Nepal News archive for 26 November 2009

Refugees eat first Thanksgiving dinner at Holy Trinity in Syracuse – Syracuse Post-Standard (November 26, 2009) – [read more]
Burmese refugees eat their first American Thanksgiving dinner at the Holy Trinity Annex at 501 Park St., sponsored by Father’s Heart Ministries. At left is Oo Meh with two month old daughter Damen Meh. At right is Ko Koreh with one year-old daughter …

Ballard shop with global impact faces tough economy – NWCN (November 26, 2009) – [read more]
… socially-conscious unique — Market Street Traders is a place where the cloth dolls support Thai orphanages that rescue children from the sex trade, where Christmas ornaments promote peace between Rwandan villages. Woolen hats from Nepal, wooden …

Hunger: India worse off than Zimbabwe! – Rediff (November 26, 2009) – [read more]
T here are now one billion hungry people on the globe, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said recently. A statistic that is shameful and shocking at the same time. The global financial crisis too has led to a dramatic rise in hunger across …

Mangalore: JK Cement Architecture Awards to be Announced on Nov 27 – Daijiworld.com (November 26, 2009) – [read more]
Mangalore, Nov 27: “The selection of winners and the declaration ceremony of the ‘Architects of the Year Awards (AYA)’, promoted by JK Cement Ltd, will be held on Friday November 27, at T M A Pai Convention Hall”, said M P Rawal …

Postie Plus to exit Waimate Knitwear – Scoop (November 26, 2009) – [read more]
Nov. 27 (BusinessWire) – Postie Plus Group, the clothing and babyware chain that’s 18% owned by Kathmandu founder Jan Cameron, will exit its knitwear manufacturing in North Otago as it continues to streamline its business. Chairman Peter van Rij …

International students get taste of American traditions – News-Star (November 26, 2009) – [read more]
The cranberry sauce aroused suspicion. The jambalaya and pumpkin pie required explanation. But the rest of the food served up at the University of Louisiana at Monroe’s Thanksgiving meal for international students found a warm reception among the …

Troops get holiday respite in Afghanistan – Houston Chronicle (November 26, 2009) – [read more]
Joshua Korder, of Minnesota, eats his Thanksgiving dinner while standing watch at a guard tower in Matakhan, Afghanistan, on Thursday. GOLESTAN, Afghanistan — The Marine Corps Osprey, an unwieldy contraption that flies like an airplane but lands …

GUS: Newly published smoking study offers hope – DAILY KOS (November 26, 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 …

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

‘Indian Idol’ winner Prashant Tamang forays into Nepali movies (November 26, 2009) – [read more]

Kathmandu, Nov 26 He started his career as a cop and in 2007 shot to fame when he won the popular music contest ‘Indian Idol’. Now Prashant Tamang has hit the headlines once again by ‘joining’ the British Gurkhas and ‘tying the knot’. The 26-year-old from Darjeeling has been camping in Nepal, from where his ancestors hailed, to kickstart a new …

Biggest animal slaughter on earth (November 25, 2009) – [read more]

By Gopal Sharma Kathmandu – At least 15 000 buffalo and “countless” goats and birds were sacrificed in a temple in southern Nepal, organisers said on Wednesday, a ritual billed as the single biggest animal slaughter on earth.

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.

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. [...]