Nepal News archive for 27 June 2009
Journalists caught up in Nepal’s power struggle - Khaleej Times (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU - Nepalese journalist Gyanendra Mishra believes he was lucky to survive an attack by gunmen earlier this year. The 25-year-old radio producer suffered bullet wounds to his left shoulder when three armed men attacked him in broad daylight …
Nepal sees only 12 days free of strikes in 6 months - Xinhua News Agency (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 28 (Xinhua) — Nepal’s statistics showed that in the past six months only 12 days were free of any kind of strike, local media reported Sunday. According to a report of The Himalayan Times daily, strikes or bandhs have lasted for 166 …
Top Pak official due in Nepal for talks - Gulf Times (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Less than a week after India sent its Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon to Kathmandu to discuss border problems with Nepal’s new government as well as the halted peace process, Pakistan is sending its foreign secretary here for talks. Salman …
US to grant aid for world heritage site - Gulf Times (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
The United States Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP), 2009, will offer financial support for the restoration of the intricately carved stone sculpture of Tusha Hiti and the Bhandarkhal Tank at the Patan Royal Palace in Nepali …
Chinese team collects Nepali lake water for Asian Games - Xinhua News Agency (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 21 (Xinhua) — A 14-member Chinese team led by Jeng Weiyu, deputy director of Guangzhou Asian Games promotion department, arrived in Pokhara in Nepal on Saturday to collect water from different lakes over there. The team arrived in …
Know-how on Nepal’s law and justice - Himalayan Times (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Ananta Raj Luitel Book: Justice, Collection of Research Articles on Law, Justice and Legal System Editor: Shesh Raj Shiwakoti Published by Pairavi Prakashan Price 225 KATHMANDU: Pairavi Prakashan’s second volume of Justice is in market, 16 years …
Visiting MPs from Nepal pledge support for Tibet - Phayul (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
Dharamsala, June 24: A group of visiting Nepali Parliamentary members are pledging to speak for Tibet and the plight of Tibetan refugees in Nepal after they return to their country at the end of their three-day visit here. A handout photo shows …
Postal worker delivers word of God in Nepal - Shelby Star (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
ELLENBORO - If you shouldered bags of mail around Shelby neighborhoods for a living, do you think you’d travel 15,000 miles to do the same in your time away from work? David Brewer, a 15-year veteran of the U.S. Postal Service, is used to the …
Nepali Times
New ministers (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal expanded his cabinet fourth time on Wednesday a month he took office. The cabinet is yet to take a full
Menon leaves (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivashankar Menon wrapped up his two-day
official visit to Nepal, promising support from the southern neighbour and efforts to resolve the border
Poudel wins (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
NC’s vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel has been elected the leader of its parliamentary party. The PP now has an elected leader after a gap of 14
Nominations filed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
As the NC gears up for elections to choose the members of it’s parliamentary party (PP) working committee, four senior leaders file their nominations for the PP
Decision reversed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
The government has reversed the previous government’s decision to sack Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal and appoint Kul Bahadur Khadka as the acting chief. The move has ignited criticism not only from the Maoists but from UML leaders as
House expands (June 17, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal inducted 10 new ministers on Wednesday. However, a full-fledged cabinet was not formed as three Madhesi parties failed to send their
Picking fights (June 15, 2009) - [read more]
The new cabinet, which has been expanded twice in three weeks since the government was formed, once again fails to take a complete shape. The people, on the other hand, are stuggling against the continous
Consensus is the word (June 13, 2009) - [read more]
US Assistant Secretary of State Robert O Blake has stressed the need for co-operation between the political parties to ensure the success of the peace process. Blake has also urged the Maoists to renounce violence and control the activities of the
Nepal News
PM wants Maoists in govt (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said on Saturday that he wanted a government of national consensus with MaoistsA participation.
Pakistani foreign secretary visiting Nepal (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Shortly after the Indian foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon visited Nepal, Pakistani foreign secretary Salman Bashir is arriving in Kathmandu Saturday on a three-day official visit.
Nepal police arrest Tibet peace marchers (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Thirty-five Tibetans, including eight women, were arrested by Nepal police on Friday near the Nepal-China border as they tried to cross over and stage a protest march in Tibet.
Special rights for Tibetan refugees in Nepal (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Visiting Nepal delegation to Dharamsala has said that they wanted to introduce special rights for Tibetans in their countrys Constitution.
Former Nepali king to “break his silence” on 62nd birthday: report (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Little over a year after he left the Narayanhiti Palace following the formal declaration of the erstwhile kingdom as a federal republic by Nepal’s newly elected parliament, former king Gyanendra is said to be preparing to “break his long silence” next month, local media reported on Friday.
Three dozen Tibetan refugees arrested in Sindhupalchok; Chinese envoy in Mustang (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Police have arrested around three dozen Tibetan refugees in Sindhupalchowk district Friday when they were reportedly heading towards the Chinese border for demonstrations against Chinese occupation in Tibet.
Peace process with Maoists stalled: PM (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s new prime minister said yesterday a peace process that ended a deadly civil war in the Himalayan nation had stalled after Maoists quit the government in May.
Nepal deadlock eases, cabinet gets 6 new ministers (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, June 24 : Within 72 hours of Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon’s visit to Nepal to give a push to the stagnating peace process, the political deadlock gripping Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s nearly one-month-old government eased Wednesday with the Terai parties reining in disputes and sending …
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
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 [...]
How Maoist-Delhi Relations Soured (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
The game in the background. How India played a role in the downfall of the first ever democratically elected Maoist government in Nepal.
By Akhilesh Upadhyay
KATHMANDU- The turn of events that first led to the sacking and reinstatement of Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal exposed that relations between New Delhi and the Maoists once on [...]
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