Nepal News archive for 31 May 2009

Nepal govt’s baptism by fire begins – Times of India (May 31, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU: When Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda became Nepal’s first revolutionary prime minister last year, a flood in the south and the disruption of worship at the revered Pashupatinath temple were regarded as bad omens, indicating …

Nepal braces for protests by Maoists, ethnic group – Zee News (May 31, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, May 31: The new Communist-led government in Nepal will face its first test with the Maoists threatening to launch a nationwide agitation next week and the dominant ethnic group of Kathmandu valley calling a shutdown tomorrow to demand …

Kathmandu Valley strike called, more challenges for government – Newstrack India (May 31, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, May 31 (IANS) Struggling with infighting among its allies, Nepal’s new Communist government faces more challenges this week with a dominant community calling a shutdown in Kathmandu valley Monday and the Maoist party announcing `token …

Royal ghosts return to haunt Nepal – Gulf Times (May 31, 2009) – [read more]
Eight years after the assassination of Birendra, king of Nepal, and nine more family members in the tightly guarded royal palace in Kathmandu and a year after the formal abolition of monarchy, the Himalayan republic continues to be haunted by its …

Nepal Maoists to go on warpath from Wednesday – New Kerala (May 31, 2009) – [read more]
Kathmandu, May 31 : Nepal’s former ruling party, the Maoists, will go on the warpath from Wednesday and enforce ‘token’ strikes to force the interim parliament into calling a vote on a contentious issue that brought the fall of their government. The …

New Nepali PM Nepal sworn into office – United Press International (May 25, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 25 (UPI) — Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal was sworn in to office Monday at the Shital Niwas presidential palace in Kathmandu, witnesses said. The oath of office was administered by President Ram Baran Yadav and was …

Madhav Kumar Nepal sworn in as PM of Nepal – Xinhua News Agency (May 24, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, May. 25 (Xinhua) — Madhav Kumar Nepal, senior leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN-UML) was sworn in as the second elected prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal on Monday. Nepali …

National consensus, priority of new gov’t: Nepali PM – Xinhua News Agency (May 26, 2009) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, May 26 (Xinhua) — Newly elected Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Tuesday said national consensus will be the government’s main priority. Addressing the nation for the first time, M.K. Nepal emphasized on consensus between …

Nepali Times

Divided alliance (May 30, 2009) – [read more]
The UML led coalition has run into political quandary even before it had a chance to take off as its partners are embroiled in serious internal

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

Nepal News

India plotting to bring back King: Prachanda (May 31, 2009) – [read more]

KATHMANDU: Stepping up his anti-India rhetoric, Maoist supremo Prachanda has accused it of backing a “conspiracy” to restore monarchy in Nepal, which had turned into a republic from a kingdom just a year ago.

Nepali PM inaugurates Chinese aided hospital (May 30, 2009) – [read more]

Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal attends the inauguration ceremony of Civil Servants Hospital built with China’s support in Katmandu, Nepal, on May 30, 2009.

Republic day Celebrated in Nepal (May 30, 2009) – [read more]

Kathmandu May 29, 2009: Nepal celebrated its first anniversary of being the Federal Democratic Republic here today.

ITC’s garment factory reopens in Nepal after appeasing Maoists (May 30, 2009) – [read more]

After a 48-hour closure, Indian tobacco major ITC’s NRS 25 crore, state-of-the-art garment factory in southern Nepal has reopened with the management appeasing the Maoist trade union that flexed its muscle.

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.

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 [...]