Case Registered Against Vice-President Jha in the Supreme Court

While nationwide protests against the first Vice-President Paramananda Jha are going on for the fourth consecutive day due to his oath-taking in Hindi, advocate Bal Krishna Neupane has filed a case today against him stating that it was against Nepal’s constitution.  ...

Ram Baran Yadav elected first President of Nepal (updated)

After inconclusive elections on Monday, the Nepali Congress Party candidate, Ram Baran Yadav, was elected on Wednesday by the Constituent Assembly of Nepal to become the first ever President of the country. His...

Nepali Constituent Assembly fails to "elect" Ramraja Prasad Singh as preside...

UPDATES: Despite counting with the support of the Maoist in Congress, Ramraja Prasad Singh did not gather 298  majority vote. While Prasad Singh  only got 282 votes of the 594-members Constituent Assembly, his political rival Ram Baran Yadav was only four votes...

Nepal Electing the First President After Abolition of Monarchy

The Constituent Assembly (CA) members in Nepal have just finished voting for the first ceremonial President of the newly declared republican country. There are three presidential candidates: Ram Raja Prasad Singh backed by the Maoists, Ram Varian Yadav of the Nepali Congress...

Philanthropic Tourism and Nepal

Today’s world is broadly divided into two faiths: materialism and non-materialism. Materialism tells the mankind that happiness lies in accumulation of worldly tangible things and using them for life’s comfort....

Madhesis of Nepal : Discrimination leading to Deep rooted Crisis

- Bal Krishna Jha (The author is a freelance writer, and can be reached at balkrishnajha@gmail.com) After the end of World Wars, there has been exponential increase in intra state wars and conflicts. Such conflicts...

Nepal might hold Presidential Election on July 19

As rival Nepalese political forces do not agree on a Presidential candidate, the Constituent Assembly of Nepal decided to set the date for the election on July 19, 2008. This short notice election date is expected to push for an earlier accord to appoint the first...

Nepalese police release officers

Protesting against the poor quality food and ill treatment policemen in Nepal have taken their own officers for few days but now they have been released after not getting any response from government."Seven senior policemen who were taken hostage by junior officers in Nepal...

Volunteer in Nepal

If you've travelled to Nepal, and fallen in love with its people, and have a desire to help them, now you can.  The Mountain Fund has a visitor center in Kathmandu that assists people in finding an appropriate...

Nepal: The Coming Constitution and the Issue of Transformation

The Nepalis have never obtained an opportunity to draft their constitution by themselves. So far they have been ruled by the constitutions designed by individual elites and traditional power-wielders. In other words,...

True Love Collides with Caste Discrimination in Nepal's Villages

***** AdvocacyNet News Bulletin 146 July 9, 2008 ***** July 9, 2008, Siraha District, Nepal: Satyanarayan Mandal and Hemlata Chaudhary had been in love for six years. The only problem was that Satyanarayan was a Dalit, while Hemlata came from an upper caste. When...

Dutch cat suckles abandoned panda

A Dutch tabby cat has adopted a red panda cub, which was abandoned by its mother at a zoo in the Netherlands." Red pandas are a rare species only distantly related to giant pandas. When fully grown, they are not...

Strike shuts down hospitals in Nepal capital

A doctor's strike in Nepalese capital Kathmandu has crippled hospital services and hit the life very hard. Doctor are demanding protection against attacks by angry relatives of patients who have died. " Nepalese doctors walked off the job Wednesday, shutting down...

Human rights: Saudis treat domestic staff like 'virtual slaves'

Stories of  exploitation of  foreign domestic workers in Gulf countries are well know and not this current report renconfirms widely held view about the condition of Asian domestic Workers.  " Asian domestic workers in Saudi Arabia face routine...

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