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11th October, 2006 (Wednesday)
No Govt., Maoist meet to develop common perception
36 persons injured in two vehicular accidents
Fire in Manang galli
Katawal appointment case : SC issues show cause to govt authorities
Affair sparks beating, threat to cops
Maoists turn school into barracks
Maoists capture small customs posts
Cases against rebel top brass
4 people in Maoist captivity
‘Dengue may come in by air’
Prachanda’s three options for peace; uproot monarchy
Secretaries at six Bhutanese camps suspended
Brig Gen Thebe takes over as Army Spokesman
Maoists abduct policeman
Vehicles vandalized in Jhapa
Two UN experts arrive to assist peace process
10th October, 2006 (Tuesday)
Nepal delegation leaves for China
Nepal concerned with nuclear explosion
Second round talks inconclusive (Breaking News)
Top Bhutan refugee leaders to discuss repatriation proposal to USA
Flight data recorder result coming this week
Industries to close down Monday
Load-shedding to be discontinued
Maoists establish security post along border
Maoists establish cultural military battalion to fight cultural imperialism
Maoist internal report says summit talks will fail
Crucial second round of Govt., Maoist talks about to begin (Breaking News)
Learning Nepali in US universities
Govt's New Policy on Private Colleges Out
Maoists Capture School in Sunsari
NC sticks to guns, UML to back Maoist stand
Maoists beat help, threaten house owner
Maoist love blooms at captured school
Maoists abduct 5, seize motorcycles
Rebel court orders labor detention for 5
9th October, 2006 (Monday)
PM Koirala, Prachanda meet again ahead of Tuesday’s talks
Dilendra Prasad Badu given Gopal Rai’s responsibilities
Irate mob attack Trisuli Hospital
Postage stamps issued to commemorate 125 years of Nepal’s postage stamps
Nepal U-14 victorious
Third NC Morang leader dead
Monsoon ends
Indian foreign secretary briefs Yechury on Nepal Developments [Excerpts]
Everything discussed, nothing settled
Air Arabia gets govt green light to fly to Nepal
Maoists Set Up Camp in school
Temporary Teachers Strike Nationwide
It all began with a hearty breakfast
SPA-Maoist high level talks begin
Maoist love blooms at captured school
Dengue diagnosis possible in Nepal
Maoists abduct 5, seize motorcycles
Closed school turns into Maoist training centre
Two abducted by Maoists missing
Differences surface in ULF
Cases registered against six persons
Girija turning a villain: Prachanda
Tourist arrivals up 3.3 percent in 2006
PM’s foreign advisor in China
Tek Nath Rijal critical of US refugee policy
Maoists intensify extortion drive from trekkers in Everest region
8th October, 2006 (Sunday)
Govt., Maoist talks inconclusive, second round Tuesday
Vehicular movement starts
US proposal divides refugees
Dry run to start urban rebellion in Mohottari
6 killed, 33 hurt in road mishap
Asian Farmers' Meet Begins in Kathmandu
Whereabouts of 15 abducted students unknown
Maoists to Return Seized Land
Nepal gears up to export power, load-shedding or no
Water scarcity causes mass migration
Police to file case against Bibek’s killers
Man in Maoist captivity commits suicide
NC's focus: Time bound implementation of past pacts
Another Govt., Maoists attempt to break deadlock; Prachanda not hopeful (Breaking News)
Surya Bahadur Thapa continues meetings with Indian leaders
Nepal U-14 reach semi-final
7th October, 2006 (Saturday)
Seven killed, 73 injured in bus accident
Bhattarai stays from NC reception
Ruling parties, Maoists meet again Sunday to push peace
One arrested in connection with RPP lawmakers killing
B sample test positive
Pandab Sunwar dead
Maoists open military camp at health post
Mumbai ‘bomber’ eyed Nepal
Sunday talks: PM strikes note of optimism
Koirala confers with Prachanda
PM hints at a protracted summit
3 Kids Killed in Kailali Bomb Blast
Rajendra smells rat in doping test
Border Row Sparks Customs' Closure
Gurkha ex-soldiers warn UK
Nepal, Bhutan talks on refugees in November: Oli
3 in Maoist captivity, 1 freed
US expert's charges baseless: Gurung
Rebels' conduct to decide if they stay on terrorist list: US
UN welcomes US resettlement plan
Nepali Congress to hold tea reception
Prabhu Narayan Chaundary continues to head ULF
Minister Chaudhary under party scanner
Maoists deliver abducted NC worker to police
Did Maoists delay Nepal minister’s visit to India? [Excerpts]
U-17 IN Subroto Mukherjee Cup final
Girija, Prachanda again meet; Prachanda alleges conspiracy to sabotage talks
Surya Bahadur Thapa meets Pranab Mukherjee, Lal Krishna Advani
CPN-UML holds Dasain tea reception
Kojagrath purne celebrated
King, Queen in Bhaktapur
One child killed, three others injured in bomb explosion
6th October, 2006 (Friday)
Marsyangdhi power to go waste
Third UN expert coming: Excerpt
Gajurel’s hearing on Monday
Nepal, Bhutan refuagee talks in November
Nepal U –17 meets Chandigadh in soccer tourney
UN experts coming next week
CPN-UML, NC tea receptions
Manaslu scaled on golden jubilee year of its conquest
Foreign Ministry spokesman surprised at US proposal
UN unlikely to take up referee role: US expert
Prachanda visits Manakamana
India to Set Up 27 More Security Posts along Border
Maoist excesses go on undiminished
Maoists should quit dual mentality: Lekhak
Panel to send king questions next week
Locals Seize Three with Arms, Hand Over to Police
Two more UN experts for Nepal
‘Govt morally responsible for Shrestha's murder’
SPA-Maoist Common Agenda May Come Out on Oct 8
Forex reserves hit Rs 165b
Bibek murder case: SC quashes plea seeking detainee’s release
Comedy Star Samde Sherpa Missing Since a Week
Poverty eradication in South Asia to be discussed
Memorial service for Russian chopper crash victims, Krishna Charan Shrestha
Nepal’s U-14 records second win in soccer tournament
Bhandary undergoes second doping test
Kioirala, Bhattarai hold second meeting
Naxalites kill four in Chhattisgarh
5th October, 2006 (Thursday)
Govt, Maoists continue discussions
Nepal-India extradition treaty, India disappointed with signing postponement
Bhutanese reaction to Washington proposal to resettle 60,000 refugees in USA
Preparatory talks fail to make headway
Maoists Bar OHCHR from Meeting Abducted Ex-mayor
Deuba Meets Koirala to Push Unification issue
SAC to Hold Discussions on Citizenship Bill
Three ULF activists held
Unique memorial service for helicopter crash victims
Maoists abduct two NC student leaders
Foreign Minister Oli returns Friday
Kulekhani-III to be built with internal resources
Maoists arrested with weapons
Terror alert in Indian skies
Nepali Maoist weapons could find their way to India- a new threat for New Delhi
4th October, 2006 (Wednesday)
U-14 team victorious
One dead, 45 injured
Maoists must disarm, other details
3rd October, 2006 (Tuesday)
Deuba says unity efforts in Congress moving positively
Army chief in Gorkha
Govt lukewarm to talks with Maoists: Prachanda
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala returns to capital Tuesday
2nd October, 2006 (Monday)
King, Queen offers tika to general public
30,000 receive tika form King, Queen
King, Queen receive tika
Full text of the message of HM King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Deb on Bijaya Dashami 2063 issued Monday 2 October
King calls for successful peace talks, national unity and reconciliation
Dalits, ‘higher class’ clash in Accham
One person killed in Balaju
Security guard committed suicide
1st October, 2006 (Sunday)
Nepal, India to ink extradition treaty on Oct 5
Mahanawami observed
Surya Bahadur Thapa India-bound
Summit postponed because of lack of understanding within seven parties : Maoist view
Asthami celebrated
Pressure to use EXIM loan on unneeded planes
COMPOSA for Better Coordination among Maoists
Maoists’ 9 points may obstruct summit talks
Maoists step up donation drive
30th September, 2006 (Saturday)
Asthami celebrated
Army refutes news report
Decapitated body of Bibek Luitel recovered
No transparency in signing new extradition treaty, treaty being signed after Maoists de-listed from terrorist list
Consumer price inflation records 8.3 percent high in July
29th September, 2006 (Friday)
Bijukche presents application to amend citizenship draft
HoR forced to amend its regulations
Maoists allege India for interfering internal issues
Bijukche furious towards seven parties
Maoists beat man to death in captivity
Shrestha, Lanka PM hold talks
Last rites performed with state honors Some remains yet to be identified
House does away with gender bias in SC
60 Nepalis robbed in India
Row over Maoist’s death
Summit talks put off till Oct 8
NC, UML, NC-D try bridging differences
ANNFSU Plan for Children’s Wing Flayed
Nepal, India to initial another extradition treaty after 53 years
Fulpati not brought from Gorkha as claimed
NHRC to have 11 members
Forcible Maoist recruitment
Disagreement over arms management leads to talks collapse
Koirala greets new Japanese prime minister
Coup in CAN
Friday is Fulpati, other details
Parliament adjourns for 12 days
RPP hands over memorandum to PM
Some bodies of crash victims handed over
Parliament adjourns for 12 days
RPP hands over memorandum to PM
28th September, 2006 (Thursday)
Koirala, Prachanda meet, talks rescheduled (Breaking News)
Democracy not under threat from King, Army: Surya Bahadur Thapa
Prevailing terror and violence will not revive democracy
PNP joins force with RJP
Janamorcha activists forcefully included in Maoist Republican Front
Indian dam causes flood in Siraha
Eminent journalist D.R. Lamichane died
Bajura reeling under acute food shortage Tekendra Deuba
Summit talks put off: Mahara
Rescuers perform uphill task Pitamber Sigdel Suketar (Taplejung),
Summit talks deferred till Friday
Deepak cleared for Asian Games
Maoists abduct 15 students
Cabinet endorses foreign employment bill
Refugees to be counted: Kahane
King, Queen condole
Nepal repays Rs 980 million debt
Everest Bank Ltd announces 25 percent cash dividend
Talks on arms management inconclusive
Autopsies of crash victims being conducted
Donation collection right: Maoist leader Suresh Ale Magar
Crash probe commission in trouble
British Minister lobbies for UN in Nepal
Thursday’s Government, Maoist summit postponed
27th September, 2006 (Wednesday)
No Summit Talks before Dashain
India's participation in Maoist-Government Talks is must: Baburam Bhattrai
Annual convention of justices to be held on October
Janatantrik Terai Morcha still in footsteps of Maoists
SC order HoR to show legitimacy of its declarations within 15 days
Bhattrai praises India's support
King expresses condolence
US donates firefighting equipment
Oil loss balloons, leaders oppose price hike
7 go blind after cataract surgery
‘Judiciary to embrace Janaandolan achievements’
Truce brings migrant workers home
WFP report on poverty released
CA polls unlikely by May if voting age lowered: EC secy
Nepal needs support, Oli tells UN
Only govt can keep weapons: UK minister
All set for tomorrow’s summit talks
Political settlement precedes weapon worries: Martin
Many Maoist proposals unacceptable to CPN-UML, other details
China asks Nepal to lift aircraft
Body part airlift begins (Breaking News)
All body parts recovered, being flown to capital
Home Minister Shitaula going to New Delhi
RPP to deliver memorandum to govt
Maoists won’t sit down for talks: Dinanath Sharma
Wednesday declared national day of mourning
Military intervention needed to propel democracy forward: Thai Ambassador
Condoleezza Rice saddened by deaths of USAID officials
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DUE TO THE PROLONGED HOLIDAYS NOW UNFOLDING, THE OFFICE OF THE PEOPLE'S REVIEW WILL BE CLOSED FOR SOMETIME. CONSEQUENTLY, THERE WILL BE NO ISSUE OF THE WEEKLY ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5. THE NEXT ISSUE WILL THEREFORE BE PUBLISHED ONLY ON OCTOBER 12.

From print edition of Peoples Review Weekly
NEWS

Isolation in foreign policy

BY PUSHPA RAJ PRADHAN

It seems, the “loktantrik” government is not concerned in initiating an effective foreign policy. Immediately after the formation of this new government, all the ambassadors appointed by the previous government were called back but the vacancies have yet to be filled. ..more

 

Madan Regmi: India, is your hands clean?

BY BN DAHAL

Talking to our correspondent B.N Dahal on the assassination of the former minister and a popular leader of Terai region of Nepal, Krishna Charan Shrestha, imminent political analyst Madan Regmi pointed the finger at the Indian government. Regmi said, "This so-called Democratic Terai Liberation Front who has owned the responsibility for assassinating...more

King, Queen express deep sorrow

BY OUR REPORTER

Their Majesties the King and Queen have expressed deep grief over the sad demise of Minister of State for Forest and Soil Conservation, Gopan Rai, his spouse, Charge d'Affaires at the Embassy of Finland Pauli Mustonen, Acting Secretary at the Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation Dr Damodar Prasad Prajuli and eminent personalities, both from Nepal and abroad, who had distinguished themselves with their path breaking contributions to the fields of nature conservation.. more

Chopper crash kills top conservationists

BY OUR REPORTER

Nepal's top conservationists and top officials of the Forest Ministry were killed Saturday in the country's worst helicopter crash Saturday. Twenty-four persons died in the crash over the Taplejung skies-17 Nepalese and seven foreigners. Former Tourism Dr Harkha Gurung and Acting Forest Secretary Dr Damodar Parajuli were killed....more

People's News-leads in online reporting

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT

People's News has established itself as the country's leading online news and monitoring agency since its launch one year ago 23 October 2005. Daily hits average 65,000 and is likely to reach 100,000 by January 2007, it the present logging pattern continues; it is likely to. .more

Maoists prefer Deuba to Koirala

BY BHOLA B RANA

Maoists have intensified personal abuse against Girija Prasad Koirala, whom they don't even accept as government head, abandoning any hope of capturing Singha Durbar through him. Maoists now call Girija, whom they accept only as a party chief, a counter-revolutionary collaborator of the King. Today's proposed summit between the seven party alliance (SPA) and Maoists won't take place. ...more

Joining hands for a noble cause

BY PRAKASH BAJRACHARYA

It was a true motive of students of Waseda University, Japan, and the youths of Save the World Nepal that turned the dream of a school in to reality. The Taudaha Rastriya Secondary School located at Taudaha, historically significant place of Nepal is a government run public school, was looking for a help to complete the second floor of its building which was constructed twelve years ago. . ..more

 

Govt, parties nervous without reason

BY BHOLA B RANA

Government and ruling parties universally condemned the ouster of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra by the military led by the Buddhist kingdom's first Army Chief Gen Sonth Boonyaratglim. The quick and nervous condemnations were reflex reactions with an ideological flavor opposing military intervention anytime and anywherel. ....more

Spice Nepal enters second year of its service

BY OUR REPORTER

Spice Nepal, the first company to start a GSM mobile telephone service from private sector in Nepal, entered its second year of establishment on Sunday. Within one year of its service, Spice Nepal has distributed two million mobile telephones in various parts of the country such as Banepa, Dhulikhel, Pokhara, Hetuda, Bharatpur, Narayangadh, Bardaghat, Butwal, Bhairawa, Birgunj, Simara and Biratnagar including Kathmandu.....more

UIC-Nepal bags ISO 9001/2000 certificate

BY OUR BUSINESS REPORTER

United Insurance Company (Nepal) has been awarded with ISO 9001/2000 certificate by Moody International, England, for providing quality service to its customers and being reputed for having an excellent management. United Insurance Company, which was established in the year 1993, collected the total premium of 133.3 million rupees this year, increasing the premium rate by 17 percent than that of last year. Similarly, the company has also made a great contribution to the nation's economy by collecting 27 million rupees as revenue. United Insurance Company (Nepal) is the first ever company to have been certified with ISO 9001/2000.

VOITH enters 40th year

BY OUR BUSINESS REPORTER

The Vaidya's Organization of Industries and Trading Houses (VOITH) has entered into the 40th year of its service to the country. In the last four decades, VOITH has evolved as one of the most prestigious and successful business and industrial conglomeration....more

Dasain greetings

BY JASUDA PRADHAN

The Dashain, the biggest festival of the Hindus, has stepped into the houses of the Nepalese. So, Nepalese who are away are eager to return to their families and villages. The shops and the streets in Kathmandu are crowded with people buying clothes, shoes and other gifts and presents for their families and friends. Although more buses are pressed into service to accommodate the people going to their villages some are worried whether they will get seats on the buses.....more

Chinese Embassy reception postponed

The Chinese Embassy reception, scheduled to be organized on the occasion of the 57th National Day of China on 27 October (Wednesday), has been postponed for 1 October (Sunday) following the announcement by the Government of a day of national mourning on 27 September in memory of the victims of the helicopter crash on Saturday, 23 September.

 

 

WORLD VIEW

A Balochistan FOCUS

A recent visit to Pakistan has focused the mind on the troubled Balochistan province. It hit the headlines with particular force on 26 August when the military mounted an operation in a mountain in the Marri stronghold of Kohlu which resulted in the death of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, paramount chief of the Bugti tribe. Then his mountain hideout caved in after an explosion that also claimed the lives of five Army commandos....more

 

Qinghai-Tibet Railway Brings Train Travels to “Roof of the World”

Special supplement on the occasion of the 57th National Day of the People's Republic of China

BY SONG RUI , China Features

The first train traveling along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway left the Chinese capital Beijing on July 1, 2006. In 48 hours it reached Lhasa, capital of Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region.....more

 

New Countryside, New Rural Life

BY WEN CHIHUA, China Features

Demonstrating the top leadership’s ambition to build a “new socialist countryside”, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao presided over a State Council executive meeting on June 30, focusing on rural taxation reform and further relaxing farmers’ financial burdens.....more

China’s Surging Foreign Trade: Joy Tempered with Sorrow

BY WU QI, China Features

In his most recent trip to China in early June, European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson was awed at the huge volume of goods headed for Europe that “still aren’t even slightly matched by trade flowing in the other direction.”....more

 

 

COMMENTS

Coup and calm in Bangkok concern in Kathmandu!

BY M.R. JOSSE

In a revealing insight into the surreal political atmosphere prevailing here, the public was treated to the bizarre spectacle of a bloodless military coup d’etat in Thailand being taken calmly and coolly in Bangkok but generating an angry fury in Kathmandu’s over-heated political street! .... more

Miles to go

BY SUBRANA CHHETRI

Till yesterday, the triangular forces- the King, political parties and the Maoists turned the country into their playing field. In true sense, none of them really succeeded in their game plan. Realizing that the scrappy aims had gone on for too long without any tangible results, the people through the Janandolan sent the players back to confuse all. ..... more

 

Maoists work to HOLD the STRATEGIC initiative

BY DR. THOMAS A. MARKS

Much ink has been spilled of late as to what the Maoists are up to. One particularly strained line of thought continues to hold that they have accepted "participation in the democratic process." This is not the case. They simply see themselves as achieving victory by other means.... more

COCKTAILMAN

 

A week of joy and sadness

GAJANANDA VAIDYA, the chairman of the Vaidya Organisation hosted a lunch on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his organization. The kind host that he is, even after a long and exhausting programme that lasted throughout the morning, Vaidya individually took care of each and every one of his guests, not only the VIPs, like the Chinese and Japanese ambassadors for example. In fact he took Cocktail Man and several of his companions to a special table and personally ordered drinks for theml... more

 

EDITORIAL

Let Truth Conquer

The Vijay Dashami Festival common to most Nepalis within and outside Nepal transcends all castes and creeds, ethnic communities and beliefs making it a national festival of Hindu Kingdom Nepal. At these times when the restored parliament has denied us this national identity, the nonchalance with which the lay people take the new secularism is observing the festival is enough indication of the actual distance between Nepali politics and Nepali beliefs. Democracy, after all, protects popular beliefs and does not impose beliefs on the people at large but that is exactly what is happening in Nepali politics. ... more

 

ON/OFF THE RECORD

Destabilizing age-old institutions

We all know, the authorities of the new Nepal are trying to destabilize the two age-old national institutions -- institutions of Monarchy and Army. If the King had not handed over power to the seven-party alliance, the country would have witnessed more bloodshed. But the SPA leaders seem to have forgotten this. Also, those agitators of that time, are enjoying the democratic power handed-over by the King but they overlook this. .... more

By PR Pradhan

 

VIEW POINT

Taking the wrong lesson from Thailand

BY MAILA BAJE

The shock waves from the military coup in Thailand continue to clatter the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) government. In his first reaction, Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala ruled out a similar takeover in Nepal because the monarchy has been eviscerated. In parliament, the mood was less confident ... more

Thailand and Nepal: Asian Monarchies in turmoil

SHASHI P.B.B. MALLA & RALF NARENDRA B.B. MALLA

Thailand has a parliamentary democracy with constitutional monarchy. With a land mass of 513 thousand sq. km., it ranks 49th among all independent states, and with a population of 62 mill, it ranks 19th in the world. Buddhists comprise 94.6 %, the Muslims 4.6 % and Christians 0.7 %. With regard to Nepal, it is most doubtful whether we have a functioning democracy and the monarchy is in suspended animation. ... more

 

 

TATLER

WHY VOTE?

Maoist Chairman Prachanda in one of his many interviews says: "Constituent Assembly is useless if a republic is not forthcoming. Why vote? Why take the trouble to conduct elections? The statement reveals Prachanda and Maoists don't have faith in a democratic process called elections. They believe PEOPLE have already voted for a republic in April. How, may I ask? Former Speaker Damannath Dhungana, current darling of the Maoists, even says election for a constituent is regressive because people have already voted for a republic in April. Baburam Bhattarai answers for Dhungana when the second man in the rebel outfit said the April movement didn't topple monarchy which it should have, therefore, a third one is needed.... more

 

READERS FORUMS

Malicious Indian perspective

Your article "Qinghai-Tibet Railway: hype and phobia" reminded me about an article that once I came across a couple of months back in an Indian newspaper, where the "Tibet Railway" was compared to "The Bridge on the River Kwai" or "Death Railroad". .. more

 

MEDIA WATCH

Excerpts from vernacular weeklies and dailies

"He [Madhav Kumar Nepal] is impatient to become prime minister; but there is nobody in the five or seven party constituents to mention his name."

(Senior RPP leader Bishwabandhu Thapa, Annapurna Post, 20 September)

"In the coming election, if there will be a contest, it will be with Maoists. Madhav Nepal has the right to decide for the CPN-UML. Seven parties are now in power. Madhav Nepal is not an opposition leader but a colleague and assist of the prime minister."

(Bishwabandhu Thapa, Annapurna Post, 20 September) ... more

 

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HIS MAJESTY THE KING RECEIVING LETTER OF CREDENCE FROM RESIDENTIAL EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR ABELSAMID MOHMOUD SOLIMAN AMIDST A FUNCTION AT NARAYANHITTY ROYAL PALACE ON FRIDAY.
 
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ON THE AUSPICIOUS OCCASION OF BADA DASHAIN 2063 BS, PEOPLE'S REVIEW WEEKLY EXTENDS ITS WARMEST VIJAYA GREETINGS AND SEASON'S FELICITATIONS TO ALL READERS, FRIENDS AND ADVERTISERS.

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Question of the week

Do you think that there is too much interference in Nepali internal affairs by some foreign country ambassadors and some UN, EU and donor agencies based in Kathmandu?

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Thought of the day
 
When you have faults, do not fear to abondon them.
 
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