Nepal News archive for 19 November 2009

‘Our Heart to Your Soles’ Announces Partnership With Soles4Souls, Inc … – PR Newswire (November 19, 2009) – [read more]
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ — For the fourth straight year, Soles4Souls is participating in “Our Heart to Your Soles” and providing less fortunate people across the nation with free foot screenings and footwear. The event will be held …

Plano ISD: Rasor Elementary students stacked up to the challenge of … – Star Community Newspapers (November 19, 2009) – [read more]
Twenty-eight countries had stackers registered, primarily in the United States and Canada, but stackers also hailed from countries such as Argentina, Australia, China, Germany, Nepal, Poland, South Africa, Sudan and the United Kingdom.

Morning stalker strikes again – Tribune (November 19, 2009) – [read more]
In yet another horrific incident, an unidentified man robbed an elderly morning-walker in Sector 35.The police had been asking the residents in Sector 33 to go out for morning walks, promising that they had deployed policemen in plain clothes around …

Obama Doesn’t Get It – Outlook India (November 19, 2009) – [read more]
The failure of President Barack Obama to understand the distrust of China in large sections of the Indian civil society has landed the US in a situation in which the considerable goodwill between India and the US created during the administration of …

DOMINO’S PIZZA INDIA CHANGES NAME TO JUBILANT FOODWORKS – Chain Leader (November 19, 2009) – [read more]
Domino’s Pizza India Ltd today said it has changed its corporate name to Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd, but would continue to market its fast food chain under the existing brand name of ‘Domino’s Pizza’. The change of name comes in effect from September 24 …

Tomaz Humar – Daily Telegraph (November 19, 2009) – [read more]
… were played out before an online audience, and even his death was tracked on the internet for days before his body was finally recovered from the slopes of Langtang Lirung in Nepal. His most famous moment came in 2005, high on Nanga Parbat, a …

Universal Children’s Day – Edmonton Sun (November 19, 2009) – [read more]
A street child searches for recyclable material in a garbage dump on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009, a day ahead of Universal Children’s Day. Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children’s rights, fewer …

India beefs up security at Nepal and Bangladesh borders to check arms … – New Kerala (November 19, 2009) – [read more]
Panitanki / Siliguri/ Fulbari (WB), Nov 19 : India has stepped security along the ‘Chicken Neck area’, a narrow strip of land in West Bengal wedged between Nepal and Bangladesh, to keep a check on arms smuggling. The Shasastra Seema Bal (SSB), which …

Nepali Times

Merry-go-round (November 18, 2009) – [read more]
Political parties try, and fail, to reach an agreement to pass the

Dahal follows Koirala to Singapore (November 16, 2009) – [read more]
Maoist chairman will visit NC president in

Feeling poorly (November 15, 2009) – [read more]
Girija Prasad Koirala has been admitted to a hospital in

Backlashing out (November 13, 2009) – [read more]
Police issued an arrest warrant for State Minister Karima Begum for slapping Parsa’s Chief District Officer.

Cadres clog capital (November 12, 2009) – [read more]
Throngs of Maoists picket Singha Darbar in a demonstration of power.

Ow, Minister! (November 11, 2009) – [read more]
Minister slaps Chief District Officer saying he offended her by providing an old vehicle to pick her up at Simara

Pants on fire (November 10, 2009) – [read more]
UML leader Ashok Rai withdraws statement on CA dissolution, says media exaggerated his

Pass the buck (November 9, 2009) – [read more]
Maoist chairman says his party will let the budget pass. His party leaders

Nepal News

ICRA forms joint venture in Nepal (November 19, 2009) – [read more]

India Gazette Monday 16th November, 2009 Credit rating agency ICRA Monday signed a pact with Himalayan Infrastructure Fund Ltd of Nepal to set up a joint venture to replicate its rating businesses in that country, the company said.

Self-declared Nepal expert says he never was a RAW man (November 18, 2009) – [read more]

India Gazette Wednesday 18th November, 2009 New Delhi, Nov.18 : Professor S. D. Muni, India’s self proclaimed Nepal expert talking to a daily in Kathmandu, has refuted media allegations that he is associated with RAW , India’s notorious intelligence agency.

BR proposes ‘best’ rail route to Nepal (November 18, 2009) – [read more]

Bangladesh Railway has proposed “the most convenient” route for rail transit to Nepal, ahead of the prime minister’s India visit, top officials have said.

Chinese national dies at Nepali capital’s int’l airport (November 17, 2009) – [read more]

AN elderly Chinese woman has died at Tribhuwan International Airport in Nepali capital Kathmandu after she collapsed yesterday afternoon.

India, Nepal home ministers’ meet put off due to turmoil (November 17, 2009) – [read more]

By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Nov 16 : The three-day security talks between the home ministers of India and Nepal, scheduled to have started in New Delhi Tuesday, have been postponed indefinitely due to the mounting turmoil in Nepal.

World Diabetes Day marked in Nepal (November 17, 2009) – [read more]

The World Diabetes Day was celebrated throughout Nepal Saturday by organizing various awareness programs with the main slogan of “get knowledge of diabetes and control it”. November 14 that marks the birthday of Dr.

Prachanda on mystery visit to Singapore (November 16, 2009) – [read more]

Nepal’s Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, whose party has threatened to call an indefinite shutdown if its demand is not addressed by Friday, flew to Singapore Monday in a surprise move, causing a flutter in political circles.

Peace process on hold as Nepal’s Maoists protest (November 16, 2009) – [read more]

He is famous for his fiery speeches, but Prachanda, Nepal’s Maoist leader, projected a dramatically different image last week when he danced in the streets with one of the country’s top actresses.

United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal

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. [...]