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Tag: Nepal

  • Complexity in Nepali Politics

    Continuous and intentional violations of peace deal and meekness of the government to take any corrective measure created a vicious cycle of state-of-flux and lawlessness. …Because of frequent indefinite strikes, distribution of citizenship cards across Terai and collection names for voters’ list has been severely affected. By Chattra Bahadur A leading daily newspaper recently published…

  • Janajati Nepal Banda: Royalists in Charge (and Other Headlines)

    Any idea who is Shekhar Gurung? I am sure you do know him. He came to limelight when Gyanendra’s autocracy was in climax. Shekhar Gurung was appointed the Zonal administrator, a post created by the royal regime to strengthen the autocratic hold in the state of affairs, for Bagmati Zone. With the restoration of democracy…

  • Nepal Government Will Give Additional Rs. 50m to Maoists

    The government today (25 Feb) decided to provided Rs 50 million per month to the Maoists for the management of Maoist cantonments that are set up at different regions across the country. In a meeting of the Maoist Cantonment Management Committee today, it was also decided that each Maoist combatant would be provided with a…

  • U.S. in Nepal: Moriarty Would Welcome Maoists to Democratic Mainstream

    If the Maoists adhere to their commitments and finally renounce violence, Ambassador James F. Moriarty would enjoy welcoming their leader to the democratic mainstream, the U.S. envoy said in Kathmandu today. The comment came in response to a question after the Ambassador delivered a speech at a conference of five Rotary Clubs, where he said…

  • Suffered by Gyanendra and Guerillas, Nepal Gets Inflation Headache

    While former autocrat Gyanendra and Maoist Guerilla are stealing all the attention for all bad reasons, here comes yet another bad news for Nepal. The central bank says inflation stood at seven percent in the first six months of the current fiscal year where as the economy is expected to grow by 3.8 percent. Central…

  • History in Making: Parliament Tells Nepal Govt. to Take Action Against King

    Nine months after the House of Representatives, restored by April Revolution, passed a Magna Carta like declaration, the Interim Parliament formed as per the interim constitution today unanimously passed a proposal that directs the government of Nepal to take action against king Gyanendra, a former autocrat, for his regressive statement on Democracy Day. The proposal…

  • Nepal in Transition: Gyanendra Barks From Palace, Tries to Justify 2005 Coup

    Tries to justify Feb 1, 2005 takeover, claims he did that as per “people’s aspiration” A day after he was stoned by the angry people who also chanted slogan demanding his ouster from Nepal, king Gyanendra has issued a statement on the eve of Monday’s Democracy Day [Feb 19] in which he clearly defends his…