Nepal News archive for 20 August 2009

India to give Nepal Rs.20 bn for infrastructure projects – Thaindian.com (August 20, 2009) – [read more]
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) India has pledged assistance of Rs.20 billion to Nepal for infrastructure projects, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told visiting Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal. The Nepali prime minister arrived Monday on a five …

W Nepal district Rukum diarrhea death toll reaches 58 – Xinhua News Agency (August 20, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) — Two more persons died of diarrhea in Rukum district, taking the death toll to 58 alone in the district, Nepali national news agency RSS reported on Friday. The latest victims were identified as six-year-old Bal Bir …

UP seeks Nepal cooperation to control terrorism, floods – New Kerala (August 20, 2009) – [read more]
New Delhi, Aug 20 : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today had a meeting with Prime Minister of Nepal Madhav Kumar Nepal and discussed issues relating to cooperation in controlling terrorist and other crminal activities, floods and promotion of …

Mukherjee reiterates India’s commitment on Nepal development – Newstrack India (August 20, 2009) – [read more]
New Delhi, Aug 20 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee assured visiting Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal of India’s commitment to provide economic assistance for developmental projects in Nepal. Madhav Kumar Nepal held discussions …

Ancient Nepali cultural envoy to China Araniko commemorated – Xinhua News Agency (August 19, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) — A two-week long Araniko Art Exhibition to commemorate the “Nepali cultural envoy to China” Araniko is going on Thursday at the Nepal Art Council in Nepali capital Kathmandu. Marking the 730th anniversary of the …

Mukherjee reiterates India’s commitment on Nepal development – Top News India (August 20, 2009) – [read more]
New Delhi, Aug 20 : Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee assured visiting Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal of India’s commitment to provide economic assistance for developmental projects in Nepal. Madhav Kumar Nepal held discussions …

Nepal Assures Commitment to Peace Process – Voice of America (August 20, 2009) – [read more]
The Nepalese prime minister, who is visiting India, says his country is committed to pushing ahead with a peace process at home. The Nepalese leader also pitched for more Indian investment in the landlocked, Himalayan nation as both countries …

Nepal fears swine flu invasion from India – Thaindian.com (August 15, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 16 (IANS) 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 …

Nepali Times

Politics as usual (August 20, 2009) – [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will come home from a dispiriting diplomatic trip to a changed political scenario and emboldened

Goodwill visit (August 18, 2009) – [read more]
The prime minister’s upcoming trip to India is strictly a goodwill visit, say authorities.

‘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

Nepal News

Nepal PM arrives, hopes to strengthen ties with India (August 19, 2009) – [read more]

Nepala s Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal arrived here on Tuesday on a five-day official visit, as the head of a 64-member delegation.

China eyes Nepal’s mining sector (August 18, 2009) – [read more]

In the last fiscal, around 14 Chinese companies sought the permission of the industry department to extract natural resources like placer gold, copper and natural gas.

Maoists tell Madhav Kumar Nepal not to sign Pancheshwar agreement (August 17, 2009) – [read more]

South East Asia News.Net Monday 17th August, 2009 Kathmandu, Aug 17 : The Unified CPN has told Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal not to sign any agreements including the Pancheshwar multi-purpose hydro-electric project during his visit to India from August 18.

SAARC Programming body meet in Nepal (August 17, 2009) – [read more]

KATHMANDU: The Thirty-sixth session of the SAARC Programming Committee, chaired by the Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka Prasad Kariyawasam, was held at the SAARC Secretariat in Kathmandu.

Bus falls into ravine in eastern Nepal, killing 9 (August 16, 2009) – [read more]

At least nine people died and 36 were wounded when a bus plunged off a mountain highway in eastern Nepal, the Kathmandu Post reported on Wednesday.

Nepal arrests four Indians for abducting official (August 16, 2009) – [read more]

Kathmandu: In a joint operation by the police of India and Nepal, four Indians have been arrested for the abduction of a Nepali telecom official who went missing last month.

Swapnobhumi to be screened at Film SA (August 16, 2009) – [read more]

DHAKA: Tanvir Mokammel’s documentary on the Urdu-speaking community in Bangladesh, “Swapnobhumi” , will be screened at the seventh Film South Asia.

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.

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 [...]