Nepal News archive for 29 August 2009
Nepal vice-president gets death threats over Hindi - Gulf Times (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
Madhesi activists and their supporters burn an effigy of Supreme Court chief justice Min Bahadur Rayamajhi during a protest in Kathmandu yesterday. They were protesting against a Supreme Court verdict that required Vice President Paramananda Jha to …
The Established System in Nepal - Newsblaze.com (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
I support the opinion of John Child about the established system in Nepal. The Nepalese language is one of the symbols of Nepalese unity. The language is not the problem of Nepal. But some Indian agents are going to disturb the Nepalese unity. You …
No last word on Nepal’s Hindi row - Times of India (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Last year’s photograph takes pride of place in Paramananda Jha’s drawing room. It has Jha dressed in dhoti-kurta and a jacket, being sworn in as the Nepalese republic’s first vice-president. But that momentous occasion captured on …
Melting glaciers threaten ‘Nepal tsunami’ - Terra Daily (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
Over two decades, Funuru Sherpa has watched the lake above his native village of Dengboche in Nepal’s Himalayas grow, as the glacier that feeds it melts. The 29-year-old, who runs a busy Internet cafe for tourists visiting the Everest region …
Bombers target Nepal’s vice-president again (Lead) - Thaindian.com (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 29 (IANS) Nepal’s embattled Vice-President Paramananda Jha, who had survived unscathed a bomb attack near his residence Friday, had a second narrow escape Saturday after police unearthed another bomb and defused it. Kathmandu police …
One more bomb defused near Nepali vice president’s house - Xinhua News Agency (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) — Another bomb on Saturday was found near the residence of Vice President, Paramananda Jha, in Nepali capital Kathmandu. A bomb specialist team of Nepali police defused the bomb following the information received on …
Nepal plans to lift restrictions on recruitment of maids to Mideast - Gulf News (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
Dubai: Nepal is considering lifting a ban on the recruitment of housemaids in the Middle East, said Mohammad Aftab Alam, the Nepalese Minister of Labour and Transport Management. Alam who is in Dubai for the third two-day Non-Resident Nepalese (NRN …
Bombers target Nepal’s vice-president again (Lead) - Webindia 123 (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal’s embattled Vice-President Paramananda Jha, who had survived unscathed a bomb attack near his residence Friday, had a second narrow escape Saturday after police unearthed another bomb and defused it. Kathmandu police said the second bomb had …
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
On his 51st birthday, MJ lives on - in Nepal (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
More than two months after he died of a drug overdose, which has now been ruled as homicide, `King of pop’ Michael Jackson lives on - in Nepal.
Aid agency: Climate change causing ‘deeply worrying’ food shortages for millions in Nepal (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
Millions of people in Nepal face severe food shortages because global climate change has disrupted weather patterns and slashed crop yields in the Himalayan nation, an international aid agency warned Friday.
Himalayan nations to hold first climate talks (August 28, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: South Asian ministers will gather in Nepal next week for talks on the threat that climate change poses to the Himalayas and to the 1.3 billion people dependent on water flowing from the mountains.
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.
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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