Nepal News archive for 31 July 2009
9 killed in landslides in Nepal - Balita News (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, July 31 — At least nine persons were killed and four others missing in landslides caused by torrential rain in different parts of Nepal in the past 24 hours till Friday afternoon, local news website Nepalnews.com reported. Five persons …
High-level talks could help shore up peace in Nepal, says top UN envoy - UN News Centre (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
31 July 2009 – The top United Nations envoy to Nepal said today that she is encouraged by the South Asian leaders’ willingness to discuss issues to push the peace process forward after weeks of simmering political tensions. Last week, the …
UN concerned over delays in Nepal’s peace process - New Kerala (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 31 : The UN Friday expressed worries over delays in Nepal’s peace process by squabbles among political parties. Karin Landgren, chief of the UN Mission in Nepal, said it was a matter of urgent concern that progress in the peace …
Landslides kill nine in Nepal - Thaindian.com (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 31 (DPA) At least nine people were killed and four injured after landslides hit three districts in western Nepal, officials said Friday. The landslides followed heavy monsoonal rains since Thursday night. The largest death toll was …
Landslides kill 5 in Nepal, increasing monsoon death toll to 43 - CNN (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (CNN) — Five people died Friday in landslides in the mountains of western Nepal. That raises the death toll to 43 after landslides and floods in the monsoon season, officials said. An additional 12 people are missing, including nine …
Gayatri Devi’s ‘kin’ in Nepal mourn her death - New Kerala (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 31 : Two days after her death due to protracted illness, Rajmata Gayatri Devi, born in the royal family of Cooch Behar and married to the dashing ruler of the erstwhile kingdom of Jaipur Sawai Man Singh, is being mourned by her …
Nepal Gurkhas name beauty spot after ‘Ab Fab’ star - MSN Malaysia News (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
A beauty spot in Nepal with a view over some of the most spectacular Himalayan peaks has been named after British actress Joanna Lumley, a Gurkha veterans’ group said Friday. The star of television comedy “Absolutely Fabulous”, who led a successful …
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
Landslides kill nine in Nepal (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
Kathmandu, July 31 : At least nine people were killed and four injured after landslides hit three districts in western Nepal, officials said Friday.
MP heads to Nepal as political volunteer (July 31, 2009) - [read more]
NORTH Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry is heading to Nepal over the summer for volunteer work.
Nepal CA body blames Indian FS Menon (July 30, 2009) - [read more]
KATHMANDU: The Human Rights and International Relations Committee of the Constituent Assembly has said that the recently concluded a field visit made by the Nepal CA members in the district of Dang to study Nepali lands invaded by Indian security forces, publicizing a report, Tuesday July 28, 2009, have claimed that India had indeed forcefully …
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.
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 [...]
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