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	<title>Nepali Times &#124; The Brief &#187; India</title>
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		<title>Keeping secrets</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/04/14/keeping-secrets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/04/14/keeping-secrets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Passport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rakesh Sood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sujata Koirala]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two days after the government revoked its decision to print the machine readable passports in India, the Indian embassy has issued an statement expressing regret over the politicisation of the issue. The statement reads: 
India agreed to supply the machine readable passport booklets through its Government Undertaking, Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India (SPMCIL), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New passport troubles</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/04/07/new-passport-troubles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/04/07/new-passport-troubles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bardiya]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=716</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court has ordered the government to halt the process of outsourcing the printing of machine readable passports, in the wake of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s statement that he was forced to award the contract to India to please the coalition parties. Republica writes:
Responding to a writ petition filed against the government´s decision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let down</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/04/06/losing-support/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/04/06/losing-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Machine Readable Passports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madhav Kumar Nepal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maoist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nepal Peace Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nepali Congress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=712</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal is losing support from friends while opponents have made their voices stronger. We have a list of parties who have added their voice to the opposition.
Those who have withdrawn their support:
Nepali Sadbhavana Party (Anandadebi) &#8211; The party has accused that the government failed to forge a national political consensus.  With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unwanted help?</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/03/09/unwanted-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/03/09/unwanted-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamim Shah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maoist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nepal police]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[young Communist League]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Young Communist League, the youth wing of the Maoist Party, has announced that it will help the government arrest criminals, as part of its wider campaign to create a peaceful environment for the writing of a ‘pro-people constitution’. The Himalayan Times reports:
The YCL today announced an exposure campaign against murder, kidnapping, prostitution, women and drug [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countdown</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/17/countdown-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/17/countdown-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Constituent Assembly]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maoist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ram Baran Yadav]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=555</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 100-day countdown for the Constituent Assembly to finish writing the constitution begins today. To mark this milestone, and to let people know how their time is being used up, the Public Opinion and Coordination Committee of the CA is going on a tour of the country. The Kathmandu Post writes:
The committee has decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miseries at low level</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/11/miseries-at-low-level/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/11/miseries-at-low-level/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Export]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high level political mechanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[India has decided to resume the export of wheat and rice to India since banning it in 2007. The Himalayan Times reports:
India had banned the export in early 2007 and had lifted the restriction for a few days in July last year before re-imposing it.
India’s decision to export the grain heralds good news because some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enemies within</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/01/22/enemies-within/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/01/22/enemies-within/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Armed groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bidya Bhandari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defence Minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madhav Kumar Nepal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maoist Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nepal Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pushpa Kamal Dahal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ram Bahadur Thapa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Communist League]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=452</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Defence Minister Bidya Bhandari have not been on speaking terms for a while. On Thursday, Nepal told the media to tell her that she can’t override his authority while she is in his cabinet. The Himalayan Times reports:
The PM appeared angry about Bhandari’s remarks that she would not abide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generals and soldiers</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/01/19/generals-and-soldiers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/01/19/generals-and-soldiers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[deepak kapoor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pushpa Kamal Dahal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=434</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Indian Army Chief Deepak Kapoor arrived in Kathmandu on Tuesday for an official visit, during which he will be awarded the title of Honorary General of Nepal Army. It is a 60-year-old tradition practised by the two countries, but Kapoor is the first Indian general visit Nepal in eight years as his predecessor declined to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A new beginning&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/01/17/a-new-beginning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/01/17/a-new-beginning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ban Ki-moon]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief/?p=416</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal announced the beginning of a “new relationship with India” following a meeting with visiting Indian Minister of External Affairs SM Krishna on Sunday. The meeting held special importance since it occurred amid an increasingly strident Maoist campaign for ‘national independence’. Krishna expressed worries that the campaign would hurt bilateral relations. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A grudging welcome</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/01/14/a-grudging-welcome/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/01/14/a-grudging-welcome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief/?p=412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The UML and Maoists have been at loggerheads over whether to include the prime minister in the High Level Political Mechanism. Despite continued opposition from the Maoists, NC and UML leaders Girija Prasad Koirala and Jhalanath Khanal have decided to make the PM a “permanent-invitee member.” The Himalayan Times reports:
A meeting today beween Khanal and [...]]]></description>
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