Nepal News archive for 29 July 2009

July 29, 2009 · Filed Under News Archives

New Nepali minister sworn in - Xinhua News Agency (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 29 (Xinhua) — Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Wednesday administered the office of oath and secrecy to newly appointed Minister for Environment, Science and Technology Thakur Prasad Sharma on Wednesday. The ceremony was …

Nepal’s Hindi battle escalates - Thaindian.com (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 29 (IANS) The battle over the use of Hindi for official work, that has pitted southern Nepal against the rest of the country, escalated Wednesday with embattled Vice President Parmananda Jha appealing to the nation to put fraternity …

Nepal, Maoists must probe civil war abuses, says U.N. - Reuters India (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A U.N. human rights envoy urged Nepal’s government and the Maoist former rebels on Wednesday to probe human rights abuses in the civil war that ended in 2006, saying not a single abuser had been punished. Both government forces …

Nepal gets its own Laurel and Hardy - Xinhua News Agency (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 29 (Xinhua) — In the early 20th century, two America-based actors managed to capture public imagination though at first appearance, they had nothing star-like about them. While one of them, Stan Laurel, was thin as a reed, the other …

Expelled student leads attack on Indian priest in Nepal - Webindia 123 (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
A 40-year-old priest from India’s Jharkhand state, teaching underprivileged children in Nepal for almost a decade, has been attacked by a group led by an expelled student. Sanjay Ekka, who comes from Jaspur village in eastern India’s mineral-rich …

VP Jha ready to take oath in Nepali after Supreme Court verdict - New Kerala (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Jul 29 : Vice President Parmananda Jha today said he is ready to take oath of office and secrecy in Nepali language as per the Supreme Court order. ”Since I am well-versed in Nepali language, I am ready to take the oath again,” Nepalnews …

Jesuit priest beaten and injured in Kathmandu - AsiaNews.IT (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
07/29/2009 10:42 NEPAL Jesuit priest beaten and injured in Kathmandu by Kalpit Parajuli Fr. Ekka David is director of the Loyola Students Home in Kathmandu which houses 34 young poor students. The police stopped a 13 year-old barred from the …

No Business, As Usual, In Nepal - Newsblaze.com (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
Nepalis are increasingly taking their grievances public by disrupting transport, schools and businesses. Birendra Giri’s friends were incensed when a gang of youths attacked him with knives on Monday evening. Giri, a member of the Nepali Congress …

Nepali Times

Tiger census (July 28, 2009) - [read more]
Despite the political upheaval, land encroachment, habitat loss, poaching and illegal trade, the population of tigers in Nepal has remained constant over a

Asia’s other eclipse (July 24, 2009) - [read more]
This century’s longest solar eclipse moved across Asia on 22 July wowing scientists and the public alike. Asia’s media should take as much interest in the eclipse of news about poverty, injustice and neglect in Asian

Flight of the eclipse (July 22, 2009) - [read more]
It was touted as the world’s most spectacular mountain flight: flying past Mt Everest during a total solar eclipse. But it was not to be because a massive monsoon system covered the whole of southeastern Nepal on Wednesday morning, right on the path of

Maoist rehabilitation (July 18, 2009) - [read more]
The process of discharging the disqualified Maoist combatants living in the cantonment faces difficulty to

New budget (July 13, 2009) - [read more]
Finance Minister Surendra Pandey unveiled a budget of Rs 285.93 billion for the fiscal year

Top three (July 12, 2009) - [read more]
Nepal secured third position in the ACC Women T20 U-19 Championship
by defeating

A state of lawlessness (July 11, 2009) - [read more]
The journey itself became a metaphor for the present state of the

Programs and policies (July 9, 2009) - [read more]
President Ram Baran Yadav presented the government’s programs and policies for the new fiscal year on Thursday’s budget session.

Nepal News

4 dead, 1 missing after washed away by river in Nepal (July 29, 2009) - [read more]

Four people have died and one has gone missing after they were washed away by the swelling Kamala River following the incessant monsoon rains Sunday, local news website Nepalnews.com reported on Monday.

Rains kill 28 in Nepal, Bangladesh (July 28, 2009) - [read more]

A rickshaw puller carries passengers through knee-deep water on a street in a commercial area in Dhaka yesterday.

Ideological prejudices kill 200 diarrhea patients in Nepal (July 28, 2009) - [read more]

Nepali media had begun to bring out news reports on the diarrhea outbreak in Jajarkot from April 2009.

New Dangers for Tibetans in Nepal (July 28, 2009) - [read more]

Two new ICT reports document the dangers for Tibetans in Nepal due to the Chinese government’s focus on Tibetan issues in its relations with the Nepalese government, and shifting internal politics in Nepal.

Nepal crowds gather to greet Joanna (July 28, 2009) - [read more]

Big crowds are expected to greet actress and Gurkha campaigner Joanna Lumley as she tours Nepal.

Gurkha soldier reduced to begging seek help from British actress (July 27, 2009) - [read more]

Durga Bahadur Sunwar fought during World War II as part of the British Army’s Gurkha Brigade and lost his right leg.

Nepali motorcycle team returns from Qomolangma basecamp (July 27, 2009) - [read more]

The Yamaha FZ motorcycle team, which left Nepal for the north Mt. Qomolangma Basecamp in Tibet of China a week ago, returned on Sunday after competing their 1,100 km ride.

Nepal to import power from India (July 27, 2009) - [read more]

KATHMANDU: The Nepal Government will import 30 MW of power from India to meet its current electricity demands.

United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal

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 [...]

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 [...]

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Nepal News archive for 29 July 2009

July 29, 2009 · Filed Under News Archives

Tackling impunity key to consolidating peace in Nepal – UN rights … - UN News Centre (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
Richard Bennett of the human rights office (OHCHR) in Nepal (file Photo) 29 July 2009 – Lack of accountability is hindering progress in the peace process in Nepal, the top United Nations human rights official in the country said today, calling for …

UN concerned over rights violations in Nepal - Zee News (July 29, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: The UN on Wednesday expressed concern over the failure of the government to trace hundreds of people who disappeared during the decade-long civil war in Nepal and underlined that little had been done to punish those responsible for the …