Nepal News archive for 24 November 2009
Nepal: Hindus at Festival to Sacrifice 200,000 Animals, Despite … - New York Times (November 24, 2009) - [read more]
Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered Tuesday in Bariyapur in southern Nepal , where they began to ritually slaughter more than 200,000 animals by slitting their throats with swords, above. Animal rights activists and some religious groups …
Kids in Hall to make small-screen return in Jan. as part of CBC winter … - Metronews.ca (November 24, 2009) - [read more]
TORONTO - Ladies undergarments, a massive fat suit and a leather codpiece will mark the long-awaited return of the Kids in the Hall to series television. It would seem not much has changed for the beloved comedy troupe, who gleefully indulge their …
Proposed changes to city bus system could attract more riders - Cedar Rapids Gazette (November 24, 2009) - [read more]
Proposed changes to the Cedar Rapids transit system would streamline the city’s bus routes and make it easier to reach more parts of town directly. Under proposals laid out in a study of the transit system, more bus routes would overlap, allowing …
GUS: Giving Up Smoking: The Pooties and Woozles and Birdies Edition - DAILY KOS (November 24, 2009) - [read more]
GUS (Gave Up Smoking) is a community support diary for Kossacks in the midst of quitting smoking. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. If you are quitting or even thinking about quitting, please — join us …
Just as his nephew did before him in NYC, Khalid Sheik Mohammed claims … - Metronews.ca (November 24, 2009) - [read more]
NEW YORK - Khalid Sheik Mohammed has acknowledged doing what his nephew Ramzi Yousef couldn’t: toppling the World Trade Center towers. He will soon be given a chance to repeat another of his nephew’s endeavours: using a Manhattan federal courtroom as …
In midst of poaching crisis, illegal rhino horn tops gold - News.Mongabay (November 24, 2009) - [read more]
Poaching has also occurred in India and Nepal where rhino populations are much smaller than Africa. “Increased demand for rhino horn, alongside a lack of law enforcement, a low level of prosecutions for poachers who are actually arrested and …
Wednesday, December 2 - KHOU (November 24, 2009) - [read more]
Today is Wednesday, December 2, the 336th day of 2009. There are 29 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1790 - Austrian troops re-enter Brussels and suppress the revolution. 1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor of …
Festival of mass animal sacrifice begins in Nepal - The Guardian (November 24, 2009) - [read more]
Associated Press Writer= BARIYAPUR, Nepal (AP) â The ceremony began with prayers in a temple by tens of thousands of Hindus before dawn Tuesday. Then it shifted to a nearby corral, where in the cold morning mist, scores of butchers wielding …
Nepali Times
Money matters (November 24, 2009) - [read more]
The parliament is scheduled to endorse the appropriations bill
Maoists agree to let budget pass (November 22, 2009) - [read more]
The parliament will resume for three
Merry-go-round (November 18, 2009) - [read more]
Political parties try, and fail, to reach an agreement to pass the
Dahal follows Koirala to Singapore (November 16, 2009) - [read more]
Maoist chairman will visit NC president in
Feeling poorly (November 15, 2009) - [read more]
Girija Prasad Koirala has been admitted to a hospital in
Backlashing out (November 13, 2009) - [read more]
Police issued an arrest warrant for State Minister Karima Begum for slapping Parsa’s Chief District Officer.
Cadres clog capital (November 12, 2009) - [read more]
Throngs of Maoists picket Singha Darbar in a demonstration of power.
Ow, Minister! (November 11, 2009) - [read more]
Minister slaps Chief District Officer saying he offended her by providing an old vehicle to pick her up at Simara
Nepal News
Nepal, India to set up Pancheshwor Development Authority (November 24, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal and India on Sunday signed an agreement to set up Pancheshwor Development Authority as a key step in the implementation of the much-anticipated Pancheshwor Hydropower project in western Nepal.
Hundreds of thousands of animals to be sacrificed at Hindu festival in southern Nepal (November 24, 2009) - [read more]
Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of animal-welfare protesters.
Nepal’s septuagenarian reclaims Everest record (November 23, 2009) - [read more]
Sherchan, left, shakes hands with Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal in Kathmandu yesterday, as he receives a certificate formally recognising him as the oldest man to climb Mt Everest A 78-year-old grandfather from Nepal has wrested back from his Japanese rival the record of being the oldest man to conquer Mt Everest, the highest peak in …
Devotees in Nepal prepare to sacrifice 300,000 animals (November 23, 2009) - [read more]
Representatives of various faiths light butter lamps in Kathmandu at a protest against the ritual slaughter of thousands of animals.
Koirala refutes rumours of govt change (November 22, 2009) - [read more]
Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala has refuted speculations that his Singapore meeting with Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal was for change in government leadership.
Jan scales the heights for Nepalese charity (November 22, 2009) - [read more]
A WELLINGTON woman who until recently had “struggled with more than two flights of stairs” has just completed a six day hike in the mountains of Nepal for charity.
Nepal’s dethroned king Gyanendra gets first passport (November 22, 2009) - [read more]
Agencies Kathmandu, Nov 21: Nepal’s deposed king Gyanendra has for the first time acquired a passport in his name at the age of 64, more than a year after he became a commoner, a Foreign Ministry official said.
Nepal’s working children face perilous labor (November 21, 2009) - [read more]
The sight of young children engaged in perilous labor and with an uncertain future is common in Nepal’s cities.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
Will India Allow Nepal-Bangladesh Trade? (November 19, 2009) - [read more]
After agreeing to a rail link between Nepal and Bangladesh, will India allow the two countries to use that?It didn’t happen in 1976 when Bangladesh and Nepal signed a transit agreement for boosting bilateral trade but failed to implemented it as India did not allow its territory to be used for passage at that time. [...]
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