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July 2008

Chief Secy Seeks Inclusion of Marginalised in Bureaucracy
Himalayan Times - Kathmandu,Nepal
He admitted that women and people from Dalit, Janajati, Madhesi community were poorly represented in Nepal's bureaucracy and people from Muslim community in ...

. JOYCE S. ANDERSON Special to the Jewish Times
Jewish Times of Southern New Jersey - Atlantic City,NJ,USA
... a large northern state that borders on Nepal is commonly known in India as UP The traditional constituents of the Congress Party have been the Dalits, ...

Delegates at ‘Peoples SAARC’ strengthen regional solidarity
Daily Mirror - Colombo,Western,Sri Lanka
They represented farmers, agricultural workers, organized and unorganized workers, women, indigenous groups, oppressed castes especially the Dalit community ...

President Yadav confers with minor parties on next govt
Nepalnews.com - Kathmandu,Nepal
Representatives of CPN (United), Nepal Pariwar Dal, Chure-Bhawar Ekata Party, Dalit Janajati Party and Nepa Rastriya Party met the President. ...

Nepal Maoist Chief Says He Will Become Prime Minister
istockAnalyst.com - Salem,OR,USA
Nepali Congress leader Dr Minendra Rijal said the postponement of the SAARC summit due to Nepal could affect Nepal's image. The chairman of the Dalit ...

President consults with fringe parties
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
The leaders of Dalit Janajati party, Pariwaar party, Nepal National Party, Chure Bhawar Rastriya Ekta Party and other small parties went to the Presidential ...

Over 20 parties voicing for Maoist-led govt: Prachanda
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
We asked them to give the candidacy of a Dalit, somebody from the ethnic or indigenous community, Madhesi or a woman instead of Nepal to make the post ...

Dr. Neubauer: Leading Library Movement in Nepal
Nepal Monitor - Statesboro,GA,USA
When you see a dalit child from a poor family, who scored the highest on her exams and won a scholarship to college because she walked 2 miles every day to ...

Sadanand Menon: Spurious South Asian imaginaries
Business Standard - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Within the nationality struggle, the Dalit movement was galvanising into the demand for a separate Dalitsthan. This demand keeps manifesting itself ...

Prez poll run-off concludes
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
... nine Sadbhawana Party, two Sadbhwana Party-Anandidevi, seven People’s Front Nepal, two Nepal Janta Dal and one Dalit Janajati Party lawmaker. ...

Maoists lose crucial ally in presidential race
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
While the UML candidate Ram Preet Paswan Friday made an impassioned appeal to empower Nepal’s underprivileged Dalit community, to which he belongs, ...

Nepal: Peace process in danger, Maoists chief Prachanda
Telegraphnepal.com - Kathmandu,Bagmati,Nepal
The Maoists’ leadership on Sunday met with the leaders of the Tarai Madhesh Lokatantrik Party, Nepal Sadvawana Party and Nepal Dalit party.

Commentary: Help us cease from striving
Dallas Baptist Standard - Dallas,TX,USA
The word Dalit actually means "broken people." Dalits can't be squeezed for big tithes and offerings. They don't bring anything to the table. ...

‘End all forms of violence’
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
The Training with maximum participation of women from dalit and backward communities from Mahottari and Sindhuli districts was organized by Nepal Family ...

Prez poll run-off on Monday
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
... of members of People's Front Nepal and Sadbhavana Party and small Madhesi parties like Dalit Janajati Party and Federal Republican National Front. ...

Re-poll fear haunts Nepal's first presidential race
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
... and the NC Man Bahadur Bishwokarma, who comes from the Dalit community once regarded as untouchables and still at the bottom of Nepal's social hierarchy.

Madhes parties give alignments new twist
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
The Sarita Giri-led group of the NSP-A and the Dalit Janajati Party also supported the TMDP and SP's position. MPRF Chairman Yadav told the meeting that the ...

Nepal: Monarchist Party to Boycott Election
OhmyNews International - South Korea
Paswan hails from the Terai and belongs to the Dalit community. The MPRF registered Parmananda Jha for vice president and support the Maoists choice of ...

Nepal: End of Maoists-UML alliance, Ram Raja likely to be president
Telegraphnepal.com - Kathmandu,Bagmati,Nepal
... the Nepali Congress has Dr. Ram Baran Yadav as its candidate and the UML has forwarded Mr. Ram Prit Paswasn- a Madhesi dalit candidate for the post of ...

Maoists pick Ram Raja for President’s post
Himalayan Times - Kathmandu,Nepal
Two out of the three CA members of NSP-A, two Nepali Janata Dal members and one CA member of Dalit Janajati Party are expected to side with the UDMF. ...

Maoist chief meets MK Nepal amid uncertainty over presidential nominee
Nepalnews.com - Kathmandu,Nepal
Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' held a closed-door discussion with former UML general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal on Wednesday as part of an ...

UML not joining Maoist-led govt
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
... Nepal cannot be accepted as the country’s first president. The UML have also proposed an individual from Dalit community for the presidential post. ...

Madhesi parties to boycott Sunday's CA meeting
Nepalnews.com - Kathmandu,Nepal
Madhesi parties have decided to boycott Sunday's Constituent Assembly (CA) meeting, which is take up the constitution amendment bill tabled by the ...

Madhes-based Parties Boycott CA
Himalayan Times - Kathmandu,Nepal
Madhesi Janadhikar Forum, Tarai Madhes Democratic Party, Sadbhawana Party, Nepal Sadbhawana Party (A) and Dalit Janajati Party boycotted CA session. ...

Madhesi parties not taking part in today’s CA meet
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
The Madhes-based political parties including — MJF, Terai Madhes Loktantrik Party and Nepal Sabhawana Party—would boycott Sunday’s CA meeting, ...

Nepal's Madhesi parties boycott Constituent Assembly meeting
Newstrack India - Delhi,India
According to Nepalnews, Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF), Terai Madhes Loktantrik Party, Sadbhawana Party and Dalit Janajati Party boycotted the CA meeting ...

Nepal´s "Madhesi" CA Members who are More Proud to Speak Hindi
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
But the movement was intensified on the street first by all Teraians – Madhesi Hindu ethnic group, Dalit and indigenous communities. ...

Hindi use in Nepal House creates uproar
Times of India - India
KATHMANDU: Nepal might be one of the most avid watchers of Hindi films and soap operas, but it is now up in arms over Hindi being spoken in its ...

Decks cleared for govt formation
Himalayan Times - Kathmandu,Nepal
... Sadbhavana Party, Dalit Janajati Party, a faction of the Nepal Sadbhavana Party-Anandi Devi led by Sarita Giri and Janajati Party — remained absent. ...

Nepal: Madhesis to boycott Assembly meet
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
PTI Nepal's Madhesi parties seeking autonomy for the Terai belt dominated by Indian-origin people have decided to boycott a crucial Constituent Assembly ...

CA passes Fifth Amendment bill
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
All Madhesi parties-Madhesi People's Rights Forum, Tarai Madhes Democratic Party, Sadbhavana Party and Dalit Janajati party--did not attend the meeting, ...

Minorities Conference discusses their empowerment
IndiaPost.com - Union City,CA,USA
NEW YORK: The International Dalit-Minorities Conference held July 4-6 in New York, discussed the challenges and opportunities faced by minorities, dalits, ...

Dalit CA Members Flay Swiss Model of Federalism
Himalayan Times - Kathmandu,Nepal
... society has specific structure and a unique historic background," said Aahuti, a Dalit activist, claiming that the paper was irrelevant for Nepal. ...

Assembly set to approve Fifth Amendment Bill
Himalayan Times - Kathmandu,Nepal
MJF, Tarai Madhes Democratic Party, Sadbhawana Party, Nepal Sadbhawana Party (A), Janata Dal and Dalit Janajati Party would boycott tomorrow’s CA session, ...

Madhes parties to boycott CA today
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
Speaking at an interaction program organized by Reporters' Club Nepal in the capital, Gachchhedar said they came to their decision as the bill tabled in the ...

Nepal: Madhesi leader threatens split
Telegraphnepal.com - Kathmandu,Bagmati,Nepal
... Madhesh Lokatantrik Party, Lokatantriak Party, Sadvawaba Party(Mahato), Dalit-Janajati Party, Nepali Janata Dal, Nepal Sadvawana Party(Sarita Giri). ...

Nepal Cabinet endorses amendment bill, deadlock continues
Zee News - Noida,Uttar Pradesh,India
The parties have also agreed to guarantee the representation of Madhesi, indigenous, Dalit, women, and backward communities in the Nepal Army based on the ...

Nepali Dalit people protest against discrimination
Xinhua - China
KATHMANDU, July 10 (Xinhua) -- The Dalit community in Nepal staged a sit-in protest in capital Kathmandu to draw the government's attention to a series of ...

House meets after 12 days • Prachanda for autonomous states
Himalayan Times - Kathmandu,Nepal
... some of the members of the Nepal Sadbhavana Party and Nepal Dalit Janajati Party — boycotted the meeting well before minister Nembang tabled the bill. ...

Dalits protest against continued discrimination
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
... protest was carried out to pressurise the government to draft a new constitution supportive of Dalit views for a new Nepal along and an inclusive state. ...

Ethnic Tharus warn of stir against one Madhes
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
There are nearly 10 per cent Madhesis in Terai; 16 are from Tharu and other indigenous nationalities; and 9 per cent are from Dalit communities, ...

Big three agree on supplementary bill terminology
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
Likewise, the parties have also decided to table an amendment motion at the CA to manage the Nepal Army based on the principle of inclusive and proportional ...

Agreement reached on new amendment bill
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
... indigenous, Dalit, women, and backward communities among others in the Nepal Army based on the principle of inclusive and proportional representation. ...

ILPS vows struggle against imperialist war and plunder
Workers World - USA
The delegates were domestic workers and doctors, farmers and factory workers, Kenyan debt-relief activists, Dalit women from South India, ...

Nepali Politics in Crisis
OhmyNews International - South Korea
Deadlock, stalemate, dilemma and confrontations are some common words that can be used to describe Nepali politics. Time and again Nepal's politics have ...

New supplementary bill set to ease Madhes tensions
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
A meeting of the top leaders of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M), Nepali Congress and Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) ...

New supplementary bill set to ease Madhes tensions
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
Emerging from the meeting, Nepali Congress leader Arjun Narshigh KC said the two sides have agreed to mention that Nepal will be a federal democratic ...

Dalit meet in US demands private sector quota
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
Over 2000 delegates from India, the US, Nepal, Britain, Malaysia, the Middle East, and other parts of the world are participating in the conference, ...

Growing intolerance
Hindu - Chennai,India
If you write of a dalit political organisation that it has “hired leaders” and “hired agitations”, your office is set upon by goons. ...

Human Documentation of Hatred
indiainteracts.com - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
Some critics identify the Bengali dalit literature with the writings of Tara shankar, Sharat, Manik and Mahashweta. It is a pity as these excellent artist ...

International Dalit meet to begin in New York on Friday
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
The conference would focus on Indian Diaspora with special reference to discrimination on basis of caste, gender and religion, the prominent Dalit leader ...

Big 3 undermining CA: Small parties
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
Biswendra Paswan of Dalit Janajati Party (DJP), however, demanded that the government implement the letter and spirit of the agreement signed with Madhesi ...

$1B needed to reach out to poor: Yadav
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
Around 31 per cent of Nepal’s close to 20.7M people are living under the poverty line, according to official statistics. The population is concentrated in ...

3-party meet underway to finalise draft of supplementary bill
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
... and Mahato-led Nepal Sadbhawana Party (NSP-M) are present at the meeting. Representatives of Dalit Janajati Party are also participating in the meeting.

International Dalit meet to begin in New York
Hindu - Chennai,India
The conference would focus on Indian diaspora with special reference to discrimination on basis of caste, gender and religion, the prominent Dalit leader ...

The euphoria of dismantling an unpopular monarchy and opening the ...
ABC Online - Australia
... Communist Party of Nepal/United Marxist-Leninist or CPN/UML [Amrit Kumar BOHARA]; Dalit Janajati Party [Vishwendraman PASHWAN]; Janamorcha Nepal [Amik ...

Defending National Integrity of Nepal from Political Impropriety
Global Politician - Brooklyn,NY,USA
The federal system, therefore, cannot just be for the rule of the people of marginalized Madhesi, Dalit or indigenous nationalities but for the sake of ...

‘One Madhes, One Pradesh wrongheaded’
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
"All the indigenous, ethnic and dalit communities will jointly revolt against it," he said. Prof Mahendra Singh said the Tarai people are in favor of ...

Key parties agree to include Madhes issues in statute
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
Meanwhile the four Madhesh-based parties Madhesi Janadhikar Forum, Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party, Sadbhawana Party and Dalit Janajati Party stalled the ...

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