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NEPAL: Indian among 23 killed in Nepal church collapse

Sep 30, 2009
A get-together during the festive season in Nepal turned to stark tragedy early on Wednesday when 23 Christians, including an Indian, were crushed to death in a church instituted by an Indian convert in eastern Nepal. Most of t...

NEPAL: Nepal's capital suffers festival goat shortage

Sep 15, 2009
With just days to go before Nepal's biggest religious festival of the year, the capital Kathmandu is suffering a severe shortage of goats for ritual sacrifice, the government said Tuesday. As a result, the government food agency has ordered officials...

NEPAL: Nepal PM Thanks Lumley For 'Gurkha Justice'

Jul 27, 2009
FROM SKY NEWS Lumley and Madhav Kumar Nepal Nepal’s prime minister has thanked actress Joanna Lumley for bringing “justice” to Gurkha soldiers who served in the British army. Madhav Kumar Nepal said all Nepalese people recognise...

NEPAL: Shiney Ahuja's arrest hogs Nepal media

Jun 17, 2009
FROM IANS Shiney Ahuja Kathmandu, June 16 : The news of rising Bollywood star Shiney Ahuja being sent to police custody on the charge of raping his teenaged domestic help has been splashed in the Nepali media, getting more prominence than the upcom...

SILIGURI: Gorkha women to go for an indefinite dharna – Gurung

Dec 11, 2009
FROM THE STATESMAN SILIGURI, 10 DEC: The GJMM president, Mr Bimal Gurung today announced in Darjeeling that 150 women activists associated with his party would sit in dharna for an indefinite period from 14 December in New Delhi and Kolkata, demanding...

SILIGURI: Anti-Gorkha groups to resist 'divide Bengal' demand

Dec 11, 2009
FROM THE STATESMAN SILIGURI, 10 DEC: With the possibility of the GJMM-announced fasting agitation spilling over in several parts of the plains, the anti-Gorkhaland pressure groups are bracing themselves to resist such “attempts to foment ethnic...

NATIONAL: Statehood calls erupt

Dec 11, 2009
FROM THE STATESMAN BAGDOGRA/MUMBAI/LUCKNOW, 10 DEC: With the Centre conceding Telangana, a floodgate seems to have opened vis-a-vis demands for separate states. The Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM), which is spearheading the Gorkhaland agitation, has...

NATIONAL: Telangana queers Andhra pitch

Dec 11, 2009
FROM THE STATESMAN HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI, 10 DEC: The Centre’s decision last night to carve out a separate state of Telangana from Andhra Pradesh has plunged the state into chaos and the Rosaiah government into a crisis, with scores of Congress and...

HYDERABAD: Telangana unlocks tempest 98 MLAs 'quit' in backlash

Dec 11, 2009
FROM THE TELEGRAPH Hyderabad, Dec. 10: The Congress’s midnight gift to the people of Telangana demanding a separate state today triggered a political mutiny in the rest of Andhra Pradesh with as many as 98 lawmakers, including 56 from the ruling...

NEPAL: People's War in Pictures



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