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This is a typical third world story, the story of poverty and frustration and greed and anger and feud. For poor and deprived, every opportunity however small that may be, comes as an equivalent to the piece of bone for hungry stray dogs. Those people fight like those dogs. I am talking about the current [...]

Filed under: Foreign Affairs | 33 Comments »

After behaving like a kid for the past several days, the Maoist comrades have started doing homeworks to form the next government. The largest party in the Constituent Assembly has sought support from parties represented in the CA. The Maoist leaders held a meeting yesterday at the parliament secretariat and sought support from all 25 [...]

Filed under: Maoist Politics | 14 Comments »

Six reasons why I don’t accept this Vice President for Nepal.
By Bibek Paudel [UWB received this article in email. Photo source: Facebook.]
Preamble:
All over Nepal, protests against Vice President Paramanda Jha are being organized because he chose Hindi as the language while swearing in. There are ongoing debates in Nepali blogs, news sites and Facebook forums. [...]

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Dr Ram Baran Yadav, Nepali Congress General Secretary, has been elected the first President of the republic of Nepal in the presidential run-off held today in the Constituent Assembly. Yadav, backed by a coalition of NC, UML, MPRF and other fringe parties the CA, got 308 votes-almost a dozen more than needed for the simple [...]

Filed under: Nepali Politics 2 | 166 Comments »

Politics is a principal policy of state, but the state is in confusion since the CPN (Maoist) became the largest party in the CA election with 38% of 601 seats.
By Bishnu Pathak PhD
Incident IV: Against the low quality food, rampant ill-treatment and discrimination not by others, but by their own seniors, about 500 Nepal Police [...]

Filed under: Security 2 | 1 Comment »

Both candidates-Dr. Ram Baran Yadad and Ram Raja Prasd Singh- failed to get enough votes (simple majority) for today’s presidential polls while Paramanda Jha, a candidate filed by Madhesi Janadhikar Forum, fourth largest party in the CA, got elected as the Vice President. Yadav got 294- four votes short of the simple majority while Singh [...]

Filed under: Nepali Politics 2 | 53 Comments »

Or is it the Maoists who will actually lead?
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
There is a saying in Nepali: thangna ma sutaunu. CPN Maoist has done the same to the CPN UML (United Marxists & Leninists). UML is out in the cold thanks to the cunning politics played by the former rebels. It appears almost certain [...]

Filed under: Nepali Politics 2, Story of the Day | 42 Comments »

For the record: Govt to take legal measures to tame
An emergency cabinet meeting today evening decided to take every possible legal measure to bring the situation at the Nepalgunj based Riot Control Police Battalion under control. The cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s official residence at Baluwatar directed the Home Ministry to tame the situation [...]

Filed under: Security 2 | 21 Comments »

Is This the Beginning of the End?
By Krishna Giri
The demand of ‘Madhesh Ek Pradesh’ is the most unpatriotic, unethical, immoral, bias and hypocritical act by any political force in history of Nepal. People from certain regions are neither calling themselves Nepali nor speaking their mother tongues and are enraged by the term Nepal. Most of [...]

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The legislative session of the Constituent Assembly (CA) resumed today at the International Convention Centre in New Baneshwor, Kathmandu, after being interrupted for 12 days following obstructions caused by Madhes-based regional parties demanding constitutional guarantee of an “autonomous Madhes state” and “mass Nepal Army recruitment of Madhesi people”. The CA meeting began its regular business [...]

Filed under: Madhes-Terai | 59 Comments »