Nepal News archive for 22 August 2009
India visit successful: Nepali PM - Xinhua News Agency (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) — Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, on returning from a five-day visit to India on Saturday, said his trip was a very successful. Speaking at the Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu, Prime Minister M.K …
India offers ‘full support’ to Nepal’s peace process - Thaindian.com (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) India Saturday offered its “full support” to the peace process in Nepal, with both countries also saying they would hold discussions on reworking their Treaty of Peace and Friendship that was signed nearly six decades ago …
India offers ‘full support’ to Nepal’s peace process - New Kerala (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
New Delhi, Aug 22 : India Saturday offered its ‘full support’ to the peace process in Nepal, with both countries also saying they would hold discussions on reworking their Treaty of Peace and Friendship that was signed nearly six decades ago. “The …
Water, sanitation should be fundamental rights, say Nepali experts - New Kerala (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug. 22 : Nepali experts appealed to the government to establish water and sanitation as fundamental rights in the new constitution, The Kathmandu Post reported on Saturday. The paper quoted Rabin Lal Shrestha, research and advocacy …
Trade treaty, securing Indian aid key achievements: Nepal - Daily News and Analysis (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
“The visit has helped to further strengthen bilateral relations and expand mutual cooperation and trade,” he told reporters after arriving at the Tribhuvan International Airport here after completion of his five-day official trip. India has pledged …
Fr. Donnelly the “Nepali” from Cincinnati who gave his life for his … - AsiaNews.IT (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
08/22/2009 10:20 NEPAL Fr. Donnelly the “Nepali” from Cincinnati who gave his life for his students by Kalpit Parajuli The Society of Jesus mourns the death of the priest, a missionary for over 40 years in the country at the feet of the Himalaya. One …
India, Nepal agree to review 1950 Friendship Treaty - Daily News and Analysis (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
The Foreign Secretaries of the two countries will “discuss and review” the 1950 treaty and “other bilateral agreements with a view to further strengthening the bilateral relationship”, it was announced in a joint statement issued at the conclusion of …
India, Nepal sign new treaty to boost trade - Reuters India (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India and Nepal signed a trade treaty on Saturday to allow Nepalese goods duty-free access to India and agreed to bolster security along their border to thwart militant attacks, officials said. India will allow Nepal to use the …
Nepali Times
Homecoming (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returned to Kathmandu on Saturday afternoon after five-day official visit to India.
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
Nepal News
Nepal PM visits Rajghat (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
New Delhi, Aug.19 : Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, who is on a five-day official visit to India, visited Rajghat, the memorial dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, on Wednesday.
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.
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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