Nepal News archive for 21 August 2009
Indian home minister meets Nepali counterpart - Xinhua News Agency (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) — Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday visited Nepal and met his Nepali counterpart Bhim Rawal on his way to Bhutan, local news website eKantipur reported. Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram suddenly came to …
Nepali FM cancels India visit due to illness - Xinhua News Agency (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) — Nepali Foreign Affairs Minister Sujata Koirala said her cancellation of the visit to India is due to illness. She also condemned on Friday the controversy on her decision to back out of the Prime Minister’s India trip …
Nepal PM’s visit to India a milestone, says Minister - Newstrack India (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug.21 (ANI): Nepal’s Communication and Information Minister and spokesman Shankar Pokharel on Friday described the five-day visit to India of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal as a milestone in Indo-Nepal relations. “The visit is a …
Nepal PM’s visit to India a milestone, says Minister - Thaindian.com (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug.21 (ANI): Nepal’s Communication and Information Minister and spokesman Shankar Pokharel on Friday described the five-day visit to India of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal as a milestone in Indo-Nepal relations. “The visit is a …
PMO to take call on Indo-Nepal trade treaty - Zee News (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
New Delhi: The Commerce Ministry has sent the final draft of the revised Indo-Nepal trade treaty to the Prime Minister’s Office which will take a “final call” on the agreement to expand bilateral economic ties. “The Commerce Ministry has done its job …
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 …
Nepal intensifies combat against A(H1N1) - Balita News (August 17, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 17 — At a time when the A(H1N1) virus has claimed 20 lives in India, Nepali government officials on Sunday claimed they have further intensified preparedness at the porous Nepal-India border to minimize the risk of swine flu in the …
Protesters ask India for ‘Nepal’s Independence’ - Times of India (August 15, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: As India celebrated its 63rd Independence Day on Saturday, the demand for a “Greater Nepal” erupted afresh with protesters asking New Delhi to release annexed Nepali territory as well. “On Aug 15, 1957, India became independent of British …
Nepali Times
James J Donnelly, teacher (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
He found his greatest reward in the successes, small or big, of his students.
Trust-building (August 20, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s visit to India ends on subdued note
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.
Nepal News
Nepal fears swine flu comeout from India (August 20, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: 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.
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.
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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