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  • Nepal: A Country Cursed by a Widow?

    By Krishna Giri I don’t think any Nepali will raise their eyebrows when they hear- “SATI LE SARAPEKO DESH”. Right from the unification, Nepali have witnessed ongoing severity in terms of governance. Power snatching by any means has become style in Nepal. I don’t want to go back to 17th century to dig the past.…

  • Happy Republic Day Nepal :)

    The Himalayan Republic Celebrates First Republic Day Anniversary [From a year ago: 1. Nepal is Declared a Republic!!! 2. Minute by Minute Account of the Historic Session of the CA that Declared Nepal a Republic Republic Day rally in Pokhara, Nepal. Pic by Krishna Mani Baral The first anniversary of the declaration of federal democratic…

  • Nepal-India Relations: Open Secret Diplomacy

    By Bishnu Pathak, PhD Setting: The United Maoist-led Government resigned as of May 4, 2009 and its resignation has been accepted. Almost three weeks back, the senior UML leader, Madhav Kumar Nepal, who failed to win people’s trust in two constituencies he challenged in the last Constituent Assembly (CA) election, was unanimously elected as the…

  • Madhav Nepal, the Moderate Communist Leader, is the Prime Minister of Nepal

    “I announce that Madhav Kumar Nepal has been elected unopposed in the position of Prime Minister as per the Constituent Assembly’s Legislature-Parliament Business Advisory Regulations 2065.” With that declaration from Subash Nemwang, the chair of the CA, today evening the moderate Marxist and Leninist leader became the third communist prime minister in Nepal. MK Nepal…

  • Madhav Kumar Nepal Set to Become Prime Minister of Nepal

    Madhav Kumar Nepal, veteran communist leader of the Himalayan republic who have been tipped to be the prime minister of Nepal several times in the past and lost from both constituencies in the April 2008 CA elections, is finally set to become the third Communist prime minister of Nepal. The leader of the moderate Communist…

  • Iron Man: Conversation With a Press Wallah

    By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal [This article first appeared in today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF version. Shorter version in Nepali appeared in today’s Kantipur.] This is about this guy whom I have been seeing busy at his work all day, almost every day, since I came here to Jangpura Extension, one of south…

  • How Maoist-Delhi Relations Soured

    The game in the background. How India played a role in the downfall of the first ever democratically elected Maoist government in Nepal. By Akhilesh Upadhyay KATHMANDU- The turn of events that first led to the sacking and reinstatement of Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal exposed that relations between New Delhi and the Maoists…