Nepal News archive for 26 January 2010
“World’s Glaciers Continue to Melt at Historic Pace” - Democratic Underground.com (January 26, 2010) - [read more]
This 2008 picture shows a view of the Lirung Glacier in the Lantang Valley, northwest of Kathmandu. (AFP/File/Sam Taylor) The announcement of the latest annual results from monitoring in nine mountain ranges on four continents comes as doubts have …
Ellen Gray: Colbert - genius or jerk? - Philadelphia Daily News (January 26, 2010) - [read more]
NBC’s LATE-NIGHT problems may have dominated discussion at the Television Critics Association’s winter meetings on the West Coast this month, but they weren’t all we talked about. For one thing, there was that other 11:30 p.m. host, Comedy Central’s …
Despite Democracy, Christians in Bhutan Remain Underground - Christian Post (January 26, 2010) - [read more]
Around 22 percent are Hindu, mostly of Nepali origin. An absolute monarchy for over 100 years, Bhutan became a democratic, constitutional monarchy in March 2008, as per the wish of the former King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who served from …
Highway will bring Nepal and Tibet ‘in from the cold’ - BBC South-Asia (January 26, 2010) - [read more]
It’s hoped that the road will lead eventually to a trans-Asian highway that will cut through the Himalayas The Himalayan mountains on the Nepal-China border are some of the most remote and inaccessible in the world. But deep in the valleys next to …
Marshalling ties - Indian Express (January 26, 2010) - [read more]
… still bruising experience of flight IC-814 ten years ago, flights to and from Kathmandu should naturally be priority for security agencies. As reported in this newspaper, the Central government issued a demarche on Nepal a week ago seeking …
JOANNA LUMLEY, A MOST YOUTHFUL OLDIE - Daily Express (January 26, 2010) - [read more]
AFTER a year that saw her welcomed as a goddess in Nepal it’s perhaps no surprise that Joanna Lumley has scooped the Oldie Of The Year award. Ab Fab star Lumley , who has campaigned tirelessly for the rights of Gurkha veterans to live in the UK …
Indochinese tigers on brink of extinction: WWF - Reuters (January 26, 2010) - [read more]
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Tigers in the Greater Mekong region are facing extinction, their numbers down more than 70 percent in slightly more than a decade due to poachers and habitat destruction, conservationists say. A new report by wildlife group WWF …
To Protect & Serve: Police Brutality in India - Human Rights Watch (January 26, 2010) - [read more]
The ruling alliance led by the Congress Party returned to power after elections in 2009. In its first term in office the Congress-led coalition made only modest progress on rights. It has not yet addressed some of India’s most pressing needs …
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India to Nepal: Terror threat, need marshals on planes (January 25, 2010) - [read more]
New Delhi served a demarche on Nepal last week to persuade its neighbour to allow sky marshals on board Air India flights to the Himalayan nation following ‘concrete intelligence inputs’ that the Lashkar-e-Toiba plans to hijack an Indian carrier flying to and from SAARC countries.
Nepal arrests Indian policemen (January 25, 2010) - [read more]
“Seven Indian policemen posted in Uttar Pradesh of India have been arrested for entering Nepal with arms, without taking permission from us,” said Buddhi Bahadur Khadka, chief district officer of Kanchanpur.
Nepal gay wedding in bid for pink dollar (January 24, 2010) - [read more]
Nepal will play host to a royal wedding with a difference when an openly gay Indian prince marries his partner at a Hindu temple in Kathmandu.
14-province model bad for Nepal: Sujata (January 23, 2010) - [read more]
BIRATNAGAR: Deputy-Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala on Friday said that the 14-province model will put the country in trouble.
UNSC extends UNMIN term by nearly four months (January 22, 2010) - [read more]
The UN Security Council last night has voted to extend the United Nations Mission in Nepal term by nearly four months amid heightened tensions in NepalA ahead of the framing of a new constitution.
Travel agency seeks gay, lesbian holidaymakers (January 22, 2010) - [read more]
Homosexuals hankering after a wedding on elephant back or on top of the world can head to Nepal, where a travel agency has been set up to cater to their holiday, and celebratory, needs.
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.
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India Again Presses Nepal on Sky Marshals in Airplanes. This Time With a Veiled Threat (January 26, 2010) - [read more]
If Indians do not trust Nepali security apparatus at the Kathmandu airport, they should stop flying to Nepal for the time being. Why should, after all, they take the risk?
India has once again asked Nepal to allow it to deploy sky-marshals in its airplanes flying out from Kathmandu. While the request is not new this [...]
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