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  • Maoists Chaseout

    Here are two trial videos: Another video:

  • INTERVIEW WITH PRACHANDA

    Amidst high expectations the Summit Talks is going on in Baluwatar this very moment. Here are the excerpts of an interview with Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Prachanda, taken on the eve of the much-hyped October 8 Summit Talks between his party and the ruling seven-party alliance as posted in Ekantipur: Q.…

  • Maoists Chaseout

    Video 1: In these videos, viewers will see Maoist cadres coming into the office in queue and suddenly starting to attack and chasing away the protestors. Within a few seconds, the scenes at Kupandole become chaotic like in a war zone. A sound of siren might give the impression that a police vehicle has started…

  • I Blog, Do You? BTW, Happy Birthday UWB!

    Yes, Democracy Rocks! Pic by Shailendra Kharel As Nepal’s pioneering blog site becomes two-year-young today, a blogger writes about the impact of her introduction with the word blog By Darshan Karki (inside Ujjwal Acharya shares his experience) I came across this ‘blog artifact’ a week ago. Dated Oct 23, 2005, its four papers torn from…

  • Learning From Nepal: Do Americans Have What It Takes?

    Nepal in foreign press: An editorial in Bennington Banner of Vermont (United States) titled “Do Americans have what it takes?” Thursday, September 21: Last weekend, a tape was leaked to the Hungarian press in which Hungary’s Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany admitted that he had lied repeatedly to the public. The tape, coming after months of…

  • 30,000: Number of the Century

    That’s the number, if you didn’t know earlier, of ropanis of land king Gyanendra owns in Nepal making him, most probably, the biggest landlord of the country. And the most interesting thing is that our government still pays him monthly salary. The paradox is that the parliament, on the one hand rightly thinks that the…

  • Nepal Budget : Finance Minister in Catch-22 Situation

    Finance Minister needs divine intervention to activate the slackened economy and find requisite resources to finance his ‘rural-centric’ and path-breaking’ budget. By Chattra Bahadur An Analysis. UWB received this article in email. Whereas the rest of the SPA (Seven Party Alliance) are jubilant of the victory over the ‘autocratic’ and ‘repressive’ royal regime, Finance Minister…