Nepal News archive for 14 August 2009
Nepal’s Kumari sets date with Kolkata’s Durga - Thaindian.com (August 14, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 14 (IANS) Two years after one of Nepal’s Living Goddesses — the Kumaris — was sacked by her priests for travelling to the US, another Kumari will make her appearance in the Indian city Kolkata next month to keep a date with her …
Nepal’s Kumari sets date with Kolkata’s Durga - New Kerala (August 14, 2009) - [read more]
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Aug 14 : Two years after one of Nepal’s Living Goddesses - the Kumaris - was sacked by her priests for travelling to the US, another Kumari will make her appearance in the Indian city Kolkata next month to keep a date …
Nemwang confident that Nepal will get new constitution on time - New Kerala (August 14, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 14 : Nepal Constituent Assembly chairman Subash Nemwang has expressed confidence that the country will get a new Constitution within the stipulated time. At a time when constitution-drafting process has taken a backseat amid growing …
Born in the A-S-I-A: Meet Nepal’s version of the Boss - Globe and Mail (August 14, 2009) - [read more]
T he concrete basketball court at the Kathmandu college is packed with hundreds of sweaty university-aged bodies, mostly men, from the foul line, where the stage is, all the way back to the baseline behind a wooden backboard. As the sun goes down …
Bihar on alert, high security along Indo-Nepal border - Times of India (August 13, 2009) - [read more]
PATNA: A high-alert has been sounded in Bihar and security measures have been beefed up along the porous Indo-Nepal border in the state following Maoists’ call to boycott Independence day celebrations on Saturday. “The state has been put on high …
Nepal Government’s Plans to Pay Men to Marry Widows Spark Protests - Med India (August 14, 2009) - [read more]
Nepalese women staged a protest here on Monday against government plans to pay men to marry widows. Agency reports said the government plans to introduce a 50,000-rupee grant for marriages involving a widow. Rights campaigners, however, said the …
Nepal Foreign Minister leaves for India - Thaindian.com (August 9, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 10 (ANI): Nepal Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala left for New Delhi on Monday morning to prepare the groundwork for the impending visit of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal. Koirala flew to New Delhi along with Foreign Secretary Gyan …
Nepali woman to summit - Manila Times (August 8, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: A young Nepali woman who had already summitted top of the world Mount Qomolangma (8,844.43 meters, also known as Mount Everest) is set to summit each top seven mountains of seven continents in the world. Engraved with message of sustained …
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
Nepal’s future: in whose hands? (August 13, 2009) - [read more]
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Nepal police arrest man claiming to have plotted royal massacre (August 13, 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.
Nepal’s ex-king ready to pay taxes (August 13, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 12 : More than 14 months after he was officially stripped of his crown by lawmakers and asked to vacate the royal palace, Nepal’s last king Gyanendra is now ready to live as other commoners, including paying taxes, utilities and telephone bills.
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 …
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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