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Smoking barrels
Parsa has seen a spate of violence in recent days. Unidentified gunmen killed Rajesh Mandal, deputy-regional secretary of the Maoist party in Parsa, on Tuesday, just one day after a bodyguard was killed amid gunfire targetted at Parsa’s assistant CDO Bal Bahadur Malla. The violence comes after talks between the Joint Tarai Mukti Morcha (JTMM) [...]
Jha’s comeback
A constitutional amendment that will allow the president and vice president to take their oaths of office in any Nepali mother tongue is set to pass after the Maoists and Tarai-based parties agreed to support it. As part of the deal, ex-vice president Paramanda Jha, who lost his post after he controversially delivered his oath [...]
A deal nears
A day after Pushpa Kamal Dahal was heard on a leaked audio tape telling party cadres that plans are underway for a decisive people’s revolt, the Maoists have publicly reaffirmed their commitment to democracy. The Himalayan Times reports:
Baburam Bhattarai said, “it’s not capturing state power as Prachanda said, but attaining power in a democratic way [...]
Did he do it?
Today’s headlines read like a crime log. Here’s the latest.
The Toran saga continues as the Apex court orders the government to hold off on promoting General Toran Jung Bahadur Singh, who has been accused of human rights violations, until at least January 10. The Himalayan Times reports:
A single bench of Chief Justice Anup Raj Sharma [...]
High hopes
The Brief’s Daily Analysis
A lot of people are pinning their hopes on the Maoists calling off their plan to declare ethnic autonomous regions like they did last month. The party recently announced that it was going to push ahead with its previous plan to declare federal states. If the Maoists don’t change their minds, we [...]
The brief on Wednesday
Mother tongues
Mother tongues will soon replace Nepali as the primary medium of instruction in elementary schools across the country, says the Department of Education. The point of the reform is to lower dropout rates among students from non-Nepali speaking communities. These students will be taught Nepali as a second language instead. Director General of the [...]
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Eyes to the Everest
The Brief’s Daily Analysis
We should be thankful to our leaders for keeping Nepal alive in the international media. After the Gadhimai massacre only a gimmick like the cabinet meeting on Mount Everest could ensure that.
Or, is it because of the journalists, who are busy queuing for a ride to Kalapatthar with the ministerial folks? A [...]
