Nepal News archive for 22 January 2010

India issues terrorism alert over hijack plot – Danbury News-Times (January 22, 2010) – [read more]
In December 1999, Islamic militants hijacked an Air India flight from Nepal’s capital, Katmandu, to Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. The hijacking ended when New Delhi released four Islamic militants in exchange for 167 passengers and crew.

Nepal: UN envoy encourages parties to resolve outstanding issues to … – UN News Centre (January 22, 2010) – [read more]
22 January 2010 – A top United Nations envoy has encouraged Nepalese parties to work productively to advance the country’s fragile peace process and create the conditions to permit the world body to wind up its work there. The appeal comes one …

Finish Line Announces Nationwide Shoe Drive for Haitian Relief Efforts – KBTX.com (January 22, 2010) – [read more]
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Finish Line Mobilizes to Assist Haitian Earthquake Survivors – Extra Bilingual Community Newspaper (January 22, 2010) – [read more]
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ — In response to the catastrophic earthquake that struck Haiti last week, The Finish Line (Nasdaq: FINL), the Finish Line Youth Foundation, its customers, employees and charitable partners are mobilizing to lend …

ISU Nepalese Night “Glimpses of Nepal” – Idaho State Journal (January 22, 2010) – [read more]
POCATELLO – The Idaho State University Nepalese Students’ Association will host the fourth annual Nepalese Night on the theme “Glimpses of Nepal” at 6 p.m. Feb. 6 in the Pond Student Union Ballroom. The program is aimed at offering the …

India Sees Terror Threats From the Skies – Wall Street Journal (January 22, 2010) – [read more]
… Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba were planning to hijack an Air India or Indian Airlines plane flying in or from SAARC countries – Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Maldives, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. “Following the home ministry input, the …

India puts airports on alert over hijack threat+ – Big Hollywood (January 22, 2010) – [read more]
NEW DELHI, Jan. 22 (AP) – (Kyodo)—India on Friday issued a security alert putting all airports in the country on high alert based on intelligence suggesting that militants plan to hijack an Air India plane. “The Home (Interior) Ministry has advised …

Hockey team for South Asian Games announced – SamayLive (January 22, 2010) – [read more]
The other teams in the tournament are hosts Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. “We have preapared well at Lucknow and the boys are looking forward to the tournament. There are some good teams in the tournament like Pakistan and Bangladesh. “

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Everest set for a spring clean (January 22, 2010) – [read more]

Great view from the top … but Everest is also home to at least two uncollected dead bodies and various forms of rubbish.

Terror alert at Indian airports after hijack threat (January 22, 2010) – [read more]

The alert to India’s civil aviation ministry warned that flights of state-run Air India and other private carriers could be targeted by groups aligned to Al-Qaeda or the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba rebel group.

Nepal claims victory over leprosy (January 21, 2010) – [read more]

A patient is examined by a volunteer from the Bombay Leprosy Project in Mumbai, India on May 15, 2009 in a file photo.

‘HR an important agenda of US foreign policy’ (January 21, 2010) – [read more]

” It remains the US top agenda. That was the main theme of my meetings [with political leaders and officials],” Moon said during a press conference at the end of this visit to Nepal.

Maoists hold anti-India protest in Nepal (January 20, 2010) – [read more]

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 KATHMANDU: Thousands of communist supporters protested outside the Indian Embassy in Nepal on Tuesday, accusing the giant South Asian neighbour of encroaching on poorly marked border areas and deploying troops there.

Get Married at the Top of the World (January 20, 2010) – [read more]

That morning music favorite of dance floors everywhere “The Hills of Kathmandu” is going to take on new meaning when the tiny Himalayan nation of Nepal legalizes gay marriage in May.

Indian army chief arrives (January 19, 2010) – [read more]

Kapoor was received by Nepal Army second-in command General Toran Jung Bahadur Singh at the Tribhuvan International Airport.

Katherine Willcocks (in the red shirt) during her ten weeks volunteering in Nepal. (January 19, 2010) – [read more]

WELLINGTON woman Katherine Willcocks spent ten weeks in the Backta district of Nepal with nine other volunteers.

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Maoists Intensify Anti-India Agitation as General Lands in Kathmandu (January 19, 2010) – [read more]
Two days after their leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal hugged ‘interventionist’ India’s foreign minister SM Krishna in Kathmandu, the Maoists today ghearoed Indian embassy in the Nepali capital and showed black flags to the visiting Indian army chief. Yesterday the volatile comrades had boycotted Legislature-Parliament session demanding that the Nepalese government clarify its position on General [...]