Nepal News archive for 30 August 2009
Regional conference on climate change to be held in Nepal - Xinhua News Agency (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) — A two-day regional gathering on climate change will start on Monday in Nepali capital Kathmandu. The conference will discuss the risks caused by global warning among South Asian countries as well as to find out a common …
Parliamentarians’ seminar on climate change held in Nepal - Xinhua News Agency (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) — A day-long seminar of parliamentarians of three South Asian countries to formulate a common concept on the climate change to tackle its challenges was held in Nepal on Sunday. Parliamentarians from Nepal, Bangladesh and …
Arduous life in Nepal’s parched hills - BBC South-Asia (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
Nestling on the side of a forested hill in western Nepal, the village of Bhattegaun is a collection of straw and thatched huts dotted between small fields of wheat and rice. Farming is poor. There are no irrigation channels and the villagers rely on …
Nepal VP spurns oath deadline - Hindustan Times (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
Terming it as “unconstitutional” a defiant Nepalese Vice President on Sunday refused to obey Supreme Court’s directive asking him to re-take oath of office in Nepali language or resign from his post. While the government asked Vice President …
Jha defiance plunges Nepal into crisis - Statesman (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, 30 AUG: Nepal’s embattled Vice President today boycotted an oath taking ceremony scheduled by the government, defying a week-long deadline set by the Supreme Court to take a fresh oath of office in the Nepali language, thereby plunging …
South Asian Nations Meet to Combat Climate Threat to Himalayas - Bloomberg (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — South Asian nations are discussing how to prevent climate change in the Himalayan mountains, the world’s highest range, bringing more natural disasters to an area where 750 million people regularly face floods and drought …
West piles pressure on Nepal - Gulf News (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu: Western powers pressed Nepal yesterday for an independent probe into the fate of people missing during a decade-long civil war, piling pressure on the government over an issue seen as crucial for lasting peace in the country. The Red Cross …
Nepal vice president spurns oath deadline - New Kerala (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, Aug 30 : Nepal’s three-month-old government was plunged into a constitutional crisis Sunday with embattled Vice President Paramananda Jha rejecting a double deadline set for him by the government and Supreme Court to take his oath of …
Nepali Times
Jha defies court (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
The Vice President Parmananda Jha refuses to retake his oath but won’t resign.
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.
Nepal News
Armed Indian cop arrested in Nepal (August 30, 2009) - [read more]
BIRATNAGAR: The police on Wednesday arrested two persons, among which one claimed to be an Indian police, along with arms from Sanishchaur of Morang.
Glacial melt threatens Nepal (August 30, 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.
Nepal vice-president under fresh attack (August 29, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: Within hours of Nepala s government announcing it would take stringent action against an obscure armed group that had exploded a bomb nearA beleaguered Vice-President Paramananda Jhaa s residence Friday night, attackers tried to set off a second bomb that, however, was detected by police and neutralised before it could cause any damage.
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.
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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