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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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Report of the Secretary-General on the request of Nepal for United Nations assistance in support of its peace process Continued from previous blog (Part II of II)
III. Status of the United Nations Mission in Nepal
17. As at 24 April 2008, a total of 968 of the authorized 1,048 personnel had been recruited to the Mission. Of 795 [...]

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Conditions for Constituent Assembly election on 10 April 2008: a report by by the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN), in conjunction with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Nepal
Across much of the country, campaigning has continued in an enthusiastic and relatively peaceful manner, but a significant number of [...]

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By Ghanashyam Ojha
( Published in the Kathmandu Post Feb 5, 2008) Can also be accessed at Ekantipur
KATHMANDU, Feb 5 - Much has been said and written about extortion, intimidation and abductions by the Young Communist League (YCL) and its occasional dabbling in social work. But hardly anything has been written on the financing of [...]

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Plundering the Public Property: An artist’s impression of royal henchmen misusing state fund. Sketch by Deven via Kantipur

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Will Nepal see reconciliation in the near future?
American Ambassador James F Moriarity has created a small-scale tsunami in Nepali politics by speaking against the 12-point agreement between Seven Party Alliance and the Maoists. (Ambassador will talk to Vijay Kumar this evening on Kantipur TV and we will post the full transcript of the interview here). [...]

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Nepal’s politically sensative colleges are holding elections of Free Student Union.

The election fever has caught politically sensitive colleges by fire. Pro-democracy students have vowed to use the election for the benefit of the ongoing democratic movement of their mother political organizations. Colleges are decorated with posters, pamphlets and banners. Elections of Free Student Union have [...]

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And cites nationally and internationally discarded Municipal Election as an example of his democracy.
In his yearly message to Nepali people on the occasion of Democracy Day, king Gyanendra repeats his rhetoric of reviving democratic process while still ignoring or underestimating the strength of political parties and magnitude of violence in the country. The [...]

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And he comes out of prison: Former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba gets out of jail on Monday night hours after the Supreme Court (SC) scrapped the RCCC. Pics by Bikash Karki
The ultra-controversial Royal Commission for Corruption Control got a death certificate today from the Supreme Court’s special bench. RCCC was formed by King Gyanendra [...]

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