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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…

  • The Yoga Mystery: Ram Dev's Nepal Trip

    It was supposed to be a strictly yoga affair. But it turned out to be more than that when police requested the Indian yoga teacher Ram Dev to cancel his class that was scheduled to start yesterday. The yoga sessions resumed today morning after Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula inaugurated. (Pics by Shaligram Tiwari via…

  • Sinister South: Interference in Nepal

    Some reports about Indian inference might be over hyped and exaggerated but no one can deny that Indians do have their sinister intentions in Nepali politics and society. “Prime Minister Says: ‘Nepal’s Independence At Risk.’ After all from whom?” That’s the title at the cover of Nepal Magazine this week. The magazine has the answer…

  • Cartoons: A Prime Minister Among Women and the Rayamajhi Report

    According to a report in Kantipur by journalist Saraswati Karki, a group of women met Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala in his home district Morang Saturday for about 20 minutes. Guess what was the woman might have talked about: Election system? Creating awareness about CA election? Problem faced by women? Worsening security situation? NO. All…

  • Nepal Has New People Centric National Anthem: Of Hundreds of Flowers Made Are We One Garland Nepali

    Nearly a century after it made a lyric-less national tune, Nepal bring out a brand new national anthem that sings the song of Nepali people and the country, not the rulers. Listen to the anthem and realize how beautiful and great this country and its people are सयौं थुङ्गा फूलका हामी एउटै माला नेपाली र्सार्वभौम…

  • Ram Bahadur Bomjom, the Buddha Boy, Starts Preaching: Arrival of a Meditation Guru or a Religious Zealot?

    The Buddha in New Avatar? Ram Bahadur Bomjom lectures a crowd. Pics by Upendra Lamichhane By UWB based on report filed by Upendra Lamichhane Finally, Ram Bahadur Bomjom, the Buddha Boy, has started preaching. The committee that looks after ‘the modern Buddha’, Namo Buddha Tapoban Committee, assembled a large crowd yesterday in Hallori Jungle in…