Nepal News archive for 16 August 2009

Nepal fears swine flu invasion from India – New Kerala (August 16, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 16 : The quarantining of the first migrant Nepali worker returning from India by land has raised the fear of an outbreak of swine flu in the Himalayan republic from the neighbouring country, where the toll has reached 26. The 22-year …

Nepali gov’t wedding gift policy yet to be implemented – Xinhua News Agency (August 16, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) — More than a month after Nepal’s new government announced a cash incentive to promote social equality, the state departments are yet to get instructions from the top level, resulting in newly-married couples being unable …

Indian Army soldier absconds after child rape slur – Times of India (August 16, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU: A Nepali, said to be working in the Gorkha Rifles of the Indian Army, is absconding after being sought by police over the allegation that he raped a 10-year-old girl in Nepal. “Nabin Lama is employed in the Gorkha Rifles of the Indian Army …

No controversial, unfair treaty with India: Nepali PM – Xinhua News Agency (August 15, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) — Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kuamar Nepal on Saturday said that he would not sign any controversial and unfair treaty during his upcoming India visit, state-run newspaper The Rising Nepal reported on Sunday. “The …

Film on Bangladesh’s `Biharis’ to show at Nepal fest – New Kerala (August 16, 2009) – [read more]
Dhaka, Aug 16 : A documentary that portrays the fears of Bangladesh’s Urdu-speaking populace, also known as `Biharis’, will compete for honours at the seventh Film South Asia festival in Kathmandu next month. Tanvir Mokammel’s ‘Swapnobhumi’ (The …

Pashupatinath braces for new storm – Thaindian.com (August 16, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 16 (IANS) One of the holiest Hindu shrines and a Unesco world heritage site, Nepal’s hallowed Pashupatinath temple now finds itself facing a fresh revolt -being brewed by the former Maoist guerrillas. The temple, said to have been …

Film on Bangladesh’s `Biharis’ to show at Nepal fest – Thaindian.com (August 15, 2009) – [read more]
Dhaka, Aug 16 (IANS) A documentary that portrays the fears of Bangladesh’s Urdu-speaking populace, also known as `Biharis’, will compete for honours at the seventh Film South Asia festival in Kathmandu next month. Tanvir Mokammel’s …

Asian Development Bank Signs Deals With Eight Nepali Banks – All Headline News (August 11, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, Nepal (AHN) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed trade financing agreements with eight banks in Nepal on Tuesday to facilitate foreign trade in the South Asian country. The ADB signed the agreements in Kathmandu with Bank of Kathmandu …

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

More custom points on Indo-Nepal border (August 15, 2009) – [read more]

KATHMANDU: India has agreed to add five customs points to the existing 22 on the Nepal-India border.

Nepal’s ex-king seeks discounts in taxes (August 14, 2009) – [read more]

Maoist supporters and activists shout anti-government slogans in Kathmandu yesterday.

Letham Woman’s Third Trip to Nepal (August 14, 2009) – [read more]

HAVING spent three weeks on a camping break following the Arc de Triomphe cycling event in Europe, it’s back to ‘auld claes and porridge’ for Letham woman Helen Henderson later this month.

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.

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 [...]