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Nepal Newsprint Furor: India Relents after talks with Kantipur
telegraphnepal.com
The Indian Embassy in Kathmandu issuing a press statement June 25, 2010 said that the Embassy has already taken needed steps to try and resolve the issue of holding some 978 Metric Tons of newsprint purchased by the Kantipur Publications...( Read More ) Nepal PM admits, says CA election was not "my preference"
telegraphnepal.com, analyst
Crane elevated Nepal prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, out of sheer frustration perhaps associated with the heightened Maoist’s intransigence towards his own personality, has begun “revealing” the inner “stories” that led to the last...( Read More ) Have US, EU prevailed in Nepal at the cost of India & China?
telegraphnepal.com
An “exhausted” Unified Maoists’ Party finally, evening May 7, 2010, ended the indefinite strike that had brought the country to a standstill for the last six days.
However, the former rebel party’s abrupt decision to pull-out the...( Read More ) Nepal: The Unpopular Movement
Sujeet Arjel
The nationwide protests of the Nepal’s Maoists are another reminder to the democratic people and similar friends outside about their utter non-belief in the democratic order, and under duress they can force anything within the country....( Read More ) We have no political choice in Nepal: Chinese Ambassador
N. P. Upadhyaya
Kathmandu: The Kathmandu based Chinese Ambassador Qiu Guohang, April 21, 2010, made some remarkable observations as regards the ups and downs observed in Nepal-China relations during the past two decades.
If he on the one hand lauded...( Read More ) Will Nepal Go Election Way?
TGW
After Kamal Thapa, Chairman of Rastriya Prajatanra Party-Nepal, who favored holding another round of elections in the likelihood that the Constitution Drafting process would not end ahead of May 28, 2010 deadline, a host of leaders mostly...( Read More ) Palace Massacre: US & India involved, claims former envoy to India
TGW
In an exclusive write-up for The Nagarik Daily, April 1, 2010, Nepal’s former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Chakra Prasad Bastola claims that there were plans to kill Girija Prasad Koirala along with the members of Nepal’s Royal Family...( Read More ) Ram Dev: Misison China Snub
TGW
An undiplomatic gesture that was not unexpected though from an Indian Yoga Guru Ram Dev, who seemed not to posses any knowledge whatsoever of the strategic geopolitical situation of South Asia, upon landing in Kathmandu March 26, 2010,...( Read More ) Yechuri’s reaffirmation
Sujeet Arjel, USA
Sitaram Yechuri, communist leader from West Bengal (India) who’s seen as a peace broker in Nepal, on Tuesday March 2 was reaffirming in a program in Kathmandu that the new constitution for new Nepal would be drafted on time, while the...( Read More ) Surendra Pandey: Nepal’s weakest Finance Minister ever?
TGW
Nepal’s present Finance Minister, Surendra Pandey is being criticized as the weakest ever finance minister in the entire history of Finance Ministry of the nation.
Surendra Pandey received a sort of bumper prize of taking over the current...( Read More ) What is in Upper-Mustang?
TGW and Saroj Raj Adhikari (Kantipur)
According to Former Brigadier General of Nepal Army, Dilip Rayamajhi-who has served as the Chief of Army Intelligence Bureau, there is clearly two reasons for foreigners to visit the Upper-Mustang region of Nepal?
First, to observe the...( Read More ) UML flimsy salvo against Nepal President Dr. Yadav: Analysts
TGW
Nepal President, Dr. Ram Baran Yadav, has now two enemies with whom he has to confront in the days ahead.
His fault?
He speaks the truth and has so far remained strictly as a modest President who loves his countrymen...( Read More ) Koirala Fades, Oli Rise in Nepal Politics
TGW
While Girija Prasad Koirala, the declared India friendly Nepal’s top political figure continue to fade away from the center stage of political power in Nepal, K. P. Sharma Oli, the senior UML leader has begun projecting himself as the...( Read More ) Nepal: Elusive Constitution & Restive Donors
TGW Commentary
When enough become really enough then one becomes restive.
This applies to the donors as well who have been pumping money in Nepal and want the speedy draft of the constitution on time as stated.
However, Nepal Constituent Assembly...( Read More ) Republic Days Numbered?
TGW
With the First Vice President of the New Republic of Nepal pushed to the wall by the Supreme Court decision to nullify his excessive Hindi lust that made him swear-in Hindi language and now the Maoists party declaring to bar the First...( Read More ) Support through Other Means
Sujeet Arjel
The Nepalese expatriates, friends of Nepal and associated organizations in various countries have been involved in supporting developmental activities in various sectors throughout Nepal for a long time, and their efforts has benefited...( Read More ) The Dalai Episode & Orientation for Legislators in Nepal
Sujeet Arjel, USA
The recent controversial meeting of some of the Nepalese Constituent Assembly members with the Tibetan leader Dalai Lama in Dhaaramshala, India in June 2009 has brought several things in light, besides throwing Nepal into unwarranted...( Read More ) Neighbors compete, Nepal looses
Sujeet Arjel
The competition among the neighboring countries – India and China - to gain undue influence in Nepal’s internal affairs has pushed Nepal into a threshold of political instability, anarchy and a complete standstill in terms of growth and...( Read More ) Sood mocks self, India
Sujeet Arjel, USA
On the first week of June 09, Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood refuted all news stories published in the Nepalese media about India encroaching Nepalese lands, and accused them as false and politically motivated, and that such...( Read More ) Nepal: The Villain?
TGW ANALYST
Kathmandu: When some erratic foreign diplomats posted in Kathmandu are provided with extra attention than what they really deserve, Nepali politics is bound to suffer.
When a diplomat has already been recognized as a “trouble maker” then...( Read More ) 
