Nepal News archive for 28 April 2009
Carla Bruni’s ex to hit a high note in Nepal - Thaindian.com (April 28, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, April 28 (IANS) French guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Louis Bertignac -better known as an ex-boyfriend of French first lady Carla Bruni - will now hit a different note in Nepal, far removed from Parisian high life. The 55-year-old …
Nepali gov’t announces tough steps to battle swine flu - Focus Infomation (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu. Nepali government has announced tough measures in response to swine flu which was first detected in Mexico some days ago, Xinhua News Agency informed. According to Tuesday’s The Himalayan Times, the joint meeting of the Ministry of …
Apollo hospital launches telemedicine link with Om Hospital in Nepal - New Kerala (April 28, 2009) - [read more]
New Delhi, Apr 28 : Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals today launched telemedicine service at Om Hospital in Kathmandu which would benefit the people of Nepal who could now consult Indian doctors for expert advice on various health problems. The …
Nepal PM urges Koirala to support govt’s decision to sack Army Chief - New Kerala (April 28, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Apr 28 : Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal met Nepali Congress (NC) President Girija Prasad Koirala on Tuesday morning and urged him to support the government to sack Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Rookmangad Katawal. The meeting took …
Is a Nepali fugitive winning Indian election? - Newstrack India (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
He is one of the richest candidates, who fought for the Lok Sabha polls from Assam in Northeast India. A lottery baron turned politician, who has already won three times from Tezpur parliamentary constituency, is more known as a man of money. There …
Five arrested for shooting Nepali PM secretary - Xinhua News Agency (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, April 28 (Xinhua) — Nepali Police have arrested five people involved in an attack on the personal secretary of Prime Minister Prachanda. Chief of the Metropolitan Police Range Hanumandhoka Superintendent of Police (SP) Nawa Raj Silwal …
GMR runs into fresh trouble in Nepal - Sify (April 28, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: The GMR Group, one of India’s premier infrastructure developers, has run into fresh trouble in Nepal, where it is building a 300-MW hydro power project. From Sunday, villagers in western Nepal’s remote Dailekh and Accham districts have …
Nepali sinologist: Nepal-China understanding fostered up - Xinhua News Agency (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
According to Bhattarai, Nepal was admitted in the United Nations on Dec. 14, 1955. From the first time it attended the General Assembly session in 1956, Nepal continuously supported the resolution to restore the legitimate seat for the PRC in the UN …
Nepali Times
Obstacle course (April 28, 2009) - [read more]
Travelling overland through Nepal is not for the faint hearted
Army compromise (April 28, 2009) - [read more]
Hectic three-way meetings between NC-UML-Maoists expected to come up with compromise formula to defuse army
Shaky ground (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
Political uncertainty looms as the Maoist’s decision to sack Army Chief Rookmangud Katawal faces opposition from the other
Citizen’s charter (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
A statement by 18 citizens, Kathmandu, 24 April 2009
East side story (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
Loktantra Diwas, it’s been three years since the people’s movement brought the hope of a new, peaceful and free
Clarification please (April 20, 2009) - [read more]
Defence Ministry sought clarification from the Army Chief Rookmangad Katawal on his defiance of government orders on Monday.
Dark road (April 18, 2009) - [read more]
We are soon going to be a nation of
Lucky seven (April 15, 2009) - [read more]
The parliament session resumed on Wednesday after PM Dahal held talks with the NC and the UML. The paliament has been stalled seven times in a row within two weeks.
Nepal News
PM’s China visit cancelled (April 28, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s China visit, which was scheduled to start from May 2, has been cancelled owing to the political crisis in the country following the government decision to ask the Nepal Army chief for clarification for his actions.
India alarmed by rising mob attacks near Nepal border (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, April 27 : Concerned by the growing mob attacks in Nepal’s Terai region near the Indian border, the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu has asked its security and other related departments to look into the incidents and take appropriate action.
India asks Nepal not to meddle with army (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, April 26 : India’s ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood Sunday conveyed his government’s suggestion to Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda not to meddle with the army’s chain of command even as the Maoist government sought to dismiss army chief Gen Rookmangud Katawal just four months before he is due to …
Lhasa-Kathmandu Highway under construction (April 26, 2009) - [read more]
Members of the Chinese People’s Armed Police Force work at the construction site of the Lhasa-Kathmandu Highway in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, April 6, 2009.
South side of Mt. Qomolangma facing denudation (April 26, 2009) - [read more]
Forest degradation ratio in Sagarmatha National Park and its buffer zone, in the south of Mt.
Hydel convention kicks off (April 26, 2009) - [read more]
The fourth International Hydro Power Convention has kicked off in Kathmandu Saturday.
Can You Hear Me Now From Mount Everest?? (April 26, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu - Nepal’s largest mobile phone service provider Nepal Telecom Saturday announced plans to start services in the Mount Everest region enabling climbers to make phone calls from the top of the world’s highest peak.
Dragons of enlightenment (April 26, 2009) - [read more]
Over 4,000 monks and nuns from around the world descended in the capital of Nepal to attend the week-long Annual Drukpa Council meet.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
India’s Two Big Leagues (April 25, 2009) - [read more]
India is currently consumed by its two great passions: cricket and elections
By Dinesh Wagle
This article first appeared in the Op-Ed page of today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF version of the page.
This is a season of fierce competition in India. The two great Indian games are going on and, if the television viewership rating [...]
The Military Coup That Wasnt (April 24, 2009) - [read more]
UWB Note: The Nepal Army today issued a statement strongly refuting the following report (and the one appeared in today’s Kantipur) as “imaginary and illusionary.” “We would like to let the general public know through this statement that the unified and disciplined Nepali Army is working according to laws and the chain of the command [...]
Gorkhaland Goes BJP (April 18, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This is part of an article that appeared on today’s Op-Ed of the Kahtmandu Post. The other part is here. The complete article in PDF is here.
The high pitched movement for the state of Gorkhaland within India by the Nepali-speaking people of the Darjeeling area has reached an awkward situation. [...]
Naya Barshako Suba-Kamana! [Happy New Year 2066!] (April 13, 2009) - [read more]
Today is 01 Baishak 2066
Change they can believe in: America’s new approach to public diplomacy. Hillary Clinton issues a New Year message to us:
Nepali New Year (Bikram Sambat) Message
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Washington, DC
April 13, 2009
To all those around the world who share common Nepali cultural and linguistic traditions, I send best wishes for a [...]
Ex-Prince Paras on Nepali Royal Massacre (March 31, 2009) - [read more]
Eight years after the royal massacre, ex-Crown Prince Paras Bikram Shah talks to the New Paper of Singapore. Why?
UWB Note: The exclusive interview has been translated and reproduced by many Nepali media including top selling and most influential newspaeprs in Nepal. That is one of the most read items in newspapers in Nepal today and [...]
Nepali Constitution: In search of Excellence (March 25, 2009) - [read more]
By Prof. Suryabahadur Singh*
The experimentation of various types of Constitutions was carried out in Nepal. The country had to experience six more Constitutions until elections to Constituent Assembly, 2065 (2008) were held. It had been observed that, these procedural delay jeopardized the growth of democratic system to a greater extent and derail overall national development [...]
Intellectual Poverty (March 23, 2009) - [read more]
By Darshan Karki, after attending the David Seddon lecture last week
There is a distinct pattern to the workshops, public discussion and lecture series that take place in Kathmandu. Firstly there is the speaker or pundit or whatever name they are called by. They are supposed to have mastered the issue in question. In most [...]
BAD: PLA’s Reaction to Nepal Army Recruitment (March 5, 2009) - [read more]
By Lilu Thapa
Following the lines of the Nepal Army’s recruitment, the PLA also has started its own recruitment process for the “vacant posts”. How sane is that decision by the Maoist leadership or what will be the extent and effect of this new development is yet to be seen. However, if this new recruitment from [...]
Nepal News archive for 28 April 2009
Carla Bruni’s ex to hit a high note in Nepal - Thaindian.com (April 28, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, April 28 (IANS) French guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Louis Bertignac -better known as an ex-boyfriend of French first lady Carla Bruni - will now hit a different note in Nepal, far removed from Parisian high life. The 55-year-old …
Nepali gov’t announces tough steps to battle swine flu - Focus Infomation (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu. Nepali government has announced tough measures in response to swine flu which was first detected in Mexico some days ago, Xinhua News Agency informed. According to Tuesday’s The Himalayan Times, the joint meeting of the Ministry of …
Apollo hospital launches telemedicine link with Om Hospital in Nepal - New Kerala (April 28, 2009) - [read more]
New Delhi, Apr 28 : Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals today launched telemedicine service at Om Hospital in Kathmandu which would benefit the people of Nepal who could now consult Indian doctors for expert advice on various health problems. The …
Nepal PM urges Koirala to support govt’s decision to sack Army Chief - New Kerala (April 28, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Apr 28 : Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal met Nepali Congress (NC) President Girija Prasad Koirala on Tuesday morning and urged him to support the government to sack Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Rookmangad Katawal. The meeting took …
Is a Nepali fugitive winning Indian election? - Newstrack India (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
He is one of the richest candidates, who fought for the Lok Sabha polls from Assam in Northeast India. A lottery baron turned politician, who has already won three times from Tezpur parliamentary constituency, is more known as a man of money. There …
Five arrested for shooting Nepali PM secretary - Xinhua News Agency (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, April 28 (Xinhua) — Nepali Police have arrested five people involved in an attack on the personal secretary of Prime Minister Prachanda. Chief of the Metropolitan Police Range Hanumandhoka Superintendent of Police (SP) Nawa Raj Silwal …
GMR runs into fresh trouble in Nepal - Sify (April 28, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: The GMR Group, one of India’s premier infrastructure developers, has run into fresh trouble in Nepal, where it is building a 300-MW hydro power project. From Sunday, villagers in western Nepal’s remote Dailekh and Accham districts have …
Nepali sinologist: Nepal-China understanding fostered up - Xinhua News Agency (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
According to Bhattarai, Nepal was admitted in the United Nations on Dec. 14, 1955. From the first time it attended the General Assembly session in 1956, Nepal continuously supported the resolution to restore the legitimate seat for the PRC in the UN …
Nepali Times
Obstacle course (April 28, 2009) - [read more]
Travelling overland through Nepal is not for the faint hearted
Army compromise (April 28, 2009) - [read more]
Hectic three-way meetings between NC-UML-Maoists expected to come up with compromise formula to defuse army
Shaky ground (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
Political uncertainty looms as the Maoist’s decision to sack Army Chief Rookmangud Katawal faces opposition from the other
Citizen’s charter (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
A statement by 18 citizens, Kathmandu, 24 April 2009
East side story (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
Loktantra Diwas, it’s been three years since the people’s movement brought the hope of a new, peaceful and free
Clarification please (April 20, 2009) - [read more]
Defence Ministry sought clarification from the Army Chief Rookmangad Katawal on his defiance of government orders on Monday.
Dark road (April 18, 2009) - [read more]
We are soon going to be a nation of
Lucky seven (April 15, 2009) - [read more]
The parliament session resumed on Wednesday after PM Dahal held talks with the NC and the UML. The paliament has been stalled seven times in a row within two weeks.
Nepal News
PM’s China visit cancelled (April 28, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s China visit, which was scheduled to start from May 2, has been cancelled owing to the political crisis in the country following the government decision to ask the Nepal Army chief for clarification for his actions.
India alarmed by rising mob attacks near Nepal border (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, April 27 : Concerned by the growing mob attacks in Nepal’s Terai region near the Indian border, the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu has asked its security and other related departments to look into the incidents and take appropriate action.
India asks Nepal not to meddle with army (April 27, 2009) - [read more]
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, April 26 : India’s ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood Sunday conveyed his government’s suggestion to Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda not to meddle with the army’s chain of command even as the Maoist government sought to dismiss army chief Gen Rookmangud Katawal just four months before he is due to …
Lhasa-Kathmandu Highway under construction (April 26, 2009) - [read more]
Members of the Chinese People’s Armed Police Force work at the construction site of the Lhasa-Kathmandu Highway in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, April 6, 2009.
South side of Mt. Qomolangma facing denudation (April 26, 2009) - [read more]
Forest degradation ratio in Sagarmatha National Park and its buffer zone, in the south of Mt.
Hydel convention kicks off (April 26, 2009) - [read more]
The fourth International Hydro Power Convention has kicked off in Kathmandu Saturday.
Can You Hear Me Now From Mount Everest?? (April 26, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu - Nepal’s largest mobile phone service provider Nepal Telecom Saturday announced plans to start services in the Mount Everest region enabling climbers to make phone calls from the top of the world’s highest peak.
Dragons of enlightenment (April 26, 2009) - [read more]
Over 4,000 monks and nuns from around the world descended in the capital of Nepal to attend the week-long Annual Drukpa Council meet.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
India’s Two Big Leagues (April 25, 2009) - [read more]
India is currently consumed by its two great passions: cricket and elections
By Dinesh Wagle
This article first appeared in the Op-Ed page of today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF version of the page.
This is a season of fierce competition in India. The two great Indian games are going on and, if the television viewership rating [...]
The Military Coup That Wasnt (April 24, 2009) - [read more]
UWB Note: The Nepal Army today issued a statement strongly refuting the following report (and the one appeared in today’s Kantipur) as “imaginary and illusionary.” “We would like to let the general public know through this statement that the unified and disciplined Nepali Army is working according to laws and the chain of the command [...]
Gorkhaland Goes BJP (April 18, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This is part of an article that appeared on today’s Op-Ed of the Kahtmandu Post. The other part is here. The complete article in PDF is here.
The high pitched movement for the state of Gorkhaland within India by the Nepali-speaking people of the Darjeeling area has reached an awkward situation. [...]
Naya Barshako Suba-Kamana! [Happy New Year 2066!] (April 13, 2009) - [read more]
Today is 01 Baishak 2066
Change they can believe in: America’s new approach to public diplomacy. Hillary Clinton issues a New Year message to us:
Nepali New Year (Bikram Sambat) Message
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Washington, DC
April 13, 2009
To all those around the world who share common Nepali cultural and linguistic traditions, I send best wishes for a [...]
Ex-Prince Paras on Nepali Royal Massacre (March 31, 2009) - [read more]
Eight years after the royal massacre, ex-Crown Prince Paras Bikram Shah talks to the New Paper of Singapore. Why?
UWB Note: The exclusive interview has been translated and reproduced by many Nepali media including top selling and most influential newspaeprs in Nepal. That is one of the most read items in newspapers in Nepal today and [...]
Nepali Constitution: In search of Excellence (March 25, 2009) - [read more]
By Prof. Suryabahadur Singh*
The experimentation of various types of Constitutions was carried out in Nepal. The country had to experience six more Constitutions until elections to Constituent Assembly, 2065 (2008) were held. It had been observed that, these procedural delay jeopardized the growth of democratic system to a greater extent and derail overall national development [...]
Intellectual Poverty (March 23, 2009) - [read more]
By Darshan Karki, after attending the David Seddon lecture last week
There is a distinct pattern to the workshops, public discussion and lecture series that take place in Kathmandu. Firstly there is the speaker or pundit or whatever name they are called by. They are supposed to have mastered the issue in question. In most [...]
BAD: PLA’s Reaction to Nepal Army Recruitment (March 5, 2009) - [read more]
By Lilu Thapa
Following the lines of the Nepal Army’s recruitment, the PLA also has started its own recruitment process for the “vacant posts”. How sane is that decision by the Maoist leadership or what will be the extent and effect of this new development is yet to be seen. However, if this new recruitment from [...]
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