News from Nepal

Two Nepali nationals have been arrested for breaking into the house of a former corporator Muniraju and fleeing with gold and cash. The Kengeri police arrested Prem Bahaddur Sarki, 25, and Bishal Singh, 28, from Bangaon village in Bhajang district of Nepal. Bharath and Saipal, two watchmen employed by Muniraju and involved in the crime, are still absconding. The burglary took place on September 30 when Muniraju and his family had gone to visit a temple in Chinthamani ahead of his son’s marriage. When they returned to their home in Kengeri,they found jewelleries purchased for the marriage and cash missing. Their watchmen Bharath and Saipal were also missing. Acting on their complaint, police started an investigation and found that Prem helped Bharath to commit the offence. They also took the help of Singh, a friend of Bharath. A police team headed by Satyanarayana went to Nepal and collected information about Prem and Singh with the help of Nepal police and Interpol. Mea...

Kathmandu, Oct. 31: A meeting of the ruling partners in the current government has handed over responsibility to Chairman of the Unified CPN (Maoist), Pushpa Kamal Dahal, to   hold decisive talks with opposition parties within the next two days on whether to go for reinstating Constituent Assembly (CA) or go for fresh elections to take fresh mandate. The meeting held at the Prime Minister's official residence at Baluwatar, on Wednesday morning handed over the responsibilities to hold talks with the Nepali Congress (NC), CPN (UML), and other opposition parties to end the political stalemate forging political consensus on either of the alternatives in package. Dahal, who is also the Chairman of the Federal Democratic Republican Alliance (FDRA), has been handed over the responsibility to find a clear way by holding talks in package, said Prem Bahadur Singh, Spokesperson of the FDRA. He said, "The nation has been facing constitutional vacuum, and vacuum created by l...

Kathmandu, Oct. 31: Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rabiraj Shrestha has been suspended from his post for the next three months. The Ministry of Home Affairs decided to suspend SSP Shrestha on the charge of his involvement in the failed smuggling of foreign currency from the Tribhuvan International Airport and to investigate into the case as per the ministerial-level decision. The Ministry dispatched a letter to the Nepal Police Headquarters informing the latter about Shrestha's suspension, said Ministry Spokesperson Shankar Prasad Koirala. Involvement of SSP Shrestha in the smuggling of foreign currency has been suspected since the arrest of One Binod Kumar Soni with different foreign currency worth Rs. 12.4 million from the TIA some three weeks ago.   A committee formed by the Police Headquarters to investigate into the case had suspected   SSP Shrestha's involvement in the smuggling.   The currency was seized from Dubai-bound aircraft. Shrestha'...

THE tale begins with a demon. Centuries ago, it destroyed the foundations of a Buddhist monastery under construction in central Tibet. Then Guru Rinpoche, who had brought Buddhism to the kingdom, pursued the demon west, deep into Mustang. The two fought among Mustang’s snow peaks, desert canyons and grasslands. Guru Rinpoche prevailed, and he scattered the demon’s body parts across Mustang: its blood formed towering red cliffs, and its intestines tumbled to the wind-scoured earth east of the cliffs. Later, people would build a wall of prayer stones, the longest in Nepal, atop the intestines. On the fifth day of our trek, we stood above the demon’s heart. Here, on a hillside, the people of Mustang had built the monastery of Lo Gekar, one of the oldest in the Tibetan world. A lama showed us around. I found no remnants of a demonic heart, but the walls in a dark room at the rear were covered with paintings of fearsome creatures with fangs and blue skin. Tibetans...

  Kathmandu, Oct. 30:   The major political parties including the United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) have reiterated their commitment to consensus.   A meeting   of top leaders of the major parties including the Madhesi Front this morning held at the Army Integration Special Committee Secretariat based at New Baneshwor in the capital decided to make one more effort for ending the present political deadlock by forging consensus on the remaining issues of constitution-drafting. The meeting has handed over the responsibility of making environment for consensus to the top brass. Although the meeting was univocal on the view of going for fresh elections for breaking the political deadlock, it reached to an agreement of making an effort once more for a package deal on the disputed issues. Talking to media persons after the meeting, Nepali Congress Vice President Ram Chandra Poudel said the meeting agreed to make an effort for the last time for consensus....

Prakashman Singh, Sherbahadur Deuba, Sushil Koirala, Prachanda and Ramchandra Paudel (Infront) TEA PARTY !! Gaurabshumsher Rana, Army Chief WE ARE ALSO ACTVIST !!

Nepal is a burgeoning republic nestled in the heart of the Himalaya whose name evokes images of soaring snow-capped peaks, fast flowing rivers, and of course, the iconic Mt. Everest. Nepal has so much to offer, and the mountains are just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. The mountain sides are a patchwork of terraced farmland, forests, and traditional villages, populated with a variety of ethnic groups, including Newars (mostly in the Kathmandu Valley), Gurung, Magar, Tamang, Chhetri and Brahmin. Nepal is crisscrossed with a network of ancient walking trails, paths used for centuries to connect local villages to each other and to commercial trade routes. Traditionally villagers would walk those trails carrying their weight in goods on their back, or using beasts of burden for even larger loads - mules in the lower terrain, and yaks at higher elevation. Today, although more villages are connected by road, the vast majority are still connected only by these ancie...

Photo : satish pokharel Major political forces will reach a consensus on resolving the political crisis by Tihar, leaders of major political parties who gathered at a reception organised by the Nepali Congress stated on Monday. The reception, organised at the party headquarters in Sanepa on the occasion of the festive season, saw the presence of high-ranking security personnel, political leaders, administrators, artistes, mediapersons, businesspersons and representatives from foreign missions based in Nepal. Talking to mediapersons, UCPN(M) chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal said the event has created a positive ambiance for dialogue among political parties. We hope that parties will reach a consensus by Tihar, added Dahal. NC President Sushil Koirala said the fate of the talks now depends on the government and the ruling party. There is no alternative to a government of national consensus and fresh elections, he added. ...

Kathmandu, Oct. 28: The problem of garbage has again surfaced in the Kathmandu Valley.   Now, the capital has started to stink due to uncollected garbage in the streets and pavement of the city. According to the Environment Management Department at the Kathmandu Metropolitan Office, the Department has not been able to collect all garbage produced daily in the capital as almost employees for garbage management are on the Dashain leave. Around 400 metric tonnes garbage produced in the capital in a day and 20 containers are needed for its disposal, Department's engineer Purushottam Shakya said. But, at present the Department is able to operate only five and six vehicles for the purpose of garbage disposal due to a lack of human resources. Besides, the volume of garbage production has increased in the capital during the festive season and the problem arose as the Department is not able to manage it as per the production ratio.