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Disarray continues to rule It took one month for caretaker Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal to step down from his post after an agreement on his resignation was reached. [More News]

Intra-party acrimony goes on! The gross failure on the part of three major political parties-UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN (UML)- to elect a new Prime Minister for two consecutive times has also sent the intra-party strife into the stratosphere. [More News]

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G8 must make way for new system Over the years, there has been a crescendo of voices from the US and the EU urging that large emerging economies such as India and China be "responsible stakeholders in the international system". [More News]

Unity fiasco Unity Life International (ULI) chairman Kashi Ram Gurung and Managing Director Bishnu Chhetri are still at large but the Unity has been issuing press releases in an advertisement form in national dailies. It conned billions of rupees of general public by running illegally immense network business. [More News]

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Asia shouldn't be swayed by West In a recent column on the US Foreign Policy website, Christian Caryl writes: "The Cold War was scary enough. Now try to imagine a nuclear arms race between China and India." Well, for generations that have grown up after World War II, the Cold War was indeed a nightmare. [More News]

Kashmir the dispute that continues to rock South Asia A cartoon published in an American newspaper in 2002 showed former President George W. Bush sitting behind his desk in the Oval Office, utterly confused by a news report he was reading about India and Pakistan going to war over Kashmir. “But why are the two countries fighting over a sweater,” he asked Dick Cheney, who stood by with his usual sly smile on his face. [More News]

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Fidel Castro predicts third world nuclear war The 83-year-old Comandante has not appeared in public since 2006, when he underwent a major surgery on his intestinal system. After that, the process of devolution of power from Fidel to his younger brother Raul Castro had begun. [More News]

War Revealed: 75,000 secret US military reports WikiLeaks released over 75,000 secret US military reports covering the war in Afghanistan. [More News]

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A crying need for change When Hugo Chávez was re-elected president of Venezuela in 2006, he told us that "We must now deepen the revolution". He also told us that he did not know what the New Socialism of the 21st Century will look like tomorrow, only that we must solve problems from day to day and year to year, using the socialist model as our guide. President Chávez has always rejected top-down government and maintained that power must originate and stream from the bottom up. [More News]

Child sexual abuse “alarming” There is no precise data available on the number of sexual abuse and rape cases but activists believe the situation is alarming. [More News]

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Flashback: "Women’s Day" Women’s Day’ is a link in the long, solid chain of the women’s proletarian movement. The organised army of working women grows with every year. Twenty years ago the trade unions contained only small groups of working women scattered here and there among the ranks of the workers party… Now English trade unions have over 292 thousand women members; in Germany around 200 thousand are in the trade union movement and 150 thousand in the workers party, and in Austria there are 47 thousand in the trade unions and almost 20 thousand in the party. [More News]

100 Years Ago: Women's Day Women are a revolutionary force. That fact shows in their holiday, International Women’s Day (IWD), both its past and present. Because the profit system depends on the second-class status of women, the day that honors them is bound to be connected to momentous happenings. [More News]

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"People are the ultimate authority to decide on Monarchy", Ex king says There are two things here. People always teach lessons and the leaders must learn those lessons. I think the people also wanted to provide us some sort of message. The people might not have wanted to see the Kings becoming active. And second, people should also not forget that Kings are their guardians. Whatever is needed to be done must be done. Currently the situation demands providing safety to the public. Then (February 1, 2005), the situation was different. Today, we are in a totally different situation. The time has moved far ahead. What we all need is a prosperous and successful country. [More News]



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Dialogue of civilizations: scientifically-educational dimension accidents are concerned. It is enough to recollect the avalanches of world terrorism, evolving as fast as forest fire, [More News]

Hariti Temple of Swayambhu Anyone who visits Swayambhu Stupa in Kathmandu cannot miss the glorious Hariti Temple, a two story pagoda decorated with exquisitely artistic motifs pregnant with spiritual significance. [More News]

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Savage debt burden and economic nationalism It goes without saying that our politicians and their planners have systematically failed to harness ample of natural resources Nepal is blessed with. [More News]

Disastrous decay It won’t be preposterous to say that the persistent inability of the country to get out of its tension-fraught transition has much to do with lust for power among the major political party leaders. [More News]

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Long stalemate after Maoist victory disrupts life in Nepal For a decade, he carried a 9mm pistol and battled government forces in almost every corner of Nepal as part of a Maoist insurgency that ravaged this majestic Himalayan nation. [More News]

Time to fulfill Nepali people's peace aspirations wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests, according to Machiavelli. A lot of confusion currently precedes the formation of Nepal´s next Federal Democratic Republic government. [More News]

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Wildlife diaries It’s like any other day for the staffers at the Tiger Tops Jungle Lodge deep inside the lush sub-tropical forest of Chitwan National Park: A big wild male elephant ventures close to the front lawns of the lodge that open into the forest in the late afternoon and the guests immediately come out of the dining hall with their cameras to take a closer shot. A herd of spotted deer comes strolling through the grassland and disappears into the dark lushness of the forest beyond it, before anybody could take their pictures. A mother rhino and calf appear and just go out of sight. And on a rare day, one of the lodge’s staff told me, you can see a tiger on the prowl nearby! “ [More News]

Tibetan Glaciers are retreating at an alarming rate Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, sometimes called Earth's "third pole", hold the largest ice mass outside the polar regions. These glaciers act as a water storage tower for South and East Asia, releasing melt water in warm months to the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra and other river systems, providing fresh water to more than a billion people. In the dry season glacial melt provides half or more of the water in many rivers. [More News]

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Mt. Kailash, Gosainkunda, Panch Pokhari and Dudh Kunda Treking Mount Kailash lies in the southwestern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. At 6,714 m (22,027 ft), Mount Kailas is the highest peak in the Kailas Range of the Himalayas. Mount Kailas is separated from the Great Himalayas chain by a trough that is drained in the northwest by the Sutlej River and in the southeast by the Yarlung Zangbo River (the extreme upper Brahmaputra River). [More News]

Explore the unexplored exotic trekking route in western Nepal Himalaya Machhapuchhre Model Trek is a new trekking tourism product in Annapurna conservation area in western Nepal initiated with the aim of developing it as viable alternative route on the back drop of the declining popularity of conventional Annapurna Circuit trek (ACT). [More News]

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Pakistani passenger plane crashes A plane of a Pakistani private airliner Wednesday crashed into the Margalla Hills in the Pakistani capital Islamabad and killed all the 152 people aboard. [More News]

India Rejects US Sanctions on Iran On Thursday, India and Iran began a two-day meeting aimed at increasing bilateral cooperation in the economic sector [More News]

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No option to national consensus govt: Bhattarai Unified CPN (Maoist) vice chairman Baburam Bhattarai has reiterated there is no option to a national consensus government comprising of UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress (NC), UML and the Madhes-based parties for successful completion of the peace process and timely promulgation of the constitution. [More News]

President Yadav to visit China in October President Dr Ram Baran Yadav is all set to go on a visit to China in October this year. [More News]

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"Gradual consolidation and enhancement in the relations between China and South Asian countries" With the aim of furthering substantial exchanges of cooperation and friendship between South Asian friendship Organizations and the Chinese People's Associations for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) a extensive meeting was held in Sri Lanka with the joint efforts of Sri Lanka China Social and cultural Cooperation, Sri Lanka-China Young Journalists Forum and Sri Lanka-China Friendship Association from June 7 to June 9, 2010. [More News]

Nepal-China Joint Press Statement in Beijing The following is the text of the joint press statement issued today in Beijing, following the 6-day official visit by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal to China. Both sides agreed to further strengthen political and economic ties. [More News]

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