Nepal’s V-P challenges Supreme Court verdict – Gulf Times (August 28, 2009) – [read more]
Madhesi activists and their supporters are detained during a protest near the Supreme Court in Kathmandu yesterday. The activists and their supporters were protesting against a Supreme Court verdict that required Vice President Paramananda Jha to …
Blast Near Nepal Vice President’s Home, One Hurt – Post Chronicle (August 28, 2009) – [read more]
A blast went off just outside the home of Nepal’s vice president in a Kathmandu suburb on Friday, injuring one person, police said. Vice President Paramananda Jha, who was at home at the time, was unhurt, his family said. “It was a big explosion …
Nepal’s Hindi war: Embattled vice president strikes back (Lead) – New Kerala (August 28, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 28 : Nepal’s ongoing ‘Hindi battle’ saw a new twist Friday with embattled Vice President Paramananda Jha, who had been ordered by the apex court to re-take his oath of office in Nepali by Sunday or face dismissal, striking back. Jha, a …
Nepal’s Hindi war: Embattled vice president strikes back (Lead) – Thaindian.com (August 28, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 28 (IANS) Nepal’s ongoing “Hindi battle” saw a new twist Friday with embattled Vice President Paramananda Jha, who had been ordered by the apex court to re-take his oath of office in Nepali by Sunday or face dismissal, striking …
Blast near Nepal VP’s home, one hurt – Times of India (August 28, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU: A blast went off just outside the home of Nepal’s vice president in a Kathmandu suburb on Friday, injuring one person, police said. Vice President Paramananda Jha, who was at home at the time, was unhurt, his family said. “It was a big …
UNMIN clarifies its arms monitoring mandate in Nepal – Xinhua News Agency (August 28, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) — The United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) on Friday issued a press statement on its arms monitoring mandate. Recent media reports have portrayed UNMIN as responsible for the overall management and supervision of …
Dialect Dialectic in Nepal – Newsblaze.com (August 28, 2009) – [read more]
The squabble in Nepal over the vice president’s oath has gotten messier as leaders consider invoking a provision in the interim constitution that allows the cabinet and prime minister to reverse court decisions. The Maoists look like the only winners …
Risk of revolt in refugee camps on the border between Bhutan and Nepal – AsiaNews.IT (August 28, 2009) – [read more]
The plight of the over 120 thousand Bhutanese exiles in Nepal has led to the emergence of Maoist groups in refugee camps. Indian sources raise the possibility of an armed insurrection in the coming months. Meanwhile, the Bhutanese government promises …
Nepali Times
New chairperson (August 29, 2009) – [read more]
NC nominee CA member Nilambar Acharya has been elected chairperson of the Constitutional Committee.
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.
Nepal News
Nepal’s V-P challenges Supreme Court verdict (August 28, 2009) – [read more]
Madhesi activists and their supporters are detained during a protest near the Supreme Court in Kathmandu yesterday.
Mumbai attacks case witness saw accused exchange maps (August 28, 2009) – [read more]
Mumbai: A key witness in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case told a court yesterday that he had seen two Lashkar-e-Taiba activists exchanging maps of various targets in the city.
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.
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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