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	<title>Nepali Times &#124; The Brief &#187; Sujata Koirala</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>
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		<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>Caught on fire</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/04/08/caught-on-fire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/04/08/caught-on-fire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madhav Kumar Nepal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Passports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister Sujata Koirala smells the whiff of conspiracy in the air. On Thursday she said the government was unable to implement the use of machine readable passports due to a conspiracy. The process of handing the contract of machine readable passports to India was halted on Wednesday by a Supreme Court order. Nagarik writes:
“We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No mercy</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/03/19/no-mercy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/03/19/no-mercy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maoist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nepal Rastra Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nepal Rastra Bank governer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sujata Koirala]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=671</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Young Communist League members beat up a pregnant woman and her mother-in-law in Dang on Thursday because they had a dispute with her husband, Republica reports:
Maoist Young Communist League (YCL) workers mercilessly beat up a pregnant woman in Baghmare VDC of Dang district on Thursday evening over their enmity with her husband. Pushpa Nepali, 24, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Corruption scandal</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/23/corruption-scandal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/23/corruption-scandal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Children Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[One China Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Passports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ram Chadra Kuswaha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rupandehi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sujata Koirala]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Education Minister Ram Chandra Kuswaha, who is being investigated by the Public Account Committee for corruption, is about to lose his job after international donors threatened to scrap aid if appropriate action was not taken against the minister. Republica writes:
International donors have demanded action against Kuswaha as a condition for continuation of funding of billions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One weapon, one combatant</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/22/one-weapon-one-combatants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/22/one-weapon-one-combatants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Girija Prasad Koirala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kamal Thapa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madhav Kumar Nepal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pushpa Kamal Dahal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seculariam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sujata Koirala]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=577</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The government has unveiled a strategy to integrate as many Maoist combatants into the army as there are arms in the Maoist arsenal. According to Kantipur:
Peace Minister Rakam Chemjong said the integration would be based on ‘one combatant one weapon’ theory. “UNMIN has verified that there are 3,400 weapons, so only as many combatants can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead horse?</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/19/dead-horse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/19/dead-horse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Madhav Kumar Nepal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=568</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal is having another bad day. Today, his party compared his government to ‘expired medicine’, writes Republica:
Ruling CPN-UML leaders have fiercely advocated for and against the government at the party´s ongoing central committee (CC) meeting.
Several CC members demanded that the central body come up with an alternative to the present coalition, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The machine is quiet</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/15/the-machine-is-quiet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/15/the-machine-is-quiet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Civil Aviation Organisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Passports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prakash Chandra Lohani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Accounts Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sujata Koirala]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The parliament’s Public Accounts Committee held a hearing with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minster for Foreign Affairs Sujata Koirala on Sunday about the bidding process for machine readable passports. Naya Patrika recorded the conversation between Committee member Prakash Chandra Lohani and Minister Koirala:
Lohani: Four companies were on the short-list. So one of the companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High level dealings</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/02/high-level-dealings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/02/02/high-level-dealings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anti-India Campaigns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Girija Prasad Koirala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high level political mechanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maoist Party Nepal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pushpa Kamal Dahal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sujata Koirala]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/?p=499</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More details have emerged from Monday’s High Level Political Mechanism meeting. Nepali Congress president, Girija Prasad Koirala, asked the Maoist leaders to abandon their “anti-India campaign”, which Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal refused. From The Kathmandu Post:
UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal said the party wouldn’t withdraw its programmes as they were not meant “to [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></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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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Constitution first, federalism later</title>
		<link>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/01/31/constitution-first-federalism-later/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2010/01/31/constitution-first-federalism-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CPN-UML has directed its party’s CA members to ask for a State Restructuring Commission in the CA, indicating that the new constitution may be written before the finalising the details of federalism. The Himalyan Times writes:
&#8220;Restructuring the state is a very complex issue,&#8221; [UML president Jhal Nath] Khanal said, &#8220;We can also suggest leaving this [...]]]></description>
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