Nepal News archive for 27 August 2009
Nepali Congress, Maoists file candidacy for CC chair - New Kerala (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
Earlier, Maoists had propsed Dr Baburam Bhattarai for the post. Local media reports said Mr Bhattarai refused to file candidacy after the party could not get support of the Nepali Congress and UML. A meeting of the three major parties held here today …
Nepal’s Hindi row: 50 arrested for burning SC order copies - Hindustan Times (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
In further escalation of the Hindi row in Nepal, some 50 activists belonging to different political parties were arrested here today as they burnt copies of the Supreme Court order nullifying the Vice President’s oath taken in the language. Vice …
Legal battle for Sobhraj to begin again - Gulf Times (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
Legal battle for Sobhraj to begin again IANS/Kathmandu Nepal’s Supreme Court said it will start hearing from October 29 yesteryear’s ‘Serpent’ Charles Sobhraj’s appeal in a nearly 30-year-old murder case that, for the first time in a crime …
India, Nepal pop stars team up for anti-trafficking drive - Thaindian.com (August 24, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 24 (IANS) 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. Indian crooner Sunidhi Chauhan and Nepali pop icon as well as Coke’s poster …
Saw my friend Fahim give maps - Indian Express (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
A witness who described himself as a childhood friend of Fahim Ansari, one of the alleged conspirators in the Mumbai terror attack, said on Thursday that he had seen Fahim hand over some maps to co-accused Sabahuddin Ahmed in Nepal in January last …
India visit successful: Nepali PM - Xinhua News Agency (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) — Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, on returning from a five-day visit to India on Saturday, said his trip was a very successful. Speaking at the Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu, Prime Minister M.K …
Indian home minister meets Nepali counterpart - Xinhua News Agency (August 21, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) — Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday visited Nepal and met his Nepali counterpart Bhim Rawal on his way to Bhutan, local news website eKantipur reported. Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram suddenly came to …
Water, sanitation should be fundamental rights, say Nepali experts - Newstrack India (August 22, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug. 22 (ANI): Nepali experts appealed to the government to establish water and sanitation as fundamental rights in the new constitution, The Kathmandu Post reported on Saturday. The paper quoted Rabin Lal Shrestha, research and advocacy …
Nepali Times
Airport delays (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu airport is seeing major delays of up to three hours on Thursday morning after cracks were discovered on the southern and northern thresholds of the only
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.
Nepal News
Nepal begins to implement PAN system (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
The Nepali government has begun a drive to implement the Permanent Account Number system in a bid to keep track of all monetary transactions in the country and prevent tax evasion, according to local media Tuesday.
‘Bamboo schools’ bring hope to Nepal’s poor (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
When Uttam Sanjel began giving reading classes to street children in the Nepalese capital in the 1990s, he had little idea what his small teaching scheme would one day turn into.
Who killed Nepal’s king? Another theory surfaces (August 27, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Eight tumultuous years after the massacre of Nepal’s king Birendra and his entire family in the tightly guarded royal palace, fresh theories are still surfacing in this country about who plotted the bloodbath.
Pressure mounts on Nepal vice-president (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 Paramanada Jha, who triggered an unprecedented furore by taking his oath of office in Hindi last year, faced …
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.
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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