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UWB Covered in BBC News
A screen-print of the BBC News web page that contains article that explores the importance of blogging in countries like Nepal and Iran. “In places like Nepal and Iran, the big questions about weblogs are questions about the future of a free press.” So says the latest BBC News web site report about blogs in…
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Maoist Control Right Under Kalapani
A Nepal reporter describes the unexpected odyssey that nearly took his life when he was abducted recently by the Maoists in the western boarder region of Kalapani, Nepali land that is under Indian encroached for decades. By Bikram Giri [Reporter’s Diary] Charung (Darchula)– I left for Kalapani on June 1. As people mostly use the…
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Dr Tulsi Giri in Willful Defaulters’ Blacklist
Nepal’s Vice-chairman of Council of Minister Among Wilful Defaulters Nepal Bank Limited Fact Sheet Let’s look at the face of our vice-chairman of Council of Minister from a different angle – an angle provided by this morning’s main story of The Kathmandu Post and Kantipur daily. Dr Giri who remained in exile for 18 years…
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Tundikhel Mourns the Forceful Departure of its Guests
By Dinesh Wagle on June 8th, 2005 in Wagle Street Journal No easy breath in Nepal’s famous open air theater: Gauri Kala Upadhaya, 58, from Jumla, West Nepal, lost her belongings in the forceful evacuation. All Pics by Wagle. Tundikhel is mourning now. This open air space in the heart of Kathmandu is mourning the…
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Freedom Will Prevail, Autocracy Will Expire
By Dinesh Wagle Updated on 03 AM GMT June 9: Police released all journalists this morning who were arrested from a protest rally in Kathmandu yesterday. Journalists were requested to sign a paper that stated, not exact wordings, “Some people who were arrested today for ignoring the prohibitory orders…have been released..” They didn’t mention specifically…
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Sawari Terror and Dui Kinara Enjoyment
Watching a Nepali feature film after a traffic hassle By Dinesh Wagle After two days of delay, my Dui Kinara (two banks/sides), a Nepali movie, plan finally materialized. Devu Babu, as I call him (the witty Devendra Bhattarai), was there with his hunger of Tulsi Ghimire cinema. We enjoyed the movie in Biso Jyoti cinema…
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From Jail, Ram Chandra Paudel Hits Hard Against Autocracy
NEPAL politics: Now is the time to critically analyze the monarchy and democracy By Dinesh Wagle on May 31st, 2005 in Wagle’s WebLog Today’s issue of Kantipur has one of the most brilliant articles in it’s Op-Ed space. Written by Ramchandra Paudel, former speaker of the House of Representatives and jailed Nepali Congress leader, the…
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