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  • Nepal Budget: A Few Numbers and Maoist Disagreement

    Keshav Pradhan aka COMRADE BISHWASH, a party worker of CPN (Maoist) listens to the live bradcast of the budget speech at Maoists Dialogue Secretariat at Baneshwar on Wednesday. Finance Minister Dr. Ram Sharan Mahat presented Rs. 143.91 billion for the annual budget for the fiscal year 2006/07 in the parliament in four years after the…

  • Nepal Economy: We Are Eating Better, Drinking Less

    By Prem Khanal Budget Day KATHMANDU- Nepalis are consuming more meat and fish, smoking less, and have become more sober – per capita alcohol intake has dropped. According to the Economic Survey for the fiscal year 2005/06 released on Monday (July 10) by the Ministry of Finance, the total meat consumption went up by 2.95…

  • Independent Army (Nepal Army Behaves Like Parallel Government)

    By brazenly violating the government decisions and policy, the army chief has signaled that royal palace still take the shots in Nepali politics Based on today’s editoral in Kantipur The visit of army chief Pyar Jung Thapa along with top army officers to the royal palace on the birthday of king Gyanendra gives the impression…

  • Sujata Koirala Daughter's Big Fat 'Illegal' Wedding Mocks Nepali Law

    Nepal Army Chief Pyar Jung Thapa (extreme right, with Nepali cap) along with Mrs. Thapa congratulate behula behuli as the mother of the behuli Sujata Koirala (Jost), left, looks on. Nearly two months ago, General Thapa hit the headlines for organizing the illegal and lavish wedding party for his daughter. Pic by Bikash Karki Take…

  • Sujata Koirala Daughter’s Big Fat ‘Illegal’ Wedding Mocks Nepali Law

    Nepal Army Chief Pyar Jung Thapa (extreme right, with Nepali cap) along with Mrs. Thapa congratulate behula behuli as the mother of the behuli Sujata Koirala (Jost), left, looks on. Nearly two months ago, General Thapa hit the headlines for organizing the illegal and lavish wedding party for his daughter. Pic by Bikash Karki Take…

  • Digging Out A Maoist Corpse For Medical Test

    An National Human Rights team with an unidentified boy it exhumed at Mulkhola, Masanghat in Kavrepalanchowk on Wednesday. Pics by Bikash Karki via the Kathmandu Post By Kiran Chapagain The Kathmandu Post (For the record) MULKHOLA MASANGHAT, Kavre, July 5- For Tirtha Maya Tamang, a local housewife, it took over two years to see the…

  • Maoist Army in Writing: Interview With Comrade Commissar

    Q & A with a reble commissar By Neil Horning in Myagdi and Pokhara We know what Prachanda and Barburam are saying. What does their military think? This is an interview with commissar of the Basanta Memorial Brigade, 4th Division of the Peoples Liberation Army. The Maoist military has both a military officer and a…