Articles: Tsering Tsomo Challenges GroundReport on Dalai Lama Envoy
Region: NepalDear readers, Mr. Tsering Tsomo has complained to this reporter regarding the publication of a story named “Dalai Lama’s envoy Thinley Gyatso at Sino-Nepal border?", saying this is false. He has stated in his mail that no meeting between Paras and anybody called ‘envoy’ has taken place in Mustang. Besides, Mr. Tsomo also states that Mr. Thinley Gyatso is not the representative of Dalai Lama. This reporter based the story mainly on a Nepali website as indicated in the... more
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Supreme Court Delivers Landmark Ruling on Divorce in Foreign Courts
Region: IndiaDelivering a landmark ruling covering a grey area which remained untouched so long, the apex court on Friday, the 13th November said that any marriage dissolved by a foreign court will be equally valid in India. It is well known that divorce is difficult to obtain in India than in most West and European countries. So long, divorce of Indians and NRIs were valid only if it was granted by any Indian court and any divorce granted by foreign court was subject to scrutiny and clearance by Ind... more
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Maoist Supremo’s political exploration in Singapore
Region: Nepal
Nepal’s Maoist Supremo and former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda left Kathmandu on Monday for Singapore for political exploration regarding the country’s current political stagnation. Nepal faces the toughest challenges that originated from the sharpened conflict between those in favor of the overall transformation of the Nepali society and those engaged in the final struggles to preserve the status quo. Prachanda said publicly that he wanted to see his supporters an... more
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Police suppress peaceful protests in Nepal
Region: Nepal
This photograph illustrates how the riot police, at the direct order of Deputy Prime Minister Vijay Gachchhedar, suppressed a peaceful protests in Kathmandu. You can see some musical instruments, some broken, at the site of suppression. Protesters were playing instruments and dancing as a way of peaceful protest against the government that they have labeled as "puppet government". more
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Protests paralyze Nepal government headquarters; police fires at leaders
Region: Nepal
While Maoist protests on Thursday completely paralyzed Nepal government headquarters at Singha Durbar in Kathmandu, the security personnel deployed at the South Gate of Singhadurbar fired at senior Maoist leaders Dev Gurung, Ananta and Amik Sherchan. According to Radio Mirmire, more than 60 others were injured with rubber bullets and tear gas shells. Nepal’s Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal was unable to attend his office as thousands of Maoist protesters besieged the government headq... more
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Ban Ki-moon’s message is no interference: Prachanda
Region: Nepal
The Chairman of the Integrated Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPNM) Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda on Thursday said that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s advice that Nepal should have a consensus government to take the ongoing peace process to a logical end was not a sign of interference. Prachanda told media that Ban spoke in favor of the peace process. Prachanda told the media, “This government has no capacity or goodwill to understand the Secretary-General’s message. ... more
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Dalai Lama’s envoy Thinley Gyatso at Sino-Nepal border?
Region: Nepal
Editor's Update: The following account has been challenged. Read the full report here. Reports from various Nepali media have confirmed the secret meeting of Nepal’s ex-Prince Paras with Dalai Lama’s envoy Thinley Gyatso on 10 November 2009 at Sino-Nepal border in the Mustang district of Nepal. The primary motive of the secret meeting between Lama’s envoy and Nepal’s ex-Prince Paras is not clear. However, many have understood the meeting as something linked to ... more
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NATO strategists puzzled
Region: Belgium
NATO counterinsurgency strategists feel puzzled as five British soldiers stationed in Afghanistan get killed by a trainee Afghan policeman. During eight years of US-NATO rule in Afghanistan, 92 British soldiers have lost their lives this year alone. NATO, after the collapse of Warsaw Pact as well as the Soviet Union, has shown its desire to expand its influence worldwide by accompanying US military missions. However, it is up to the British to calculate how much they have benefited from mil... more
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India Buys Gold, Buries Past Shame
Region: IndiaBurying past shame of 1991, when India had to pledge 67 tons of Gold to Bank of England and Union Bank of Switzerland to raise some $600 million to supplement a poor Foreign Exchange Reserve of $1.2 billion- barely good for three weeks of imports and a default in foreign exchange looming large- India recently purchased 200 tons of gold from IMF at a price of $6.8 billion, a peanut investment compared to present foreign exchange reserve of $285 billion. The background in 1991: With the fall o... more
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UN concerned over Nepal's peace process
Region: Nepal
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) today strongly urged Nepali political forces, including those in government, to ensure that human rights of all individuals are protected. It has called on both Nepal government and Maoist protesters not to resort to any violence since it may jeopardize the very peace process going on since 2006. The OHCHR expressed its concern on the likelihood of violence in the name of Maoist protests and subsequent government actions. However, M... more
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