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Anger in Nepal as PM poll likely to fail again
( 22-Aug-2010 )
Kathmandu: Amidst growing anger at the failure of Nepal's major parties to elect a new prime minister even after four rounds of vote, nearly two dozen other parties have threatened to boycott parliament and start a protest movement if Monday's election also fails.
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Chairman Mao's Long March hits a high note in Nepal
( 22-Aug-2010 )
Kathmandu: Almost eight decades after he led the famous Long March of the Red Army, an incredible year-long odyssey overcoming starvation, sickness and decimating ambushes, late Chinese chairman Mao Zedong has hit a high note in Nepal, courtesy the Maoists who drew their inspiration from him.
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Nepal Army crosses swords with Maoists on UN monitors
( 21-Aug-2010 )
Kathmandu: Hemmed in with severe restrictions for four years, Nepal's army has begun to get restive, asking the government for the first time not to extend the tenure of a UN agency monitoring troops as well as the Maoist army even as the Maoists sought an additional year for it.
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Maoists begin Nepal shutdown as PM refuses to quit
( 03-May-2010 )
Kathmandu: With a constitutional crisis and President's Rule threatening Nepal, its former Maoist guerrillas Sunday began an indefinite general strike paralysing the entire nation after talks with the ruling parties failed and Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal refused to quit.
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Nepal PM refuses to quit, stage set for collision
( 30-Apr-2010 )
Kathmandu: Though caught in a deepening crisis, Nepal's embattled Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, however, refused to step down Friday as he returned from the SAARC Summit in Bhutan, heightening fears of imminent clashes between security forces and the former Maoist guerrillas.
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Age no bar to conquer the world's highest peak!
( 12-Apr-2010 )
Kathmandu: Days after a 13-year-old boy announced his plan to summit Mt Everest, a 71-year-old Japanese woman is trying to show the world that age is no bar if you want to conquer the world's highest peak.
Eiko Funahashi, a 71-year-old lawyer from Tokyo, is headed for the 8,848-metre peak throu .... |
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Everest to be Edmund Hillary's last resting place
( 01-Apr-2010 )
Kathmandu: Mt Everest, the world's highest peak whose name came to be inextricably associated with its first conqueror, Sir Edmund Hillary, will be the last resting place of the New Zealander in a grateful tribute by Nepal, the tiny country he made famous worldwide.
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Ousted king raises storm in Nepal
( 26-Mar-2010 )
Kathmandu: Two years after Nepal's interim parliament officially abolished monarchy, Nepal's last king, Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah, continued to dominate the news Friday with his bitter foe, the Maoists, going on war footing against him once again.
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Violence in Nepal after policeman rapes Indian teen
( 22-Mar-2010 )
Kathmandu: Violence reigned in a famed temple town in southern Nepal Monday, for the third consecutive day, with mobs attacking police posts and clashing with baton-wielding police after an Indian teenager, belonging to a minority community, was allegedly raped by a sub-inspector.
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West Nepal shut down by group seeking Hindu state
( 22-Mar-2010 )
Kathmandu: Violence erupted in western Nepal Monday as a Hindu group clamped a shutdown demanding the restoration of a Hindu state ahead of the promulgation of a new constitution in May.
A little-known group calling itself the Vishwa Ekata Parishad set two buses and a motorcycle on fire in Kailali .... |
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After Koirala who? The question plagues Nepal
( 21-Mar-2010 )
Kathmandu: With the death of Girija Prasad Koirala on the eve of the promulgation of a new constitution, the question of who would assume the mantle of leadership is plaguing Nepal.
Koirala, the architect of the peace process in Nepal that ended a decade of Maoist insurgency, also headed the Nepa .... |
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25 killed in Nepal bus accident
( 18-Mar-2010 )
Kathmandu: In the worst road accident in Nepal this year, at least 25 people were killed when a bus fell off the highway and plunged into a river in western Nepal Thursday with eyewitnesses fearing the toll could go up.
The accident occurred around 7 a.m. in a village called Kittu as the passenge .... |
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Pakistani woman nabbed with fake Indian currency in Nepal
( 16-Mar-2010 )
Kathmandu: A 55-year-old Pakistani woman has been arrested at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu with fake Indian currency worth Rs.3 million, police said.
Mariam Wali Mohammad, apparently travelling alone from Karachi, was nabbed after she arrived at the airport on a Pakistan Interna .... |
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'Black' woman's tale drives Nepal rights campaign
( 10-Mar-2010 )
Kathmandu: Dark, untouchable and a slave, yet Kali is the heroine of a campaign to protect the rights of the disadvantaged communities of Nepal, especially women.
She is the central character in a street play, "Kali Aimai, the black woman, which has been sponsored by the UN to tour Nepal's .... |
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