check this out

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1406468,00.html

Is this what we are looking ? I am reeday to do anything to finish royal famly.

What kind of poltical main stream he is talking about . may be panchyat
please read

The army's chief spokesman, Brigadier-General Dipak Gurung, said "Maoist terrorism" posed the greatest threat to Nepal and urged allies to back Kathmandu's war in the strategic country sandwiched between nuclear rivals India and China.

"Now we can solely go after the Maoists in a single-minded manner without having to worry about what's going to happen on the streets, people's agitation," he said.

DECISIVE MOVE

"We can solely direct our resources and energy towards them. Definitely, we can deal with the Maoists in a decisive manner. Our main aim will be to force them to come to talks or the political mainstream."

South Asia - AFP
Top Nepal minister urges world to back king's coup

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050204/wl_sthasia_afp/nepalpoliticsinterview_050204143324



"The concern of the international community is about the future of multiparty democracy in Nepal ... the king's commitment to multi-party democracy is total," Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey told AFP in an interview Friday.

>> He forgot to add one word. Should read: "The king's commitment to multi-party democracy is total BULL."

hahahaha TOTAL BULL hahahah

a student job is to study not to go for protest for the benfits of corrupt politicians.
parents send them school with hope that they study and some day at loder age,they will hep them.those students who do unnecessary poltics deserve the right punishment too.

education is nourishment to the mind. ok well, yeah, they should not be involved in excessive politics. but hey, they have to learn politics too. don't they?

and if civic society as a whole does not participate in the political process, someone has to pick up the slack!

but does that imply the those student protestors in pokhara deserved to be shot at?

Randeep Ramesh reporting for The Guardian, seems to be first hand account of what happened in Pokhara. Sounds like an Indian propaganda writer to me.

But my real question is: He does not mention anything about a helicopter shooting at the students. He does however say that Britain gave Nepal 2 helicopters in the same article. Did someone at Hindustan Times read his article and see the words students, Phokhara, Shooting and Helicopter in the same article and write ?Helicopters shoot students in Pokhara?.

Don?t know what to believe anymore?get Nepalnews and Kathmandu Post up please, between those two I think I can figure out what the truth is.

The best way to deal with these propagandists is to write to their editors directly. They might even loose their job. Journalistic fraud does happens in the west too - remember the guy Jayson Blair from NY Times. There are quite a few examples and wont be surprised if Randeep Ramesh is fabricating the story smoking cigar in a london pub.

The best way to deal with these stories is to let them know that we not just believers of what they write. We should promptly take corrective action, so that they wont repeat the same in future. I hope Zee TV has realised it this time around.

Exactly Ron, truth and fact is the necessity but not the journalism that provokes the people.

Nepalese government announces reform plan

www.chinaview.cn 2005-02-05 13:22:15


KATHMANDU, Feb. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- The first meeting of the newly formed Council of Ministers, chaired by Nepal's King Gyanendra, has decided to develop a 21-point program, which will focus on anti-corruption, good governance, economic growth and poverty alleviation.

The cabinet meeting decided to form a Royal Commission within 15 days to probe and take strong action against those who amassed huge property by evading tax and smuggling, state-run Radio Nepal on Saturday quoted a statement of the cabinet office as saying.

The government will empower the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority, an anti-graft body, both technically and infrastructure-wise, to facilitate its actions against corruption rampant in the country.

The government will set up a land bank and distribute land to squatters, landless peasants and freed bond laborers.

With a view to alleviating poverty, the government will initiate a long-term program to modernize farming, implement smalland big irrigation schemes and run horticulture, cash crops and livestock on the basis of geographical possibilities.

The disabled, underprivileged and lowest cast students will be provided with free education up to secondary level along with free textbooks and scholarships.

As the tourism industry has huge prospects in Nepal, the government has formulated a master plan to provide necessary cooperation and facilities to hotels, resorts, tourism destinations and tourist industries.

Addressing the unemployment issue, the government decided to generate employment opportunities in the country, besides seeking opportunities abroad.

Nepal's King Gyanendra formed the 10-member Council of Ministers, or cabinet, under his chairmanship on Wednesday. Enditem

Nepal's astrologers call king's move auspicious:
[World News]: Kathmandu, Feb 5 : What contributed to the dismissal of the Sher Bahadur Deuba government? The stars, say Nepal's astrologers.

The Nepal Astrologers' Association has hailed not only Deuba's dismissal by King Gyanendra but the timing as well.

In a televised address to the nation on Tuesday at 10 a.m., King Gyanendra had announced that he was dissolving the government and forming a new council of ministers under his chairmanship to bring peace and security.

The association has said the timing was auspicious and would herald positive action.

Like most Hindus worldwide, the traditional Nepalese society sets much store by astrology. Nepalese frequently consult astrologers before making any important decisions, like fixing wedding dates or starting new business ventures.

The Shah dynasty, to which King Gyanendra belongs, also patronises astrologers with a royal astrologer being there to divine auspicious dates and timings for the royal family.

Though King Gyanendra ascended the throne in 2001, he has still not been coronated according to full traditional rites due to the absence of an auspicious date since then.


Indo-Asian News Service

This is about the article "For Nepal, a brutal return to a feudal past" by Randeep Ramesh in Pokhara, Saturday February 5, 2005. It sounds as if it has been written by someone who does not really know what common people wants in Nepal. For international community democracy and freedom might mean something, but having more than one party to compete in election, does it necessarily mean democracy? Moreover if those people who get elected from villages are the one who have used unfair means to win elections and never given a thought to return to their lands from the capital after the election, amassing incredible amount of property and giving rise to corruption in the heart of the nation? I guess if Briatain were a nation where she had ruling political figures like that( totally uneducated, with past records full of corruption) and moreover suffering from insurgency would she still talk about democracy? Isnt it enough that people get to live in peace and atleast be sure whether they are going to live another sunlight, rather than living in a democratic nation where you never know whether you are being used by insurgents or the politicians or whether you are going to live another day.

I personally as a nepalese student here in America was in a constant dilemma about returning back to Nepal as you cannot do anything or get a job there unless you know some political figure or even if you want to do something of your own you cannot be sure of your succeeding with all the political chaos.

Therefore I guess the news articles in the international media like this would sound more credible if you could focus more on what the common people of Nepal has to say, rather than bringing out the views of a few people who were made victims because there were supporting some political agenda, or bringing out view of some political leaders themselves who know nothing more than misleading the ignorant people. Ignorant and uneducated population of Nepal is very different from what international community from democratic nations view them to be. Most of them still work hard just to be able to earn their daily bread and the so called democracy has made the situation worse with the people closer to the political figures getting richer and richer while the others went worser.

I am writing this article as a concerned Nepalese citizen who wants peace, be it democracy or not. For me democracy does not necessarily mean having more than one party to compete in election, it is the condition when one can live without fear. If you could go and talk with the common people who sell stuff out on the streets, the people whom you can see walking on the streets, or those standing on the lines in post office or those going to work in their offices I am sure that you will find a very different response from the kind of thing you published based on what a political supporter who got beaten by army had to say. I am also a student, and for me being a student means to study, learn and prove it worth by contributing in some development activity rather than being a blind devotee of some political leader and be part of chaos catalyst.

I look forward to your kind response to my view on your article and hope that you would come up with some credibility in your future articles rather than lopsided dogma.
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I hope you guys would send your comments to these people from international media reader@guardian.co.uk reader@observer.co.uk

ﾑProtest again, weﾒll kill youﾒ
Avirook Sen
Pokhara (Nepal), February 4


FEAR HANGS over the Prithvi Narayan College campus in Pokhara where Nepalese security forces quashed a protest on February 1. Although the students picked up by the army have been released, they got their freedom after a warning: "'You demonstrate again and we will kill you,' they told us," said Ramesh Chhetri, a Class XII student. Those on the campus aren't about to risk that.

The Royal Nepal Army and the police picked up 66 students in two batches after the protests, said hostel warden Chola Kanta Ojha.

They were taken to the army barracks 2 km away and dumped in trenches. "Then we were blindfolded and beaten relentlessly," said Bel Bahadur Purja, a student of Class XI. The blindfolds were removed at eight the next morning. The students said they spent the winter night huddled together for warmth. They were not given food or water and were released only at 2 p.m.

The students say, however, that while army choppers flew low and intimidated them, shots weren't fired from the air. The bullets came after four rounds of warning fire, they say. Two students were hit. One of them, Geeta KC, was shot through the thigh. She is now at Pokhara's Manipal Teaching Hospital.

Chiranjeevi, a blind student who was among the protestors, heard the whirr of choppers flying low and says he was afraid: "I was wondering if they were really coming for us," he told HT. He and other disabled students on the 12,000-strong campus were unharmed.

The incident at the P.N. College doesn't appear to have affected life in Pokhara, however. There's a merry fair on the banks of the Fewa lake. And nobody in this town of 1.3 lakh people seems to know exactly what happened at the college.

"That's because there's a complete lack of communication and people are afraid to go anywhere near the campus," says Basudeb Mishra, a journalist with the Pokhara Patra.

To those outside Nepal, Pokhara conjures up images of an idyllic tourist spot where the day begins with a view of the virgin Fishtail peak reflected in the still waters of the Fewa lake. To those within Nepal, there's another Pokhara, and P.N. College is an integral part of it.

King Gyanendra: The absolute monarch
By Justin Huggler

another good news

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=607894

> King Gyanendra: The absolute monarch
> By Justin Huggler

there are stuffs: realities. but this guy writes .. gyanendra's father is tribhuwan. there'z no mention of mahendra. hey guys, give him some tips.

gaalab can u be a bit clearer?

Galab kun,
Oame nani itteiruno?
Tribhuwan kun ha girino musume ni H sita te?

Dear Editor,
I think it would better if your reporters could study a bit of history about the places that they are reporting. King Gyanendra's father was King Mahendra, not Tribhuwan. Tribhuwan was his granpa.

Anyway your news reports would sound more credible if you could also have the views of those people who have to work daily and are not free to organize the political protest. I do not understand why your news articles are always based on what the political figures and policital victims have to say and never based on what the common people who have to work everyday, whose lives have been hampered like hell due to all this chaos caused by the deeds of the political figures and their followers most of whom are students ( not all the studends, but those who are not reallly there to study) who have been made victims of police brutality. I guess there is another mass of people too other than those who are always looking for trouble. If one is to always look for views of such people then I guess there are enough hooligans and trouble makers in UK as well who are always ready to say that police over there are brutal. So UK does not have any democracy too based on what such people say.

I hope this would mean something to your reporters.

bj

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guys please write sth to these news reporters.
letters@independent.co.uk

Gaijin,
read the article in the link bideshi has posted.
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=607894
the writer says:
Gyanendra's father is Tribhuwan. If i am not mistaken, gyanendra's father is mahendra. and mahendra's father is tribhuwan.
cant imagine that this guy is competent enough to write a story on nepal history.

I dont know if i made it "a bit clearer".

Sorry gaalab kun, I thought you were talking about this link.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1406468,00.html
I agree with what you said.