Nepal News archive for 09 August 2009

Unknown disease claims 5 in central Nepal – Xinhua News Agency (August 9, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) — Five people in central Nepal have recently died of an unknown disease, state-run newspaper The Rising Nepal reported on Monday. Public Health Officer Binay Manadhar of the Sindhuli district of Central Development Region …

Nepali gov’t appoints new army chief – People’s Daily Online (August 9, 2009) – [read more]
Nepali government on Sunday decided to appoint Lt. Gen. Chhatraman Singh Gurung, second-in command of the Nepal Army, as the acting army chief. A meeting of the Council of Ministers, held in Nepali capital Kathmandu, decided the appointment of Gurung …

Nepal’s FM to visit India from Monday – People’s Daily Online (August 9, 2009) – [read more]
Nepal’s Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala will begin her visit to India on Monday ahead of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s visit to the southern neighbor on Aug. 18, Nepali foreign ministry said on Sunday. Koirala will leave for New Delhi on a five …

Nepal appoints new army chief – New Kerala (August 9, 2009) – [read more]
Gurung, 57, who was the second-in command of the Nepal Army, will succeed outgoing chief Rookmangud Katawal. Katawal will take one-month leave before his retirement from the post Sep 9. Katawal was appointed to the post in September 2006. Gurung will …

Nepal names new army chief – Straits Times (August 9, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU (Nepal) – NEPAL’S government appointed a new acting army chief after controversial army general Rukmangad Katawal formally retired from his post, officials said on Sunday. Gen Katawal, whose three-year tenure expires on September 9, was at …

India’s Hand in Nepal Royal Palace Massacre – 2001 – Newsblaze.com (August 9, 2009) – [read more]
South Asia is in turmoil over India taking the policy of aggressive intervention against surrounding countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The task to destabilize these countries has been assigned to the notorious intelligence …

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 …

LUMLEY ‘OVERWHELMED’ BY NEPAL TRIP – Contactmusic.com (August 9, 2009) – [read more]
Veteran British actress JOANNA LUMLEY was left “overwhelmed” by her recent visit to Nepal. The Absolutely Fabulous star landed in the country last month (Jul09) as part of a six-day tour, three months after she helped win veteran Gurkha soldiers the …

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Obstruction (August 9, 2009) – [read more]
CA members are increasingly bemused as the Maoists continue to obstruct parliament in demand of ‘civilian supremacy’, imperiling the constitution-writing process.

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

Nepal News

Global downturn hits Asia’s foreign workers (August 9, 2009) – [read more]

KATHMANDU, Nepal: When Anita Gimmi was unable to find work in her native Nepal last year, she borrowed $1,300 and travelled to Qatar to take up a two-year contract with a cleaning company there.

Nepal Foreign Minister on five-day India visit from Monday (August 9, 2009) – [read more]

Kathmandu/New Delhi, Aug.9 : Nepal Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala will undertake a five-day visit of India from August 10 to 14.

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 …

United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal

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 [...]

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 [...]