Nepal News archive for 25 July 2009
Joanna Lumley to look into Gurkha woes in Nepal - Times of India (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: British actress Joanna Lumley, who became the most recognised face in her own country of the British Gurkha soldiers’ fight for an end to discrimination, will be arriving in Nepal on a six-day visit Sunday for a first-hand assessment of …
India provides Nepal Rs 1.9 crore for school buildings - Hindustan Times (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood on Saturday handed over two newly constructed school buildings worth Rs 1.96 crore to the local communities in Kathmandu. The school buildings for Sri Amar Singh Model Higher Secondary School in Pokhara and …
Gurkhas’ hero Lumley on Nepal trip - Entertainment.uk.msn.com (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley is leaving for a trip to Nepal, where she is expected to be welcomed as a heroine by thousands of Gurkhas and their families. The Absolutely Fabulous actress’s role in a campaign to allow those who fought for Britain to settle here was …
Gurkha soldier reduced to begging seek help from British actress - New Kerala (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 25 : Durga Bahadur Sunwar fought during World War II as part of the British Army’s Gurkha Brigade and lost his right leg. Today the 78-year-old lives in abject poverty in Nepal’s Lumbini region, having received no compensation or …
Peace process in Nepal has stagnated: UN - Hindustan Times (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
Efforts to bring stability in Nepal are suffering setbacks, Karin Landgren, the special representative of the UN secretary-general for Nepal, said here. “The peace process has stagnated in Nepal to a certain degree,” she said at a press briefing on …
Police in UP bust racket of girl running from Nepal to Gulf countries - Newstrack India (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
Gorakhpur, July 25 (ANI): Police officials of Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district recently detained five women, who were allegedly being taken to Gulf countries for flesh trade. Passports recovered from them indicated that they are citizens of Nepal …
YCL cadre murdered in Terai - New Kerala (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Jul 25 : An unidentified group gunned down the central leader of the Unified CPN (Maoist) affiliated Young Communist League (YCL), Laxman Yadav, in Rautahat. ”His body appeared to have bullet injuries. Yadav was also the member of the …
Nepali president, PM get black belts - Xinhua News Agency (July 18, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 18 (Xinhua) — World Taekwondo Federation and World Taekwondo Headquarters awarded Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, Constituent Assembly chairperson Subash Chandra Nembang and Minister for Youth and …
Nepali Times
Asia’s other eclipse (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
This century’s longest solar eclipse 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
Nepal News
Gurkhas’ hero Lumley on Nepal trip (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley is leaving for a trip to Nepal, where she is expected to be welcomed as a heroine by thousands of Gurkhas and their families.
There were cries of pain everywhere: Nepal accident survivor (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
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.
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.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
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 [...]
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