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31st May, 2006 (Wednesday)

Madhav Kumar Nepal towards Seoul
Govt decision challenged
PM Koirala rejects Janamorcha nominee for minister
Bishnu Prasad Ghimere appointed Shaja chairman
Army recruit trainees on rampage in Itahari
Govt got Army support for 25-point code of conduct
Declaration of secular state most important decision: Prachanda
Joint inclusive front launched

30th May, 2006 (Tuesday)

Siblings of Nepali mothers can now get citizenship
Parliamentary committee to monitor code of conduct
BJP accuses New Delhi of interfering in Nepal
Dreaded Naxalite killed in Chhattisgarh
Confusion and chaos
Restoration of local bodies unlikely
Parliament should continue until CA polls: Prakash Sharan Mahat
Busy in minor issues
Religious agitation likely
Differences on restoration of local bodies
Demand for re-declaring Hindu Kingdom
Foreign language in parliament
Hindu Kingdom is our pride: Nina Bhetwal
Maoist dialogue team members main speakers of Kathmandu 2 June rally
Efforts underway for broad republican front
Australian climber dead
Army again on patrol, Maoists wary
Two Russians arrested with drugs
27 articles in constitution amended or suspended
Writs on behalf of former ministers being presented in supreme court
63 clauses, sub-clauses in constitution clash with parliament proclamation
Maoists warn against reinstating local bodies
Armed Maoists appear in combat dress even after agreement on code
Nepal Telecom establishing Mobile telephone tower at Everest base camp
TU vice-chancellor resigns
Ramesh Jung Thapa appointed Koirala advisor
Japanese food assistance
Nepali peacekeeper killed in Congo
ADB Awards Outstanding Project Management Teams

29th May, 2006 (Monday)

Parliament to endorse 25-point agreement
Youth rushing to join People's Liberation Army
Maoists to broadcast Kathmandu rally
Woman drug trafficker held at airport
Time extended for return of diplomatic passports
Govt, Maoist tussle
Bhojraj Sharma re-appointed chairman of National Insurance Corporation
India closes down power house
Renewal fees of FMs to be waived
Indians eye on Karnali
‘Historical achievement’ may turn out as a burden
BJP disappointed with Nepal government
Guns cannot bring change: Pradeep Nepal
Prachanda's planned Kathmandu appearance postponed
Govt preparing to present budget 26 June
EU official coming
Army ready to implement govt directives
Don't Hand-over power to Maoists: Dr Karan Singh
Rebels a minority group in Janamorcha: Amik Serchan
Rato Machindranath chariot being pulled to Jawalakhel Monday
House restoration not constitutional: Deergha Raj Prashain
Government violated agreement says Bhushal
Parliament will not dissolve
Corruption allegation to Sitaula

28th May, 2006 (Sunday)

Maoists rob joint venture banks
Hospitals re-open
NC worker killed
11 killed in Makwanpur truck accident
Rs 1.1 million looted from Nepal Bank
Parliament to endorse 25-point code of conduct
Supreme Court bench refers detention of former ministers to a higher body
US help not sought to quell Naxalites
India prepared to invade Nepal in April
USA, India discuss Nepal
Another Sherpa bares himself atop Everest
First Nepal, India ministerial meeting in Malaysia

27th May, 2006 (Saturday)

TU registrar Gita Bhakta Joshi resigns
Shares of Shri Shrijana Finance Ltd (Financial Organization)
Gopal Kirati to surface Saturday
India seizes Maoist steamer
US offers help train Indian security personnel to fight Naxalites
Janamorcha Nepal divided
Abducted murdered
BJP chief emotional on declaration of secular state
Nigerian swallower arrested
Govt, Maoist adopt 25-point of code of conduct
Ram Raja Prasad Singh arrives from self-exile
Ian Martin dispatched to East Timor
ISG asks Maoists to stop extortions
Health Ministry's appeal to hospitals and doctors
Secret agreement between King, Koirala and Madhav Kumar Nepal
Govt, Maoist talks begin
Japanese team clears garbage from Manaslu
Moriarty's complaint
Secular state announcement opposed
Sadbhawana's plight
Meeting in New Delhi on Nepal
Concern about local bodies
Nepal government or India government?
Legitimacy of House proclamation
Disappointment of disabled people
Irrelevant issues
Maoists demand for dissolve of parliament and government
Announcement of secular state disappoints Hindus all over the world

26th May, 2006 (Friday)

Prachanda may not surface 2 June, Maoists soft on USA
Maoists angry with Deuba
Bhutanese refugees to begin hunger strike, other details
Refugees to get travel documents
NSP supports constituent assembly election
Seven arrested with refined hash
Four Britons climb Everest
Commission formed to trace missing persons, other details
Commission spokesman announced
CPN-UML demands reinstatement of local bodies
Hindu protests continue
Details of Kathmandu clashes

25th May, 2006 (Thursday)

Govt announces dialogue team with Maoists
Violence erupts in the Valley
Crisis in NSP (D) over m ministerial berth
Maoist passes needed for govt officials to enter villages
30 cases registered in Maoist court
Mahara busy in meetings
Protests in Bara, Parsa against declaration of Hindu state
Pradumnya Bikran Shah appointed
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NEWS
Parliament curbs King's powers

An reinstated House of Representatives which was not elected after completing its tenure last Thursday unanimously passed a historic the House of Representatives Proclamation -2063 that curbed the King's power and empowered the legislature with supreme authority ....more

By Bhola B Rana

PL Singh disagrees to House restored

Member of Parliament of the restored House, PL Singh has not attended the parliament since it has been restored. According to Sanjhko Khabar daily, Singh has disagreed to the Royal proclamation for the restoration of the ....more

By Our Correspondent

Current battle political, not legal or constitutional: Ganesh Raj Sharma

Senior advocate and constitutional expert Ganesh Raj Sharma says the current situation in Nepal is a political battle not confined to law or the constitution. "Their [leaders of seven parties] statements I read after the reinstatement of parliament, is for activating .... more

By Our Senior Political Correspondent

Koirala's expanded government still incomplete

Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala Monday couldn't complete the expansion of his seven-member government even 20 days after it was expanded. Representatives of the NSP(D) and Janamorcha, who had agreed to join the government, were not included in the ...more

By Our Senior Political Correspondent

CA polls: Don’t tilt the electoral field or shift the goalposts now

Understandably, these days there is a constant din regarding the proposed Constituent Assembly (CA) polls. That is only to be expected since it constitutes perhaps the most politically significant of the shortlist of Maoist demands. As all are aware, ...more

By M.R. Josse

Pope welcomes secular state, protests in India

India's main opposition party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has protested the declaration of Nepal as a secular state. BJP organized protest demonstrations Friday against the parliament declaration in ....more

By Our Correspondent

Former minister Pandey ill, hospitalized

Former foreign minister Ramesh Nath Pandey has been admitted to Norvic Hospital after getting diagnosed of typhoid. He has been detained by the government since the last 12 days at the Sadar Prahari Pahara Gand, at .... more

By Our Reporter

What Indians think about Nepal!

In an astounding display of political ineptitude at a time when Nepal is seething with anti-India sentiment, senior BJP ideologue and member of the party's national executive K.R. Malkani asserted that Jawaharlal Nehru should have ..... more

Secular Nepal no good for India: Uma Bharati

Chennai, May 19: Expressing apprehension about Nepal's decision 'to turn into a secular state from a Hindu one,' the Bharatiya Janshakti today claimed that it could lead to fundamentalists trying to increase their stronghold there, "thus ....more

Voith presents newly launched CAR to Singh

The United Trade Syndicate, the flagship company of Vaidya's Organizations of Industrial and Trading Houses (VOITH), has presented the newly launched Toyota Yaris to footballer Upendra Man Singh, who was .... more

By Our Reporter

CAAN’s evil eye on Cosmic

How could airline industry grow and flourish if the national Civil Aviation Authority, instead of supporting and protecting national airline, tries to put various drags and sides with foreign companies without valid and credible reason? ... more

By Our Business Reporter

 

BETWEEN YOU AND ME

Cascade of mutual recrimination, (DIS) appointments, uncommon concern and a ‘secular’ story

Alas, less than a week after the “historic” unilateral HoR declaration of its self-proclaimed supremacy, which incidentally has been criticized as illegal by many brave hearts – including non-partisan luminaries such as senior attorney and ... more

By M.R. Josse

COMMENTS

On whose behest SPA is working to destabilize RNA

After the mass of tens of thousand (make no mistake it was not the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) because none of the leaders of those parties were in the rallies) succeeded in ending the direct rule of the King by bringing the dead parliament .... more

By Ramakanta Niraula

Long live the victory of 'people’s war'
Birth of a new Nepal!

Today, in the Secular Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal, we are experiencing the birth-pangs of a nascent Democratic Socialist Republic. Its domestic midwives are myriad (in fact all Nepalese can take credit, including King Gyanendra); however, in ..... more

By Sashi PBB Malla

Travesty of Indian democracy

India’s finance minister has said, “It will take 200 years to wipe out poverty”. He made these erudite remarks at Chennai while participating in the ceremony marking release of the book “India Untouched: The Forgotten Face of Rural Poverty .... more

By Amjed Jaaved

The economies of cows

Socialism: You have two cows and you give one to your neighbour. Communism: You have two cows. The Government takes both and gives you some milk. Fascism: You have two cows. The Government takes both and sells . ... more

By BKS

Coup against King

Koirala has strengthened Maoists ---- It is absurd to hail Thursday's parliamentary coup in Nepal as a "modern Magna Carta," as is being done by those who are cheering the grossly ill-advised move to strip the King of all powers and privileges. ... more

(Editorial in The PioneeZ published on 18.05.2006)

Reluctant Delhi changing its tune

A wary India is watching with some nervousness the fast paced political developments in neighbouring Nepal as King Gyanendra is stripped of his powers and the Himalayan kingdom is no longer a Hindu but a secular state. The government has ... more

By Seema Guha

"The victory that will never dim

These lays the whole mankind observe and celebrate the 61st Anniversary of the Great Victory over nazism and fascism in World War II. The Victory went down in history as the most important achievement of all peace and freedom loving people ... more

By Valery V. Nazarov

The search for peace and harmony

Citing the famous quotation by Sakyamuni Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, “He who plants a tree will go to Heaven,” Buddhist masters note that the religion advocates the harmonious coexistence of mankind and nature, which will play an ... more

By Tang Yuankai

India leaders name growing Maoist insurgency top security threat

In India, lack of rural development and failed peace initiatives appear to be giving strength to the country's 40-year-old Maoist rebellion. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is calling the Maoist threat the single-biggest security challenge India has faced since independence... more

By Anjana Pasricha

 

EDITORIAL

Question of Legitimacy

The May 18 declaration made by the House has made sweeping changes in our age-old establishment, existing norms and values by declaring the House as a supreme body. The proclamation has curtailed the King's powers and privileges; .... more

 

ON/OFF THE RECORD

True face of SPA

Perhaps, the first decision that the SPA government made was the cancellation of business deals of buying aircraft from China and Russia. Although orders had already been finalized by the previous government, the present ..... more

By PR Pradhan

TATTLER

Government

Here is a comment of one wit on the renaming of His Majesty's Government, Nepal Government. It's not Nepal Government but the Government of Seven Political Parties. It will be the Government of Eight Political Parties once ..... more

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Excerpts from weeklies and dailies

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

 
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