Mass demonstration in Kathmandu

almost Nepal Bandh

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April 28th 2010
Closing down my nation takes as much effort as typing the texts perhaps. I don't exactly know how it all starts or where. Only day before (April 26), we were asking one another (in a group of least-bothered friends) if there is a bandh (closure) the next day. I don't know why my friends were asking and I really don't know how the discussion entered into our lunch-time table-talk. The next day, ... read more

Asia » Nepal » Kathmandu » Thapathali

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In 1951, the Nepalese monarch ended the century-old system of rule by hereditary premiers and instituted a cabinet system of government. Reforms in 1990 established a multiparty democracy within the framework of a constitutional monarchy. A Maoist in... ... read more