Nepal News archive for 06 January 2010

Nepal child soldiers to be freed – BBC South-Asia (January 6, 2010) – [read more]
The children have been confined to the UN-monitored camps with other ex-rebels since a 2006 peace deal that ended a 10-year Maoist insurgency. Their release is a key part of Nepal’s peace process. Several hundred children were due to be released …

U.N. envoy Eide warns U.S., allies not to ignore civilian goals in … – Washington Post (January 6, 2010) – [read more]
representative in Nepal and East Timor, also have been under consideration for the job.

Breaking : Michael Yon arrested at Seattle airport – Hotair.com (January 5, 2010) – [read more]
Thank goodness our Homeland Security people are on the job after the EunuchBomber botched attack on Christmas Day. We certainly don’t want to have independent war correspondents passing through our airports without revealing their annual income …

China dismisses more UN sanctions talk during its Security Council … – Los Angeles Times (January 5, 2010) – [read more]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China does not plan to hold debates on more sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program during its Security Council presidency this month, despite U.S. demands for tougher sanctions. Ambassador Zhang Yesui told reporters Tuesday “this …

China dismisses Iran sanctions talk for now at UN – Fresno Bee (January 5, 2010) – [read more]
White House prods Iran over nuclear deadline The White House is warning Iran’s leader to take seriously a year-end deadline over its nuclear program, responding sternly to defiant language by the Iranian president. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah …

Domestic strife – Indian Express (January 6, 2010) – [read more]
In a fresh and confusing twist to things, Home Minister P. Chidambaram admits that there is nothing on record against FTII student Neetu Singh, a Nepali national deported last month. Singh found herself inexplicably deported by Maharashtra Police on …

DQE in Production on Feluda Detective Stories – World Screen News (January 5, 2010) – [read more]
HYDERABAD: DQ Entertainment (DQE) is producing an animated series and TV movie based on Hon Satyajit Ray’s detective adventure stories of Feluda. Satyajit Ray and his son, director Sandeep Ray, have produced several movies based on the detective …

Power play: Prachanda slams India – Statesman (January 6, 2010) – [read more]
Kathmandu, 6 JAN: Bringing the differences in the Maoist leadership to the fore, party chief Prachanda has claimed that India favours his second-in-command Baburam Bhattarai for Nepal’s prime ministership, prompting the latter to hit back at him …

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Nepal ban on sand, stone export to hit India (January 5, 2010) – [read more]

By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Jan 5 : Nepal’s decision to ban the export of sand, boulders and crushed stone to prevent environmental degradation is going to hit hard India’s booming construction industry, especially in the Terai plains close to the Nepal border.

Nepali gov’t bid for UN mission term extension (January 5, 2010) – [read more]

Nepali Foreign Ministry is all set to dispatch a letter to its United Nations Permanent Representative Office in New York, asking the United Nations Security Council for another four-month stay for UN Mission in Nepal , which has been supervising and monitoring arms and armed personnel of Nepal Army and former Communist Party of Nepal combatants …

Fears over influx of 12,000 Gurkhas (January 5, 2010) – [read more]

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India’s Border Conflict with Nepal Now on Silver Screen (January 4, 2010) – [read more]

India and Nepal share a 1,800-km open border, which is mostly delineated on the basis of rivers and in some areas border pillars, which are often in a state of ruin.

Fake notes racket busted in Nepal, Madhya Pradesh police claims credit (January 4, 2010) – [read more]

Police in Madhya Pradesh Monday claimed that the arrest of the son of a former Nepali minister in Kathmandu for running a fake Indian currency racket was through the leads provided by them.

Indian Oil’s monopoly in Nepal to end (January 3, 2010) – [read more]

By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Jan 3 : The nearly four decades of monopoly enjoyed by India’s public-sector enterprise Indian Oil Corporation in Nepal is heading towards an end with the private sector in the country having been given the go-ahead for gas imports while laws are being drafted to open oil trading as well.

Deported Nepali film student’s husband untraceable (January 3, 2010) – [read more]

Kathmandu: A former Nepali MP who reportedly used his political clout to get his wife, a film student at a Pune institute, deported from India remains untraceable.

Karat seeks Chidambaram’s help in Nepali deportation case (January 2, 2010) – [read more]

Communist Party of India-Marxist MP Brinda Karat Saturday sought Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s intervention in ‘an unjust case’ of a Nepali student at a Pune film institute being deported and demanded a probe into the incident.

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Controversial Promotion of the Year: Toran Singh is No. 2 of Nepal Army (December 24, 2009) – [read more]
By Kamal Raj Sigdel and Phanindra Dahal
In a controversial move that has angered many including some western donor countries and agencies, the government today (Thursday) promoted Maj. Gen. Toran Jung Bahadur Singh as Chief of the General Staff, the second-in-command of Nepal Army. The government had put the promotion on hold for six months in [...]