Nepal News archive for 29 May 2009
Mob parades woman naked in Kathmandu - Times of India (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Watched by fearful children and passersby, a mob of nearly 50 young men beat up a woman and paraded her naked in the heart of capital city Kathmandu with no one daring to protest even as Nepal’s political parties said they were writing a …
Nepal republic turns one under shadow of dissent - Gulf Times (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
Once unique as the only Hindu kingdom in the world, Nepal yesterday celebrated the first anniversary of its transformation into a secular, federal republic under the shadow of dissent as the new communist government continued to cross swords with the …
Nepal Maoists force shutdown of ITC garments factory: report - Hindustan Times (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
The Maoists cadres in Nepal have forced the indefinite shutdown of a major textile factory, which is a subsidiary of ITC Ltd, India, over security concerns, a news report said on Friday. Surya Nepal Garments, the largest garment factory in the …
‘Zero Unity’ - Nepal’s Divided Politics - Newsblaze.com (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
In the midst of the unfolding political theatre in Kathmandu, the CPN-UML’s veteran leader Madhav Kumar Nepal might have overcome the internecine struggles within his own party to become the second Prime Minister of the Republic Nepal, but he still …
ITC garments factory in Nepal shuts down after labour trouble - Hindustan Times (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
Indian tobacco major ITC’s NRS 250 million, state of the art garments factory in southern Nepal has been shut down indefinitely due to security concerns after disputes with a Maoist labour union. Ravi KC, corporate general manager at Surya Nepal Pvt …
Backgrounder: Madhav Kumar Nepal - Xinhua News Agency (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, May 23 (Xinhua) — Madhav Kumar Nepal, a senior leader and Standing Committee Member of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN-UML) was elected the prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal on …
New Nepali PM to assume office Tuesday - Xinhua News Agency (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, May 24 (Xinhua) — Nepal’s new Prime Minister-elect Madhav Kumar Nepal is likely to assume office Tuesday after being sworn in by President Ram Baran Yadav, his aide and party worker Nitesh Poudel said on Sunday. The 56-year-old communist …
NEPAL: Explosive Reminders of War - Inter Press Service (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
GULMI, Nepal, May 13 (IPS) - Eighteen army deminers are hard at work in the minefields of Wami Taksar in central Nepal. The deminers start out early in the morning, before the sun is too hot. They move meticulously from one mine to another, carefully …
Nepali Times
Tables turned (May 27, 2009) - [read more]
The meeting of new coalition partners held on Wednesday decided to revoke the decisions made by the former government. This is likely to deepen the polarisation between the ruling coalition and the Maoists even further in the days to
Nepal to nation (May 26, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar, in his first address to the nation, urged the Maoists to join the government to bring the peace process to a logical
On the job (May 26, 2009) - [read more]
Having been sworn in, newly elected prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal is now preparing to form the next cabinet. PM Nepal has stressed on the need of political consensus in order to find a solution to the present problems in the country.
Nepal sworn in (May 25, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal was sworn in on Monday morning, two days after being elected for the
Nepal PM, Maoists boycott (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
After over a week of political uncertainty, UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal has been elected the prime minister by the parliament. The Maoists boycotted the election for the new
Blast at Assumption Church (May 23, 2009) - [read more]
A bomb went off at th Assumption Church, Dhobighat on Saturday morning. The blast killed two, injuring other 14 present at the premises.
House banda (May 20, 2009) - [read more]
The house proceedings failed to resume as the Maoists continued the gherao the rostrum. Meanwhile, they have tabled a ‘commitment proposal’ at the parliament secretariat against the president’s move to reinstate the army
Travels in Nepal’s Nepal (May 18, 2009) - [read more]
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Nepal celebrates International Everest Day with marathon run (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
Phurba Tamang of Nepal emerged as the winner while elder brother Ram Kumar Taman finished runner-up followed by Sudip Kuling in the Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon in Kathmandu on Friday.
Prachanda alleges monarchy plot (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: The chairman of UCPN-Maoist and former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ on Thursday accused regressive forces of hatching a plot to revive the monarchy.
Gearing up for festival (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
A Nepali man from the “Kulung” ethnic community performs a dance routine before the inauguration of The Indigenous Film Festival 2009 in Kathmandu yesterday.
PM asks Speaker to end winter session; Maoists to obstruct House if their resolution ignored (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal today requested Speaker of the legislature parliament Subas Nemwang to end the on going parliamentary session.
Common minimum program of Nepali gov’t drafted (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Wednesday revealed the priorities of the new government by presenting the draft of the common minimum program , local newspaper The Kathmandu Post reported on Thursday.
Nepal, Bangladesh trade talks (May 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Nepali and Bangladeshi officials are convening in Dhaka on Thursday for trade talks, during which the two sides will discuss establishing a preferential bilateral trading arrangement and simplifying movements of goods in respective markets.
Airbus, Boeing bid for Nepal Airlines Corporation’s deal (May 28, 2009) - [read more]
In response to Nepal Airlines Corporation ’s purchase plan of two jet aircrafts, five bids were received as the deadline expired, local media reported on Friday.
US urges caution on Nepal travel (May 28, 2009) - [read more]
WASHINGTON: The United States on Saturday cautioned Americans about travel to Nepal, warning of a rise in both political violence and street crime in the land of Mount Everest.
United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
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 [...]
India and Indians: Friends of Two Different Kinds (May 8, 2009) - [read more]
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
This article appeared in today’s Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF of the page
Sometimes, I wonder why the official Nepal-India relationship doesn’t become as friendly and earthy as the down-to-earth friendship I enjoy with some Indians here in Delhi. Why doesn’t the bond between the two countries become as [...]
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