Nepal News archive for 29 June 2009
Karishma earns the honour of carrying Nepal’s flag - Himalayan Times (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Record breaking Nepali swimmer Karishma Karki carried the national flag at the march-pass during the opening ceremony of the first Youth Asian Games in Singapore today. Olympian Karki, who won 12 gold medals at a single meet during the …
NTY 2011 not so far off, but tourist police out on a limb - Himalayan Times (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Nepal is a nation that markets itself as a tourist destination. Also, the government has come up with an ambitious programme of attracting a million tourists under the Nepal Tourism Year 2011 scheme. Sadly though, the tourist police wing …
FAPCCI signs MoU with Israel-India, Lanka, Nepal Chambers - New Kerala (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
Hyderabad, Jun 29 : A Memorandum of Understanding(MOU) was signed between the Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry(FAPCCI)and Israel-India, Sri Lanka and Nepal Chamber of Commerce to foster friendship and to promote trade …
Rights groups from Nepal declare solidarity for Tibetan exiles - Phayul (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
The delegation consists of members representing Sambad Nepal, an NGO based in Pokhara in Western Nepal that actively works in promoting human rights, and Human Rights Organisation of Nepal (HURON). The group said they were in Dharamsala, the seat of …
Nepal confirms first H1N1 flu cases - Reuters (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal confirmed on Monday its first cases of H1N1 flu virus, in three members of a family who had returned from the United States, the Himalayan nation’s health ministry said. The three — a 44-year-old man, his 38-year-old wife …
Visiting MPs from Nepal pledge support for Tibet - Phayul (June 24, 2009) - [read more]
Dharamsala, June 24: A group of visiting Nepali Parliamentary members are pledging to speak for Tibet and the plight of Tibetan refugees in Nepal after they return to their country at the end of their three-day visit here. A handout photo shows …
Nepal police detain Tibetan exiles near border with China - Earthtimes (June 26, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu - Nepalese police arrested nine Tibetan exiles Friday who were trying to make their way to the Tibetan border as part of their Free Tibet campaign. A group of several dozen Tibetan exiles hired a bus in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and …
Feature: Kidnappers stalk school students in Nepal - Xinhua News Agency (June 23, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, June 23 (Xinhua) — High schools in Nepal remained closed on Tuesday while students brought traffic to a standstill in the vicinity of a school in capital Kathmandu to protest against the brutal murder of a teenager and the growing …
Nepali Times
New ministers (June 25, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal expanded his cabinet fourth time on Wednesday a month he took office. The cabinet is yet to take a full
Menon leaves (June 21, 2009) - [read more]
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivashankar Menon wrapped up his two-day
official visit to Nepal, promising support from the southern neighbour and efforts to resolve the border
Poudel wins (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
NC’s vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel has been elected the leader of its parliamentary party. The PP now has an elected leader after a gap of 14
Nominations filed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
As the NC gears up for elections to choose the members of it’s parliamentary party (PP) working committee, four senior leaders file their nominations for the PP
Decision reversed (June 20, 2009) - [read more]
The government has reversed the previous government’s decision to sack Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal and appoint Kul Bahadur Khadka as the acting chief. The move has ignited criticism not only from the Maoists but from UML leaders as
House expands (June 17, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal inducted 10 new ministers on Wednesday. However, a full-fledged cabinet was not formed as three Madhesi parties failed to send their
Picking fights (June 15, 2009) - [read more]
The new cabinet, which has been expanded twice in three weeks since the government was formed, once again fails to take a complete shape. The people, on the other hand, are stuggling against the continous
Consensus is the word (June 13, 2009) - [read more]
US Assistant Secretary of State Robert O Blake has stressed the need for co-operation between the political parties to ensure the success of the peace process. Blake has also urged the Maoists to renounce violence and control the activities of the
Nepal News
Journalists caught up in power tussle (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
“My parents are very worried and they are asking me to change my profession.” Media workers are increasingly finding themselves caught up in the bitter struggle for power in Nepal after the fall of the Maoist-led government in May.
Soap brings message of change to rural Nepal (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
When the power cuts that frequently plague Nepal were at their worst this winter, one of the biggest frustrations for many people was missing their favourite television soap opera.
Nepal bans pockets to stamp out bribetaking at airport (June 29, 2009) - [read more]
The authority said it was issuing the garments to all officials after uncovering widespread corruption at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport.
Prachanda promises another stir (June 28, 2009) - [read more]
‘We will soon launch another People’s Movement,’ he said addressing his workers yesterday.
Five Indians narrowly escape lynching in Nepal (June 28, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, June 28 : Five Indian men narrowly escaped being lynched in Nepal Sunday on suspicion of being child lifters after growing public fears over an increase in the number of kidnappings.
PM wants Maoists in govt (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said on Saturday that he wanted a government of national consensus with MaoistsA participation.
Pakistani foreign secretary visiting Nepal (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Shortly after the Indian foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon visited Nepal, Pakistani foreign secretary Salman Bashir is arriving in Kathmandu Saturday on a three-day official visit.
Nepal police arrest Tibet peace marchers (June 27, 2009) - [read more]
Thirty-five Tibetans, including eight women, were arrested by Nepal police on Friday near the Nepal-China border as they tried to cross over and stage a protest march in Tibet.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
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 [...]
How Maoist-Delhi Relations Soured (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
The game in the background. How India played a role in the downfall of the first ever democratically elected Maoist government in Nepal.
By Akhilesh Upadhyay
KATHMANDU- The turn of events that first led to the sacking and reinstatement of Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal exposed that relations between New Delhi and the Maoists once on [...]
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