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September 25, 2009 - From

MJ hailed Hitler as ‘genius’ in lost tape – Newstrack India (September 24, 2009) – [read more]
London, September 25 (ANI): In a new tape that has surfaced, Michael Jackson can be heard saying that Adolf Hitler was a “genius”. The King of Pop had made the statement to close friend Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who has been at Oxford University for 11 …

New wave from Bhutan settles in – Burlington Free Press (September 24, 2009) – [read more]
Westerners for years have romanticized their homeland as a version of Shangri-La, lauding it as the only country in the world where promoting happiness is a formal goal of public policy. Yet this is also a country that reportedly expelled a large …

Bhutan Refugees Find a Toehold in the Bronx – New York Times (September 24, 2009) – [read more]
Nearly every immigrant group in New York City has a neighborhood, or at least a street, to call its own. But for refugees from the tiny South Asian nation of Bhutan , the closest thing to a home base is a single building in the Bronx — a red-brick …

Movie showcases beauties of Nepal – Badger Herald (September 24, 2009) – [read more]
Whenever or however earth was birthed, evolved or created, its beauty mark lies bordered between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of India. Although reprehensibly lagging behind globalization, Nepal’s elevated villages, where …

Getting ready to take off – Kuensel Online (September 24, 2009) – [read more]
Yonphula Airport 25 September, 2009 – The much-awaited Yonphula domestic airstrip will finally get into shape with the civil construction work expected to begin towards the end of October. A team lead by the department of civil aviation director …

Swine flu takes toll on Himachal’s mountain biking event – New Kerala (September 24, 2009) – [read more]
Shimla, Sep 25 : Swine flu has taken a toll on India’s ‘toughest’ mountain terrain biking event, Hercules MTB Himachal, as a majority of foreign participants have cancelled their entries in the expedition which takes place in Himachal Pradesh …

Can we grow faster? – Global Nation (September 24, 2009) – [read more]
From the ‘50s up to now, Philippine gross domestic product (GDP) growth records by decades are : 6.4% from 1951 to 1960, 4.9% from 1961 to 1970, 5.9% from 1971 to 1980, 1.8% from 1981 to 1990, 3.1% from 1991 to 2000, and 4.8% from 2001 to 2008 …

ICIMOD now charging its electric vehicles from a solar charging … – PR Inside (September 24, 2009) – [read more]
/EIN Presswire/ Since May, ICIMOD has been charging its electric vehicles from a solar charging station. ICIMOD has three electric smart cars which are used to take staff and visitors to meetings around Kathmandu. Since May they have been parked …

Nepali Times

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.

Kanak Dixit awarded (September 11, 2009) – [read more]
Himalmedia publisher and editor of Himal Southasian, Kanak Mani Dixit, has been awarded the first Prince Claus Award to Nepal for “his outstanding contributions to public debate, for creating platforms that enable South Asians to connect, interact and network transcending national and cultural boundaries, and for his socially engaged, multi-disciplinary approach to creativity and

Gurung assumes office (September 9, 2009) – [read more]
General Chhatra Man Singh Gurung, the newly appointed army chief assumed office from Wednesday.

Foreign minister leaves for China (September 8, 2009) – [read more]
Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala leaves for a goodwill visit to China on

Depoliticise education! (September 6, 2009) – [read more]
A citizen’s initiative Saturday submited a petition to Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal to depoliticise higher education system in Nepal.

Nepal News

Buddhist model is new Miss Nepal (September 24, 2009) – [read more]

A 20-year-old popular Buddhist model and music video star yesterday prevailed over Nepal’s Maoists as well as 14 other contenders to walk off with the Miss Nepal 2009 crown held under the shadow of Maoist threats.

Maoists threaten to battle Miss Nepal pageant Thursday (September 23, 2009) – [read more]

Nine Maoist organisations Wednesday warned the organisers of Nepal’s biggest and most popular beauty pageant not to hold the Miss Nepal contest or be ready to face dire consequences if they did.

Reception held to mark China s 60th anni. in Nepal (September 23, 2009) – [read more]

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, a reception was held in Kathmandu on Tuesday evening.

Nepal gets $205 million in U.S. aid (September 23, 2009) – [read more]

Nepal will get $205 million from the United States in the next five years to strengthen democracy following its decade-long civil war, officials announced.

Three skydivers land at world’s highest point (September 22, 2009) – [read more]

Britons Leo Dickinson and Ralph Mitchell are joined by Indian R C Tripathi during a press conference in Kathmandu Three skydivers – two British and one Indian – plunged through the shadow of Everest yesterday to land at the world’s highest drop zone.

Nepals Maoists, rebel groups pose threat to India, says Jaswant Singh (September 22, 2009) – [read more]

Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh has said that the rise of Maoists in Nepal and the rebel groups taking sanctuary there pose a threat to India.

Secular Nepal celebrates Eid (September 21, 2009) – [read more]

Clad in white clothes and white caps, thousands of Muslims thronged to mosques to pray and celebrate as a newly secular Nepal announced the first public holiday for Eid al-Fitr and the first Nepali moon-sighting committee independently heralded the rise of the moon that marks the start of the festival after a month of fasting and intense prayers.

Nepali police arrest protesting UCPN-M lawmakers (September 21, 2009) – [read more]

Nine lawmakers from Nepal’s single largest and opposition party in the Constituent Assembly , the Unified Communist Party of Nepal , along with party cadres and supporters, were arrested on Sunday by Nepali police when staging protest at the gate of Singha Durbar, the main administrative seat of Nepal.

United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal

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 [...]

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 [...]

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Nepal News archive for 25 September 2009

September 25, 2009 - From

MJ hailed Hitler as ‘genius’ in lost tape – Newstrack India (September 24, 2009) – [read more]
London, September 25 (ANI): In a new tape that has surfaced, Michael Jackson can be heard saying that Adolf Hitler was a “genius”. The King of Pop had made the statement to close friend Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who has been at Oxford University for 11 …

New wave from Bhutan settles in – Burlington Free Press (September 24, 2009) – [read more]
Westerners for years have romanticized their homeland as a version of Shangri-La, lauding it as the only country in the world where promoting happiness is a formal goal of public policy. Yet this is also a country that reportedly expelled a large …

Bhutan Refugees Find a Toehold in the Bronx – New York Times (September 24, 2009) – [read more]
Nearly every immigrant group in New York City has a neighborhood, or at least a street, to call its own. But for refugees from the tiny South Asian nation of Bhutan , the closest thing to a home base is a single building in the Bronx — a red-brick …

Movie showcases beauties of Nepal – Badger Herald (September 24, 2009) – [read more]
Whenever or however earth was birthed, evolved or created, its beauty mark lies bordered between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of India. Although reprehensibly lagging behind globalization, Nepal’s elevated villages, where …

Getting ready to take off – Kuensel Online (September 24, 2009) – [read more]
Yonphula Airport 25 September, 2009 – The much-awaited Yonphula domestic airstrip will finally get into shape with the civil construction work expected to begin towards the end of October. A team lead by the department of civil aviation director …

Swine flu takes toll on Himachal’s mountain biking event – New Kerala (September 24, 2009) – [read more]
Shimla, Sep 25 : Swine flu has taken a toll on India’s ‘toughest’ mountain terrain biking event, Hercules MTB Himachal, as a majority of foreign participants have cancelled their entries in the expedition which takes place in Himachal Pradesh …

Can we grow faster? – Global Nation (September 24, 2009) – [read more]
From the ‘50s up to now, Philippine gross domestic product (GDP) growth records by decades are : 6.4% from 1951 to 1960, 4.9% from 1961 to 1970, 5.9% from 1971 to 1980, 1.8% from 1981 to 1990, 3.1% from 1991 to 2000, and 4.8% from 2001 to 2008 …

ICIMOD now charging its electric vehicles from a solar charging … – PR Inside (September 24, 2009) – [read more]
/EIN Presswire/ Since May, ICIMOD has been charging its electric vehicles from a solar charging station. ICIMOD has three electric smart cars which are used to take staff and visitors to meetings around Kathmandu. Since May they have been parked …

Nepali Times

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.

Kanak Dixit awarded (September 11, 2009) – [read more]
Himalmedia publisher and editor of Himal Southasian, Kanak Mani Dixit, has been awarded the first Prince Claus Award to Nepal for “his outstanding contributions to public debate, for creating platforms that enable South Asians to connect, interact and network transcending national and cultural boundaries, and for his socially engaged, multi-disciplinary approach to creativity and

Gurung assumes office (September 9, 2009) – [read more]
General Chhatra Man Singh Gurung, the newly appointed army chief assumed office from Wednesday.

Foreign minister leaves for China (September 8, 2009) – [read more]
Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala leaves for a goodwill visit to China on

Depoliticise education! (September 6, 2009) – [read more]
A citizen’s initiative Saturday submited a petition to Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal to depoliticise higher education system in Nepal.

Nepal News

Buddhist model is new Miss Nepal (September 24, 2009) – [read more]

A 20-year-old popular Buddhist model and music video star yesterday prevailed over Nepal’s Maoists as well as 14 other contenders to walk off with the Miss Nepal 2009 crown held under the shadow of Maoist threats.

Maoists threaten to battle Miss Nepal pageant Thursday (September 23, 2009) – [read more]

Nine Maoist organisations Wednesday warned the organisers of Nepal’s biggest and most popular beauty pageant not to hold the Miss Nepal contest or be ready to face dire consequences if they did.

Reception held to mark China s 60th anni. in Nepal (September 23, 2009) – [read more]

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, a reception was held in Kathmandu on Tuesday evening.

Nepal gets $205 million in U.S. aid (September 23, 2009) – [read more]

Nepal will get $205 million from the United States in the next five years to strengthen democracy following its decade-long civil war, officials announced.

Three skydivers land at world’s highest point (September 22, 2009) – [read more]

Britons Leo Dickinson and Ralph Mitchell are joined by Indian R C Tripathi during a press conference in Kathmandu Three skydivers – two British and one Indian – plunged through the shadow of Everest yesterday to land at the world’s highest drop zone.

Nepals Maoists, rebel groups pose threat to India, says Jaswant Singh (September 22, 2009) – [read more]

Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh has said that the rise of Maoists in Nepal and the rebel groups taking sanctuary there pose a threat to India.

Secular Nepal celebrates Eid (September 21, 2009) – [read more]

Clad in white clothes and white caps, thousands of Muslims thronged to mosques to pray and celebrate as a newly secular Nepal announced the first public holiday for Eid al-Fitr and the first Nepali moon-sighting committee independently heralded the rise of the moon that marks the start of the festival after a month of fasting and intense prayers.

Nepali police arrest protesting UCPN-M lawmakers (September 21, 2009) – [read more]

Nine lawmakers from Nepal’s single largest and opposition party in the Constituent Assembly , the Unified Communist Party of Nepal , along with party cadres and supporters, were arrested on Sunday by Nepali police when staging protest at the gate of Singha Durbar, the main administrative seat of Nepal.

United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal

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 [...]

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 [...]

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