Nepal News archive for 26 August 2009

Pressure mounts on Nepal vice-president – Gulf Times (August 26, 2009) – [read more]
Jha, who has been ordered by the apex court to be sworn in again in Nepali by Sunday or face dismissal, remained torn between two dire options With only four days left for a Supreme Court ultimatum to end, Nepal’s embattled Vice President …

Two Nepali students attacked – Deccan Herald (August 26, 2009) – [read more]
In an instance of violence against foreigners, two Nepali engineering students were attacked by unidentified assailants in the Jayanagar police station limits on Wednesday evening. A tipsy man picked up a quarrel with Sushil Rana and Anil Shiresh …

Priest went from St. X to Nepal – Cincinnati.com (August 26, 2009) – [read more]
After he was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1959, the Rev. James J. Donnelly had his heart set on doing missionary work in India. The Norwood native was deeply disappointed when he learned his missionary assignment was Nepal. But soon after arriving in …

Influenza A(H1N1) anxieties increase in Nepali hospitals – Balita News (August 26, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 26 — The number of people seeking Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) of A(H1N1) virus has recently increased in Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital (STIDH) in Nepali capital Kathmandu. Around 12 people visit the hospital …

‘No child should be left out because the family can’t pay’ – Daily News and Analysis (August 26, 2009) – [read more]
This month, the 35-year-old Kathmandu native, who was once an aspiring Hindi film actor, opened his tenth school in Nepal and revealed ambitious plans to provide affordable education for all children in the Himalayan nation. Over the past nine years …

Village evicts Pune worker over swine flu fear – Gulf Times (August 26, 2009) – [read more]
Village evicts Pune worker over swine flu fear IANS/Kathmandu An ailing man who returned home in far western Nepal after falling ill in India’s Pune city has been thrown out of his village due to mistaken fears that he had contracted swine flu and …

Nepal’s UCPN-M blocks house meeting – Xinhua News Agency (August 26, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) — The meeting of the Legislature-Parliament has been put off without entering into the work schedule after the lawmakers from the single largest and opposition party, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M …

Ancient Nepali cultural envoy to China Araniko commemorated – Xinhua News Agency (August 19, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) — A two-week long Araniko Art Exhibition to commemorate the “Nepali cultural envoy to China” Araniko is going on Thursday at the Nepal Art Council in Nepali capital Kathmandu. Marking the 730th anniversary of the …

Nepali Times

Stalemates ahoy (August 26, 2009) – [read more]
The Hindi oath row has caused another political

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.

Nepal News

India, Nepal pop stars team up for anti-trafficking campaign (August 26, 2009) – [read more]

Kathmandu: Pop stars from Nepal and India are teaming up for a series of concerts in Nepal’s main cities for an anti-trafficking campaign sponsored by MTV.

7 killed in floods in eastern Nepal (August 26, 2009) – [read more]

At least seven persons died, one went missing due to the floods that lashed the district of Jhapa in eastern Nepal last week, The Rising Nepal reported on Wednesday.

Monsoon fury leaves 68 dead: Nepali gov’t (August 25, 2009) – [read more]

Landslides and flood havoc triggered by incessant rainfall this monsoon together with other kinds of natural disaster have claimed the lives of 68 people in the country, local newspaper The Himalayan Times reported on Tuesday.

India offers ‘full support’ to Nepal’s peace process (August 23, 2009) – [read more]

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.

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.

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 [...]