Nepal News archive for 04 August 2009

Heritage Walk to preserve Patan fort – New Kerala (August 4, 2009) – [read more]
Palanpur, Gujarat, Aug 4 : People from various walks of life, including students, academicians and eminent personalities, today participated in the first ever Heritage Walk to commemorate the Golden Jubilee year of the historical fort of Patan town …

Nepal’s UCPN-M claims to lead new national gov’t – Xinhua News Agency (August 4, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) — Chairman Prachanda of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M), the single largest opposition party in Nepal, claimed Tuesday that a new national government would be formed under his party’s leadership …

Brit actress Lumley hailed as ‘Nepali cheli’ – Newstrack India (July 28, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, July 28 (ANI): British actress Joanna Lumley was hailed as ‘Nepali cheli (daughter)’ and felicitated for her remarkable contribution to the Gurkha cause and successful campaign to allow Gurkha soldiers and their families to settle in …

Nepal: Government “must focus on food” – Reliefweb.int (August 4, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, 4 August 2009 (IRIN) – Nepal’s government must pay greater attention to food security – recognizing people’s human right to food as a top priority – say specialists. “Simply providing food aid is not enough to help the food-scarce …

Ex-Nepal beauty queen forsakes modelling to become an estate agent – Newstrack India (August 4, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug.4 (ANI): Former Miss Teen Nepal Aayusha Karki has given up a career in modelling and the movie business to become an estate agent. According to a report in The Times, the 18-year-old took decision out of choice as she felt there was a …

New Nepali minister sworn in – Xinhua News Agency (July 29, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 29 (Xinhua) — Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Wednesday administered the office of oath and secrecy to newly appointed Minister for Environment, Science and Technology Thakur Prasad Sharma on Wednesday. The ceremony was …

Nepal: Catholic Priests receive Death Threats – Catholic Online (August 4, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU (AsiaNews) – Many Catholic priests have received grave threats from unknown callers claiming to be Hindu fundamentalists, urging them to leave the country “as soon as possible”. Fr Pius Perumana, who runs the Vianney pastoral centre …

New Nepal PM to visit India Aug 18 – Thaindian.com (August 1, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 1 (IANS) 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 …

Nepali Times

Promising unity (August 2, 2009) – [read more]
In a major breakthrough, big party leaders agreed on Saturday to form a high-level political taskforce to oversee the peace process.

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

Nepal News

Nepal’s UCPN-M to block parliament from Friday (August 4, 2009) – [read more]

The single largest opposition party in Nepal, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal , Monday announced it would obstruct the parliament from Friday if the government of Prime Minister Madhav failed to meet their demands within three days.

News report: Nepali vice president rejects president’s call for fresh oath (August 3, 2009) – [read more]

Paramananda Jha, after the Supreme Court of Nepal nullified his oath for the post of vice president in Hindi language, has turned down a request from President Ram Baran Yadav to take a fresh oath in Nepali, local news website Myrepublica reported on Monday.

Top Nepali parties agree to form high-level political mechanism (August 2, 2009) – [read more]

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.

Nepali gov’t plans to hold talks with armed groups (August 1, 2009) – [read more]

Nepali government is planning to hold talks with different armed outfits, according to local media report on Saturday.

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.

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 [...]