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	<title>Nepali Times &#124; The Brief &#187; Nepali Congress</title>
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		<title>The road from here</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/07/05/the-road-from-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/07/05/the-road-from-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The road from here
Senior NC leader, Bal Bahadur Rai, had this commentary in Himal
Khabarpatrika 30 June-16 July. It was dictated from his hospital bed ten
days before he died on Sunday.
All the leaders of all the parties acknowledge that there is no
alternative to consensus politics. Yet, they can’t get themselves to rise
above personal and party interest. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squeezing stone</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/04/20/squeezing-stone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/04/20/squeezing-stone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=730</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The hope that the constitution may be written on time is officially over as one of the ruling parties, CPN-UML, asked to extend the term of Constituent Assembly. Republica reports:
Coming with the conclusion that there is no possibility of producing a new constitution by the May 28 deadline, the parliamentary party meeting of the CPN-UML [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Power struggle</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/03/24/power-struggle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/03/24/power-struggle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Girija Prasad Koirala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gyanendra Shah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monarchy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sher Bahadur Deuba]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nepali politicians are so predictable it’s kind of getting boring. Days after the demise of former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, top players in Nepali Congress have started their bids for the party’s presidency, and not amicably. The contest is between Sher Bahadur Deuba and Sushil Koirala. Nepalnews writes:
The conflict surfaced after NC senior leader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Withholding allowance</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/18/withholding-allowance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/18/withholding-allowance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maoist Combatants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nepali Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PLA integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pushpa Kamal Dahal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=563</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After accusing the Maoists of exaggerating the number of combatants in UNMIN camps last week, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal is now looking into blocking the combatants&#8217; monthly allowance, Kantipur reports:
The government has reported that it might stop monthly payments to Maoists combatants stationed in temporary camps. Saying that the Maoist party has been uncooperative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rift in Nepali Congress</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/01/rift-in-nepali-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/01/rift-in-nepali-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arjun Narsingh KC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Constitution 2010]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=494</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A High Level Political Mechanism meeting, scheduled to discuss the functioning of the current government, ended inconclusively on Monday. A few interesting details emerged afterwards, as leaders of various parties spoke to the press. From The Himalayan Times:
Nepali Congress has expressed its willingness to lead a new government during Monday’s High Level Political Mechanism (HLPM) meeting, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kingmakers</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/01/27/kingmakers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/01/27/kingmakers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Girija Prasad Koirala]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nepal Political Crisis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=475</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal sneakily turned up at Nepali Congress President Girja Prasad Koirala’s residence on Wednesday and pledged full support to the octogenarian leader should he want to be the prime minister of Nepal. Kantipur reports:
The Maoists, who have until now been demanding a national unity government under their leadership, proposed the prime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integration issues</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/01/25/integration-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/01/25/integration-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bidya Bhandari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bijay Gachchhadar]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=466</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time in a country called Nepal, seven political parties decided to sign an agreement called the Comprehensive Peace Accord. Both sides were in a hurry for peace and it seems like they didn’t read what they signed, or left some provisions deliberately vague so that they would have something to quarrel about, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good and bad treatment</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/12/30/good-and-bad-treatment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/12/30/good-and-bad-treatment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
In Beijing on Tuesday, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal got the red-carpet welcome at the Great Hall of the People from Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. Nepal also got China to pledge 100 million Yuan (nearly Rs 1.5 billion) in assistance every year in exchange for controlling anti-China activities in Nepal. Republica writes:
During the meeting, PM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new Newa State</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/12/27/a-newer-newa-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2009/12/27/a-newer-newa-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Autonomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hisila Yami]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathmandy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Narayan Kaji Shrestha]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of people gathered at Dashrath Stadium and declared a separate Newa autonomous state on Saturday&#8211;exactly 10 days after the Maoists had done the same. The Kathmandu Post reports:
The UCPN (Maoist) had, on Dec. 16, declared the Newa Autonomous State amid confusion and controversy over the border of the state. Representatives of the Joint Newa [...]]]></description>
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