Day: June 18, 2011
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Foreigner’s Eye: Encountered Nepal in the United States
By Denise A. Freeman [विदेशी आँखा- bideshi ankha- Foreigner’s Eye] Nepal is a country with its heart splayed-open. The massive deforestation, human and sex trafficking horrors, glue-sniffing street children and poverty are all hard to ignore. And with each problem or issue, there are hundreds of well-intentioned NGOs. Each with a mission to tabulate data,…
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Peaceful Nepal? Number of Armed Outfits ‘Goes Down Drastically’
SECURITY UPDATE By Anil Giri The Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) has claimed that the number of armed outfits operating across the country has significantly come down, thanks to the government’s operations against the groups that were launched nationwide one-and-a-half years ago. While there were 108 groups earlier, only 26 of them are active now.…
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