Thai military rulers decide on interim PM Statute gives them right to sack PM Bangkok, September 28 : Thailand’s military rulers have chosen an interim civilian prime minister for a provisional government set to replace the administration of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, an... Women 28 Sep, 2006
Citizenship for all eligible before CA polls: Sitaula Kathmandu, September 21:Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula, tabling the Nepal Citizenship Bill, 2006 in the House of Representatives (HoR) today said all eligible people should be given Nepali citizenship certificates before the elections to a... Travel 22 Sep, 2006
Bush losing global war on terror To consider whether US President George W Bush is winning his “global war on terror” (GWOT) five years after Al Qaeda’s devastating 9/11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, one has only to look at the news of the past few days. In Afghanistan,... 10 Sep, 2006
TOPICS : Tough bargaining ahead over Iran’s nukes Iran’s response to the nuclear incentives package offered by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) plus Germany (P5+1) is a sign that there could be tough bargaining ahead of the August 31 deadline for this country to stop... 24 Aug, 2006
Expert for scrapping of Military Secretariat, NSC Kathmandu, May 8 :A security expert today demanded that the government scrap the Military Secretariat and restructure the National Security Council (NSC). Addressing an interaction at the Reporters’ Club, Indrajit Rai also challenged a provision in... Travel 09 May, 2006
Come dance with me Donald Camp, the US principal deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs, has concluded his two-day visit to Nepal by repeating the American position that the King and the political parties should bury the hatchet and that the Maoists... 09 Mar, 2006
TOPICS: Cheney’s vice-like grip After shooting Harry Whittington, Dick Cheney’s immediate impulse was to control the intelligence. Rather than call the president directly, he ordered an aide to inform the White House chief of staff, Andrew Card, that there had been an accident —... 27 Feb, 2006
TOPICS: Bush’s image of fire and turning points In his second inaugural address, George Bush four times summoned the image of fire — “a day of fire’’, “we have lit a fire’’, “fire in the minds of men’’, and “untamed fire’’. Over the course of the first year of his second... 01 Jan, 2006
Kennedy’s nuke option was idle talk: Experts New Delhi, August 26:The disclosure that the US debated a nuclear strike against China in 1963 if it attacked India again was today described as “idle talk” by a strategic expert here. Brahma Chellaney said it was fanciful that the US wanted to... Women 26 Aug, 2005
Say mullah and you also say military Mike Marqusee General Pervez Musharraf has expressed irritation at the “aspersions’’ cast on Pakistan in the British media. After his extensive efforts to prove his loyalty to the US-British “war on terror’’ — efforts that have exposed... 27 Jul, 2005
IN BRIEF Two kill selvesKATHMANDU: A 12-year-old girl committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her room on Thursday, police said. The girl has been identified as Nirmala Sarki, daughter of Madhusudan Sarki, of Danchhi VDC-2. A pregnant woman... Horoscopes 08 Jul, 2005
Thailand plans to kill rebels in Muslim south Agence France PresseBangkok, June 23: Thailand plans to declare “violent zones” in Muslim southern provinces where security forces will seek to hunt down and kill Islamic insurgents blamed for a surge of deadly attacks, the defence minister said... Women 23 Jun, 2005
