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Times of India (blog)
April 19, 2018
More significant was his statement that he would not make any agreement against Nepal's national interest, implying that India would ask for such agreements. In India, his tirade against India ... China in the past had used Nepali communists to provide arms to the Indian insurgents. Not long ago the PakÃâà...
Jamaica Observer
April 12, 2018
2008: Prachanda, the former leader of Nepal's decade-long Maoist insurgency, wins a seat in the country's constitution-writing assembly. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama concedes that comments he'd made privately during a fund-raiser about bitter working class voters who “cling to gunsÃâà...
The Hindu
April 12, 2018
In New Delhi too, there has been a growing realisation that time had come to make a new beginning with Nepal. ... resumption of the SAARC summit process which remains stalled since 2016 after Jaish-e-Mohammed militants attacked the Army base in Uri, and the need for an inclusive political process,Ãâà...
The Northlines
April 12, 2018
Quite obviously, Beijing's recent signal to Kathmandu that in all propriety, the first foreign trip by Nepalese Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli ought to be to ... Thus, China has splendidly succeeded in plugging the infiltration routes from across the Nepal border for militants from third countries undertakingÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 11, 2018
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 15th week of 2018. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive. A worker rests on used tires in front of an automobile repair shop in Kolkata,. 1 A worker rests on used tires in front of an automobile repairÃâà...
The Hindu
April 11, 2018
Nepal's political transition began nearly three decades ago when it adopted a new constitution in 1990 which ushered in multiparty democracy. ... resumption of the SAARC summit process which remains stalled since 2016 after Jaish-e-Mohammed militants attacked the Army base in Uri, and the need forÃâà...
Yahoo News
April 7, 2018
The Communist leader returned to power in February after his party, together with a bloc of Maoist former rebels, won a thumping two-thirds parliamentary majority in elections late last year. Oli has since signalled he will take a less antagonistic approach towards India, which is Nepal's largest tradingÃâà...
The New Indian Express
April 5, 2018
Oli blamed the blockade on interference by Delhi and tilted Nepal's diplomatic relations towards China, stoking nationalistic sentiment. The Communist leader returned to power in February after his party, together with a bloc of Maoist former rebels, won a thumping two-thirds parliamentary majority inÃâà...
Nepali times
March 31, 2018
While a graduate student in anthropology at Stanford, Elizabeth Enslin meets fellow student Promod Parajuli from Nepal and falls in love. Enslin had wanted to study African culture, and had romanticised about working there but romance takes her to Nepal instead. She follows Parajuli to India researchingÃâà...
iNews
March 24, 2018
Life as a celebrity farmer is more hands-on than you might imagine. Jimmy Doherty has only just finished digging his Land Rover out of a snowdrift when we chat. The Suffolk-based farmer-cum-television presenter had been shuttling water down to his cattle when he got stuck. In the end, his three childrenÃâà...
WHIO
March 24, 2018
KIDAL, Mali — Mali's prime minister has traveled to the northern rebel stronghold of Kidal, marking the first such trip since a now stalled peace deal was signed in 2015. Prime Minister Soumeylou ... KATHMANDU, Nepal — A passenger plane caught fire, then crashed while landing at Nepal's Kathmandu airport Monday.
WHIO
March 23, 2018
Kurdish rebels withdraw from Iraq's Sinjar. Skiers were forced to jump for their lives and others were flung off a ski lift. VIDEO: Skiers forced to jump off ski lift after malfunction. At Least 38 Killed In Plane Crash In Nepal. Kathmandu plane crash: At least 50 dead, several injured, officials say. A protester stands to oppose theÃâà...
WHIO
March 22, 2018
... gunbattle has killed five Indian government forces and five suspected militants in disputed Kashmir, officials said Wednesday. The fighting erupted after government forces cordoned off a remote forested village in the mountains of northwestern Kupwara region on Tuesday following a tip that insurgents were hiding there,Ãâà...
The New Yorker
March 22, 2018
In 2006, a local pollster in Nepal was kidnapped by Maoist rebels while conducting opinion surveys on behalf of the American political strategist Stan Greenberg. The Maoists, who had been waging a long-running insurgency against the government, did not issue their typical ransom demands—money orÃâà...
Yeni Şafak English
March 13, 2018
Nepalese lawmakers voted on Tuesday to elect the country's new president, three months after the parliamentary elections were held in which a communist alliance won the largest number of ... Nepal held elections for its national parliament and provincial assemblies in November and December last year.
Geo News, Pakistan
March 12, 2018
The documentary on the life of activist Perween Rahman, The Rebel Optimist, won an award at the 6th Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival. Photo: Perween Rahman: The Rebel Optimist. KATHMANDU: The documentary on the life of activist Perween Rahman, The Rebel Optimist, won an awardÃâà...
Gulf Times
February 19, 2018
Leaders of the two Nepalese communist parties that formed an electoral alliance and won the largest number of seats in parliamentary polls last year have ... The ruling Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) or the UML and a party of former Maoist rebels, late on Monday signed the dealÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
February 19, 2018
Long maligned as the footwear of choice for Nepal's Maoist guerillas, Goldstar sneakers are undergoing a revival in the Himalayan nation - fast becoming a must-have hipster accessory. The humble $8 trainers were worn by insurgents during Nepal's decade-long civil war, when just being seen wearing aÃâà...
CTV News
February 18, 2018
The humble $8 trainers were worn by insurgents during Nepal's decade-long civil war, when just being seen wearing a pair was enough to wind up in ... The army eventually changed tactics, opting to starve the rebels out by imposing a blockade that deprived Maoist strongholds of both food and footwear.
Arab News
February 15, 2018
KATMANDU: Long maligned as the footwear of choice for Nepal's Maoist guerillas, Goldstar sneakers are undergoing a revival in the Himalayan nation ... The humble $8 trainers were worn by insurgents during Nepal's decade-long civil war, when just being seen wearing a pair was enough to wind up inÃâà...
India Today
February 14, 2018
But they have been widely criticised as "toothless" and there have been only two convictions, one for the brutal killing of a teenage girl by Nepal Army personnel and another for the killing of a journalist by Maoist rebels. The government recently extended the mandates of the commissions for another year,Ãâà...
Channel NewsAsia
February 13, 2018
KATHMANDU: Rights groups have criticised Nepal for failing to prosecute wartime rights abuses, saying the government appeared more interested in ... 1,300 disappeared and thousands displaced during the civil war, which ended in 2006 with a peace deal between Maoist insurgents and governmentÃâà...
Firstpost
December 31, 1999
Nepalese prime minister KP Sharma Oli's recent India visit is being hailed as a new leaf in India-Nepalese relations; it was more about rebuilding trust. China's Xinhua quoted Oli as saying after his visit, "Nepal and India are two sovereign countries and good friends. We want to develop goodwill and mutualÃâà...
DAWN.com
December 31, 1999
KATHMANDU: It was shortly before lunch on a January afternoon when rebels stormed a village school in the mountains of central Nepal, dragged ... “Reconciliation rather than prosecution is the spirit of the peace agreement,” said Maoist leader Dinanath Sharma, who was a rebel negotiator during theÃâà...
The Straits Times
December 31, 1999
KATHMANDU (AFP) - Nepal's new Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli left for India on Friday (April 6) on the first foreign visit of his latest term, a trip which analysts say ... The Communist leader returned to power in February after his party, together with a bloc of Maoist former rebels, won a thumping two-thirdsÃâà...
