Nepal News archive for 01 December 2009
The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers - Foreign Policy (December 1, 2009) - [read more]
Gadget: Facebook; iPhone for now, but flirting with the Palm Pre. Ostrom has spent her career arguing that the phrase “tragedy of the commons” paints an unnecessarily gloomy picture. After studying examples ranging from irrigation systems in Nepal to …
Nepal to build on ties with China - SamayLive (December 1, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Four months after … Nepal’s predecessor, the Himalayan republic’s first Maoist prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, created a furore last year when he departed from the tradition of Nepali premiers choosing India as their first …
Wan Condemns Journalists Attacks - Modern Ghana (December 1, 2009) - [read more]
… journalists in China, Burma’s mass censorship and repression of independent media, the consequences of decades long civil war in Sri Lanka, and the violence against the press in Nepal are only some of the key challenges facing press freedom in …
Back to square one: After 60 job applications, honor student back home … - Missoulian (December 1, 2009) - [read more]
Recent George Washington University business school grad Melissa Meyer restocks the toilet paper rolls at Rockin Rudy’s. After graduating in May with degrees in marketing and finance, Meyer has submitted some 60 applications to companies all over …
Film Festival on Terrorism - Screen India (December 1, 2009) - [read more]
North-East India, surrounded by Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet (China), Myanmar and Bangladesh, gives shelter to over 20 active armed outfits, which are fighting against the central government for many decades. With demands ranging from sovereignty to self …
Dubai Air Show signals aviation upturn - AME Info (December 1, 2009) - [read more]
In many ways the show, organised by F&E Aerospace, had already defied the odds, attracting its biggest-ever exhibitor turnout of 890 companies from 47 countries, some 150 of them new-to-market, and 13 country and regional pavilions. Together they …
Allahabad HC asks state govt to file affidavit in foodgrain scam - New Kerala (December 1, 2009) - [read more]
These grain were also smuggled to Nepal and Bangladesh, the petition claimed.
AIDS has a new name in Nepal: Mumbaiya - New Kerala (December 1, 2009) - [read more]
The 13-year-old’s father sold her to two men who in turn dumped her at a brothel in India’s film and finance capital Mumbai. There she endured violence and bestiality for four years. It included a client smashing her cheekbone which never healed and …
Nepali Times
New chief of justice (December 1, 2009) - [read more]
Anup Raj Sharma, a senior judge at the Supreme Court, has been appointed as the chief justice.
Army smells a coup (November 29, 2009) - [read more]
The chief of army assures leaders he will not support a
(November 27, 2009) - [read more]
Back on the road: Are some Maoist cadre feeling insecure as they watch the power they wielded through terror slip
Money matters (November 24, 2009) - [read more]
The parliament is scheduled to endorse the appropriations bill
Maoists agree to let budget pass (November 22, 2009) - [read more]
The parliament will resume for three
Merry-go-round (November 18, 2009) - [read more]
Political parties try, and fail, to reach an agreement to pass the
Dahal follows Koirala to Singapore (November 16, 2009) - [read more]
Maoist chairman will visit NC president in
Feeling poorly (November 15, 2009) - [read more]
Girija Prasad Koirala has been admitted to a hospital in
Nepal News
Bangladesh, Nepal to enhance trade thru’ transit route (November 30, 2009) - [read more]
UNB, Dhaka Bangladesh and Nepal have agreed to enhance bilateral trade and investment through Rohonpur-Singabad-Birganj transit route and proposed Dhaka-Kathmandu bus service via Banglabandha-Kakorvita corridor.
Nepal’s Cabinet to meet at Everest in December (November 29, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s government said Sunday it would hold a Cabinet meeting on Mount Everest on Dec.
Number of Chinese visitors soaring up in Nepal (November 28, 2009) - [read more]
The number of Chinese visitor arrivals has been drastically soared up in Nepal since August, showed the figure released by Nepal’s Immigration Office, Tribhuvan International Airport.
Global franchises ready for NepalKFC, Pizza Hut to open on Wednesday (November 28, 2009) - [read more]
The opening of the outlets of foods chains Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut, each of which seat 140 people, has been one of the most anticipated ones.
Nepali bares UK racist abuse in BBC film (November 27, 2009) - [read more]
But after a year spent enduring a stream of abuse as a Westminster parking warden, Pokhrels view of England as a green and pleasant land has taken a knock.
‘Indian Idol’ winner Prashant Tamang forays into Nepali movies (November 26, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Nov 26 He started his career as a cop and in 2007 shot to fame when he won the popular music contest ‘Indian Idol’. Now Prashant Tamang has hit the headlines once again by ‘joining’ the British Gurkhas and ‘tying the knot’. The 26-year-old from Darjeeling has been camping in Nepal, from where his ancestors hailed, to kickstart a new …
Biggest animal slaughter on earth (November 25, 2009) - [read more]
By Gopal Sharma Kathmandu - At least 15 000 buffalo and “countless” goats and birds were sacrificed in a temple in southern Nepal, organisers said on Wednesday, a ritual billed as the single biggest animal slaughter on earth.
Nepal, India to set up Pancheshwor Development Authority (November 24, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal and India on Sunday signed an agreement to set up Pancheshwor Development Authority as a key step in the implementation of the much-anticipated Pancheshwor Hydropower project in western Nepal.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Will India Allow Nepal-Bangladesh Trade? (November 19, 2009) - [read more]
After agreeing to a rail link between Nepal and Bangladesh, will India allow the two countries to use that?It didn’t happen in 1976 when Bangladesh and Nepal signed a transit agreement for boosting bilateral trade but failed to implemented it as India did not allow its territory to be used for passage at that time. [...]