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(Photo: AP / Fareed Khan)Pakistan risks IMF's $1.2bn
A Pakistani stock broker and stock index board is reflected from a mirror in Karachi Stock Exchange in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. Pakistan is also a part of slowdown in world economies while tense situation between Pakistan and the U.S. over the rules of fighting war against terrorism on Pak-Afghan border areas will continue to keep market sentiments depressed, analysts sai...Full Story

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(Photo: AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)One-ninth of Nepal faces starvation, UN warns
Flood affected women and children queue for food outside a relief camp in Kamrangirchar, outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007. More than two weeks of monsoon rains across much of northern India, Bangladesh and Nepal have flooded rivers...Full Story

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India discuss measures to curb terrorism with neighbouring countries
| New Delhi, Mar 10 (ANI): The Union Government on Wednesday reiterated that it has consistently taken up the issue of use of their territories for terrorist/insurgent activities against India with governments of neighbouring countries at various levels.  | Replyin...Full Story
One-ninth of Nepal faces starvation, UN warns
Kathmandu: One-ninth of Nepal's nearly 27 million population face starvation, the UN warned Wednesday. | Nearly half of Nepal's 75 districts, mainly in the west and mountain regions, are grappling with food shortages. An additional $123.5 million is urgently needed to a...Full Story
Tight security on Tibet anniversary
| China has stepped up security in Tibet as the Himalayan region marks the sensitive anniversaries of the failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959 and bloody riots two years ago. | In the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, on Wednesday residents reported an upsurge in armed po...Full Story
Hundreds held in pre-emptive Tibet crackdown
| Hundreds of Tibetans have been rounded up in Lhasa and armed paramilitaries are patrolling the streets in the run-up to the anniversary of a bloody riot in 2008. | The authorities are anxious to avoid a repeat of the anti-Chinese attacks that left about 20 people dead...Full Story
State Minister Ansari set to step down
| KATHMANDU: State Minister for Home Affairs Rijwan Ansari is set to tender his resignation on Wednesday. | The Minister said he will put forward his resignation to Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal after the latter returns to the capital from Udayapur. | Talking to The...Full Story
Pearce - Door open for Owen
| England U21 boss Stuart Pearce insists it is wrong to suggest Michael Owen's international career is over. | Owen's slim hopes of making this summer's World Cup finals appear to be over after he was ruled out for the rest of the season through injury. | The Manchester...Full Story
Scorpio wins Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm in the Ndure category
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M), the market leader in the utility vehicle segment in India, has good reason to rejoice this year. The Scorpio (the company’s flagship brand) won the Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm 2010 in the Ndure category.  In 2009 the Sco...Full Story
Himalayan topic for Pickering Horticultural Society
| The speaker at the February meeting of the Hardy Plant Group of the Pickering Horticultural Society was Peter Hartrey. | Mr Hartrey showed slides illustrating the mountain flowers of Tibet and Nepal. They included rare species of primulas, meconopsis and rhododendrons...Full Story
A new look at an old threat
| Japanese project to develop a glacier and glacial lake inventory | GLOF Assessment Project 10 March, 2010 - There is a new twist in the story of the threats looming large high up in the mountains. Ten of the 25 glacial lakes, identified by ICIMOD as most dangerous, co...Full Story
130 illegal workers repatriated
| Immigration Update 10 March, 2010 - Following a month-long raid on private homes, immigration officials have repatriated more than 130 illegal workers from the country and collected a fine of over Nu 500,000. | The immigration department, with their teams from four fr...Full Story
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Jamyang Norbu – yak herder to quality carpenter
Kuensel Online | In the woodcraft trade for forty-plus years, he now runs his own successful business | 10 March, 2010 - Sundays are agonisingly slow days for Jamyang Norbu. He actually dreads the approach of the holiday. He doesn’t know what to do with his free ti...
Govt. does about turn
Kuensel Online | McKinsey liberalisation policy reversed with tariff rise to USD 250 | Tourism Tariff 10 March, 2010 - The country’s tour operators are doubly happy about the government’s decision to strike down the tariff liberalisation proposal and instead raise ...
Dirty pool
Kuensel Online | 10 March, 2010 - Government pool vehicles being misused has been as issue as long as anyone can remember. | One of the early attempts to curb misuse is recorded in a January 1987 Kuensel story about the government saving Nu 15,600 a day in fuel cos...
Fire rages at Himalaya Mall in Ahmedabad, cool heads save the day
DNA India | Ahmedabad: A major tragedy was averted after a fire broke out at the Himalaya Mall on Tuesday. No casualty was reported in the fire, which broke out in the Village Restaurant of the mall. Source said the alleged negligence of the kitchen staff of t...
Dalai Lama speech to appeal to elite in Tibet to visit communities of exiled Tibetans
DNA India | Beijing: Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will appeal to the elite in the Chinese-run Himalayan region in a speech on Wednesday, inviting them to visit communities of exiled Tibetans. | In an address marking 51 years since he fled...
Livestock rearing - key to poverty reduction strategies
The Hindu | Gavin Wall | From equity and livelihood perspectives, livestock rearing must be at the centre stage of poverty alleviation programmes. | Livestock rearing is a key livelihood and risk mitigation strategy for small and marginal farmers, particularly...
Outside science academies to review warming panel
The Guardian | SETH BORENSTEIN | AP Science Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) — The beleaguered global warming panel has found an outside group to review how it writes its reports. | An international group, the InterAcademy Council, will be given complete control to revi...
Sky marshals demand star treatment, threaten to quit
The Times Of India NEW DELHI: Sky marshals, national security guards on board a flight to encounter any terror threat, have threatened to stop flying on Mumbai-Kathmandu sector complaining of insufficient food and lodging arrangements by airlines, as per an official le...
'Visible minorities' to rise rapidly in Canada
Inquirer | OTTAWA—Canada's ethnic makeup will greatly change in the next 20 years as the number of non-Europeans or "visible minorities" rises to nearly one-third of the population, a government agency said Tuesday. | "Between now and 2031, the foreign-born p...
A Boho Bow
The New York Times | PARIS — Just when you thought it was time to say bye-bye to Boho, along comes a Kenzo show to make the most of hippie de luxe. Chris Moore/Karl Prouse | At Kenzo, Antonio Marras has done a good job of making the almost 40-year-old label relev...
UN to review errors made by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Times | The United Nations is to announce an independent review of errors made by its climate change advisory body in an attempt to restore its credibility. | A team of the world's leading scientists will investigate the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
The Thaw that Wasn't
Khaleej Times As widely anticipated last month's meeting between the foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India did little to melt the diplomatic ice. | That the officials met at all after a 14-month hiatus was billed by some as progress. In reality the Delhi talks...
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