Nepal News archive for 06 August 2009

Nepal police arrest man claiming to have plotted royal massacre – Thaindian.com (August 6, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 6 (IANS) Nepal Police Thursday night arrested a man who had claimed to have plotted the assassination of Nepal’s King Birendra and nine more members of the royal family in the tightly guarded pagoda palace in Kathmandu eight years …

Gay Jatra In Nepal – Newsblaze.com (August 6, 2009) – [read more]
Hundreds of gay Nepalis and their supporters turned out Thursday during the Gai Jatra festival for the largest gay pride demonstration ever here. Their procession started at the ancient palace square and passed through Kathmandu’s main shopping …

India positive to provide arms to Nepal: Defence minister – New Kerala (August 6, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 6 : Nepal Defence Minister Bidhya Bhandari, who arrived in Kathmandu today after visiting India, has said that there was no agreement on arms supply during her visit. Talking to reports at the airport, she said that the government can …

I plotted the royal family massacre’ – Gulf Times (August 6, 2009) – [read more]
Eight years after Nepal’s King Birendra and nine more members of the royal family were killed in the tightly guarded pagoda palace in Kathmandu, marking the point that began to see the unravelling of monarchy in the world’s only Hindu kingdom, a …

Nepal: Youth who ran over 5 Indians surrenders – Times of India (August 6, 2009) – [read more]
A 20-year-old Nepali youth, who was studying in Bangalore and came home to Kathmandu to celebrate his birthday, surrendered to police after the wine and drinks-filled late night birthday bash turned into a tragedy, killing six people, five of them …

India dismisses Prachanda report on anti-China activities – New Kerala (August 6, 2009) – [read more]
New Delhi, Aug 6 : India Thursday dismissed remarks attributed to former Nepal prime minister Prachanda that New Delhi and Washington were teaming up to launch anti-China activities through the Nepali territory. ‘These allegations are completely …

Lumley due home after Nepal visit – BBC UK News (July 31, 2009) – [read more]
The actress and campaigner Joanna Lumley is due to leave Nepal after a week-long trip which has seen her mobbed by crowds of Gurkha supporters. Ms Lumley has been travelling with Gurkha Justice campaigner Peter Carroll, who started the campaign to …

Exhibition in Nepal shows past and present of Tibet – Xinhua News Agency (August 5, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — As there is popular common saying, “a picture can speak more than thousand words at once”, it is not hard to sense the development of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China from ancient period to present after viewing the …

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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

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Exhibition in Nepal shows past and present of Tibet (August 6, 2009) – [read more]

By Binju Sitaula, Zhang Jianhua As there is popular common saying, “a picture can speak more than thousand words at once”, it is not hard to sense the development of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China from ancient period to present after viewing the 217 photographs exhibited here.

5 Indians killed in birthday orgy aftermath (August 5, 2009) – [read more]

By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Aug 5 : The aftermath of a birthday bash by local youths turned fatal for three Indian families Wednesday with six people being mowed down in the heart of the capital by an out-of-control car driven by a 21-year-old. Police said Biplab Mansingh Dangol, 21, was hurtling back home from a late-night birthday party when …

Nepal’s UCPN-M claims to lead new national gov’t (August 5, 2009) – [read more]

Chairman Prachanda of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal , the single largest opposition party in Nepal, claimed Tuesday that a new national government would be formed under his party’s leadership.

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.

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 [...]