Nepal News archive for 01 September 2009
Tibetans arrested in Nepal for blocking vehicles of China officials - Monsters and Critics (September 1, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu - Nepalese police on Wednesday arrested several Tibetan demonstrators who carried out a protest targeting high-ranking Chinese government officials in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu. The Tibetans were arrested after they jumped Wednesday …
Nepal tourism looking up following slump - Monsters and Critics (September 1, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu - Tourist arrivals in Nepal are showing signs of recovery despite a slump in the first half of 2009 due to the world financial crisis, the Nepalese Tourism Board said Wednesday. The Nepal Tourism Board said arrivals by air in August were up …
Climate change threatens food security of South Asians, bank says - Earthtimes (September 1, 2009) - [read more]
Manila - Melting Himalayan glaciers, droughts, erratic rainfall and other effects of climate change are threatening the food security of more than 1.6 billion people in South Asia, the Asian Development Bank said Wednesday. The Manila-based …
Tackling impunity key to consolidating peace in Nepal – UN rights … - UN News Centre (September 1, 2009) - [read more]
Richard Bennett of the human rights office (OHCHR) in Nepal (file Photo) 29 July 2009 – Lack of accountability is hindering progress in the peace process in Nepal, the top United Nations human rights official in the country said today, calling for …
Nepal: Taking On The Challenge Of Climate Change - Elites TV (September 1, 2009) - [read more]
Climate change is a hot topic in Nepal now as studies show that many people in the country are facing hunger due to frequent droughts and melting glaciers are also threatening millions. The country heavily depends on tourism and agriculture to …
One HEART Foundation no longer working in Tibet - Idaho Mountain Express (September 1, 2009) - [read more]
The One HEART Foundation, one of the many nonprofit organizations that gather funding each year from generous donors in the Sun Valley area, was not extended a permit this summer by Chinese authorities to continue working in the Tibet Autonomous …
No rain on roof of the world - Australian Broadcasting Corp. (September 1, 2009) - [read more]
The first climate change talks between Himalayan nations have ended, with mounting concern over the impact of global warming on the region’s water supplies and agriculture. Glaciers in the Himalayas are rapidly melting and drying up. In Nepal’s …
Nepali temple draws controversy over recruitment of Indian priests - Xinhua News Agency (September 1, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) — The Pashupatinath Temple, a world heritage site in Nepali capital Kathmandu, has become embroiled into fresh controversy after the managing committee’s decision to recruit two new Indian priests in the currently-vacant …
Nepali Times
Committees resume works (September 1, 2009) - [read more]
The stalled process of constitution writing and PLA integration process resumes finally.
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
Nepal News
Landslide in northeast Nepal village (September 1, 2009) - [read more]
A landslide hit a remote mountain village in northeast Nepal early Tuesday, leaving 14 people missing, a district official said Tuesday.
Gachchhadar may quit to bring Maoists in (September 1, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Deputy Prime Minister Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar said on Saturday that he is ready to quit the post of deputy prime minister if the Maoists decide to join the coalition government.
Legal battle for Sobhraj to begin again (August 31, 2009) - [read more]
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 career spanning two decades and several continents, found him guilty and put him behind bars with a life term.
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.
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 [...]