Nepal News archive for 27 July 2009
Nepal’s Gurkhas cheer campaigning ‘Ab Fab’ actress - Raw Story (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Hundreds of cheering Gurkha veterans gave Joanna Lumley a standing ovation on Monday as the British actress and campaigner addressed a mass rally in Kathmandu at the start of a six-day visit to Nepal. The glamorous 63-year-old star of television …
Gurkha campaigner Joanna Lumley hailed a goddess on Nepali ‘homecoming … - Hello! (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Hundreds of former serviceman and their families converged on Kathmandu airport in Nepal bearing garlands of marigolds and silk scarves to welcome Joanna Lumley this weekend. Though it was the actress and Gurkha campaigner’s first visit to the …
Nepal’s PM pays tribute to Lumley - BBC UK News (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Madhav Kumar Nepal said the Nepalese people were “rejoicing over what she has achieved”. Ms Lumley, whose father was a Gurkha regiment officer, fronted a campaign for UK settlement rights for Gurkhas. She was greeted in Nepal with garlands of flowers …
Joanna Lumley mobbed in Nepal visit - Entertainment.uk.msn.com (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley has been thanked by Nepalese leaders for her support for the Gurkhas during a trip to the country. The star, who played a pivotal role in a campaign to allow those who fought for Britain to settle here, was mobbed by well-wishers and …
In Pictures: ‘Joanna Lumley Visits Nepal’ - Monsters and Critics (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Nepalese ex-Gurkha soldiers and family members wait to welcome British Actress Joanna Lumley during her first visit in Nepal at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. 26 July 2009. Thousands of the soldiers and their families gathered …
Lumley ‘honoured’ by Nepal welcome - Ananova (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Actress Joanna Lumley has been thanked by Nepalese leaders for her support for the Gurkhas during a trip to the country. The star, who played a pivotal role in a campaign to allow those who fought for Britain to settle in the UK, was mobbed by well …
Lumley gets hero’s welcome in Nepal - Entertainment.uk.msn.com (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley has received a hero’s welcome from hundreds of Gurkhas and their families as she arrived in Nepal. The actress, who played a pivotal role in a campaign to allow those who fought for Britain to settle here, was mobbed by well-wishers and …
Dragonair to fly to Dhaka and Kathmandu - Manila Bulleting Online (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
Dragonair has unveiled new arrangement for its services to Dhaka and Kathmandu starting from October 1 which will offer passengers travelling to and from Nepal a greater number of flights per week to choose from. The night flight to Kathmandu from …
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
Electrocuted crows halt Nepal govt (July 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: A power cut caused by errant crows brought Nepalese government ministries to a halt as they returned to work this week after four days of strike action, the electricity authority said yesterday.
Gurkhas planning a hero’s welcome for British actress (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
In this file photo, British actress Joanna Lumley, left, with former Gurkha soldier Tul Bahadur Pun who saved her father’s life, during the Gurkha campaign in May, in London Nepal’s Gurkhas are planning a hero’s welcome for British actress and campaigner Joanna Lumley when she makes her first-ever visit to the Himalayan nation tomorrow.
India provides Nepal fund for education (July 26, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Indian ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood on Saturday handed over two newly-constructed school buildings worth Rs 1.96 crore to the local communities here.
Joanna Lumley leaves for Nepal trip (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
Joanna Lumley said she felt “humbled” to be travelling to Nepal, where she is expected to be greeted as a heroine by thousands of Gurkhas and their families.
Three Indians killed in Nepal bus mishap (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
Three Indians, including a nonagenarian couple, were killed and 19 others injured when two passenger buses collided on a highway in western Nepal on Friday morning, police said.
Vice Prez vents anger over SC verdict (July 25, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 24: Vice President Paramananda Jha has expressed his displeasure over the Supreme Court verdict nullifying the oath of office he took in the Hindi language, saying the judgment was biased and predictable.
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.
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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