Nepal News archive for 29 September 2009
The Daily Politics - New York Daily News (September 29, 2009) - [read more]
It’s runoff day. Voters go to the polls to decide between public advocate candidates Bill de Blasio and Mark Green and comptroller hopefuls David Yassky and John Liu. Green and Yassky halted their campaign efforts to observe Yom Kippur, their …
Team of Sherpas carries body of Rep. Maloney’s husband down the … - New York Daily News (September 29, 2009) - [read more]
The remains of Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s husband reached the capital of Nepal Monday after a team of Sherpas carried him down one of the world’s highest mountains. Clifton Maloney, 71, died in his sleep on Friday after becoming the oldest person to …
Najib announces Port Dickson as army town - New Straits Times (September 29, 2009) - [read more]
PORT DICKSON Port Dickson made history today when it was announced as Army Town by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. The announcement was made in recognition of the contributions of the Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF), the Army in particular, as …
14 year old Indian wins global scientific competition - Silicon India (September 29, 2009) - [read more]
Ahmedabad: Sharad Mirani, a 14-year-old from Ahmedabad has won the maiden bronze medal in the global scientific competition, International Earth Science Olympiads (IESO) in Taiwan. Sharad was part of the four-member team representing India at IESO …
Readers’ Comments on ” WAITING FOR MANGTSO - By Jamyang Norbu ” - Phayul (September 29, 2009) - [read more]
Hi! Jamyang Norbu. You are a good writer. Your piece and articles are very interesting to read but I beg to disagree with the content there in. After coming round, your ultimate message is against His Holiness and Gyalo Dhondup La. They have done …
UN says India’s caste system is a human rights abuse - Newstrack India (September 29, 2009) - [read more]
Geneva, Sep.29 (ANI): The United Nations Human Rights Council, meeting in Geneva, is expected to ratify draft principles which will recognize India’s caste system as a human rights abuse. The UN will condemn the persecution suffered by 65 million …
People with disabilities and the promise of ICTs - Elites TV (September 29, 2009) - [read more]
“I MAY be 100% blind but the internet has taken away 50% of my disability,” Silatul Rahim Dahman told Cindy Tham of the Nut Graph, an independent Malaysian news site. During my recent visit to his office in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, he chats …
Ten AI flights from Kolkata cancelled - Press Trust of India (September 29, 2009) - [read more]
Kolkata, Sept 29 (PTI) Air India today cancelled ten flights operating from NSC Bose international airport here due to the strike by executive pilots. Of these, seven were flights to Delhi, Agartala, Guwahati, Port Blair, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and …
Nepali Times
New report raises conflict toll (September 22, 2009) - [read more]
The death toll of the 10-year long insurgency is 3,000 more than previously reported.
They’ve done it again (September 16, 2009) - [read more]
Maoists tried to block PM Nepal’s attendance at Tribhuvan University’s convocation
US grant (September 15, 2009) - [read more]
The U.S. grants $900,000 for renovation of historical monuments in Patan Darbar
Deliberations on judicial system begin (September 13, 2009) - [read more]
The NC and UML opposed the new provisions of the preliminary draft report and concept paper on the judicial system.
Kanak Dixit awarded (September 11, 2009) - [read more]
Himalmedia publisher and editor of Himal Southasian, Kanak Mani Dixit, has been awarded the first Prince Claus Award to Nepal for “his outstanding contributions to public debate, for creating platforms that enable South Asians to connect, interact and network transcending national and cultural boundaries, and for his socially engaged, multi-disciplinary approach to creativity and
Gurung assumes office (September 9, 2009) - [read more]
General Chhatra Man Singh Gurung, the newly appointed army chief assumed office from Wednesday.
Foreign minister leaves for China (September 8, 2009) - [read more]
Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala leaves for a goodwill visit to China on
Depoliticise education! (September 6, 2009) - [read more]
A citizen’s initiative Saturday submited a petition to Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal to depoliticise higher education system in Nepal.
Nepal News
Feature: Nepal feels heat of climate change (September 28, 2009) - [read more]
The golden apples it once produced were famed in Nepal and across the border area in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China for their luscious taste.
Nepali PM returns home from UN assembly (September 28, 2009) - [read more]
Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal returned home on Monday from the 64th session of General Assembly of the United Nations.
Three years on, Nepal remains conflict zone and a killing field after peace agreement (September 28, 2009) - [read more]
South East Asia News.Net Tuesday 22nd September, 2009 Kathmandu, Sep.22 : Almost three years after the signing of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement , Nepal continues to remain a conflict zone with no respite in killings, abductions and serious rights violations.
Star’s sex video shows changing face of Nepal (September 27, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: From being a much-sought-after model and the highest paid music video star, 22-year-old Nepali beauty Namrata Shrestha effortlessly sashayed into Nepal’s film industry last year with the hit musical of the year “Sano Sansar” . With her fan clubs growing and mounting tributes to both her ethereal beauty and talent, she was poised to …
Pashupatinath attacks do not affect Nepali students in Varanasi (September 26, 2009) - [read more]
Varanasi, Sep 19 : The attacks on Indian priests of Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu failed to disturb the relationship between Nepali and Indian students studying at a temple in Varanasi.
20 killed, 15 missing in bus accident in central Nepal (September 25, 2009) - [read more]
At least 20 people died and 15others went missing when a bus veered off the road and fell some 30 meters into the Sunkoshi River at Sukute area along Araniko Highway in Sindhupalchowk district in central Nepal on Thursday.
Buddhist model is new Miss Nepal (September 24, 2009) - [read more]
A 20-year-old popular Buddhist model and music video star yesterday prevailed over Nepal’s Maoists as well as 14 other contenders to walk off with the Miss Nepal 2009 crown held under the shadow of Maoist threats.
Maoists threaten to battle Miss Nepal pageant Thursday (September 23, 2009) - [read more]
Nine Maoist organisations Wednesday warned the organisers of Nepal’s biggest and most popular beauty pageant not to hold the Miss Nepal contest or be ready to face dire consequences if they did.
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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