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Nepal Peace Process: All Eyes On Friday High Level Meeting
Nepal is anxiously waiting for the next round of High level talks between the government and the rebels that is scheduled for coming Friday By Dinesh Wagle Wagle’s Web Log “Dari katera aayeko dekhda pharkelan jasto lagdaina” [Seeing them coming clean shaven, I feel that they will not return back to Jungle.] While I was…
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Spring Thunder In Nepal…Glorious But Inconclusive-II
By Govinda Neupane Rejoinder to the previous article. [UWB published an article by Neupane on May 30 (Spring Thunder in Nepal: Glorious but Inconclusive) which was equally appreciated and thrashed by fellow bloggers. Here in this esay, Neupane defends his article and responds to criticism. Govinda Neupane is one of the founding members of the…
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Nepal Budget: A Few Numbers and Maoist Disagreement
Keshav Pradhan aka COMRADE BISHWASH, a party worker of CPN (Maoist) listens to the live bradcast of the budget speech at Maoists Dialogue Secretariat at Baneshwar on Wednesday. Finance Minister Dr. Ram Sharan Mahat presented Rs. 143.91 billion for the annual budget for the fiscal year 2006/07 in the parliament in four years after the…
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Nepal Economy: We Are Eating Better, Drinking Less
By Prem Khanal Budget Day KATHMANDU- Nepalis are consuming more meat and fish, smoking less, and have become more sober – per capita alcohol intake has dropped. According to the Economic Survey for the fiscal year 2005/06 released on Monday (July 10) by the Ministry of Finance, the total meat consumption went up by 2.95…
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Independent Army (Nepal Army Behaves Like Parallel Government)
By brazenly violating the government decisions and policy, the army chief has signaled that royal palace still take the shots in Nepali politics Based on today’s editoral in Kantipur The visit of army chief Pyar Jung Thapa along with top army officers to the royal palace on the birthday of king Gyanendra gives the impression…
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Sujata Koirala Daughter's Big Fat 'Illegal' Wedding Mocks Nepali Law
Nepal Army Chief Pyar Jung Thapa (extreme right, with Nepali cap) along with Mrs. Thapa congratulate behula behuli as the mother of the behuli Sujata Koirala (Jost), left, looks on. Nearly two months ago, General Thapa hit the headlines for organizing the illegal and lavish wedding party for his daughter. Pic by Bikash Karki Take…
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Sujata Koirala Daughter’s Big Fat ‘Illegal’ Wedding Mocks Nepali Law
Nepal Army Chief Pyar Jung Thapa (extreme right, with Nepali cap) along with Mrs. Thapa congratulate behula behuli as the mother of the behuli Sujata Koirala (Jost), left, looks on. Nearly two months ago, General Thapa hit the headlines for organizing the illegal and lavish wedding party for his daughter. Pic by Bikash Karki Take…
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