had seen two Lashkar-e-Taiba activists exchanging maps of various targets in the city.
Nepal begins to implement PAN system (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
The Nepali government has begun a drive to implement the Permanent Account Number system in a bid to keep track of all monetary transactions in the country and prevent tax evasion, according to local media Tuesday.
‘Bamboo schools’ bring hope to Nepal’s poor (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
When Uttam Sanjel began giving reading classes to street children in the Nepalese capital in the 1990s, he had little idea what his small teaching scheme would one day turn into.
Who killed Nepal’s king? Another theory surfaces (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Eight tumultuous years after the massacre of Nepal’s king Birendra and his entire family in the tightly guarded royal palace, fresh theories are still surfacing in this country about who plotted the bloodbath.
Pressure mounts on Nepal vice-president (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
Jha, who has been ordered by the apex court to be sworn in again in Nepali by Sunday or face dismissal, remained torn between two dire options With only four days left for a Supreme Court ultimatum to end, Nepal’s embattled Vice President Paramanada Jha, who triggered an unprecedented furore by taking his oath of office in Hindi last year, faced …
India, Nepal pop stars team up for anti-trafficking campaign (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Pop stars from Nepal and India are teaming up for a series of concerts in Nepal’s main cities for an anti-trafficking campaign sponsored by MTV.
7 killed in floods in eastern Nepal (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
At least seven persons died, one went missing due to the floods that lashed the district of Jhapa in eastern Nepal last week, The Rising Nepal reported on Wednesday.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal’s Political Impasse (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
Ending his five-day official and ‘mandatory’ India tour, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returns to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal that is going through the turbulent times: Opposition threatening to bring down a shaky coalition, anti-nationalist forces based in Nepal-India border launching vicious attacks against the State in Terai and a fragile peace process [...]
Face Value: Being a Nepali in India (August 9, 2009) - [read more]
What are Nepalis and Indians supposed to look like? Search me!
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article first appeared in today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF page It’s also available in eKantipur, and the official web page of the Post.
I often carry my passport these days in Delhi whenever I go out. Not that a [...]
Maoist Showdown Begins in Nepal, Again (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
Maoists block the house proceedings and have warned to stage a series of protests from both the streets and the parliament if the issue of civilian supremacy is not resolved. Prime Minister Nepal makes it clear to the Maoist chairman Prachanda that there will be no discussion on resolution motion against the President
Prime Minister Madhav [...]
Life and Death in Kandahar (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
Chopper crash survivor retells
By Dinesh Wagle
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page. Here is Nepali version PDF with more details that appeared in Kantipur daily.]
NEW DELHI- Bishnu Malla was probably the happiest man in the flight when he left Kathmandu two and half months ago. The [...]
Never Again: Maoists in Nepal and India (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s Maoist conflict has thankfully ended while India seems to have begun its own.
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page.]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
“An amazing, heart gripping and emotionally loaded showcase of the reasons why not to go to war! Hope [these] photos… act as a [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 28 August 2009
Nepal’s V-P challenges Supreme Court verdict - Gulf Times (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
Madhesi activists and their supporters are detained during a protest near the Supreme Court in Kathmandu yesterday. The activists and their supporters were protesting against a Supreme Court verdict that required Vice President Paramananda Jha to …
Blast Near Nepal Vice President’s Home, One Hurt - Post Chronicle (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
A blast went off just outside the home of Nepal’s vice president in a Kathmandu suburb on Friday, injuring one person, police said. Vice President Paramananda Jha, who was at home at the time, was unhurt, his family said. “It was a big explosion …
Nepal’s Hindi war: Embattled vice president strikes back (Lead) - New Kerala (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 28 : Nepal’s ongoing ‘Hindi battle’ saw a new twist Friday with embattled Vice President Paramananda Jha, who had been ordered by the apex court to re-take his oath of office in Nepali by Sunday or face dismissal, striking back. Jha, a …
Nepal’s Hindi war: Embattled vice president strikes back (Lead) - Thaindian.com (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 28 (IANS) Nepal’s ongoing “Hindi battle” saw a new twist Friday with embattled Vice President Paramananda Jha, who had been ordered by the apex court to re-take his oath of office in Nepali by Sunday or face dismissal, striking …
Blast near Nepal VP’s home, one hurt - Times of India (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: A blast went off just outside the home of Nepal’s vice president in a Kathmandu suburb on Friday, injuring one person, police said. Vice President Paramananda Jha, who was at home at the time, was unhurt, his family said. “It was a big …
UNMIN clarifies its arms monitoring mandate in Nepal - Xinhua News Agency (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) — The United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) on Friday issued a press statement on its arms monitoring mandate. Recent media reports have portrayed UNMIN as responsible for the overall management and supervision of …
Dialect Dialectic in Nepal - Newsblaze.com (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
The squabble in Nepal over the vice president’s oath has gotten messier as leaders consider invoking a provision in the interim constitution that allows the cabinet and prime minister to reverse court decisions. The Maoists look like the only winners …
Risk of revolt in refugee camps on the border between Bhutan and Nepal - AsiaNews.IT (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
The plight of the over 120 thousand Bhutanese exiles in Nepal has led to the emergence of Maoist groups in refugee camps. Indian sources raise the possibility of an armed insurrection in the coming months. Meanwhile, the Bhutanese government promises …
Nepali Times
New chairperson (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
NC nominee CA member Nilambar Acharya has been elected chairperson of the Constitutional Committee.
Airport delays (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu airport is seeing major delays of up to three hours on Thursday morning after cracks were discovered on the southern and northern thresholds of the only
Stalemates ahoy (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
The Hindi oath row has caused another political
Homecoming (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returned to Kathmandu on Saturday afternoon after five-day official visit to India.
James J Donnelly, teacher (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
He found his greatest reward in the successes, small or big, of his students.
Trust-building (August 20, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s visit to India ends on subdued note
Goodwill visit (August 18, 2009) - [read more]
The prime minister’s upcoming trip to India is strictly a goodwill visit, say authorities.
‘Where Worlds Collide’ (August 10, 2009) - [read more]
353 new Himalyan species commemorated as part of a WWF initiative to bring attention to a looming ecological crisis in the Eastern Himalayas.
Nepal News
Nepal’s V-P challenges Supreme Court verdict (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
Madhesi activists and their supporters are detained during a protest near the Supreme Court in Kathmandu yesterday.
Mumbai attacks case witness saw accused exchange maps (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
Mumbai: A key witness in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case told a court yesterday that he had seen two Lashkar-e-Taiba activists exchanging maps of various targets in the city.
Nepal begins to implement PAN system (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
The Nepali government has begun a drive to implement the Permanent Account Number system in a bid to keep track of all monetary transactions in the country and prevent tax evasion, according to local media Tuesday.
‘Bamboo schools’ bring hope to Nepal’s poor (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
When Uttam Sanjel began giving reading classes to street children in the Nepalese capital in the 1990s, he had little idea what his small teaching scheme would one day turn into.
Who killed Nepal’s king? Another theory surfaces (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Eight tumultuous years after the massacre of Nepal’s king Birendra and his entire family in the tightly guarded royal palace, fresh theories are still surfacing in this country about who plotted the bloodbath.
Pressure mounts on Nepal vice-president (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
Jha, who has been ordered by the apex court to be sworn in again in Nepali by Sunday or face dismissal, remained torn between two dire options With only four days left for a Supreme Court ultimatum to end, Nepal’s embattled Vice President Paramanada Jha, who triggered an unprecedented furore by taking his oath of office in Hindi last year, faced …
India, Nepal pop stars team up for anti-trafficking campaign (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Pop stars from Nepal and India are teaming up for a series of concerts in Nepal’s main cities for an anti-trafficking campaign sponsored by MTV.
7 killed in floods in eastern Nepal (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
At least seven persons died, one went missing due to the floods that lashed the district of Jhapa in eastern Nepal last week, The Rising Nepal reported on Wednesday.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal’s Political Impasse (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
Ending his five-day official and ‘mandatory’ India tour, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returns to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal that is going through the turbulent times: Opposition threatening to bring down a shaky coalition, anti-nationalist forces based in Nepal-India border launching vicious attacks against the State in Terai and a fragile peace process [...]
Face Value: Being a Nepali in India (August 9, 2009) - [read more]
What are Nepalis and Indians supposed to look like? Search me!
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article first appeared in today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF page It’s also available in eKantipur, and the official web page of the Post.
I often carry my passport these days in Delhi whenever I go out. Not that a [...]
Maoist Showdown Begins in Nepal, Again (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
Maoists block the house proceedings and have warned to stage a series of protests from both the streets and the parliament if the issue of civilian supremacy is not resolved. Prime Minister Nepal makes it clear to the Maoist chairman Prachanda that there will be no discussion on resolution motion against the President
Prime Minister Madhav [...]
Life and Death in Kandahar (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
Chopper crash survivor retells
By Dinesh Wagle
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page. Here is Nepali version PDF with more details that appeared in Kantipur daily.]
NEW DELHI- Bishnu Malla was probably the happiest man in the flight when he left Kathmandu two and half months ago. The [...]
Never Again: Maoists in Nepal and India (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s Maoist conflict has thankfully ended while India seems to have begun its own.
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page.]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
“An amazing, heart gripping and emotionally loaded showcase of the reasons why not to go to war! Hope [these] photos… act as a [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 27 August 2009
Nepali Congress, Maoists file candidacy for CC chair - New Kerala (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
Earlier, Maoists had propsed Dr Baburam Bhattarai for the post. Local media reports said Mr Bhattarai refused to file candidacy after the party could not get support of the Nepali Congress and UML. A meeting of the three major parties held here today …
Nepal’s Hindi row: 50 arrested for burning SC order copies - Hindustan Times (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
In further escalation of the Hindi row in Nepal, some 50 activists belonging to different political parties were arrested here today as they burnt copies of the Supreme Court order nullifying the Vice President’s oath taken in the language. Vice …
Legal battle for Sobhraj to begin again - Gulf Times (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
Legal battle for Sobhraj to begin again IANS/Kathmandu Nepal’s Supreme Court said it will start hearing from October 29 yesteryear’s ‘Serpent’ Charles Sobhraj’s appeal in a nearly 30-year-old murder case that, for the first time in a crime …
India, Nepal pop stars team up for anti-trafficking drive - Thaindian.com (August 24, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 24 (IANS) Pop stars from Nepal and India are teaming up for a series of concerts in Nepal’s main cities for an anti-trafficking campaign sponsored by MTV. Indian crooner Sunidhi Chauhan and Nepali pop icon as well as Coke’s poster …
Saw my friend Fahim give maps - Indian Express (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
A witness who described himself as a childhood friend of Fahim Ansari, one of the alleged conspirators in the Mumbai terror attack, said on Thursday that he had seen Fahim hand over some maps to co-accused Sabahuddin Ahmed in Nepal in January last …
India visit successful: Nepali PM - Xinhua News Agency (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) — Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, on returning from a five-day visit to India on Saturday, said his trip was a very successful. Speaking at the Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu, Prime Minister M.K …
Indian home minister meets Nepali counterpart - Xinhua News Agency (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) — Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday visited Nepal and met his Nepali counterpart Bhim Rawal on his way to Bhutan, local news website eKantipur reported. Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram suddenly came to …
Water, sanitation should be fundamental rights, say Nepali experts - Newstrack India (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug. 22 (ANI): Nepali experts appealed to the government to establish water and sanitation as fundamental rights in the new constitution, The Kathmandu Post reported on Saturday. The paper quoted Rabin Lal Shrestha, research and advocacy …
Nepali Times
Airport delays (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu airport is seeing major delays of up to three hours on Thursday morning after cracks were discovered on the southern and northern thresholds of the only
Stalemates ahoy (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
The Hindi oath row has caused another political
Homecoming (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returned to Kathmandu on Saturday afternoon after five-day official visit to India.
James J Donnelly, teacher (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
He found his greatest reward in the successes, small or big, of his students.
Trust-building (August 20, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s visit to India ends on subdued note
Goodwill visit (August 18, 2009) - [read more]
The prime minister’s upcoming trip to India is strictly a goodwill visit, say authorities.
‘Where Worlds Collide’ (August 10, 2009) - [read more]
353 new Himalyan species commemorated as part of a WWF initiative to bring attention to a looming ecological crisis in the Eastern Himalayas.
Obstruction (August 9, 2009) - [read more]
CA members are increasingly bemused as the Maoists continue to obstruct parliament in demand of ‘civilian supremacy’, imperiling the constitution-writing process.
Nepal News
Nepal begins to implement PAN system (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
The Nepali government has begun a drive to implement the Permanent Account Number system in a bid to keep track of all monetary transactions in the country and prevent tax evasion, according to local media Tuesday.
‘Bamboo schools’ bring hope to Nepal’s poor (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
When Uttam Sanjel began giving reading classes to street children in the Nepalese capital in the 1990s, he had little idea what his small teaching scheme would one day turn into.
Who killed Nepal’s king? Another theory surfaces (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Eight tumultuous years after the massacre of Nepal’s king Birendra and his entire family in the tightly guarded royal palace, fresh theories are still surfacing in this country about who plotted the bloodbath.
Pressure mounts on Nepal vice-president (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
Jha, who has been ordered by the apex court to be sworn in again in Nepali by Sunday or face dismissal, remained torn between two dire options With only four days left for a Supreme Court ultimatum to end, Nepal’s embattled Vice President Paramanada Jha, who triggered an unprecedented furore by taking his oath of office in Hindi last year, faced …
India, Nepal pop stars team up for anti-trafficking campaign (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Pop stars from Nepal and India are teaming up for a series of concerts in Nepal’s main cities for an anti-trafficking campaign sponsored by MTV.
7 killed in floods in eastern Nepal (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
At least seven persons died, one went missing due to the floods that lashed the district of Jhapa in eastern Nepal last week, The Rising Nepal reported on Wednesday.
Monsoon fury leaves 68 dead: Nepali gov’t (August 25, 2009) - [read more]
Landslides and flood havoc triggered by incessant rainfall this monsoon together with other kinds of natural disaster have claimed the lives of 68 people in the country, local newspaper The Himalayan Times reported on Tuesday.
India offers ‘full support’ to Nepal’s peace process (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
India Saturday offered its ‘full support’ to the peace process in Nepal, with both countries also saying they would hold discussions on reworking their Treaty of Peace and Friendship that was signed nearly six decades ago.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal’s Political Impasse (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
Ending his five-day official and ‘mandatory’ India tour, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returns to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal that is going through the turbulent times: Opposition threatening to bring down a shaky coalition, anti-nationalist forces based in Nepal-India border launching vicious attacks against the State in Terai and a fragile peace process [...]
Face Value: Being a Nepali in India (August 9, 2009) - [read more]
What are Nepalis and Indians supposed to look like? Search me!
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article first appeared in today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF page It’s also available in eKantipur, and the official web page of the Post.
I often carry my passport these days in Delhi whenever I go out. Not that a [...]
Maoist Showdown Begins in Nepal, Again (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
Maoists block the house proceedings and have warned to stage a series of protests from both the streets and the parliament if the issue of civilian supremacy is not resolved. Prime Minister Nepal makes it clear to the Maoist chairman Prachanda that there will be no discussion on resolution motion against the President
Prime Minister Madhav [...]
Life and Death in Kandahar (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
Chopper crash survivor retells
By Dinesh Wagle
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page. Here is Nepali version PDF with more details that appeared in Kantipur daily.]
NEW DELHI- Bishnu Malla was probably the happiest man in the flight when he left Kathmandu two and half months ago. The [...]
Never Again: Maoists in Nepal and India (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s Maoist conflict has thankfully ended while India seems to have begun its own.
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page.]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
“An amazing, heart gripping and emotionally loaded showcase of the reasons why not to go to war! Hope [these] photos… act as a [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 26 August 2009
Pressure mounts on Nepal vice-president - Gulf Times (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
Jha, who has been ordered by the apex court to be sworn in again in Nepali by Sunday or face dismissal, remained torn between two dire options With only four days left for a Supreme Court ultimatum to end, Nepal’s embattled Vice President …
Two Nepali students attacked - Deccan Herald (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
In an instance of violence against foreigners, two Nepali engineering students were attacked by unidentified assailants in the Jayanagar police station limits on Wednesday evening. A tipsy man picked up a quarrel with Sushil Rana and Anil Shiresh …
Priest went from St. X to Nepal - Cincinnati.com (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
After he was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1959, the Rev. James J. Donnelly had his heart set on doing missionary work in India. The Norwood native was deeply disappointed when he learned his missionary assignment was Nepal. But soon after arriving in …
Influenza A(H1N1) anxieties increase in Nepali hospitals - Balita News (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 26 — The number of people seeking Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) of A(H1N1) virus has recently increased in Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital (STIDH) in Nepali capital Kathmandu. Around 12 people visit the hospital …
‘No child should be left out because the family can’t pay’ - Daily News and Analysis (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
This month, the 35-year-old Kathmandu native, who was once an aspiring Hindi film actor, opened his tenth school in Nepal and revealed ambitious plans to provide affordable education for all children in the Himalayan nation. Over the past nine years …
Village evicts Pune worker over swine flu fear - Gulf Times (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
Village evicts Pune worker over swine flu fear IANS/Kathmandu An ailing man who returned home in far western Nepal after falling ill in India’s Pune city has been thrown out of his village due to mistaken fears that he had contracted swine flu and …
Nepal’s UCPN-M blocks house meeting - Xinhua News Agency (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) — The meeting of the Legislature-Parliament has been put off without entering into the work schedule after the lawmakers from the single largest and opposition party, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M …
Ancient Nepali cultural envoy to China Araniko commemorated - Xinhua News Agency (August 19, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) — A two-week long Araniko Art Exhibition to commemorate the “Nepali cultural envoy to China” Araniko is going on Thursday at the Nepal Art Council in Nepali capital Kathmandu. Marking the 730th anniversary of the …
Nepali Times
Stalemates ahoy (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
The Hindi oath row has caused another political
Homecoming (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returned to Kathmandu on Saturday afternoon after five-day official visit to India.
James J Donnelly, teacher (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
He found his greatest reward in the successes, small or big, of his students.
Trust-building (August 20, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s visit to India ends on subdued note
Goodwill visit (August 18, 2009) - [read more]
The prime minister’s upcoming trip to India is strictly a goodwill visit, say authorities.
‘Where Worlds Collide’ (August 10, 2009) - [read more]
353 new Himalyan species commemorated as part of a WWF initiative to bring attention to a looming ecological crisis in the Eastern Himalayas.
Obstruction (August 9, 2009) - [read more]
CA members are increasingly bemused as the Maoists continue to obstruct parliament in demand of ‘civilian supremacy’, imperiling the constitution-writing process.
Maoists to agitate today (August 7, 2009) - [read more]
The Maoists look set to begin protests today after the government refused to address ‘civilian supremacy’ in the legislature during a meeting of the 22 ruling parties on Thursday evening.
Nepal News
India, Nepal pop stars team up for anti-trafficking campaign (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Pop stars from Nepal and India are teaming up for a series of concerts in Nepal’s main cities for an anti-trafficking campaign sponsored by MTV.
7 killed in floods in eastern Nepal (August 26, 2009) - [read more]
At least seven persons died, one went missing due to the floods that lashed the district of Jhapa in eastern Nepal last week, The Rising Nepal reported on Wednesday.
Monsoon fury leaves 68 dead: Nepali gov’t (August 25, 2009) - [read more]
Landslides and flood havoc triggered by incessant rainfall this monsoon together with other kinds of natural disaster have claimed the lives of 68 people in the country, local newspaper The Himalayan Times reported on Tuesday.
India offers ‘full support’ to Nepal’s peace process (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
India Saturday offered its ‘full support’ to the peace process in Nepal, with both countries also saying they would hold discussions on reworking their Treaty of Peace and Friendship that was signed nearly six decades ago.
Nepal PM visits Rajghat (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
New Delhi, Aug.19 : Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, who is on a five-day official visit to India, visited Rajghat, the memorial dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, on Wednesday.
Nepal fears swine flu comeout from India (August 20, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: The quarantining of the first migrant Nepali worker returning from India by land has raised the fear of an outbreak of swine flu in the Himalayan republic from the neighbouring country, where the toll has reached 26.
Nepal PM arrives, hopes to strengthen ties with India (August 19, 2009) - [read more]
Nepala s Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal arrived here on Tuesday on a five-day official visit, as the head of a 64-member delegation.
China eyes Nepal’s mining sector (August 18, 2009) - [read more]
In the last fiscal, around 14 Chinese companies sought the permission of the industry department to extract natural resources like placer gold, copper and natural gas.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal’s Political Impasse (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
Ending his five-day official and ‘mandatory’ India tour, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returns to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal that is going through the turbulent times: Opposition threatening to bring down a shaky coalition, anti-nationalist forces based in Nepal-India border launching vicious attacks against the State in Terai and a fragile peace process [...]
Face Value: Being a Nepali in India (August 9, 2009) - [read more]
What are Nepalis and Indians supposed to look like? Search me!
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article first appeared in today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF page It’s also available in eKantipur, and the official web page of the Post.
I often carry my passport these days in Delhi whenever I go out. Not that a [...]
Maoist Showdown Begins in Nepal, Again (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
Maoists block the house proceedings and have warned to stage a series of protests from both the streets and the parliament if the issue of civilian supremacy is not resolved. Prime Minister Nepal makes it clear to the Maoist chairman Prachanda that there will be no discussion on resolution motion against the President
Prime Minister Madhav [...]
Life and Death in Kandahar (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
Chopper crash survivor retells
By Dinesh Wagle
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page. Here is Nepali version PDF with more details that appeared in Kantipur daily.]
NEW DELHI- Bishnu Malla was probably the happiest man in the flight when he left Kathmandu two and half months ago. The [...]
Never Again: Maoists in Nepal and India (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s Maoist conflict has thankfully ended while India seems to have begun its own.
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page.]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
“An amazing, heart gripping and emotionally loaded showcase of the reasons why not to go to war! Hope [these] photos… act as a [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 25 August 2009
Who killed Nepal’s king? Another theory surfaces - Gulf Times (August 25, 2009) - [read more]
Who killed Nepal’s king? Another theory surfaces IANS/Kathmandu Eight tumultuous years after the massacre of Nepal’s king Birendra and his entire family in the tightly guarded royal palace, fresh theories are still surfacing in this country about …
Justified caution~ Nepal’s visit no more than goodwill - Statesman (August 25, 2009) - [read more]
NEPAL’S Maoist leaders find India-baiting a useful handle to use against their government. In the context of their threat to oppose any controversial agreements Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal might sign during his five-day visit to India last …
Pop stars team up in drive against trafficking - Gulf Times (August 25, 2009) - [read more]
Pop stars team up in drive against trafficking IANS/Kathmandu Pop stars from Nepal and India are teaming up for a series of concerts in Nepal’s main cities for an anti-trafficking campaign sponsored by MTV. Indian crooner Sunidhi Chauhan and Nepali …
Japan to extend peacekeeping mission in Nepal for another 6 months - Balita News (August 25, 2009) - [read more]
TOKYO, Aug. 25 — The government decided Tuesday to extend Japan’s peacekeeping mission in Nepal for an additional six months until next March 31. The extension beyond the scheduled Sept. 30 expiry is in response to a U.N. Security Council decision …
Crimes Go Unpunished in Nepal - OhmyNews (August 25, 2009) - [read more]
Impunity, perhaps, could be termed as a national identity of the modern day Nepal, or the ‘New Nepal’ as per the political catchphrase. Incessant instances of crimes and anarchy have found a new momentum due to this deeply entrenched phenomenon …
Nepal’s UCPN-M blocks House meeting - Xinhua News Agency (August 25, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) — A House meeting was postponed to Wednesday due to the obstruction on Tuesday by lawmakers of the single largest opposition party, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M). The UCPN-M demanded a …
U.N. says concerned over Maoists leaving Nepal camps - Reuters India (August 25, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - The United Nations expressed serious concerns on Tuesday about former Maoist fighters leaving their camps with arms, saying it violated an arms management agreement under a peace deal that ended a civil war. Thousands of former …
25 Nepalese students to study in China on Chinese scholarships - Xinhua News Agency (August 25, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) — A group of 25 Nepalese students will begin post graduate program in China on scholarships offered by the Chinese government. “You are expected to further promote China-Nepal friendship in China,” Chinese Ambassador to …
Nepali Times
Homecoming (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returned to Kathmandu on Saturday afternoon after five-day official visit to India.
James J Donnelly, teacher (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
He found his greatest reward in the successes, small or big, of his students.
Trust-building (August 20, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s visit to India ends on subdued note
Goodwill visit (August 18, 2009) - [read more]
The prime minister’s upcoming trip to India is strictly a goodwill visit, say authorities.
‘Where Worlds Collide’ (August 10, 2009) - [read more]
353 new Himalyan species commemorated as part of a WWF initiative to bring attention to a looming ecological crisis in the Eastern Himalayas.
Obstruction (August 9, 2009) - [read more]
CA members are increasingly bemused as the Maoists continue to obstruct parliament in demand of ‘civilian supremacy’, imperiling the constitution-writing process.
Maoists to agitate today (August 7, 2009) - [read more]
The Maoists look set to begin protests today after the government refused to address ‘civilian supremacy’ in the legislature during a meeting of the 22 ruling parties on Thursday evening.
Maoists rap India, Sri Lanka (August 7, 2009) - [read more]
Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal this week slammed India and Sri Lanka for “suppressing” militant groups in their
Nepal News
Monsoon fury leaves 68 dead: Nepali gov’t (August 25, 2009) - [read more]
Landslides and flood havoc triggered by incessant rainfall this monsoon together with other kinds of natural disaster have claimed the lives of 68 people in the country, local newspaper The Himalayan Times reported on Tuesday.
India offers ‘full support’ to Nepal’s peace process (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
India Saturday offered its ‘full support’ to the peace process in Nepal, with both countries also saying they would hold discussions on reworking their Treaty of Peace and Friendship that was signed nearly six decades ago.
Nepal PM visits Rajghat (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
New Delhi, Aug.19 : Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, who is on a five-day official visit to India, visited Rajghat, the memorial dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, on Wednesday.
Nepal fears swine flu comeout from India (August 20, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: The quarantining of the first migrant Nepali worker returning from India by land has raised the fear of an outbreak of swine flu in the Himalayan republic from the neighbouring country, where the toll has reached 26.
Nepal PM arrives, hopes to strengthen ties with India (August 19, 2009) - [read more]
Nepala s Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal arrived here on Tuesday on a five-day official visit, as the head of a 64-member delegation.
China eyes Nepal’s mining sector (August 18, 2009) - [read more]
In the last fiscal, around 14 Chinese companies sought the permission of the industry department to extract natural resources like placer gold, copper and natural gas.
Maoists tell Madhav Kumar Nepal not to sign Pancheshwar agreement (August 17, 2009) - [read more]
South East Asia News.Net Monday 17th August, 2009 Kathmandu, Aug 17 : The Unified CPN has told Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal not to sign any agreements including the Pancheshwar multi-purpose hydro-electric project during his visit to India from August 18.
SAARC Programming body meet in Nepal (August 17, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: The Thirty-sixth session of the SAARC Programming Committee, chaired by the Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka Prasad Kariyawasam, was held at the SAARC Secretariat in Kathmandu.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal’s Political Impasse (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
Ending his five-day official and ‘mandatory’ India tour, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returns to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal that is going through the turbulent times: Opposition threatening to bring down a shaky coalition, anti-nationalist forces based in Nepal-India border launching vicious attacks against the State in Terai and a fragile peace process [...]
Face Value: Being a Nepali in India (August 9, 2009) - [read more]
What are Nepalis and Indians supposed to look like? Search me!
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article first appeared in today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF page It’s also available in eKantipur, and the official web page of the Post.
I often carry my passport these days in Delhi whenever I go out. Not that a [...]
Maoist Showdown Begins in Nepal, Again (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
Maoists block the house proceedings and have warned to stage a series of protests from both the streets and the parliament if the issue of civilian supremacy is not resolved. Prime Minister Nepal makes it clear to the Maoist chairman Prachanda that there will be no discussion on resolution motion against the President
Prime Minister Madhav [...]
Life and Death in Kandahar (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
Chopper crash survivor retells
By Dinesh Wagle
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page. Here is Nepali version PDF with more details that appeared in Kantipur daily.]
NEW DELHI- Bishnu Malla was probably the happiest man in the flight when he left Kathmandu two and half months ago. The [...]
Never Again: Maoists in Nepal and India (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s Maoist conflict has thankfully ended while India seems to have begun its own.
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page.]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
“An amazing, heart gripping and emotionally loaded showcase of the reasons why not to go to war! Hope [these] photos… act as a [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 24 August 2009
Nepali tourism hub Pokhara, India to be airlinked: minister - Balita News (August 24, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 24 — Nepali Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation Saratsingh Bhandari said Nepali government was preparing ground work so as to begin air service from Pokhara, Nepal’s tourism hub, to different cities of India, local newspaper The …
India, Nepal pop stars team up for anti-trafficking drive - Thaindian.com (August 24, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 24 (IANS) Pop stars from Nepal and India are teaming up for a series of concerts in Nepal’s main cities for an anti-trafficking campaign sponsored by MTV. Indian crooner Sunidhi Chauhan and Nepali pop icon as well as Coke’s poster …
Nepali women fast for Shiva and for their dignity - AsiaNews.IT (August 24, 2009) - [read more]
From August 22 to 24 thousands of women celebrate the annual festival of Teej and pray for their husbands. The gesture, made by wives and girlfriends is also an opportunity to highlight women’s rights often violated behind closed doors. Kathmandu …
WFP food distribution in diarrhea-hit Nepali district halted - Balita News (August 24, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 24 — Following the allegation of substandard quality of the food distributed under the UN World Food Program (WFP), the WFP has stopped distributing rice to the diarrhea-hit Jajarkot residents for a week, local newspaper The …
Take oath again or face sack, vice president told - Gulf Times (August 24, 2009) - [read more]
The flaming row over the use of the Hindi language for official work in Nepal, which split the republic afresh last year, is now headed for a climax with the apex court ordering the man in the eye of the storm, Vice-President Paramananda Jha, to take …
India-Nepal ties get a boost - Tribune (August 24, 2009) - [read more]
I t is regrettable that there is unfettered growth in the black money economy year after year and newer means of cheating the public exchequer are being found, with public integrity at a low ebb. Despite all efforts by the Finance Ministry to plug …
Take oath again or face dismissal, Nepal’s VP told - Zee News (August 24, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: The flaming row over the use of the Hindi language for official work in Nepal, which split the republic afresh last year, is now headed for a climax with the apex court ordering the man in the eye of the storm, Vice President Paramananda …
Ancient Nepali cultural envoy to China Araniko commemorated - Xinhua News Agency (August 19, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) — A two-week long Araniko Art Exhibition to commemorate the “Nepali cultural envoy to China” Araniko is going on Thursday at the Nepal Art Council in Nepali capital Kathmandu. Marking the 730th anniversary of the …
Nepali Times
Homecoming (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returned to Kathmandu on Saturday afternoon after five-day official visit to India.
James J Donnelly, teacher (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
He found his greatest reward in the successes, small or big, of his students.
Trust-building (August 20, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s visit to India ends on subdued note
Goodwill visit (August 18, 2009) - [read more]
The prime minister’s upcoming trip to India is strictly a goodwill visit, say authorities.
‘Where Worlds Collide’ (August 10, 2009) - [read more]
353 new Himalyan species commemorated as part of a WWF initiative to bring attention to a looming ecological crisis in the Eastern Himalayas.
Obstruction (August 9, 2009) - [read more]
CA members are increasingly bemused as the Maoists continue to obstruct parliament in demand of ‘civilian supremacy’, imperiling the constitution-writing process.
Maoists to agitate today (August 7, 2009) - [read more]
The Maoists look set to begin protests today after the government refused to address ‘civilian supremacy’ in the legislature during a meeting of the 22 ruling parties on Thursday evening.
Maoists rap India, Sri Lanka (August 7, 2009) - [read more]
Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal this week slammed India and Sri Lanka for “suppressing” militant groups in their
Nepal News
India offers ‘full support’ to Nepal’s peace process (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
India Saturday offered its ‘full support’ to the peace process in Nepal, with both countries also saying they would hold discussions on reworking their Treaty of Peace and Friendship that was signed nearly six decades ago.
Nepal PM visits Rajghat (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
New Delhi, Aug.19 : Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, who is on a five-day official visit to India, visited Rajghat, the memorial dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, on Wednesday.
Nepal fears swine flu comeout from India (August 20, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: The quarantining of the first migrant Nepali worker returning from India by land has raised the fear of an outbreak of swine flu in the Himalayan republic from the neighbouring country, where the toll has reached 26.
Nepal PM arrives, hopes to strengthen ties with India (August 19, 2009) - [read more]
Nepala s Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal arrived here on Tuesday on a five-day official visit, as the head of a 64-member delegation.
China eyes Nepal’s mining sector (August 18, 2009) - [read more]
In the last fiscal, around 14 Chinese companies sought the permission of the industry department to extract natural resources like placer gold, copper and natural gas.
Maoists tell Madhav Kumar Nepal not to sign Pancheshwar agreement (August 17, 2009) - [read more]
South East Asia News.Net Monday 17th August, 2009 Kathmandu, Aug 17 : The Unified CPN has told Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal not to sign any agreements including the Pancheshwar multi-purpose hydro-electric project during his visit to India from August 18.
SAARC Programming body meet in Nepal (August 17, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: The Thirty-sixth session of the SAARC Programming Committee, chaired by the Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka Prasad Kariyawasam, was held at the SAARC Secretariat in Kathmandu.
Bus falls into ravine in eastern Nepal, killing 9 (August 16, 2009) - [read more]
At least nine people died and 36 were wounded when a bus plunged off a mountain highway in eastern Nepal, the Kathmandu Post reported on Wednesday.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal’s Political Impasse (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
Ending his five-day official and ‘mandatory’ India tour, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returns to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal that is going through the turbulent times: Opposition threatening to bring down a shaky coalition, anti-nationalist forces based in Nepal-India border launching vicious attacks against the State in Terai and a fragile peace process [...]
Face Value: Being a Nepali in India (August 9, 2009) - [read more]
What are Nepalis and Indians supposed to look like? Search me!
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article first appeared in today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF page It’s also available in eKantipur, and the official web page of the Post.
I often carry my passport these days in Delhi whenever I go out. Not that a [...]
Maoist Showdown Begins in Nepal, Again (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
Maoists block the house proceedings and have warned to stage a series of protests from both the streets and the parliament if the issue of civilian supremacy is not resolved. Prime Minister Nepal makes it clear to the Maoist chairman Prachanda that there will be no discussion on resolution motion against the President
Prime Minister Madhav [...]
Life and Death in Kandahar (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
Chopper crash survivor retells
By Dinesh Wagle
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page. Here is Nepali version PDF with more details that appeared in Kantipur daily.]
NEW DELHI- Bishnu Malla was probably the happiest man in the flight when he left Kathmandu two and half months ago. The [...]
Never Again: Maoists in Nepal and India (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s Maoist conflict has thankfully ended while India seems to have begun its own.
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page.]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
“An amazing, heart gripping and emotionally loaded showcase of the reasons why not to go to war! Hope [these] photos… act as a [...]
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 [...]
Nepal News archive for 23 August 2009
Nepal networking - a logistical mountain - Stuff (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
SMILE PLEASE: Student Buddhist monks pose for the camera after a puja, or ceremony, was held at a Kathmandu monastery to bless the SmileHigh mission to Samagon. Organising and flying a dental team to remote Nepal to run a clinic in trying conditions …
Nepali businessman’s son rescued from Bihar - Press Trust of India (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
Motihari (Bihar), Aug 23 (PTI) After remaining in captivity of his abductors for 25 days, the six-year-old son of a businessman in Birganj in Nepal was rescued by police from Ramgarwaha in East Champaran district today, police said. Acting on a tip …
Halifax volunteer to deliver gifts to children in Nepal - The Chronicle Herald (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
Friends and family from all over Nova Scotia contributed knitting expertise to help Kate MacKeigan, right, surpass her goal of 80 tuques to take to a Nepal orphanage later this month. From left are Eleanor Malcolm, Sheila Robarts, Ida Dimock …
In his mind’s eye - Nation - Thailand (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
The show is a depiction of Asia’s unique cultural heritage as seen through the eyes of a westerner with a deep love for the region’s art and architecture. Featuring mostly Powell’s recent works, the exhibition showcases different architectural styles …
Nepal fears swine flu invasion from India - Thaindian.com (August 15, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 16 (IANS) The quarantining of the first migrant Nepali worker returning from India by land has raised the fear of an outbreak of swine flu in the Himalayan republic from the neighbouring country, where the toll has reached 26. The 22 …
Nepal intensifies combat against A(H1N1) - Balita News (August 17, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 17 — At a time when the A(H1N1) virus has claimed 20 lives in India, Nepali government officials on Sunday claimed they have further intensified preparedness at the porous Nepal-India border to minimize the risk of swine flu in the …
Ancient Nepali cultural envoy to China Araniko commemorated - Xinhua News Agency (August 19, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) — A two-week long Araniko Art Exhibition to commemorate the “Nepali cultural envoy to China” Araniko is going on Thursday at the Nepal Art Council in Nepali capital Kathmandu. Marking the 730th anniversary of the …
Nepali PM on official visit to India - Xinhua News Agency (August 18, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) — Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has left for India Tuesday afternoon for a five-day official goodwill visit invited by his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh. M.K. Nepal who is on his first official visit as the …
Nepali Times
Homecoming (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returned to Kathmandu on Saturday afternoon after five-day official visit to India.
James J Donnelly, teacher (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
He found his greatest reward in the successes, small or big, of his students.
Trust-building (August 20, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s visit to India ends on subdued note
Goodwill visit (August 18, 2009) - [read more]
The prime minister’s upcoming trip to India is strictly a goodwill visit, say authorities.
‘Where Worlds Collide’ (August 10, 2009) - [read more]
353 new Himalyan species commemorated as part of a WWF initiative to bring attention to a looming ecological crisis in the Eastern Himalayas.
Obstruction (August 9, 2009) - [read more]
CA members are increasingly bemused as the Maoists continue to obstruct parliament in demand of ‘civilian supremacy’, imperiling the constitution-writing process.
Maoists to agitate today (August 7, 2009) - [read more]
The Maoists look set to begin protests today after the government refused to address ‘civilian supremacy’ in the legislature during a meeting of the 22 ruling parties on Thursday evening.
Maoists rap India, Sri Lanka (August 7, 2009) - [read more]
Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal this week slammed India and Sri Lanka for “suppressing” militant groups in their
Nepal News
Nepal PM visits Rajghat (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
New Delhi, Aug.19 : Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, who is on a five-day official visit to India, visited Rajghat, the memorial dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, on Wednesday.
Nepal fears swine flu comeout from India (August 20, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: The quarantining of the first migrant Nepali worker returning from India by land has raised the fear of an outbreak of swine flu in the Himalayan republic from the neighbouring country, where the toll has reached 26.
Nepal PM arrives, hopes to strengthen ties with India (August 19, 2009) - [read more]
Nepala s Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal arrived here on Tuesday on a five-day official visit, as the head of a 64-member delegation.
China eyes Nepal’s mining sector (August 18, 2009) - [read more]
In the last fiscal, around 14 Chinese companies sought the permission of the industry department to extract natural resources like placer gold, copper and natural gas.
Maoists tell Madhav Kumar Nepal not to sign Pancheshwar agreement (August 17, 2009) - [read more]
South East Asia News.Net Monday 17th August, 2009 Kathmandu, Aug 17 : The Unified CPN has told Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal not to sign any agreements including the Pancheshwar multi-purpose hydro-electric project during his visit to India from August 18.
SAARC Programming body meet in Nepal (August 17, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: The Thirty-sixth session of the SAARC Programming Committee, chaired by the Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka Prasad Kariyawasam, was held at the SAARC Secretariat in Kathmandu.
Bus falls into ravine in eastern Nepal, killing 9 (August 16, 2009) - [read more]
At least nine people died and 36 were wounded when a bus plunged off a mountain highway in eastern Nepal, the Kathmandu Post reported on Wednesday.
Nepal arrests four Indians for abducting official (August 16, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: In a joint operation by the police of India and Nepal, four Indians have been arrested for the abduction of a Nepali telecom official who went missing last month.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Nepal’s Political Impasse (August 23, 2009) - [read more]
Ending his five-day official and ‘mandatory’ India tour, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returns to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal that is going through the turbulent times: Opposition threatening to bring down a shaky coalition, anti-nationalist forces based in Nepal-India border launching vicious attacks against the State in Terai and a fragile peace process [...]
Face Value: Being a Nepali in India (August 9, 2009) - [read more]
What are Nepalis and Indians supposed to look like? Search me!
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article first appeared in today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF page It’s also available in eKantipur, and the official web page of the Post.
I often carry my passport these days in Delhi whenever I go out. Not that a [...]
Maoist Showdown Begins in Nepal, Again (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
Maoists block the house proceedings and have warned to stage a series of protests from both the streets and the parliament if the issue of civilian supremacy is not resolved. Prime Minister Nepal makes it clear to the Maoist chairman Prachanda that there will be no discussion on resolution motion against the President
Prime Minister Madhav [...]
Life and Death in Kandahar (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
Chopper crash survivor retells
By Dinesh Wagle
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page. Here is Nepali version PDF with more details that appeared in Kantipur daily.]
NEW DELHI- Bishnu Malla was probably the happiest man in the flight when he left Kathmandu two and half months ago. The [...]
Never Again: Maoists in Nepal and India (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s Maoist conflict has thankfully ended while India seems to have begun its own.
[This article was first published in today's Kathmandu Post Here is PDF version of the page.]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
“An amazing, heart gripping and emotionally loaded showcase of the reasons why not to go to war! Hope [these] photos… act as a [...]
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 [...]