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Month: February 2006

  • Sunaul Clash: Aftermath

    Images from the site where security personnel and the Maoist guerillas fought (Feb 10) killing 17 securitymen and 4 Maoists. Pics by Dipendra Baduwal Locals look for the corpses of soldiers in the field on Friday morning. This is where the fighting took place.

  • Himalayan Sham: Nepal Election Drama

    – Issuing a statement defending autocratic king’s election roadmap and deploring international community’s criticism of municipal polls, Nepal government fights back By D Wagle “His Majesty’s Government of Nepal finds the statements made by a few countries on the municipal elections in Nepal as totally objectionable thus unacceptable and asks them to refrain from making…

  • Postcards From Nepal: Violence and Suffering

    – I AM THE MAYOR THAPA: As newly elected officials of Pokhara Municipality were taking oaths in Dipendra Sabha Griha, people put posters with sarcastic slogans over an abandoned ox targeting Bhimsen Thapa, the Mayor [The message reads: I am Mayor Bhimsen Thapa]. The animal went around the Chowk for about one and a half-hour.…

  • Sunaul Clash: Aftermath

    – Images from the site where security personnel and the Maoist guerillas fought (Feb 10) killing 17 securitymen and 4 Maoists. Pics by Dipendra Baduwal Locals look for the corpses of soldiers in the field on Friday morning. This is where the fighting took place. Youths of Red Cross take part in relief operation after…

  • Be Nepal’s Valentine

    Nepali youth should rise now for their love to the country BY PREM DHAKAL It’s that time of the year again when the chilly cold makes way for the heartwarming rays of the Sun. Yes, it’s February once again and most of us youths are eagerly waiting for the 14th to celebrate the Valentine’s Day.…

  • Rebels Rule The Highway

    Breaking Blog: (15:00 NST) Rajaram Gautam, a reporter with Nepal Magazine, is in Butwal area and reports: When army went to remove those obstacles yesterday they came under attack by Maoists. Fighting took place in Sunaul, on the border of Nawalparasi and Butwal, Rupandahi. “We saw 14 corpse of security personnel,” Rajaram said. Four out…

  • Images of Protests in Dang

    Students and general public organized prtoest rallies condemning the killing of a pro-democracy CPN UML cadre Umesh Thapa on the day of Municipal Elections in Nepal. All pics by Sudarshan Rijal except the last by Madhav Aryal Dang Students Protest the Killing: Students and general public in Dang organized protest rallies condemning the killing of…