Nepal News archive for 27 November 2009
Nepal faces more natural disasters due to climate change - Investors Business Daily (November 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Nov 28, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — Due to climate change Nepal has been witnessing gradual decline in agricultural production, increase in natural disasters, lack of water resources including decline of bio-diversities and others, the …
Shoppers rummage for retail on Black Friday - St. Cloud Times (November 27, 2009) - [read more]
Waiting in a long line outside Menards in Friday’s predawn cold, Jill Kandel sipped coffee and talked about the clothes and tools she wanted to buy. It’s been a tough year for the substitute teacher with school districts trimming budgets. So any …
Nepal prepares status-paper for Copenhagen climate summit - Investors Business Daily (November 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Nov 28, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — Nepal’s participation at the Copenhagen climate summit may get a boost, with the country preparing a status-paper on climate change for the first time. According to Saturday’s eKantipur.com report, the …
Student from Nepal wins Miss Asian UCO - Daily Oklahoman (November 27, 2009) - [read more]
EDMOND — University of Central Oklahoma student Anuja Magar won the Miss Asian UCO title Saturday at the annual scholarship pageant celebrating Asian culture on the campus. Magar received a $900 scholarship for winning the title. First runner-up …
Non-big box stores report a good day - Abilene Reporter-News (November 27, 2009) - [read more]
Susan Pittman’s feet hurt Friday, but “in a good way.” “It’s the best after-Thanksgiving Day we have ever had,” said Pittman, owner of It’s About Time, an antiques, gifts and home enhancements store on the corner of South 14th Street …
EU to set up embassy in Kathmandu - E Kantipur (November 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, NOV 27 - European Union, one of Nepal’s largest donors, is all set to open its residential embassy (commission) in Kathmandu very soon. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the government has already approved EU’s request to …
Litmus test for govt - E Kantipur (November 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, NOV 27 - The international community, concerned over the culture of impunity in Nepal, has been closely observing Maj. Gen. Toran Jung Bahadur Singh’s case as a ‘litmus test’ to correct its human rights records. Singh, a senior Nepal …
Nepal’s bloodbath fair claims three Indian infants - Silicon India (November 27, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: At least three Indian infants died due to cold in Nepal’s most controversial religious fair, where thousands of animals and birds are being slaughtered by Indians and Nepalis, mostly in the hope of getting a son or wish fulfilment. Nisha …
Nepali Times
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Back on the road: Are some Maoist cadre feeling insecure as they watch the power they wielded through terror slip
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.
Nepal News
Nepali bares UK racist abuse in BBC film (November 27, 2009) - [read more]
But after a year spent enduring a stream of abuse as a Westminster parking warden, Pokhrels view of England as a green and pleasant land has taken a knock.
‘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.
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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. [...]
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