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Tulsi Giri Conference: No News Is Good News?
Dr. Tulsi Giri, Nepal’s royal deputy, organized a news conference to talk nothing Yes, Dr. Tulsi Giri repeated the stunt of waving a copy of the Constitution 1990 in today’s news conference. Today’s attraction: he waved a few other newspapers cuttings as well. Pic by Gopal Chitrakar via Kantipur So that was nothing but just…
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Demanding Democracy In Nepali Congress
By Dinesh Wagle on December 19th, 2005 in Wagle’s WebLog Nepali Congress, Nepal’s largest party, yesterday announced a 41-member ad hoc committee with Mahendra Sharma as the chair of Nepal Student Union (NSU) and today dozens of NSU, a Congress organization, gheraod the Maharajgunj residence of NC president Girija Prasad Koirala protesting the formation of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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