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INDIA: Red Link With Nepal Fades
With the powerful Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) relinquishing control of its fighting arm, the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the Indian government, faced with its own Maoist insurgency, can breathe more easily.
Nepal Uneasy Under Uncertain Leadership
Nepal’s fourth communist and newest Prime Minister has taken his oath of office, but his government is off to a shaky start after revelations he entered into a secret deal to share power with a key political ally and to turn Nepal into a socialist state.
NEPAL: Education Shouldn’t Be A Casualty in Emergencies
Nepal may be doing well in providing complete primary education to boys and girls, but has quite a bit of catching up to do when it comes to ensuring that their schooling does not become a casualty during disasters and emergencies.
NEPAL: For Maternal Health, Go Door to Door
For the last 17 years, Keshari Maharjan has been going door to door in the outskirts of the Nepali capital to tell people about the services available at health centres in their communities, as well as about how to prevent certain diseases.
NEPAL: School Initiative Making the Grade
Four years ago, Ramita Bhujel was a bit reluctant to go back her school after a year's absence. This Grade 4 student of Shree Saraswati Secondary School here had been down with pneumonia, failed to clear her nursery exams and as a consequence stayed at home.
EDUCATION-NEPAL: Unique School Aims to Be a Ticket to Equality
Had Uttam Sanjel stayed on in the Indian city of Mumbai to pursue his dream of becoming a Bollywood director years ago, the Samata (‘equality) schools that he set up here in Nepal may not be around today.
NEPAL: Communities Take Up Cudgels for Forest Conservation
Tired of walking, Shankar Prasad Ghimire, 87, a retired government worker, puts his walking stick aside and takes rest on a vast expanse of lush green land.POLITICS-NEPAL: Parties at Odds, Peace at Risk
Nepal’s walk to peace from a decade-long, Maoist-led bloody insurgency that ended four years ago could take longer than expected.POLITICS-NEPAL: Maoists Armed With Popular Vote
Proving the political pundits wrong, the people of Nepal have voted overwhelmingly for former rebels, the Communist Party of Nepal- Maoist (CPN-M), in the just concluded constituent assembly elections in this Himalayan nation.NEPAL: Tibetans Warned of Deportation to China
When King Gyanendra staged his military-backed coup in February 2005, Nepal’s political parties - including the then outlawed Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) - formed an alliance that successfully opposed the monarch's assault on civil liberties.POLITICS-NEPAL: Plains People's Demands Cast Shadow on Polls
While Apr. 10 has been set as the day on which Nepalis will elect a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution, violent protests by plains people demanding regional autonomy threaten the thrice-postponed polls.POLITICS-NEPAL: Monarchy’s Fate Sealed, Maoists to Rejoin Gov’t
Having negotiated an agreement for the formal abolition of the 240-year-old monarchy, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is now set to rejoin the government.SOUTH ASIA: Bhutan Refugees Wary of US Resettlement Offer
After languishing for 17 years in temporary camps, some 108,000 ethnic Nepalis, expelled from their homeland in Bhutan, have a real chance to get out of the wilderness.POLITICS-NEPAL: End of Road for Nepal’s Monarchy?
A republican wave that swept King Gyanendra out of power last year continues to blow strongly through Nepal.POLITICS-NEPAL: Child Soldier Issue Slows Peace Plan
A senior journalist recently likened Nepal's fragile peace process to an overcrowded bus lurching uncertainly on this country’s mountainous roads, yet moving forward to its destination.NEPAL: Political Pact With Maoist Rebels Checks King
An alliance between Nepal’s mainstream political parties and Maoist rebels brings hope of resolution to a crisis, brought on by King Gyanendra’s Feb. 1 assumption of direct rule, citing the failure of democratically-elected governments to deal with a bloody, decade-old communist uprising.SOUTH ASIA: Bhutanese Refugees Forgotten in Nepal’s Turmoil
King Gyanendra’s military-backed ‘royal coup’, on Feb. 1, has proven a major setback for the Lhotsampas (Bhutanese nationals of Nepali origin) fleeing the autocratic regime of the world’s other Himalayan kingdom.RIGHTS-NEPAL: Conflict Pushes More Kids to Work
Dipak Budhamagar wants to be a farmer like his father, who was killed by Maoist insurgents during the Tihar festival last November for fleeing a rebel work camp after a month's forced labour.RIGHTS-NEPAL: Conflict Pushes More Kids to Work
Dipak Budhamagar wants to be a farmer like his father, who was killed by Maoist insurgents during the Tihar festival last November for fleeing a rebel work camp after a month's forced labour.NEPAL: The Final Nail in the Coffin for Media Freedom
After months of sermonising on the need for a "nationalistic" and "responsible" media, the government of Nepal - directly controlled by King Gyanendra - passed an ordinance aimed at taming it.MEDIA-NEPAL: District Reporters ‘Jobless in Their Jobs’
Before King Gyananedra's Feb.1 declaration of emergency- rule, journalist Rameshwor Bohora was a frequent traveller to the Himalayan kingdom's rural areas - where large swathes of Nepal are under Maoist rebel-control.Next Page »
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