Nepal News archive for 27 January 2010

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Locals unwilling to give up land for ring road – E Kantipur (January 27, 2010) – [read more]
KATHMANDU, JAN 27 – The land acquisition issue at the Chobhar-Satungal section has affected the track opening work of the Outer Valley Ring Road project. According to Dilip Bhandari, senior divisional engineer of the Outer Ring Road Development …

MJF, TJSC agree to protest in tandem – E Kantipur (January 27, 2010) – [read more]
While MJF claimed Tharus were one of the Madhesi communities, TJSC, so far, had denied the very existence of the Madhesi community in Nepal. Both parties … federation including two different states in the Tarai: Lumbini-Abadh-Tharuhat and Mithila …

BV student savors ‘Meet the Press’ opportunity – Sioux City Journal (January 27, 2010) – [read more]
STORM LAKE, Iowa — A couple of Sundays ago, Buena Vista University junior Lena Yoo escorted New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the makeup room prior to his appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Later she did the same for Deval Patrick …

Meet “Elephant Man” Vincent Fagne – Indymedia Ireland (January 27, 2010) – [read more]
When visiting Nepal, frenchman Vincent Fagne enquired about where the in captivity living and constantly working elephants would go to be retired. In a country where there is no such thing as an retirement age, neither for humans nor animals, there …

Guidebook Lists Malaysia In Top 10 Best In Travel – BruDirect (January 27, 2010) – [read more]
Bandar Seri Begawan – Lonely Planet, a popular travel guidebook that recently published its fifth annual collection of the world’s best journeys, destinations and experiences, has chosen Malaysia as one of the world’s top 10 countries in 2010 …

Mixed Opens Forecast For New Zealand, Australia Stocks – RTT News (January 27, 2010) – [read more]
(RTTNews) – Mixed opens were expected Thursday for the New Zealand and Australia share markets, following modest gains overnight on Wall Street. New Zealand traders also got word before the market open that the Reserve Bank of NZ was leaving interest …

11th SAF Games in Dhaka: Pakistan Whites beat Bangladesh 2-1 in warm … – Daily Times (January 27, 2010) – [read more]
Pakistan will play their first match against Nepal on January 31. Meanwhile, former international hockey umpire Dilawar Bhatti has been appointed as PHF umpires coordinator. He will groom and train the young umpires of Lahore.

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Nepal arrests Japanese in possession of 10 kg of hashish (January 26, 2010) – [read more]

Nepalese police have arrested a Japanese national while he was trying to travel from Kathmandu to Doha with 10 kilograms of high-quality hashish, a police official said Tuesday.

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.

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‘India Already Has Sky Marshals in Nepal-Bound Planes’ (January 27, 2010) – [read more]
New Delhi’s pressure to allow sky marshals on Indian planes flying out from Kathmandu has put Nepali government agencies in a dilemma. Foreign and Home Ministry officials held consultations with their colleagues in the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoTCA) before Indian External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna’s visit to Nepal in mid-January and [...]