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Government decides to scrap 16 laws, amend 23 NepalNews
Govt. asks army to eat home-grown chicken, instead of imported goat Add NHRC, Media Commission and Constitutional Court in the interim constitution: Experts MuAN unhappy with resumption of “constituency area development programme”

Warning for defaulters in Nepal BBC News, UK
Pakistan demands release of 'RDX smugglers' in Nepal DailyIndia.com
Two arrested Pakistanis have no links with Mumbai blasts: Probe Zee News
Thirty-One Killed In Nepal Landslide All Headline News
Nepal Maoists Continue to Block Rural Development Works Nepal human Rights News, Nepal Myagdi, they have forced several development projects, including water supply and roads, to stop as part of a pressure tactic to influence the government ahead of a summit talk scheduled between the Maoist and the government leadership for 21 July. ..... unidentified "Maoist sources" as saying that they had restricted the development construction works "all throughout the nation" in order to put pressure on the government to be lenient in the impending talks. .....
China rushes to woo Nepal Maoists Gulf Times, Qatar a red-faced China is rushing to mend fences with the guerrillas it once branded as anti-government forces tarnishing the image of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong. ..... China stepped up the sale of arms and ammunition that were used by the royal government to launch attacks on the Maoist guerrillas as well as suppress the anti-king protests by opposition parties. ..... For the first time in the history of the decade-old insurgency in Nepal, a Chinese official has given an interview to Janadesh, the weekly mouthpiece of the Maoists ...... “We believe the situation in Nepal would grow more stable after an interim government is formed with the Maoists” ....... “Even though India and the US dubbed the Maoists terrorists, Chinese officials never called them that. It is wrong to brand the party terrorists. I feel Washington is trying to play the terrorist card to further its own vested interests in Nepal.” ......
China rushes to woo Nepal Maoists Navhind Times, India
Red-faced China rushes to woo Nepal Maoists India eNews.com
Nepal: Women Face Widespread Violence Samudaya.org, AZ there are more than 200,000 trafficked Nepalese women in India, and a further 5,000 to 7,000 are added to that number every year. ...... less than one-third of rape cases are reported. ......
Rail contract snatched from Nepal king’s kin the contract worth over $269,722,960. .... On March 9, 2006, when his regime was about to fall due to nationwide protests, the king gave his son-in-law Raj Bahadur Singh the plum contract to construct an electric railway connecting the capital with the industrial town of Birgunj, about 278 km south of Kathmandu..... a build-operate-own-transfer basis...... The railway was expected to stretch further north from Kathmandu to Tatopani near the Tibet border so that it could be eventually linked with the Lhasa-Beijing train service started by China on July 1, 2006 and form a trans-Himalayan rail service. .... Though an engineering company, Infrastructure Nepal Private Ltd, had submitted a feasibility study to the Physical Planning and Works ministry in 2002, after King Gyanendra began controlling the government from 2003, the private firm’s application was rejected.