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28th June, 2006 (Wednesday)

Maoists to lead a movement for a people's republic: Prachanda
Indian Ambassador Mukherjee meets Prachanda (URGENT NEWS)
PM Koirala absent from parliament
Deuba promotes Prakash Man Singh in parliament
Four more summoned
Bhutanese refugees gherao SAARC headquarters
Bottlers Nepal resumes operation
US Ambassador James F. Moriatry to deliver keynote address Wednesday
Maoists kill nine persons
India extends Rs 8b support
Jaya Shankar Mahato RSS acting general manager
Nepal insurgency more debilitating than Sri Lanka's
SLC results Saturday
Moriarty to announce big grant
Maoists mentally torturing two CPN-UML workers
Minister in bribe and corruption
Indian army to monitor weapon
US plans to close its embassy
Maoist alleged for supplying weapons to Naxalist
Maoist rebels abduct four people
Maoists organize mass gathering against the agreement
Ministers' source of earning
Misuse of constituent assembly may destroy Nepal
Pradeep Nepal criticizes Prachanda
King Gyanendra’s birthday to be celebrated on 7 July
Delay for constituent assembly polls would destroy the nation
PM Koirala leader among the leaders: Dr. Surendra K.C.
King is innocent he must not be blamed: Srisha Rana

27th June, 2006 (Tuesday)

Maoists won't join government until Nepal Army weapons are managed
Sikta irrigation project construction starts
Nepal Airlines flight frequency increased to Malaysia
Nine more bodies recovered on Kangaru
Koirala to take up active politics
Dr Giri deposes before inquiry commission
Two Nepali peacekeepers freed
Textile factories reopen
Rebellion against Prachanda in the East
Maj Gen Pradip Pratap Bam Malla retires
Women head two parliamentary committees
Maoists intend to win people’s support
India, US protest Maoist-government agreement
Differences between Prachanda and Baburam create problem in party
Seven-party caught in inter-party chaos
Seven parties to form committee to ensure peace process
Government ignored indigenous, low-caste communities
Janamukti dissatisfied on Maoist-government agreement
Secular Nepal may create yet another conflict
Bijukchhe criticizes eight-point agreement
Person like Home Minister must not encourage anarchy

26th June, 2006 (Monday)

Koirala, Senabata meet
Dr Birendra Mishra appointed coordinator of ceasefire monitoring committee
Prachanda, Baburam Bhattarai continue discussions with SPA leaders
Senior UN official says Maoists not disarming before result on constituent assembly elections
Farmers destroy canal
Eight royal palace secretaries retiring
Maoists start distributing captured land
Election being held in Supreme Court Bar Association
Maoist student leader dead
USA to withdraw from Nepal if Maoists join interim govt
PM, members of council of ministers to take oaths of office before parliament
Dibya Khaling dead
Dr Giri summoned
Interim constitution drafting committee to start work Monday
Maoists face inter-party conflict
Parties don't support eight-point agreement: Pradeep Nepal
New budget focused on development works
Lasting peace impossible without weapon management: Sushil Koirala

23rd June, 2006 (Friday)

Sushil Koirala supports ceremonial monarchy, other details
Moriarty meets Amik Serchan
Nepal, Bangladesh hold water talks
Militant Maoist leaders underground
First Nepali woman doctor dead
Maoists abduct former mayor
Queen visits Bharat Keshari Simha at hospital
Women organizations protest government’s decision
Maoist-government agreement disappoints parties
Bringing army into politics may aggravate situation
Maoists could not convince international community
Experts anticipates America’s remarks on eight-point agreement

22nd June, 2006 (Thursday)

Koirala returning Monday
Parliament committee elections to be unanimous
Seven party leaders meet later Thursday
Large haul of hashish seized
Controversy surrounds interim constitution draft committee
Prachanda should resign as chief of PLA: Madhav Kumar Nepal
Suicide in Maoist custody
Naxalites kill four
Citizens Investment Trust to manage insurance scheme
Deuba visiting India
Dr Lok Bikram Thapa resigns
CPN-UML, a woman to be inducted in interim govt draft committee
Women agitation against government
NC protests SPA-Maoist 8-point agreement
Parwat district captured by Maoist
Government ignored women’s participation: Sahana Pradhan
MPs loot millions of rupees
Matrika Yadav demands citizenship for the terai people
Republic is not the demand: Badri Narsing K.C.
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NEWS
Govt, Maoist accord stirs controversy in ruling party alliance

Last Friday's eight-point agreement between the SPA and Maoists has stirred controversy in the ruling alliance with alliance members calling for its review. Immediate Maoist reaction wasn't available. Critics of the agreement said it signed ....more

By Our Senior Political Correspondent

Koirala’s illness

Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, who was admitted at Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok Wednesday morning, underwent prostate laser surgery. Dr. Sekhar Koirala, who is accompanied with PM Koirala, informed that the surgery was carried out successfully. ....more

By Our Reporter

Koirala bringing back NC to centrist stance

Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala's emphatic support for ceremonial monarchy created a storm last Wednesday sparking immediate protests. Although Maoists took out protests against the statement, party .... more

By Bhola B Rana

Will Britain impeach Bloomsfield?

It is common to hear people say that Nepal and India share a unique relationship. In some ways this is true. But Nepal shares a very unique relationship with Great Britain as well. In fact, if we are to go by nation to nation ties, Nepal-Britain relations were formalized much, much before Nepal- ...more

By Our Diplomatic Correspondent

RAW agents in MOFA?

After the formation of the seven party government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), civil service and also the Nepal Police have been totally paralyzed. The decision of canceling all the political appointments made by the previous government has paralyzed many of ...more

By Our Diplomatic Correspondent

SPA crumbles before relentless Maoist juggernaut

Last Friday evening, it was impossible not to recall Julius Caesar’s braggadocio: veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)! In the context of the abrupt announcement of a sweeping eight-point peace pact between the Maoists and the SPA (for ....more

By M.R. Josse

Kamal Thapa, Tanka Dhakal released

In another embarrassing blow for the government, the Supreme Court Sunday released Kamal Thapa and Tanka Dhakal who were illegally and unconstitutionally detained under the Draconian Public Security Act .... more

By Our Political Correspondent

Eight-point agreement between SPA-Maoists

Today 16th of June 2006, a meeting between topmost leaders of the seven political parties and CPN (Maoist) was held at the call of the government-Maoist dialogue teams at the prime minister's residence, Baluwatar. The ..... more

Demand for Hindu state rising

There are growing oppositions to the announcement of the House of Representatives declaring Nepal a secular country. Shiva Sena Nepal organised a protest program at the Bagmati Bridge at Kopundole on Sunday afternoon, bringing the ....more

By Our Reporter

Who is she?

After all the sound and fury, breast beating and hyperbole, on balance, Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala’s recent four-day official visit to India may ultimately turn out to be more significant for what didn’t transpire than .... more

By Our Reporter

Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Political characteristics and functions

Established in 2001, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has only a five-year history. Even taking into account its predecessor, the Shanghai Five, which was set up in 1996, it is only a 10-year-old organization. - ... more

By Zhao Huasheng

 

BETWEEN YOU AND ME

Baluwatar shindig, Prachanda’s charm offensive, SPA miniaturisation and related yarns

TODAY, dear readers, your faithful weekly scribbler/tattler will devote his flagging reportorial energy to last Friday’s shindig at the Prime Minister’s Baluwatar residence. That marathon politico-media tamasha or circus, if you will, is so packed with comment ... more

By M.R. Josse

COMMENTS

Loktantra has no DEMOCRACY for women

There is no second opinion that all Nepalese are seeking a lasting peace. The people hope that once peace is established the development process will gain momentum. But looking at the present state of affairs .... more

By Jasuda Pradhan

Politics of appeasement strategy and tactics of Maoist take-over

After the latest (and hasty) eight-point agreement between the heads of the ruling Seven Party Alliance (SPA) and the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist, the, Pushpa rebels’ roadmap to power seems very clear. ..... more

By Sashi PBB Malla

Nepal a secular state: Why and for whom?

Among all religions of the world Hindu religion is considered as the most liberal. According to renowned philosopher Voltaire, Hinduism is the best gift of the East to the West. Similarly, George Bernard Shaw, Irish litterateur also said 'Hindu religion is the most important .... more

By Dirgha Raj Prasai

Getting rid of your senses

Recently I went on a month long trip back to Nepal. Not for trekking or to see Mt Everest I was there to get married. Amid the political turmoil, water shortage and only potatoes for vegetables, I was handed over to a person ... more

By Bhumika Ghimire

Pragmatism as the flip side of power

By sending the reinstated House of Representatives (HoR) into suspended animation, the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) has moved halfway toward meeting the Maoists' principal precondition to continuing the peace process. ... more

By Maila Baje

Nepal: perpetual legislature and political legitimacy

With the monarch and the upper chamber out of parliament's perimeter, Nepal is cruising on a legislative course with a third of the mass the current constitution contemplates. Compare this with the much-maligned direct rule of ... more

By Sanjay Upadhya

Hindu youth joining freedom struggle in Kashmir

Indians, for the benefit of the outside world and as a caveat to defeat meaningful engagement with Pakistan, have always maintained that freedom struggle in Kashmir has been sustained by foreign terrorists from across the ... more

By A. Siddique

Apples, oranges and the Maoist victory

Last week, the top two Maoist strongmen, Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Baburam Bhattarai, emerged triumphantly from a day of negotiations with SPA leaders. An 8-point agreement was declared that effectively placed a stamp of approval on 12 years of ... more

Nepal likely to be a Maoist State: U.S. Intelligence Report

The firm's website, which was declared in 1999 as the best "Best Military Affairs Web Site", described by Jane's Intelligence Review as the "a reliable barometer on what the USA thinks", and declared by Time magazine as "Among the firms making the ... more

How to protect from radiation hazards

HEAT AND LIGHT are types of radiation that people can feel or see, but there are other kinds of radiation that human senses cannot detect. We constantly receive such invisible radiation from the sky, the ground, the air, and ... more

 

EDITORIAL

The Coming Republic

Total recall is necessary. The trend under multiparty democracy after its restoration in 1990 has consistently been to seek the advantage of government prior to elections. Girija Koirala, after being challenged from within his own party asked the King to dissolve .... more

 

ON/OFF THE RECORD

Prachanda dominates seven parties

Prachanda has become the talk of the town. Friday’s talks between the government of seven parties and the Maoists were totally dominated by the Maoists. The NC and the UML leaders were against the Maoist demand of ..... more

By PR Pradhan

TATTLER

Minister-in- waiting

Controversial Home Minister Krishna Prasad Shitaula is apparently a minister-in-waiting appointed by the government to look after top Maoists. Such ministers are normally attachments seconded by governments to heads of governments on ..... more

READERS FORUM

Letter to Gen Pyar Jung Thapa

We, the Association for the Welfare and Safeguarding of the Glorious History and Tradition of the Royal Nepal Army, are shocked and dismayed at the statements given by, Prachanda, at the premises of the Prime Minister's residence on the evening of Friday, 16 ... more

 

MEDIA WATCH

Excerpts from weeklies and dailies

Compiled and translated by BHOLA B. RANA... more

 
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His Majesty the King receiving credentials from Thai Ambassador, Mrs Vanvisa Tamrongnavasa on Friday amidst a function at the Royal Palace.

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His Majesty the King receiving credentials from South Korean Ambassador Nam Sang-Jung on Friday amidst a function at the Royal Palace.

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A scene of the inaugural session of the AGM of Nepal-India Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda addressing the press after SPA-Maoist talks at PM's official residence Baluatar on Friday evening.

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