Articles: Nepal: parties quarrel over state system, accountable politics greater need
Region: NepalNepal's major political parties, not psychologically prepared yet on how to transform the Nepali society, linger to their power embezzlement-oriented disputes regarding the nature of the nation's governing system. The Nepali Congress (NC), the oldest party in Nepal, has argued that the Westminister-styled parliamentary system has no alternative for Nepal while the former Maoist rebels--the Unified Communist Party of Nepal Maoist (UCPN)-- and the newly emerging Terai-based regional part... more
Views: 2436Nepal: Primary Factors Behind Objections Over Bippa
Region: NepalThe primary reason behind the bombardment of objections to the Bilateral Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement (BIPPA) that Nepal's Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai signed with India during his four-day visit to India ( 20 October 2011 to 23 October 2011) is Nepal's homeworklessness on the issue, which was pending for 10 years. The mentality of the Nepali Congress (NC) and the Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML) that governed Nepal several years with similar ideological orientations a... more
Views: 1679Dealing With Drought: Nepal Village Shows The Way
Region: Nepal
Traveling to Teenpiple - a village in Panchkhal valley of Nepal takes a good 2 and half hours from the capital city of Kathmandu. Surrounded by lush green hills lined with rows of Pine, the village is like a picture postcard where a maze of yellow and green fields show paddy at different stage of ripening. It’s difficult to believe that barely three years ago the village was reeling under a severe drought which drove the villagers into a state of panic. ... more
Views: 1638Nepal:Landlords ignore legal ceiling of land
Region: NepalAll Nepal Farmers' Association Revolutionary has warned its mother party the Unified Communist Party of Nepal Maoist (UCPN) that returning the land seized by the party during the 10-year insurgency would not be so easy without conclusively addressing the issues of the homeless and the landless, most of whom are the victims of the existing feudal land patterns in Nepal. Although the Nepal government (then His Majesty's government) through its amended land reform Act in 2001 fixed the upper ce... more
Views: 1623Local Produce Help Goa Survive The Monsoon
Region: India
That monsoon is really a difficult time in Goa, is a warning I got on the day I landed here. But then it was the height of winter. So, it was almost impossible to accept the warning wholeheartedly as I couldn’t imagine a Goa that without its usual sunny days, the quiet, blue sea and the lazy beaches. The first shock, however came when the fishing ban came in force in mid-June. The ban makes it mandatory for all fishing boats and trawlers to stop their activities unt... more
Views: 1769Nepal: Ceremonial republic and active monarchy—a misfortune
Region: NepalNepal government celebrated the 4th Republic Day at the Army Pavilion on Sunday with surprisingly no public participation and excitement at all. This empty ritual to which the government and other political forces that have labeled themselves as republicans cling has hurt the majority of people, who expect a leadership and its vision to transform Nepal strikingly so as to differentiate a genuine republican democracy from the one they have always wanted to get rid of. As... more
Views: 1702Nepal:World’s most inclusive Constituent Assembly in danger of dissolution;extension hoped
Region: NepalWorld’s most inclusive Constituent Assembly (CA) elected in Nepal on 10 April 2008 faces a serious danger of dissolution on Saturday—the day of its last deadline. Nepal’s three key role-playing parties— the Unified Communist Party of Nepal – Maoist (UCPN-M), the Nepali Congress (NC) and the Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML)—are trying to forge out an agreement to extend the CA’s deadline by at least six months. If the CA’s term is not extended by v... more
Views: 4814Understanding democracy from working class perspectives
Region: NepalWorkers of the world observe the 1st of May as the global May Day. Although the international day is mainly related to the workers’ labor movement, its rationale works for all the sectors in the human society. The basic of the global May Day is that labor is fundamental to the development of human society from political, socio-economic and scientifico-technological perspectives. Labor today does not concern merely factory workers mainly using their bodily force. The latest meaning of... more
Views: 19011st National Convention on the Right to Information held in Nepal
Region: NepalThe 1st National Convention on the Right to Information (RTI) held in Kathmandu from 28 to 29 March 2011, through its Kathmandu Declaration, has urged the government and its bureaucracy, political forces, civil society institutions, media sector and citizens to be proactive in practicing the RTI Act 2007. The action-oriented Kathmandu Declaration has expressed its commitment to reinvigorating the RTI Act, which so far remains scantily practiced. Apart from recommending certain measures, it h... more
Views: 1744Nepal peace process: PLA handover to government-led committee and challenges ahead
Region: Nepal
Following the handover of the Maoist-led People's Liberation Army (PLA) to the government -"led special committee through a special ceremony on Saturday, numerous welcome comments have poured from local and international institutions and individuals. Both government and Maoist party leaders have mentioned the handover as a milestone. The US, China, India and other nations have welcomed it as a major step in Nepal's peace process. On the PLA handover to the Special Committee, Maoist party Ch... more
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