The killing of Swami Laxmananand Saraswati on Saturday shows how fragile peace and communal relations are at Orisa, India. It has been followed by mobs and unrest allegedly involving activists of VHP,...
Himalayan Kingdom Nepal's oldest beauty contest has got into problem due to emergence of Maoists in power centre. The communist with support from Women activists have vowed to stop the "vulgar display" of...
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Leading human Rights Organisation HRW has accused Indian provincial government of Chattisgarh of promoting state backed armed activists to deal with Maoists rebels. HRW has also said that the violence has displaced tens of thousands of people who are...
The Nepalis have never obtained an opportunity to draft their constitution by themselves. So far they have been ruled by the constitutions designed by individual elites and traditional power-wielders. In other words,...
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After the end of monarchy and to pave the way for new government Nepal's interim Prime Minister has resigned today. The resignation will hopefully end the stalemate prevailing in the country. " Nepal's interim premier and architect of the country's peace process announced...
by Mohan Nepali June 06, 2008
first published in www.groundreport.com link: www.groundreport.com/mohannepali
India must now explain to the world why it does nurture very fundamentalist, feudalist and de-humanizing forces tagged as...
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THT Online Chitwan, Nepal May 25Body of a businessman of Koteshwor, Kathmandu, Ramhari Shrestha who was killed in the third division cantonment of the Maoist's People's Liberation Army (PLA), Shaktikhor, Chitwan on May 13 was found at the bank of Trishuli River in Jugedi of...
Seven years after most of Nepal's royal family were massacred by a drunken prince, the country's Maoists look set to scrap the Himalayan monarchy, turning the page on 240 years of history. Current King Gyanendra...
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Nepal's last Hindu King is on his way out and he made first public appearance after Maoists have won general elections in Nepal. Continuing an old practice, King sacrificed an animal to appease the Hindu Goddess...
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It's official, the Maoists have taken power in Nepal. The process will now move forward in creating an entirely new government from scratch and abolishing the monarchy. A truly amazing thing to witness."Former communist rebels won the most seats in Nepal's new governing...
For the first time, the Nepalese were allowed to vote to determine the direction of their country. No one could have foreseen that the majority would vote for the Maoists, the rebels whose failed insurgency killed...
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Yesterday was a historic day for the Napalese people, with their first national election shifting their government from a monarchy to a democratic congress. Only one result has been officially declared, but so far things are looking good for the Maoist party.Read previous...
Voting went off without significant violence in Nepal yesterday. Now the country waits to see if the results will dramatically reshape their system of government."Results trickled in Friday as Nepal celebrated...
Nepali Congress Leader Sher Bahadur Deuba, according to some of Nepal’s national dailies, has demanded for the mobilization of Nepal Army for the Constituent Assembly polls scheduled to be held on 10 April. The Nepal Army has time and again expressed its objection to...
General Secretary of the United Marxist-Leninist (UML), speaking in an election campaign gathering in Kathmandu today said that Nepal’s Maoists were terrorists and monarchists working against the very norms of democracy. Out of his 85 minutes of speech, he spent almost...