Nepal News archive for 13 August 2009
Mahabharata relic in Nepal - Zee News (August 12, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: A structure found in the Kathmandu valley is a divine relic that goes back 4,000 years to the time of the epic Mahabharata, says an Indian seer who is in Nepal for a month’s rituals dedicated to Hindu god Shiva. “For 4,000 years, people …
Miss Nepal pageant hopes for resurrection - Thaindian.com (August 13, 2009) - [read more]
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Out of the shadow of a Maoist government that focused on moral policing during its brief stint in power, Nepal’s oldest and best known beauty pageant that had been stopped by the former guerrillas is now hoping for …
Prachanda flies to Belarus after promising world revolution - Thaindian.com (August 12, 2009) - [read more]
London, Aug 13 (IANS) Nepal’s former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda has left for Belarus after telling supporters in London his Maoist party in Nepal is certain to usher in “world revolution”. “The twenty-first century will be …
Doha Bank inks Nepal remittance deal - AME Info (August 12, 2009) - [read more]
Dohha Bank has tied-up with the Nepal Credit and Commerce Bank (NCC Bank), to facilitate remittance to Nepal through electronic means. The remittance facility will also be available through the internet, and customers will be able to remit money …
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 …
Interview: Fastest Qomolangma summiteer appeals to Australia to cut … - Xinhua News Agency (August 12, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) — The world’s fastest man to climb Mt. Qomolangma (also known as Mt. Everest), Pemba Dorje Sherpa, appealed to Australian government to reduce its carbon emission by half within five years to help control global warming …
I’m no sex tourist, says poet O Searcaigh - Independent (August 13, 2009) - [read more]
CONTROVERSIAL Irish language poet Cathal O Searcaigh has rejected claims that he acted like a “sex tourist” when he had relationships with young men in Nepal . In a revealing interview, he admits to having sexual relationships with local men but …
Foreigners entering India aghast at no swine flu screening - New Kerala (August 13, 2009) - [read more]
Sonauli (UP), Aug 13 : Hundreds of tourists and others travel between India and Nepal through the Sonauli checkpoint in Uttar Pradesh. But it is shocking to learn that no proper arrangements exist here to screen the travellers, the foreigners …
Nepali Times
‘Where Worlds Collide’ (August 10, 2009) - [read more]
353 new Himalyan species commemorated as part of a WWF initiative to bring attention to a looming ecological crisis in the Eastern Himalayas.
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
Nepal News
Prachanda urges Asian powers to counter US (August 12, 2009) - [read more]
London/Kathmandu, Aug 12 : The Chairman of the Unified CPN , Prachanda, has said that Asian countries should develop a unified security strategy to combat US influence in South Asia.
Nepal Foreign Minister meets Anand Sharma (August 12, 2009) - [read more]
New Delhi, Aug 12 : Visiting Nepal Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala met Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma.
Nepal police arrest man claiming to have plotted royal massacre (August 12, 2009) - [read more]
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 ago.
4,000-Year-Old Mahabharata Relic Found in Nepal? (August 12, 2009) - [read more]
“For 4,000 years, people have been searching for the head of Kedarnath who assumed the shape of a bull to avoid the five Pandava brothers, the heroes of the Mahabharata,” says Bhim Shankarling Shivacharya, the 54-year-old head of Kedarpeeth in India’s Uttarakhand state who is currently in Nepal.
Nepal: UN helps fight against gender violence, discrimination (August 12, 2009) - [read more]
Participants at training on Access to Justice for Victims of Sexual & Gender based Violence organized by Janakpur Sub-Office 11 August 2009 – The United Nations is stepping up its efforts to help protect the rights of Nepalese women, who are increasingly victims of rape, witch-hunt, dowry, and other forms of gender-based violence as well as …
Nepalese Foreign Minister says Indian influence still strong (August 11, 2009) - [read more]
New Delhi, Aug. 10 : Nepalese Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala, who is here in an effort to bridge the widening gap between India and Nepal, on Monday admitted that some gaps have developed between the two traditional neighbors.
Nepal offers $970 to marry widows (August 11, 2009) - [read more]
Women protesters have marched through the streets of Kathmandu in their hundreds after the government announced a “humiliating” scheme to offer financial incentives for men to marry widows.
Widows protest marriage incentive (August 10, 2009) - [read more]
A woman sits inside her house in Kathmandu March 19, 2009.[Agencies] KATHMANDU a ‘ About 200 women marched through the Nepali capital Monday to denounce a government scheme to pay cash incentives to men for marrying widows, witnesses said.
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 [...]
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