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  • Down With Maoists: Press Freedom Will Prevail in Nepal

    Update 2: The Patan Appellate Court this afternoon issued a stay order: not to stop the publication of the papers. The order, issued by Justice Jagdish Sharma Poudel, also says not to organize protest programs in the office premises that the Maoist unionists were doing in the past several days and the order also says…

  • Maoist Trade Union's Naked Intervention in Kantipur Publications

    Nepal’s largest independent publishing house that publishes two biggest newspapers is the latest target of the CPN Maoist Today’s issues of Kantipur and the Kathmandu Post are without a single advertisement. This is unusual given the fact that Kantipur, Nepal’s largest paper, attracts many pages of advertisements daily in normal circumstances. But yesterday Maoist affiliated…

  • Corrupt Faces of Nepal Come Together To Save Monarchy

    Some of the most corrupt faces of the 90s, who also happen to the central members of Nepali Congress, are trying to save monarchy [Update: President G P Koirala of Nepali Congress today clearly stated in a high level meeting of the party that the Mahasamiti (general committee) meeting that will begin from tomorrow will…

  • PLA Integration Will Turn Maoist a Regular Party

    As we are heading towards republic before CA polls, the integration of PLA should be expedited to turn the Maoist into a ‘regular’ political party. All developments are indicating that we are heading towards the declaration of republic before Constitution Assembly elections slated for November 22. In a meeting of top leaders of eight political…

  • A Day After: Maoist No Confidence Against Prime Minister?

    A day after the Maoist’s withdrawal from the government, there was no improvement in solving the crisis It was not surprising that the Maoist central secretariat meeting held today in the residence of chairman Prachanda approved the party’s decision to quit the government. But some reports say the meeting also talked about tabling a no…

  • The Kapilbastu Incident

    By the Maoist or those who want to defame the former rebels and/or create communal tension in the area? It all seems like a purely criminal incident: Two unidentified persons came on a motorcycle in Birpur village at around 8:30 am and shot dead Mohit Khan, former chairman of the district vigilante group set up…

  • Dear Nepali Congress Leaders and Cadres….An Open Letter

    Morang district branch of Nepali Congress (NC) on September 13 sent Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala’s name to contest Constituent Assembly elections based on first-past-the-post electoral system from Constituency No1 of Morang. As the district committees of the party are gearing up for such nominations, Puskar Magar, a Nepali Congress cadre writes an open letter…