Maoists, govt collaborators hound Moriarty

Palace denies malicious reports

BY OUR REPORTER

The Royal Palace Press Secretariat, in a notice issued on Monday, denied the King and the Royal Palace are involved in recruitment of Nepalese youths in the British Army as Gurkhas. The Secretariat denied receiving a royalty of one million pounds annually in return for the recruitment reported by some newspapers. ....more

Nepal's imminent humiliation at UN Security Council poll

BY OUR DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT

Nepal was twice member of the UN Security Council under the non-permanent category in the Panchayat era. It has for the third time offered its candidature for the seat from the Asian continent. All the groundwork such as informing all friendly nations of the candidature, writing letters to all Foreign Ministers to support in the elections bid, etc were done by former foreign minister Ramesh Nath Pandey.. more

Oli skips mention of Nepal's terrorism scourge

BY OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

Janamorcha Nepal's strong opposition to citizenship bill

BY OUR REPORTER

The government drafted new citizenship bill has been widely criticized by political parties and other societies as the bill is more likely to escalate the citizenship problem of the terai people, especially those classified castes and underprivileged, than to resolve it. ..more

Vijaya Motors launches two new Chevrolet models

BY OUR BUSINESS REPORTER

Maoists, allies force talks on reluctant Koirala

BY BHOLA B RANA

Informal 'confidence-building talks' between Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and Maoist Chairman Prachanda Sunday were inconclusive on substantive issues. But Koirala and Prachanda did agree to meet formally before Dasain to resolve difference on major matters like weapons management and an interim constitution. Koirala agreed to meet Prachanda after a build-up of massive pressures, particularly from the CPN-UML, to save the peace process. ..more

Justice itself speaks for Chaudhary Group

BY OUR BUSINESS REPORTER

The case of Shree Mahalaxmi Sugars Ltd. (SMSL) took a dramatic turn after the consortium banks dragged the case before the House of Representatives (HoR). The consortium banks, that provided loan to the then promoters of SMSL, Chaudhary Group (CG) and Kanaudia Group (KG), had filed a case at the Supreme Court (SC), which gave the verdict that it was against the law to put CG on a defaulters blacklist as CG has a legitimate evidence to justify that CG had sold all of its SMSL shares to its partner KG as per the direction given by the consortium meeting and therefore CG no longer bears any responsibility on any assets and liabilities of the sugar mill. ....more

Suraj Vaidya appointed board member of top Asian institution

BY OUR REPORTER

Noted business leader, Suraj Vaidya, has been appointed to the board of School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok (Thailand). Vaidya, president of Vaidya’s Group of Industries and Trading Houses (VOITH) and a well known figure in the corporate sector of Nepal was invited to serve as member of the School Board, of the Institute of Technology, Bangkok. .....more

Biography of COAS Gen Rookmangud Katawal

BY OUR DEFENCE REPORTER

Gen Rookmangud Katawal was born in Okhaldhunga District, in the mountainous Eastern Region of Nepal, on 12 December 1948 to Mr. and Mrs. Khadgadhoj Katawal. He pursued his high school education in Kathmandu. Commissioned into Shree Shreenath Battalion (Infantry) of the then Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) on 20 December 1969 after graduating from the Indian National Defence Academy and the Indian Military Academy, he holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Tribhuwan University and a Masters Degree in National Defence from the Qaeda Azam University, Pakistan. .....more

Lecturing, listening and learning

BY M.R. JOSSE

Qinghai-Tibet railway: From dream to reality

BY JIANG SHIJIE

On December 9 of that year (1973), at a meeting in Beijing with Nepal's King Birendra, Chairman Mao Zedong took the initiative to mention that China would construct the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and this railway would not terminate in Lhasa, but also go straight to the Nepalese capital of Katmandu..... 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

The Iraninain experience : Whan can Nepal learn ?

BY PREETI KOIRALA

Iran serves as another good example for Nepalese to take lessons from, international powers to realize from their mistakes and regional players not to underestimate the powerful inertia of fundamentalism and totalitarianism that can offset the whole regional power dynamics.... more

The last 100 days

BY PREM BAHADUR GORKHALI

1. Cabinet passed a Citizenship Bill on August 26, 2006. Criteria to get citizenship have been eased. Persons residing in Nepal since 1990; born to Nepalese mothers; or recommended by three Nepalese citizens will be eligible for Nepalese citizenship. Thus 40,000 teraibasi will be able to get Nepalese citizenship... more

Lessons from nine eleven

BY BADRI DAS SHRESTHA

The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon were deeply shocking and very sad. Events of this kind make clear that if we allow our human intelligence to be guided and controlled by negative emotions like hatred, the consequences are disastrous. How to respond to such an attack is a very difficult question to answer. It is appropriate to respond to an act of violence by employing the principles of non-violence.... more

Nepal : Disturbances in Terai

BY PG RAJAMOHAN

As Nepal struggles to resolve its decade old security and political problems, disturbances erupting in the Terai region are not being noticed by the government. A threat to Pahadiyas (hill people) of ethnic evictions, along with insurgent group killings, abductions and extortions, has made this region volatile. Political exclusion and discrimination against this region has fanned the secessionist ideology, which threatens to plunge the country into violent and bloody conflict..... more