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  • World Cup Football: May The Best Win (Angola Included)

    Watching FIFA World Cup: A Nepali Experience (Personalized) By Dinesh Wagle I call that the World Cup Fever. The temperature was well above 104 degrees in fahrenheit and I was in terribly bad condition. I couldn’t sleep for that night and my friends in the hostel of Dorjee High School, Boudha, were in the middle…

  • Analyzing Current Scenario in Nepal

    By Chattra Bahadur The role of intellectual class, which had played prominent role in providing impetus to the pro-democracy movement, has not been commendable after reinstatement of the Parliament. Rather than urging and allowing the government (and the reinstated Parliament) focus on the immediate task of initiating the stalled peace-process, they are pushing forward agendas…

  • Nepal India Joint Statement. Achievement? Wait and See…

    Joint Press Statement, Official Visit of Rt. Hon’ble Girija Prasad Koirala, Prime Minister of Nepal, to India from 6-9 June 2006 issued on 9 June, 2006. Is this good for Nepal? Lets wait and see. The Rt. Hon’ble Girija Prasad Koirala, Prime Minister of Nepal, paid an official visit to India from 6-9 June 2006…

  • Prachanda, Nepal's Rebel Leader, Talks Brilliance

    Prachanda interview in eKantipur (if this link doesn’t work, please visit the ekantipur page). In his first television interview to a Nepali channel, Prachanda, the Supreme leader of Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) talks sense and raises so many convincing issues that viewers (as far as a few dozen people I talked to while watching the…

  • Prachanda, Nepal’s Rebel Leader, Talks Brilliance

    Prachanda interview in eKantipur (if this link doesn’t work, please visit the ekantipur page). In his first television interview to a Nepali channel, Prachanda, the Supreme leader of Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) talks sense and raises so many convincing issues that viewers (as far as a few dozen people I talked to while watching the…

  • Bringing Nepal Army Under People: American Perspective

    Mike Bailey, a retired US army colonel addresses a video conference from Washington DC organized by the American Center in Kathmandu. Pic by Sudhir Mahat via US Embassy. By Dinesh Wagle After the historic May 18 Parliamentary Declaration, the process of brining the military under the civilian control has started (though shockingly very slowly). The…

  • India Welcomes Nepal: Koirala Greatest South Asian Leader

    Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala with foreign diplomats at Tribhuwan International Airport before leaving for New Delhi on Tuesday. Pic, first published in eKantipur, by Bikas Rauniar After American President George W. Bush, it was today the turn of Nepal’s Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala to be received by the Indian Prime Minister at the…