Nepal News archive for 24 July 2009

There were cries of pain everywhere: Nepal accident survivor – Thaindian.com (July 24, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, July 24 (IANS) A 55-year-old bicycle mechanic from India’s Birsinghpur village recounted in stunned disbelief how a pilgrimage to Nepal turned into death and pain in pre-dawn darkness. Ram Bahadur Gupta was one of the lucky passengers in …

After Nepal Maoists, UN objects to Indian arms sale – Times of India (July 24, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU: After Nepal’s former ruling party, the Maoists, warned the government that the resumption of arms sale by India would derail the fragile peace process, the UN is now asking Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal not to go through any such …

Nepal probes elephant ‘attacks’ – BBC South-Asia (July 24, 2009) – [read more]
Elephants from India are being blamed for the attacks Nepalese officials are visiting an area in the far east of the country to investigate attacks by elephants migrating from neighbouring India. More than 200 elephants are believed to have entered …

Peace process in Nepal stagnating, key UN official warns – New Kerala (July 23, 2009) – [read more]
United Nations, Jul 24 : The peace process in Nepal has stagnated, the top UN envoy to the South Asian Nation has said, as the Security Council extended the world body’s mission there for an additional six months. Yesterday’s unanimous Council …

UN extends Nepal peace mission – Financial Times (July 23, 2009) – [read more]
UNITED NATIONS, July 23 – The UN Security Council on Thursday extended the mandate of the UN mission in Nepal for another six months but urged the government to resume a stalled peace process to allow the mission to leave in January. Under a 2006 …

All parties equally responsible for Nepal crisis: UN – Deccan Herald (July 23, 2009) – [read more]
All sides are to be blamed equally for the stagnation in the current peace process in Nepal, a top UN official said and hoped the leaders of political parties will rise above their differences to resolve the crisis. Addressing a press conference at …

UN extends Nepal mission – Zee News (July 23, 2009) – [read more]
New York: The UN Security Council on Thursday decided to extend its mission in Nepal by six months until January next year. The decision was taken through a vote by the Security Council members. The UN mission in Nepal would now remain till January …

Indian pilgrim, 96, wife, 90, killed in road accident – New Kerala (July 23, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, July 24 : A pilgrimage to the revered Pashupatinath temple of Nepal turned into a death trap for a group of Indian pilgrims with three dying in an early morning road smash in western Nepal Friday. A bus, carrying mostly elderly Indian …

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Asia’s other eclipse (July 24, 2009) – [read more]
This century’s longest solar eclipsed moved across Asia on 22 July wowing scientists and the public alike. Asia’s media should take as much interest in the eclipse of news about poverty, injustice and neglect in Asian

Flight of the eclipse (July 22, 2009) – [read more]
It was touted as the world’s most spectacular mountain flight: flying past Mt Everest during a total solar eclipse. But it was not to be because a massive monsoon system covered the whole of southeastern Nepal on Wednesday morning, right on the path of

Maoist rehabilitation (July 18, 2009) – [read more]
The process of discharging the disqualified Maoist combatants living in the cantonment faces difficulty to

New budget (July 13, 2009) – [read more]
Finance Minister Surendra Pandey unveiled a budget of Rs 285.93 billion for the fiscal year

Top three (July 12, 2009) – [read more]
Nepal secured third position in the ACC Women T20 U-19 Championship
by defeating

A state of lawlessness (July 11, 2009) – [read more]
The journey itself became a metaphor for the present state of the

Programs and policies (July 9, 2009) – [read more]
President Ram Baran Yadav presented the government’s programs and policies for the new fiscal year on Thursday’s budget session.

Nepal’s first loss (July 8, 2009) – [read more]
Nepal’s unbeaten run in the ACC Women’s Twenty-20 Championship ended with Thailand’s win with 23 runs in the final league match on

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Nepal to rebuild royal massacre house (July 23, 2009) – [read more]

Eight years after Nepal’s crown prince gunned down most of his royal family, the government is to rebuild the house where the massacre took place, the prime minister’s spokesman said Thursday.

No rest for Nepal’s royal ghosts (July 23, 2009) – [read more]

More than eight years after its royal family perished in a shocking massacre in the tightly guarded palace and 14 months after the kingdom of Nepal gave the coup de grace to its once-revered institution of monarchy, the royal ghosts have been resurrected with the new government announcing it would rebuild the massacre site.

Spectacular panorama captured of the Himalayas from hot air balloon (July 23, 2009) – [read more]

Everest: British film maker and adventure cameraman Leo Dickinson took the photograph on a record-breaking balloon flight over Everest Photo: SWNS The remarkable photograph overlooks the world’s highest peaks and was taken in the stratosphere at an altitude of 36,000ft. It is believed to be the highest panoramic picture taken by hand from a …

Solar eclipse bodes ill for India, Nepal, China, says soothsayer (July 22, 2009) – [read more]

Kathmandu, July 22 One of Nepal’s best-known astrologers, a globe-trotter who has attended astrological meets in Britain, Japan, France and Germany, warned that Wednesday’s solar eclipse would cause further unrest in India, Nepal and China.

Police shoot dead rebel leader in central Nepal (July 22, 2009) – [read more]

Nepali police on Wednesday claimed that a military commander of Terai-based rebel group TeraiMadhesh Rastra Mukti Sena has been shot dead in police firing in Janakpur, some 120 km south of capital Kathmandu.

Natural phenomenon eclipse, adopt by tough rituals in Nepal (July 22, 2009) – [read more]

Being unaware of the fact that solar eclipse is a natural phenomenon, Nepali people perform toughest rituals regarding religious beliefs.

Post-election optimism fades in Nepal (July 21, 2009) – [read more]

In this file picture, Nepalese Maoist leaders Baburam Bhattarai, Hishila Yami, Ram Bahadur Thapa alies Badal and Pushpa Kamal Dahal, alias Prachanda pose in the village of Gaam in the western Rolpa disctrict of Nepal When Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal stood for prime minister last August, his party pronounced it a “golden dawn” for Nepal after …

Buddhist priest to exorcise ‘ghosts of war’ in Nepal (July 20, 2009) – [read more]

Kathmandu, July 17 : As Nepal’s new government Friday began the process of releasing child soldiers held in Maoist camps as a step towards bolstering the peace process, a Buddhist priest said he would add to the efforts by exorcising the ‘ghosts of war’. Born Phurba Tasi Gurung in one of the biggest and most inaccessible districts of Nepal, the …

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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 [...]

The Indian Democracy (May 23, 2009) – [read more]
Just as our April 2008 poll verdict, this Indian election, it appears, was about stability and progress of India
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF version of the page.]

A kid, carrying the Indian National Congress Party flag, walks on the street in front [...]

Madhav Kumar Nepal Set to Become Prime Minister of Nepal (May 17, 2009) – [read more]
Madhav Kumar Nepal, veteran communist leader of the Himalayan republic who have been tipped to be the prime minister of Nepal several times in the past and lost from both constituencies in the April 2008 CA elections, is finally set to become the third Communist prime minister of Nepal.
The leader of the moderate Communist Party [...]

Iron Man: Conversation With a Press Wallah (May 16, 2009) – [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
[This article first appeared in today's Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF version. Shorter version in Nepali appeared in today's Kantipur.]

This is about this guy whom I have been seeing busy at his work all day, almost every day, since I came here to Jangpura Extension, one of south Delhi’s many [...]

EXPOSED: The Nepal Maoist’s Nationalism! (May 11, 2009) – [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal who resigned earlier this month lambasting, among other things, foreign (Indian) intervention in Nepali affairs, had himself asked for the higher level involvement from Delhi in matters related to the sacking of chief of the Nepali Army (which is entirely an internal matter of Nepal). Dahal made that clear in [...]