Nepal News archive for 08 August 2009
Millions in Nepal face food shortage: UN - Gulf Times (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
Millions more people in Nepal are suffering severe food shortages after a “sharp and sustained decline in food security” in recent years, the United Nations has warned. The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said 3.4mn Nepalese people had become …
Nepal observes “Gai Jatra” festival - Xinhua News Agency (August 6, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) — The traditional festival of Gai Jatra or the “cow festival” is being observed on Thursday in the three cities of the Kathmandu Valley and some other places in the country amidst fun, gaiety, humor, satire and …
Madhav Nepal says no agreement will be signed with India without … - Newstrack India (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 8(ANI): Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has assured Parliament that his government will not sign any agreement with India without taking them into confidence. Madhav Kumar is visiting India for a five days goodwill visit …
Nepal to seek ‘non-lethal’ military supplies from India - Zee News (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Amid Maoist opposition to any arms deal with New Delhi, Nepal government today said it will only seek “non-lethal” military hardware during Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s upcoming visit to India. “Nepal will only seek no-lethal …
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 …
Govt ready to amend Army Act: Nepal PM - New Kerala (August 5, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 5 : Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said the government was ready to amend the Nepal Army Act 2063 to address the UCPN (Maoist)’s demand to take strong measures against President Ram Baran Yadav’s ‘unconstitutional’ move …
No controversial deal with India: Nepal PM - New Kerala (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 8 : Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has assured the Parliament that his government will not sign any controversial agreement with India without taking them into confidence during his maiden ‘goodwill visit’ to the neighboring …
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 …
Nepali Times
Maoists to agitate today (August 7, 2009) - [read more]
The Maoists look set to begin protests today after the government refused to address ‘civilian supremacy’ in the legislature during a meeting of the 22 ruling parties on Thursday evening.
Maoists rap India, Sri Lanka (August 7, 2009) - [read more]
Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal this week slammed India and Sri Lanka for “suppressing” militant groups in their
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
Nepal News
China education exhibition held in Nepal (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
The sixth China Education Exhibition was held in Nepali capital Kathmandu on Saturday to provide educational information about Chinese universities and colleges.
Madhav Nepal says no agreement will be signed with India without consensus at home (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
India Gazette Saturday 8th August, 2009 Kathmandu, Aug 8: Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has assured Parliament that his government will not sign any agreement with India without taking them into confidence.
Millions in Nepal suffering from food shortages, UN says (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
HUNGER:: A global report said Nepal had the worst rate of malnourishment in Asia and is comparable to the worst countries in Sub-Saharan Africa AFP , KATHMANDU Saturday, Aug 08, 2009, Page 4 In recent years, Nepal has experienced a sharp and sustained decline in food security.
Cardiac deaths rise among Nepalese in Qatar (August 7, 2009) - [read more]
DOHA: Worried over the growing number of heart-related deaths being reported among Nepalese workers in Qatar, the Nepalese government is planning to open ‘Overseas Workers Orientation Centres’ in Kathmandu with the help of Qatar.
Nepali driver surrenders after 6 pedestrians’ death (August 7, 2009) - [read more]
A 21-year-old Nepali youth who knocked down seven people on his birthday, killing six, has surrendered before police while three of his companions are also expected to follow suit, Nepali police said Thursday.
‘I plotted the royal family massacre’ (August 6, 2009) - [read more]
Nepalese children, dressed in - cow costumes’, take part in a procession for Gai Jatra in Kathmandu yesterday 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 …
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 …
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
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 [...]
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 [...]
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