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  • Nepal Democracy Protest: Live From Shankar Dev Campus

    Many colleges in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu remained tense today. Students were protesting the Nagarkot Massacre. Avipsha, a UWB blogger and student of Shankar Dev College, one of the country’s most politically sensitive campuses, was inside the class room when riots erupted out side the building. Here she shares the first hand experience of the brick-rain…

  • Again, We Have Problem In Iraq

    Nepal’s unemployment problem: At least 80 Nepalis are stranded in Kuwait for the last 10 months. They want us to rescue them. This incident reminds us of those horrific beheading of our folks in Iraq last year. By Dinesh Wagle So we again have a problem in Iraq or somewhere near that country. Some eighty…

  • Following the Trails of Saran: Guessing Game

    By deepak adhikari on December 13th, 2005 in Dashing Deep Indian Diplomat Meets Nepal King. Everyone’s Guessing. Aaaaa…Ab…Gale…Lagja: Before trying to downplay the Saran Visit (“everyone is trying to portray this visit as an earthquake. it’s not that. it’s just as usual visit.”) Cabinet vice-chair Kirti Nidhi Bista hugged him tightly yesterday. Pic, scanned from…

  • UNDP: Unclear Nepal Development Perspective

    Demystifying Developmental Issues in Nepal By Deepak Adhikari Watching the Nepali docudrama Goreto Nisafko ( Path of Justice) directed by Pallav Ranjan in a cozy Kupandol reading hall of Spiny Babbler, I concluded that the issue it portrayed is just a tip of the iceberg while the crux of the problem is something else. This…

  • Attending a semi-underground press meet in Nepal

    As we all know there is no freedom of expression in Nepal. Pro-democratic activists are detained and regularly harassed. Police kicked pro-democratic students from their offices yesterday. Later in the evening, they organized a press conference. Participating in that semi-underground press conference was an interesting experience for journalist Jeetendra Sah. Terrified students just ousted from…

  • All The King’s Parties

    Lets look at the Nepal’s ‘political parties’ from whose help king Gyanendra hopes to bring democracy back in Nepal. Of the 72 parties taking part in the civic poll, 52 have never taken part in elections. Of the remaining 20, only one party had representation in the last parliament. They collectively got less than 2…

  • The Hope of Peace Extended: Maoist Ceasefire

    The Lead: Thank God, Nepal Communist Party (Maoists) has extended the unilateral cease-fire by one month. “Those terrorists, they need to go back to their business. They should start terrorism. They shouldn’t talk peace. We are here to talk peace. We are supposed to bring peace in this country. No one should talk or bring…