Nepal News archive for 09 December 2009
Germany Will Repatriate & Destroy 75 Tons Of Pesticides, Methyl … - Democratic Underground.com (December 9, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Dec 9: Amid rising fears … have since been stockpiled at 25 different places including Amalekhgunj, Nepalgunj, Gulariya, Surkhet, Khumaltar, Lumle, Pokhara, Biratnagar, Hetauda, Birgunj, Janakpur, Pakhribas and Gaighat. Most of the …
Indian schools caught in middle of rebel fight - Vail Daily News (December 9, 2009) - [read more]
Indian children are increasingly caught in the middle of fighting between the government and communist rebels in impoverished rural areas, with at least 42 schools attacked in the past year, a human rights group said Wednesday. The rebels, who say …
India on a Roll - Salon (December 9, 2009) - [read more]
Thanks to the ever-on-the-move British, who built rail networks all over Africa and Asia, India remains the world’s largest railway system under one management – Indian Railways — with some 40,000 miles of track, 6,867 stations, and 1.6 million …
Reopen Chilahati to boost trade with 3 countries - The Daily Star (December 9, 2009) - [read more]
Addressing a rally at the venue, the speakers quoted sources and newspapers reports as saying that Bangladesh is desirous of allowing Nepal to do its external trade through sea ports. In that context, Bangladesh Railway (BR) is also working to find …
School notebook - Abington Mariner (December 9, 2009) - [read more]
Marion Natural History Museum’s after-school programs The Marion Natural History Museum’s fall schedule of after-school programs. Dec. 16 – Museum’s Annual Holiday Party will include crafts to be built and snacks for the kids to enjoy. Free …
Biff America: Skiing without boils - Vail Daily News (December 9, 2009) - [read more]
Mary has a boil on her butt. Every other day her doctor makes the five-mile roundtrip trek to her home to change her dressing to no avail — the boil will not heal. The suspected reasons being was that Mary lives alone in a dirt floor hut without …
A Dream Called Dubai - Khaleej Times (December 9, 2009) - [read more]
I landed in Dubai on a sunny February morning in 2002. And by October 2003 I had bought my first car, a bright burgundy Toyota that still keeps me going. Buying that car, after countless, incredibly frustrating driving tests, meant realising the …
A passion for green living and the environment - Minneapolis Star Tribune (December 9, 2009) - [read more]
Nowadays, Paul Thompson lists his occupation as “climate changer.” Interviewing the retired Minneapolis teacher, you don’t really have to ask questions. Mention climate change and he’s off, memories and opinions bouncing from south …
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India urged not to resume military supplies to Nepal (December 9, 2009) - [read more]
Tajikistan News.Net Wednesday 9th December, 2009 New Delhi, Dec 9 : The Asian Centre for Human Rights , a Delhi based regional human rights organization on Wednesday expressed deep concern over India’s decision to resume military supply and training to the Nepal Army following the Joint secretary level talks in Kathmandu from December 4. India cut …
NJ girl gives Nepali children a childhood (December 8, 2009) - [read more]
The gap year, that she took after high school hoping to become fully committed to college, built a different kind of commitment in her to a different purpose: giving a childhood to the neediest children of Nepal.
Indo-Nepal security talks begin (December 7, 2009) - [read more]
The seventh bilateral consultative meeting between India and Nepal on security issues began here on Friday.
Clear and present danger (December 7, 2009) - [read more]
WAY above us in the Himalayan cloud are jagged, snowbound peaks - Annapurna, Damodar, Gangapurna, Dhalguri.
PM Nepal discusses Kailali incident with Maoist chairman (December 7, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has met with Unified CPN chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal at the latter’s residence in Naya Bazaar, Kathmandu Sunday evening and discussed the Kailali incident on Friday.
Climate change threatens 1.3bn in five Asia countries (December 6, 2009) - [read more]
More than a billion people in Asia depend on Himalayan glaciers for water, but experts say they are melting at an alarming rate, threatening to bring drought to large swathes of the continent.
Nepal: Protests forces Pepsi to hold expansion (December 5, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu Maoists protesters forced virtual shutdown of the Pepsi bottling plant owned by India’s Ravi Jaipuria Group, demanding pay hike, in an re-emergence of threats to Indian owned industry.
4 Indians held in Nepal for Dalit girl’s murder (December 5, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Dec 5 Four Indians are among six people arrested by the Nepal police for the suspected rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl from the Dalit community, a group that is among the most disadvantaged in Nepal.
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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. [...]
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