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  • The Maoists in 'Lose-Lose Situation'

    The recent escalating violence between the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF or MPRF) and the Maoists, and level of brutality involved therein, indicates that some groups are indeed well-prepared to answer the Maoists in the same language that the Maoists spoke and understood the best. By Chattra Bahadur We have had mixed results in terms of…

  • Remembering the April Revolution of Nepal

    Exactly a year ago today yet another round of movement against king Gyanendra’s regression and coup had started, and fortunately, that turned out to be the final and decisive. Tired of not getting as much public support as they would have like to have, political parties had announced another phase of movement against regression from…

  • Prime Minister Koirala: Forget the King, Talk About Gyanendra

    Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, who is also the president of Nepali Congress party, has been over the past several months showing signals that his party might leave the king behind the history and go for the constituent assembly election because of the increasing public pressure. A few weeks ago in his hometown Biratnagar, Koirala…

  • Young Communist League Rally Against Gaur Killing

    By Neil Horning Part of a Nationwide rally of the YCL took place in Pokhara today. Office Secretary at the Maoist camp near Prithvichowk, Kiran Thapa, gave me a few words about the program. “This is a program against the Gaur violence. We demand the government investigate, and find out who is innocent and who…

  • Nepal Peace Process: A Great Leap Forward

    UWB endorses the following editorial in today’s edition of daily Kathmandu Post [Inside: the plights of internally displaced people] The formation of interim government is a leap forward in our peace process. This day will be marked in the annals of history also for another reason: We have a date for the Constituent Assembly election.…

  • History in Nepal: Interim Government With Maoists Takes Oath

    By Dinesh Wagle [Here is details of what happened in parliament today And here is list of ministers] Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala resigned from the post of Prime Minister today only to be reappointed, this time by the parliament, to the same position within half an hour. [Historically, PMs in Nepal have been appointed…

  • Deadlock Ends, Parties Agree. Constituent Assembly Election on June 20

    GIRIJA PRASAD KOIRALA APPOINTED INTERIM PRIME MINISTER BY THE INTERIM PARLIAMENT UNANIMIOUSLY AS PER THE CLAUSE 38 (1) OF THE INTERIM CONSTITUTION, A HISTORIC MOMENT Now the country has formally entered into the interim phase and is now heading towards the election of Constituent Assembly. Below is the blow by blow account of the historical…