Nepal News archive for 01 August 2009
KATHMANDU, Nepal - Isha Amatya couldn’t breathe anymore. - MSNBC (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
So the 23-year-old did what all the cool kids in this rugged Himalayan capital do: She bought a pile of face masks and tricked them out with hearts, rock band logos and hipster symbols to match her outfits. “For Nepalis, it’s just like wearing …
Nepal’s smog worsens - United Press International (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Aug. 1 (UPI) — A decade of civil war, corruption and poor environmental policies has left parts of Nepal with poisonously polluted air, authorities and residents said. In Kathmandu, few spend much time outside without masks, Isha …
Feature: Nepal’s ancient laughter festival gets makeover - Xinhua News Agency (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
¡¡KATHMANDU, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) — Though one of the most ancient festivals of Nepal, the Gai-Jatra or “Journey With the Cow” festival remains one of the most popular and modern, effortlessly evolving with time. As Nepal gears up to celebrate Gai …
Top Nepali parties agree to form high-level political mechanism - Xinhua News Agency (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) — Top leaders of the three main parties on Saturday agreed to form the high-level political mechanism maintaining unity, consensus and collaboration on the current peace process and drafting the new constitution. Chairman …
Nepal’s ‘royal blooded’ to shave their heads for Gayatri Devi - New Kerala (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Aug 1 : Scores of people who call themselves the clan of Rajmata Gayatri Devi, the daughter of the former royal family of Cooch Behar in India, began mourning her death in the traditional way in eastern Nepal Friday …
New Nepal PM to visit India Aug 18 - Hindustan Times (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
Almost three months after he was sworn in as republican Nepal’s second prime minister, veteran communist leader Madhav Kumar Nepal will begin his much-awaited visit to India on Aug 18, his foreign affairs advisor said on Saturday. The 56-year-old …
Nepal’s Environmental Issues Could Risk the Land’s Beauty - Washington Post (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Isha Amatya couldn’t breathe anymore. So the 23-year-old did what all the cool kids in this rugged Himalayan capital do: She bought a pile of face masks and tricked them out with hearts, rock band logos and hipster symbols to …
Suffocating pollution threatens Nepal’s beauty - Artistdirect.com (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
So the 23-year-old did what all the cool kids in this rugged Himalayan capital do: She bought a pile of face masks and tricked them out with hearts, rock band logos and hipster symbols to match her outfits. “For Nepalis, it’s just like wearing …
Nepali Times
Tiger census (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Despite the political upheaval, land encroachment, habitat loss, poaching and illegal trade, the population of tigers in Nepal has remained constant over a
Asia’s other eclipse (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
This century’s longest solar eclipse moved across Asia on 22 July wowing scientists and the public alike. Asia’s media should take as much interest in the eclipse of news about poverty, injustice and neglect in Asian
Flight of the eclipse (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
It was touted as the world’s most spectacular mountain flight: flying past Mt Everest during a total solar eclipse. But it was not to be because a massive monsoon system covered the whole of southeastern Nepal on Wednesday morning, right on the path of
Maoist rehabilitation (July 18, 2009) - [read more]
The process of discharging the disqualified Maoist combatants living in the cantonment faces difficulty to
New budget (July 13, 2009) - [read more]
Finance Minister Surendra Pandey unveiled a budget of Rs 285.93 billion for the fiscal year
Top three (July 12, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal secured third position in the ACC Women T20 U-19 Championship
by defeating
A state of lawlessness (July 11, 2009) - [read more]
The journey itself became a metaphor for the present state of the
Programs and policies (July 9, 2009) - [read more]
President Ram Baran Yadav presented the government’s programs and policies for the new fiscal year on Thursday’s budget session.
Nepal News
China presses Nepal to crackdown on Tibetans: group (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal, under increasing pressure from China, was cracking down on Tibetan refugees despite centuries of shared culture with Tibet, the International Campaign for Tibet said on Tuesday.
High-level talks could help shore up peace in Nepal, says top UN envoy (August 1, 2009) - [read more]
The top United Nations envoy to Nepal said today that she is encouraged by the South Asian leaders’ willingness to discuss issues to push the peace process forward after weeks of simmering political tensions.
Devi’s - kin’ in Nepal mourn her death (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Two days after her death due to protracted illness, Rajmata Gayatri Devi, born in the royal family of Cooch Behar and married to the dashing ruler of the erstwhile kingdom of Jaipur Sawai Man Singh, is being mourned by her a kinsmena in Nepal.
Landslides kill nine in Nepal (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 31 : At least nine people were killed and four injured after landslides hit three districts in western Nepal, officials said Friday.
MP heads to Nepal as political volunteer (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
NORTH Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry is heading to Nepal over the summer for volunteer work.
Nepal CA body blames Indian FS Menon (July 30, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: The Human Rights and International Relations Committee of the Constituent Assembly has said that the recently concluded a field visit made by the Nepal CA members in the district of Dang to study Nepali lands invaded by Indian security forces, publicizing a report, Tuesday July 28, 2009, have claimed that India had indeed forcefully …
Nepal gets its own Laurel and Hardy (July 30, 2009) - [read more]
In the early 20th century, two America-based actors managed to capture public imagination though at first appearance, they had nothing star-like about them.
MP Baldry volunteers for Nepal visit (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
Banbury MP Tony Baldry is heading to Nepal over the summer for volunteer work. Mr Baldry went to the region last year as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Voluntary Service Overseas organisation.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
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 [...]
Madhav Nepal, the Moderate Communist Leader, is the Prime Minister of Nepal (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
“I announce that Madhav Kumar Nepal has been elected unopposed in the position of Prime Minister as per the Constituent Assembly’s Legislature-Parliament Business Advisory Regulations 2065.”
With that declaration from Subash Nemwang, the chair of the CA, today evening the moderate Marxist and Leninist leader became the third communist prime minister in Nepal. MK Nepal [...]
The Indian Democracy (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
Just as our April 2008 poll verdict, this Indian election, it appears, was about stability and progress of India
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF version of the page.]
A kid, carrying the Indian National Congress Party flag, walks on the street in front [...]
Madhav Kumar Nepal Set to Become Prime Minister of Nepal (May 17, 2009) - [read more]
Madhav Kumar Nepal, veteran communist leader of the Himalayan republic who have been tipped to be the prime minister of Nepal several times in the past and lost from both constituencies in the April 2008 CA elections, is finally set to become the third Communist prime minister of Nepal.
The leader of the moderate Communist Party [...]