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Month: February 2010

  • From Nepal to India: Busy Day for a President

    By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal In the most important and busiest day of his four-day maiden visit to India, President Ram Baran Yadav on Tuesday (today) met several top Indian leaders including counterpart Prativa Patil, Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh and Indian National Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi. Gandhi, unarguably the most important leader of…

  • Pune Students Recall Their Visits to German Bakery

    Students of Pune’s Bharati Vidyapeeth (Masters in Social Work) say life is uncertain. Plus: Mourning a Nepali waiter who died in the blast It was during the New Year eve; I had visited that place and had interacted with the cashier of the German bakery. When I came to know about the blast in the…

  • First President of Republic of Nepal Arrives in India

    First foreign trip of the First President of the Himalayan Republic Dr Ram Baran Yadav has started his first foreign trip (to India) as the first head of the state of the republic of Nepal on Monday (today). President Yadav, who landed in Delhi’s IG International Airport this afternoon, started discussions with Indian leaders at…

  • Blast at German Bakery, Pune

    When India suffers, Nepalis share the pain 1. There was a Nepali in Hotel Taj Mahal’s kitchen on 26/11/2008. Another Nepali was serving guests at Leopold Cafe, on that fateful day. He was injured in the attack. 2. When several Indian soldiers came under a deadly avalanche in Kashmir recently, a Nepali rifleman serving in…

  • Finally, Comrades Carry the National Flag

    By Mohan Buda Aer While their leaders in the Constituent Assembly are working towards changing the national flag of Nepal angering millions of patriotic Nepalis all over the country, the Maoist guerillas yesterday not only carried and hoisted the Sun and Moon in a cantonment but also removed their party flag. The guerillas abandoned their…

  • My Name Is Opportunity

    By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal This article, written on Friday morning, was published on today’s Kathanndu Post. Correction: Mumbai attack happened in 2008, not in 09 as mistakenly mentioned in the article There are not many similarities between Ajmal Kasab and Bal Thackeray. The former is the lone survivor of the 26/11/08 Mumbai attack…

  • Jamim Shah Murder Coverage Invites Threat to Nepali Newspapers

    Kantipur and Kathmandu Post editors and publisher threatened For the Record: Today’s Kathmandu Post and Kantipur, Nepal’s largest English and Nepali language daily newspapers, have reported, on their front pages, that their editors and publisher have received telephone and email threats from unidentified persons to stop newspapers’ coverage on Jamim Shah murder. Two unidentified gunmen…