Nepal News archive for 21 October 2009

TV : Grand Prairie clerk accused in $1 million lottery fraud – KVUE (October 21, 2009) – [read more]
GRAND PRAIRIE — State authorities are looking for a Grand Prairie convenience store clerk who allegedly stole a $1 million lottery ticket from a customer. Pankaj Joshi is accused of lying to the 67-year-old customer who presented the ticket …

Grand Prairie store clerk accused of stealing $1 million lottery … – Denton Record-Chronicle (October 21, 2009) – [read more]
Authorities are looking for a Grand Prairie convenience store clerk who is accused of stealing a winning lottery ticket worth $1 million from a customer. Pankaj Joshi is accused of lying to a 67-year-old customer and telling him that he won $2. Joshi …

Developing nations join West in deforestation fight – AlterNet (October 21, 2009) – [read more]
Six developing countries will join five western nations, including the United States and Britain, to combat climate change by better managing forestry resources, the World Bank has said. “A view of a deforested area on the border of Xingu river in …

Maldives to hold summit of nations threatened by climate change before … – Washington Examiner (October 21, 2009) – [read more]
MALE, MALDIVES — The Maldives will convene a summit next month of countries suffering some of the worst impacts of climate change ahead of a global conference on the issue in Copenhagen, government officials said. The low-lying island nation has …

World record bid to resume – Straits Times (October 21, 2009) – [read more]
MADRID – A RACE by several woman mountaineers to be the first to scale all of the world’s 14 highest peaks is set to resume next year, after South Korea’s Oh Eun-Sun failed in a bid to conquer Annapurna. The 8,091-metre Himalayan peak in Nepal would …

Man has world’s strongest fingers – WOOD (October 21, 2009) – [read more]
A man in China has proven that he has the world’s strongest fingers. The Telegraph reports that Fu Bingli has been practicing kung fu for 32 years and can stand upside-down on just one index finger. Fu nabbed the Guinness world record on Monday for …

Influenza A (H1N1) – Apr 2009 – Reliefweb.int (October 21, 2009) – [read more]
Updates on Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba (The Netherlands), Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas (the), Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan …

PM for equal India, China relations – Himalayan Times (October 21, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU: Nepal is in favour of maintaining equal relations between its two big neighbours India and China to protect the national welfare, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said in a programme in the capital on Wednesday. PM Nepal also stressed on …

Nepali Times

Freer than before (October 21, 2009) – [read more]
Press freedom in Nepal has improved than last year, says Reporters without

Deal near? (October 21, 2009) – [read more]
Thanks to their tea-party diplomacy, the leaders of the Big Three political parties are close to resolving their differences after pledging “flexibility” to seek language acceptable to all

Nepal’s new deputy PM (October 13, 2009) – [read more]
Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala has been promoted to the post of deputy prime

Dahal leaves for China (October 11, 2009) – [read more]
Maoist chairman makes a second visit to China to bolster relations with the communist

New report raises conflict toll (September 22, 2009) – [read more]
The death toll of the 10-year long insurgency is 3,000 more than previously reported.

They’ve done it again (September 16, 2009) – [read more]
Maoists tried to block PM Nepal’s attendance at Tribhuvan University’s convocation

US grant (September 15, 2009) – [read more]
The U.S. grants $900,000 for renovation of historical monuments in Patan Darbar

Deliberations on judicial system begin (September 13, 2009) – [read more]
The NC and UML opposed the new provisions of the preliminary draft report and concept paper on the judicial system.

Nepal News

Drive to stop mass animal sacrifice (October 20, 2009) – [read more]

In this picture taken on September 27, 2009, bystanders watch as soldiers prepare to sacrifice a buffalo on the ninth day of Dashain Festival in Kathmandu Every five years a temple in southern Nepal plays host to an extraordinary religious festival in which hundreds of thousands of animals are sacrificed to the Hindu goddess of power Gadhimai.

China visit was important, says Prachanda (October 20, 2009) – [read more]

KATHMANDU: Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” said his weeklong visit to China was important in improving relations between the two countries.

China projects Kashmir as a separate country (October 19, 2009) – [read more]

A map of Jammu& Kashmir, showing the LoC. IANS KATHMANDU: Besides issuing separate visas to Indian passport holders from Jammu and Kashmir, China is also projecting the disputed territory as an independent country in other ways.

Nepalese gay sex scandal may push poet off Irish syllabus (October 19, 2009) – [read more]

One of the foremost Irish-language poets is expected to have his work removed from the school curriculum in the wake of a tangled sexual controversy.

President, PM, others greet people on Nepal Sambat (October 18, 2009) – [read more]

He wished all Nepalis peace, prosperity and happiness. In a message of greetings released by the Office of the President Sunday, President Dr Yadav said we have been involving in a great campaign of making new constitution for three years.

Nepali Congress (NC) vice-president Prakash Man Singh (second from left), Central Committee… (October 18, 2009) – [read more]

Nepali Congress vice-president Prakash Man Singh , Central Committee member Suprabha Ghimire and NC youth leader Gagan Thapa with other NCA leaders at a tea reception hosted by NC Kathmandu constituency – 4 on the occasion of Tihar, Chhath and Nepal Sambat at Chabahil on Friday, Oct 16 09.

PM in Upper Mustang (October 17, 2009) – [read more]

The prime minister reached Mustang to observe Nepal-China border and security situation in the district, according to his Press Advisor, Bishnu Rijal.

Nepal to open art treasure trove to world (October 17, 2009) – [read more]

Kathmandu, Oct 16 Want to buy exquisite, original art at an affordable price? Visit Nepal , just an hour’s journey from India, where the art market, once depressed due to 12 years of violence and political turmoil, is now seeking to invite the world and be linked to global developments.

United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal

A Maoist Agricultural Center in Nepal (October 17, 2009) – [read more]
By Neil Horning

On the way to Chorkate, Gorkha, about a 3 hour bus ride from the district headquarters, a conspicuous facility covered with red flags is noticeable by the roadside.
Nammuna Agricultural Center is run by the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) as an agricultural cooperative, intended to teach agricultural skills and collective farming [...]

Nepal’s Political Impasse (August 23, 2009) – [read more]
Ending his five-day official and ‘mandatory’ India tour, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returns to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal that is going through the turbulent times: Opposition threatening to bring down a shaky coalition, anti-nationalist forces based in Nepal-India border launching vicious attacks against the State in Terai and a fragile peace process [...]

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 [...]