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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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! “
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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.
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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).
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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).
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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