Nepal News archive for 30 July 2009

Help from India, China could help build Nepal: Gyanendra – Zee News (July 30, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu: Worried that Nepal’s “prolonged” period of transition to democracy would hamper its growth and cause suffering to the people, dethroned king Gyanendra has said “even a small amount” of cooperation from India and China would be sufficient …

IBM’s Smarter Planet Framework to Aid Nepal’s Vision For the Future – PR Newswire (July 30, 2009) – [read more]
ARMONK, N.Y. and KATHMANDU, Nepal, July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IBM and the High Level Commission for Information Technology (HLCIT), Government of Nepal today announced a long-term cooperation and collaboration in developing policy, frameworks …

Doon School old boy could be Nepal’s new envoy to India – New Kerala (July 30, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, July 30 : A 72-year-old history scholar and a former student of India’s elite Doon School is being considered for the post of Nepal’s new ambassador to Nepal. Rukma Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, a scion of one of the oldest and best-known …

Loomis to represent U.S. in Nepal, Bangladesh – Primebuzz.kcstar.com (July 30, 2009) – [read more]
A political science professor at the University of Kansas is headed for Nepal and Bangladesh at the invitation of the U.S. State Department. Burdett Loomis Burdett Loomis , a former aide to ex-Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius , will leave tomorrow on …

Nepal, China sign pact to enhance trade relations – Zee News (July 30, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu: Traders from Nepal and China have signed a pact to enhance cooperation, expand business relations and explore investment opportunities in various fields. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in China during a meeting of the Nepal …

Tibet: New Dangers for Tibetans in Nepal – United Nations and Peoples Organisation (July 30, 2009) – [read more]
Two new ICT reports document the dangers for Tibetans in Nepal as a result of the Chinese Government’s focus on Tibetans in this state and shifting policies in Nepal. Below is an article published by the International Campaign for Tibet : Two new …

Strikes result in plunge of most exportable products – Fibre2Fashion (July 30, 2009) – [read more]
Continuous strikes and road blockades in the country has taken its toll on the three most exported products- woolen carpets, jam and tooth powder as the export of these three products through Birgunj Customs has slipped down this year due to these …

I don’t know Nepali: Nepal vice president – Thaindian.com (July 24, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, July 24 (IANS) Caught in a fresh row over the use of Hindi language, Nepal’s vice president Parmanand Jha Friday virtually defied the order of the Supreme Court asking him to take oath of office once again in Nepali, saying he did not …

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

Nepal gets its own Laurel and Hardy (July 30, 2009) – [read more]

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.

MP Baldry volunteers for Nepal visit (July 29, 2009) – [read more]

Banbury MP Tony Baldry is heading to Nepal over the summer for volunteer work. Mr Baldry went to the region last year as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Voluntary Service Overseas organisation.

Expelled student leads attack on Indian priest in Nepal (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.

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.

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 [...]