John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service
Introduction
This is a collection of biographical sketches showing people whose wise voices from the past can help to guide us today. All of the women and men, brief glimpses of whose lives and ideas are portrayed here, gave a high place to compassion. None of them was a slave to greed. We need their voices today!
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Bashana Abeywardane | Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka – TRANSCEND Media Service
Maung Zarni
9 Oct 2017 – ‘Enemy of the State’ screamed the banner headline of a Burmese national newspaper in September, featuring full page photograph of Maung Zarni. More hatred follows, a week later.
“These publications are run by a web of cronies, milita...
Sunday, October 15, 2017/ @nepalinetbook.com Dr. Baburam Bhattarai and his Naya Shakti barely lasted a week in the new left alliance. If anything, that record gives some respectability to Pashupati Shamsher Rana’s desire to reunite his faction of the Rastriya Prajantra Party (RPP) with Kamal Thapa’s group, merely two months after breaking away. As Thapa returned to the cabi...
http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/asia/2017/10/nepal-headed-communist-state-171014095129113.html Subina Shrestha As Nepal woke up this month from the slumber of Dashain holidays, a political bombshell sent alarm bells ringing across the country. Nepal's communist parties announced that they were forming a pan-leftist alliance, a combined communist force that would eventually become Nepal...
Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, made a congratulatory visit to Mangyongdae Revolutionary School on its 70th founding anniversary.
Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un was greeted by Army Major General O Ryong Thaek, rector of the school, and other le...
Oct. 8, 2017
The Second Plenum of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea took place in the capital city of Pyongyang on Oct. 7, Juche 106 (2017).
Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), guided the meeting.
Attending the meeting were members and alternate members of the WPK Central Committee and members of the Central Auditing Commission of ...
रातोपाटी संवाददाता
काठमाडौं– प्रदेशसभा र प्रतिनिधिसभा निर्वाचनको मुखमा तीन प्रमुख दलले बामगठबन्धन बनाएपछि उत्पन्न राजनीतिक परिस्थितिमाथि अहिले नेपालस्थित शक्ति राष्ट्रका कुटनीतिक नियोगहरु निकै सक्रिय देखिएका छन् । दुई ...
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has been awarded the Asia Geospatial Leadership Award for Sustainable Community Development in acknowledgement of its long-standing contributions to promoting and using geospatial technologies in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. YB Datuk Ir Haji Hamim Samuri, the Malaysian Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, present...
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service
9 Oct 2017 – Microfinance — an approach to financial inclusion based on providing small loans and other financial services to poor people, and primarily women-has generated considerable enthusiasm, not just in the development community but also at political levels In the last decade and half microfinance institutions (MFIs) in India ...
Bela Bhatia – Al Jazeera
India, as a member of the international community, must do its bit to safeguard the fundamental rights of the Rohingya.
Rohingya refugees stand inside their slum on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, in a photo from 2015. [Tsering Topgyal/AP]
7 Oct 2017 – The stance of the Indian government regarding the Rohingya crisis is a...
By : Iqbl - KASHMIR conflict has multiple aspects, intertwined in a way that their separation is neither possible technically nor academically. These aspects could be grouped under two broad categories, moral and security related issues. It would be naïve to venture into separating the two on one pretext or the other. Kashmir being predominantly Muslim majority princely state was se...
William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service The Anti-Empire Report #151 26 Sep 2017 – The anti-Russian/anti-Soviet bias in the American media appears to have no limit. You would think that they would have enough self-awareness and enough journalistic integrity -– just enough -– to be concerned about their image. But it keeps on coming, piled higher and deeper. ...
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service
Gandhi Jayanti – 2 October, the date of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s birth in 1869 and the International Day of Nonviolence – offers an opportunity to reflect on human violence and to ponder ways to end it. There may be a fast way to end human violence but, if there is, Gandhi did not know it. Nor do I. Nor does anyone else ...
Reuters – CBC Radio Canada News
Nearly 500,000 People Have Fled to Bangladesh in the Past Month
An aerial view shows a burned Rohingya village near Maungdaw, north of Rakhine state, Myanmar.
(Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)
27 Sep 2017 – Myanmar’s government will manage the redevelopment of villages torched during violence in Rakhine state that has sent nearly h...
October 8 this year marks the 20th anniversary of election of Kim Jong Il (1942-2011) as the General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea. Kim Jong Il built up the WPK into an invincible party that achieves only victory in carrying out the cause of socialism, the cause of independence.
Kim Jong Il developed the WPK into a powerful body that is ideologically pure and organizationall...
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service
“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
— Nelson Mandela
29 Sep 2017 – India has been bedeviled by a spate of gruesome lynchings. And at the epicenter of the country’s violent upheaval is the indolent cow which is considered sacred by ...
Prothom Alo [Bangladesh] | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service
Myanmar state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech to the nation over Rakhine and Rohingya situation, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar on 19 September, 2017. Photo: Reuters
24 Sep 2017 – The verdict issued by the International People’s Tribunal in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Friday [22 Sep]...
From October 2 to 4 in 2007, meetings and talks were held between Kim Jong Il, chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and Roh Moo Hyun, president of south Korea. The heads of the north and south signed and published the Declaration for the Improvement of North-South Relations, and Peace and Prosperity, which consists of eight articles.
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The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) sent an open letter to political parties of different countries on Sept. 24.
In the letter the WPK Central Committee extended friendly greetings to those political parties struggling for peace and security of the world and social development and wellbeing of the peoples.
Recalling that the chairman of the DPRK State Affairs Co...
-लक्ष्मण तामाङ नेपाली केन्द्रिय विभाग, त्रिभुवन विश्वविद्धालय - तामाङ युवाहरूले चाहे भने कुनै सिंगो समुदाय हैन राष्ट्रनै परिवर्तन गर्न सक्छ भन्ने उदाहरण भर्खरै सम्पन्न नेपाल आइडलमा पोखरेली युवा बुद्ध लामाको शानदार जितले पुष्टि गरेकोछ । बुद्ध लामाको नेपाल आइडलमा भएको शानदार जितबाट अब तामाङहरूले खुशीयाली मनाउने भन्दा बढी नयाँ पाठ सिक्ने समय आएको छ । निशान भट्टराई र प्रताप दासको भन्द...
Let me first congratulate Mr. Miroslav Lajcak on his election as the President of the 72nd session of the General Assembly. I am confident that his long experience in public service and international relations will be an asset in successfully guiding this august Assembly to address the imposing challenges of security, development and governance that confront the world today.
For over 70 years ...
धर्मरत्न श्रेष्ठ -
सत्तारुढ कांग्रेस र माओवादीले भनेजसरी निर्वाचन गराइदिए वापत र आचारसंहितमा कारवाही नगरी प्रदेश र केन्द्रको निर्वाचनलाई समेत ध्यानमा राखेर सिडियो, सुरक्षाकर्मी र कर्मचारीको सेटिङ मिलाउने सुविधा दिएवापत प्रमुख निर्वाचन आयुक्तले गाडी किन्न १२ करोडको निकासा माँगे । देउवा सरकारले चुँ नबोली १२ करोड निकासा दिएर मानों आयुक्तहरुलाई पुरस्कृत नै गरिदिएको छ ।
निर्वाचन आयोगमा ५ आयुक्त छन...
Matthew Gindin – The Canadian Jewish News
Maung Zarni stands on the train tracks outside of Auschwitz and appeals to the international community to help the Rohingya people. YOUTUBE PHOTO
13 Sep 2017 – In March, London-based Burmese Buddhist and human rights activist Maung Zarni stood on the train tracks outside of Auschwitz and asked his companion to press record o...
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service
14 Sep 2017 – On 19 September 2016, the UN General Assembly held a one-day Summit on «Addressing Large Movements o Refugees and Migrants» and set a new agenda for responding to large movements of people crossing frontiers. The UN resolution is called The New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. It...
Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, released a statement on Thursday.
The full text of the statement reads:
The speech made by the U.S. Chief Executive in his maiden appearance on the UN arena in the prevailing serious circumstances, in which the situation on the Korean peninsula has been rendered tense as never before ...
Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service
Another participant of my study was Radhika Thapa (pseudonym) and she is from Mosel 2 Bhatta Gau of Gorkha district. I got to know her with the help of Ram Shrestha (pseudonym) who is a human rights advocator and working for National Human Rights Commission. As told by Ram, he worked at Gorkha district before one year and he became familia...
By : Tariq - The US finds it does not know how to dismount the tiger. The US is finding the war in Afghanistan a little too hot for its liking and why not; it was a war that remained in search of strategy and failed to find it. It’s not that I wish to gloat, nor that I want to say ‘I told you so’, but that one is forced to respond when confronted with accusatio...
Shree Prasad Devkota and Indra Raj Bhattarai – TRANSCEND Media Service 11 Sep 2017 – Human trafficking is not only a serious concern and challenge for Nepal, it has become a global challenge particularly for developing and least developed countries. There is a long history of Nepali girls and women trafficked for sexual purpose, exploitation and abuses to India and oth...
(Kathmandu, 15 September 2017) In 2016, natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes forced more than 24 million people globally to leave their homes. This level of disaster displacement and environmental migration poses significant regional challenges in the 21st century.
To discuss and address these challenges, a two-day regional workshop ended today at the ICIMOD ...
The U.S. and its vassal forces have rigged up yet another “resolution on sanctions” harsher than ever against the DPRK at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on September 12 condemning its ICBM mountable H-bomb test as “a threat” to international peace and security.
The “resolution” was fabricated by the U.S. employing all sorts of despicable and vi...
भदौ २८, २०७४ काठमाडौं : पाकिस्तानमा बनेका सामानहरुको प्रदर्शनी 'मेड इन पाकिस्तान' मेला बुधबारदेखि काठमाडौंको त्रिपुरेश्‍वरस्थित वर्ल्ड ट्रेड सेन्टरमा सुरु भएको छ। रावलपिण्डी चेम्बर अफ कमर्शले आयोजना गरेको मेलामा पाकिस्तानमा निर्मित छालाजन्य वस्तु, अन्य कपडा, कस्मेटिक सामान, भाडाहरु लगायत घरेलु प्रयोगमा आउने सामानहरु राखिएको छ। मेलामा भाग लिनको लागि पाकिस्तानबाट ...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea released the following statement on Monday:
The sanctions and pressure racket of the U.S. to completely obliterate the DPRK’s sovereignty and right to existence is reaching an extremely reckless phase.
The U.S. is going frantic to fabricate the harshest ever “sanctions resolution” by ...
Amid a series of events taking place in the fierce confrontation between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the US, another event is now shaking the world. On September 3, 2017 the DPRK succeeded in the test of H-bomb that could be loaded onto ICBM. The Nuclear Weapons Institute of the DPRK said in a statement that the test was aimed at examining and confirming the accuracy and...
16 Aug 2017
Session on the role of the private sector in climate action in the mountain areas of Pakistan
Photo Credit: Hashoo Foundation
With the development of a Private Sector Engagement Strategy, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is conducting a series of meetings in its Regional Member Countries (RMCs) with potential...
18 Jul 2017
Dr Eklabya Sharma, DDG, ICIMOD interacting during the popular lecture session. In set, Dr P P Dhyani and Dr R C Sundriyal of GBPNIHESD.
The GB Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment and Sustainable Development (GBPNIHESD) in Uttarakhand, India organized the 19th Himalayan Popular Lecture on 12 July 2017. The lecture, titled &lsquo...
Shree Prasad Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service
30 Aug 2017 – When I met the first participant (Sarada-ten years armed conflict victims children) for my study and shared my purpose then she recommended that Khim Bahadur Kumal (pseudonym) who was from Taranagar VDC ward number eleven of Gorkha, would be another participant. She shared that Khim Bahadur was also under the age o...
Jugal Shah | OpenCanada – TRANSCEND Media Service
When events in the US dominate the news, is there still an appetite for political and humanitarian response to crises like the mudslides in Sierra Leone?
A man helps a girl cross a log bridge after the flash flood washed away the concrete bridge at Pentagon, in Freetown, Sierra Leone August 18, 2017. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
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काठमाडौं । बयोधा अस्पताल बल्खुमा छ र यो अस्पताल सेवाग्राहीसँग बढी पैसा असुल्ने महगो अस्पतालले चिनिन्छ । तर अव विदेशी मुद्रा अपचलन गर्ने अस्पताल भनेर पनि चिनिने भएको छ । जिल्ला अदालतमा परेको एक मुद्दामा बयोधा अस्पताललालाई विदेशी मुद्रा अपचलनमा ४० लाख जरिबाना तोकिदिएपछि बयोधा अस्पताल नाङ्गेझार भएको हो । यो अस्पतालले स्वास्थ्य सामग्रीहरु खरिद गर्ने भनेर विदेशी मुद्रा सटहीको सुविधा लिएको र सो मुद्...
A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on August 31 as regards the fact that the U.S. and its vassal forces rigged up a “presidential statement” of the United Nations Security Council(UNSC) condemning the intermediate-range strategic ballistic rocket launching drill of the Strategic Force of the Korean Peopl...
By : M. Usan THE wheel comes full circle. After 9/11, it was Bush who was fuming with rage and revenge. His administration gave only one choice to Pakistan with loaded pistol on its head either you are with us or against. If you chose latter, will be bombed to Stone Age. Time was with US. Pakistan had to cave in and consequently suffered immeasurably in blood and goods. Now it is Trump who spo...
Maila Baje- Saturday, August 26, 2017
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba probably expected the ‘sell-out’ slur well before he delivered his constitutional amendment assurance at the joint news conference with his host, Narendra Modi, in New Delhi the other day. If not the constitution, our premier’s critics would have found something else to quibble with.
Even before departin...
BY TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 21 August 2017
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service
18 Aug 2017 – India’s economy is booming but Muslims continue to suffer great economic deprivation. Muslims are the second largest demographic of India, with nearly 14 per cent of the country’s population or roughly 172 million people. Their situation is so dire that, for them, economic r...
Munir Akram - The writer is a former Pakistan ambassador to the UN. WHILE celebrating the nation’s 70th independence anniversary, we cannot forget that the ‘K’ in Pakistan’s name — Kashmir — is not (yet) part of our country. The men, women and children of India-held Kashmir (IHK) are even now engaged in a heroic David and Goliath struggle for ...
Kathamdu, August 18: Ram Maya Sunar had two miscarriages. Then she had a daughter, who died of pneumonia when she was one. “My second child died from tuberculosis at just six months. I’m still haunted by it,” Sunar says, sitting outside her concrete block hut in the village of Thakaldanda, in southern Nepal’s Makwanpur district.
When she became pregnant again, S...
The Korean Jurists Committee Thursday issued a statement terming as illegal the anti-DPRK "sanctions resolution" cooked up by the U.S. by abusing the UN Security Council over its test-launch of ICBM Hwasong-14.
The U.S. fabricated the unprecedented harsh "sanctions resolution" which categorically cut off normal trade activities and economic exchange of the DPRK, the state...
Swaraj, who was in Kathmandu to attend the BIMSTEC ministerial-level meeting, spent a substantial part of her two-day visit with Nepali actors including Deuba. The message she tried to convey was India wanted a constructive engagement with Nepal and erase the image of an “external micro-manager”.
Written by Yubaraj Ghimire | Pu...
14 August 2017
Mazher Hussain | COVA Network– TRANSCEND Media Service
Greetings on the Eve of Pakistan-India Independence — 70 Years! Sharing a Pledge both countries can commit to while organizing Independence Days tomorrow and day after!
Happy Independence Day! Now let us dedicate ourselves to get real Azadi – especially for people of both countries!...
SS Pangti, retired bureaucrat and an expert on India-Nepal border affairs, said above Kalapani there is no demarcation between Indo-Nepal till China border. This could lead to problems in the coming time.
File photo of a Chinese soldier standing guard on the border with India. Kalapani is a region close to Nepal and the Himalayan country has been staking claim over the disput...
By : Jamil -
MONTH of August has great significance for Pakistan in two respects. For one Pakistan emerged on the map of the world on August 14, 1947as an independent and a sovereign state. Secondly, Quaid-i-Azam declared that all citizens of the state including minorities would have equal rights and opportunities. Quaid-i-Azam’s speech of August 11, 1...
11 August 2017, Kathmandu A three-day regional conference on mountain agriculture aimed at drawing out key lessons for uptake across the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) concluded in Kathmandu on August 11.
Hosted by the Ministry of Agricultural Development (MoAD), Nepal and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), the conference brought more tha...
The Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Monday issued a statement over the fact that the U.S. and other hostile forces, terrified at the growth of the DPRK’s state nuclear force in quality and quantity, are steeped in the most intensive sanctions, pressure and provocations against it.
The statement says:
On August 6, the U.S. framed up “sanctions r...
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS
Credit: UN in Armenia
28 Jul 2017 – It is happening now. Millions of humans are forced to flee armed conflicts, climate change, inequalities, and extreme poverty. They fall easy prey to traffickers lurking anyone who can be subjected to sexual exploitation, forced labour and even sell their skin and organs.
Just as tragically...
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service Raising the Question as to Why They Are Not Effectively Addressed Produced on the occasion of Earth Overshoot Day (2 August 2017), namely the date on which humanity’s resource consumption in 2017 exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources in 2017. The date is nearly a week earlier...
By : Saad While, the ideology of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) is the genesis of Hindu terrorism, having co-relationship with it, the main fault lines of India’s politics is based upon the discriminatory system of c1aste and religion. These trends in Indian politics have become the staging ground for all the national movements and wars of liberation. Indian anti-Muslim approac...
-युवराज गौतम
राजा वीरेन्द्रको आँसु र खुसी – नारायणहिटी दरबारमा भएको हत्याकाण्ड (२०५८ जेठ १९) अत्यन्त पीडादायक घटना थियो । सो घटनामा मारिएका राजा वीरेन्द्र पृथ्वीनारायण शाहका वंशज, राजा त्रिभुवनका नाति र राजा महेन्द्रका सुपुत्र मात्र थिएनन्, आफ्नो कालखण्डमा संसारमै अत्यन्त सम्मानित, विशिष्ट राजनेता (स्टेट्सम्यान) मध्ये एक थिए । अमेरिका, चीन, सोभियत संघ, फ्रान्स, जर्मनी, ब्रिट...
On July 28 the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea conducted the second test-firing of its ICBM Hwasong 14, to the horror of the US. Obviously, the whole of the US mainland comes within the range of the former’s missiles.
For the simulation of its maximum range, the missile was test-fired based on vertical launch technology. It climbed along the flight track up t...
The fierce nuclear showdown between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States of America is coming to an end in front of the eyes of the world.
The US has been driven into a tight corner by a series of measures the DPRK has adopted according to its own nuclear programme since the outset of last year–its first H-bomb test, the test-firing of th...
Former US Defense Secretary Perry once said: We must not view north Korea as we want but see it as it is. Over the past decades the US has adopted policies in anticipation of the country’s collapse, and now they prove to be a failure. The US should negotiate with it to reduce the danger of its nuclear weapons that can reach the US mainland.
This speech attracted the worl...
राजन कार्की-
संविधान राष्ट्र चलाउने बिधि हो, राष्ट्र जन्माउने कोख होइन । नयाँ संविधानले नयाा राष्ट्र जन्माउँछ भन्ने सपना देख्नेहरु नयाँ संविधानलाई अर्को राष्ट्र जन्माउने कोख शिद्ध गर्न लागिपरेका छन् । यस्ता अतिवादी सोच राख्नेहरुलाई विदेशी लाउने काठहरुले सघाइरहेको पनि देख्न बुझ्न सकिन्छ । यदि हुँदा पनि हाम्रा शासक, प्रशासकहरु सचेत छैनन् र सन्यासो कस्न सक्दैनन् भने यिनीहरुलाई हिलोको किलो...
Pyongyang, July 29 (KCNA) -- The second test-fire of ICBM Hwasong-14 was successfully carried out at night of July 28, Juche 106 (2017) under the supervision of Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.
Kim Jong Un guided the test-fire on the spot.
He, who ...
On July 27, 1953, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea emerged victorious in the Korean war.
Victorious July 27
When the US unleashed the Korean war, few believed that it would end with the defeat of the US, which was a victor in the Second World War and had emerged as the leader of the imperialist forces. And no one believed that the two-year-old DPRK would win the war. It wa...
पाकिस्तानमा मृत्युदण्डको सजाय पाएका ‘रअ’को एजेन्ट जसले आफुलाई भारतले नेपाल टुक्य्राउने जिम्मा दिएको दावी गरेका छन
नेपालमा भारतको सूक्ष्म व्यवस्थापनको चर्चा, भारतको खुफिया एजेन्सी ‘रअ’का पूर्वअधिकारी आरके यादवको पुस्तक ‘मिसन रअ’मार्फत तराई टुक्र्याउने योजना सार्वजनिक हुनु र स्वतन्त्र मधेशका लागि चलाइएको अभियानले तीव्रता पाउनु संयोग जस्तै देखिए प...
Sunday, July 16, 2017 It took less than a year for skeptics of the viability of a reunited Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) to exude a vigorous sense of vindication. Senior leader Pashupati Shamsher Rana has taken strong exception to party chairman Kamal Thapa’s decision to appoint 42 central committee members “without holding consultation”. Thapa, with no less defiance, res...
The foreign funded terrorist's attacks in Charsadda, Sehwan, Lahore and other places have once again shown that the war on terror is not over and that we need to fight back. In the face of escalating terrorism Pakistan has launched Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad, which is a nation wide operation that includes broad-spectrum security and counter-terrorism operations in Punjab, and continuati...
By Dr M. Khan -
At the global level, the 20th Century is marked by massive movements against colonial rule(s). Among others, the people of Sub-continent also started their demand for the end of British Colonial rule. The people of Jammu and Kashmir, however, had two-fold colonialism imposed over them; a tyrant Dogra Rule and a discriminatory British Colonialism. For a long, Kashmiris were cove...
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एउटा सबल राष्ट्रमा हुनुपर्ने पद्धति, नियम, कानुन, साधन, स्रोत सबैचिज छ, तैपनि राष्ट्रमा असफलता बाहेक केही देखिदैन । किन ?
सक्षम हुनुपर्ने नेतृत्व असक्षम भएरै हो ? नेतृत्वमा हुनुपर्ने विशेषताहरुको अभाव भएकै कारणले राष्ट्र यसरी असक्षम भएर रहनुपर्ने हो त ? अव पनि नागरिकले उत्तर खोजेनन् भने अवेर हुनेछ र उत्तर होइन, स्वाधीनता गुमाउनु पर्ने स्थितिमा पुग्नेछन् ।
भाग्य बनाउन भनेर...
Former Prime Minister and former Maoist ideologue Dr Baburam Bhattarai announced that he will launch street agitation demanding to scrap hydropower development agreement with Chinese Company
Former Prime Minister and former Maoist ideologue Dr Baburam Bhattarai announced that he will launch street agitation demanding to scrap hydropower development agreement with Chinese Compan...
Indeed, most Indians were not fully aware about Indo-Bhutanese propinquity until critics cried shrilly over the crisis that erupted in the summer 2013 and put India’s “carefully nurtured and fostered” relations with Bhutan under major strain
BY P. STOBDAN
Why did Bhutan, which stood by India during its conflict with China and Pakistan in 1972, to dr...
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
— George Orwell
17 Jul 2017 – Too much of the thinking about Muslim rulers is now being shaped along predictable, clichéd lines. This is true of all shades of opinion, perception and scholarship. T...
The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(DPRK) gave the following answer to the question raised by the KCNA on July 14 as regards the fact that the U.S. is attempting to rig up another “sanctions resolution” against the DPRK, branding its successful test-fire of the intercontinental ballistic rocket Hwasong-14 as a “g...
डा. बद्रीविशाल पोखरेल :नेपाली लेन्डुपहरू संविधान संशोधनको फेरि बहाना बनाउन थालेका छन् । उनीहरू दुईतिहाई सभासद्हरूको फैसलाबाट सदियौँदेखि अखण्ड, स्वाधीन, अविभाज्य विश्वको एक मात्र ऐतिहासिक, सांस्कृतिक, प्राकृतिक वैभवशाली यो देशको अस्तित्व धरापमा पार्न कसम खाएर लागिपरेका छन् । नेपाली जनता नै यस देशका पालक, रक्षक र संरक्षक हुन् ।
तर लेन्डुपहरू केही करोडको लोभमा पारेर भए पनि के...
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service Raising the Question as to Why They Are Not Effectively Addressed 8 Jul 2017 – Written on the occasion of the G20 Summit (Hamburg, July 2017) at which both terrorism and migration are prominent agenda items. Commentary on migration is made separately (Anticipating Future Migration into Euro...
By : Reema- On 8th of July, 2017 Burhan Wani’s first death anniversary will be expressed throughout Kashmir as a symbol of youth gallantry and protest against Indian oppression. Over the last year Burhan Wani’s name has become a symbol of Kashmiri passion and struggle for freedom. Wani passed away but left a strong missive to the adversaries and a vigil for Kashmiri youth...
A spokesman for the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs Friday released a statement as regards the fact that the U.S. is pulling up the DPRK over the successful test-fire of intercontinental ballistic rocket Hwasong-14. The statement said:
On July 4, the DPRK successfully carried out the test-fire of inter-continental ballistic rocket Hwasong-14 which stands for the final gate to co...
China continues to raise the stakes in the border standoff with India with an official media calling for Sikkim’s ‘independence’.
Hindustan Times, Beijing
Chinese soldiers at Nathu La (pass) in Sikkim.(HT FILE PHOTO)
Amid the Sino-India border standoff,...
Experts identify key steps to strengthen knowledge on climate change and other water-related challenges
Colombo, Sri Lanka (6 July 2017) – Sri Lanka hosted a ground-breaking meeting to strengthen knowledge and support collective efforts on tackling climate change adaptation and other water-related challenges in the Indus Basin, home to more than 300 milli...
Khagendra N Sharma Knsad66@yahoo.com Every political element gained from the two phases of the local level election, but the RashtriyaJanata Party (RJP) lost the greatest opportunity to gain back the trust of the people they claim to represent. The second phase was specially designed to facilitate the participation of the RJP by postponing the election dates not once but three times. Two ...
Mark Farmaner – HuffPost UK
Nine-year old Ganga Burman, a child labourer, breaks stones on the banks of river Balason on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Siliguri June 12, 2009. The International Labour Organization (ILO) celebrates World Day Against Child Labour on Jun 12, 2017. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri (INDIA SOCIETY)
28 Jun 2017 – A shocking new repo...
By : Jmil
FOR the last seven decades, the terrible massacre of Kashmiris in Indian Occupied Kashmir continues unabatedly. The catastrophe is big enough to move any conscious human being; but unfortunately the apathy and insensitivity of international community has encouraged India to perpetrate atrocities on the people of Kashmir in violations of universally accepted human rights. Not that int...
Nirmala Carvalho | Crux – TRANSCEND Media Service
Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are considered to be among the world’s most persecuted peoples, subject to what the UN calls “crimes against humanity” and hundreds of thousands are now refugees in neighboring Bangladesh, where Cardinal Patrick D’Rozario is defending their right to “dignity.”
Europe...
By: Sajd
Despite the continued sieges and prolonged curfews, including arrests and detentions of the Kashmir leaders, since July 8, 2016, Indian security forces have martyred more than 250 innocent persons in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK), who have been protesting against the martyrdom of Burhan Wani and for liberation of their land.
With the acceleration of the new Intifada, Indian...
Sunday, June 18, 2017
If you listen to his critics, the ‘incompetent’ tag bestowed twice on Sher Bahadur Deuba over the last decade and a half is closing in on him early in his fourth innings as prime minister. Yet the man remains visibly undaunted.
The opposition, led by the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML), was quick to pounce on Deuba’s decision...
By Asif Rizvi | Mumbai | Posted 15-Jun-2017TTER
Aadhar card project exposed after Nepali woman flashes card as ID proof at Mumbai airport. The woman, who lived in Kalyan since 2009, claimed she didn’t know it is issued to only Indian residents
In May, three Pakistani nationals were caught by the CBI after they procured Aadhaar cards for just R100 each. Representat...
ARUN BUDHATHOKI Thursday, June 15,2017 In a recently published article in ‘The Hindu Business Line’ entitled 'China is Nepal's new best friend', the author suggests India deploy its Hindu card to regain the waning friendship and control in Nepal. The author accepts India's shortcomings in its treatment in Nepal but the fact that Nepali leaders decided to opt ...
Jake Adelstein – The Daily Beast
Abe government makes even pondering crimes cause for arrest, with a U.N.-condemned ‘anti-terrorism’ law that hits mushroom-hunters and music teachers, but not actual terrorists.
Toru Hana/Reuters
15 Jun 2017 – On Thursday morning, Japan’s deceptively dubbed “anti-terrorism” bill was steamrolled into l...
By Partha Chatterjee There are chilling similarities between the justifications advanced for the actions of the British Indian army in Punjab in 1919 and those being offered today in defence of the acts of the Indian army in Kashmir. “It was my duty – my horrible, dirty duty,” the general explained. “I had the choice of carrying out a very distasteful and horrible duty...
As the Kathmandu elite, then led by UML prime minister K P Oli, cosied up to the Chinese during the blockade, India watched uncomfortably. Written by Jyoti Malhotra | Updated: June 16, 2017 9:39 am Newly elected Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba smiles as he arrives for his swearing-in ceremony at the presidential building in Kathmandu, Nepal June 7, 2017. Reut...
Kim Jong Il (1942-2011), eternal General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, started working at its Central Committee on June 19, 1964.
It was an event of great significance in strengthening and developing the WPK.
Kim Jong Il developed the WPK into an integral whole steadfast in ideology and into the one which achieved definite unity and cohesion of its ranks.
He had the W...
Yves Carmona First, I want to pay tributes to my fellow French people and their Sherpa friends, who have organized an ambitious expedition to clean Mount Sagarmatha. Sagarmatha is the pride of Nepal and hundreds of climbers are trying summit it this year. We know it is a dangerous sport, so the climbers who attempt it are certainly bold people. But Gérard Clermidy and his friends a...
ASIA & THE PACIFIC, 12 June 2017
Anadolu Agency - Yeni Şafak
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev makes announcement prior to Heads of State Council meeting in Astana.
SCO Foreign Ministers meeting in Astana
7 Jun 2017 – India and Pakistan are expected to become members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said t...
Gunisha Kaur, Simran Jeet Singh - During the first week of June, Sikhs around the world commemorate a recent historical event: Operation Bluestar of 1984, a government-sanctioned military operation that resulted in countless casualties and the destruction of one of the most historically significant gurduaras, the Darbar Sahib of Amritsar (i.e., The Golden Temple). Sikhs constitut...
By : Partha Chatterjee : There are chilling similarities between the justifications advanced for the actions of the British Indian army in Punjab in 1919 and those being offered today in defence of the acts of the Indian army in Kashmir. Farooq Ahmad Dar being used as a human shield. Credit: Video screengrab “It was my duty – my horrible, dirty duty,” the ...
Yubaraj Ghimire | Published:June 12, 2017 12:00 am
Newly elected Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba.
A leadership change on expected lines is hardly likely to arouse expectations. In that sense, Nepal’s new prime minister, 72-year-old Sher Bahadur Deuba, should consider himself lucky. He replaced Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal, while ...
काठमाडौं,२४ जेठ – भारतीय सञ्चारमाध्यमले ‘भारत समर्थित’ शेरबहादुर देउवा नेपालका प्रधानमन्त्री भएको भन्दै उनको कार्यकालमा नेपाल–भारत सम्बन्ध थप बलियो हुने बताएका छन् ।
प्रधानमन्त्री पुष्पकमल दाहालले पूर्व समझदारी अनुरुपनै राजिनामा गरेर देउवालाई प्रधानमन्त्री बन्न बाटो खुला गरेको उल्लेख गर्दै नयाँदिल्लीस्थित मिडियाले देउवाले पनि दाहालले जस्तै मधेशीका मुद्दालाई सम्...
Rowena Mason and Vikram Dodd Tuesday 6 June 2017 20.35 BSTFirst published on Tuesday 6 June 2017 19.29 BST Theresa May has declared she is prepared to rip up human rights laws to impose new restrictions on terror suspects, as she sought to gain control over the security agenda just 36 hours before the polls open. The prime minister said s...
Pyongyang, June 7 (KCNA) -- Respected Supreme LeaderKim Jong Un made a speech "Let KCU Members Become True Sons and Daughters, Young Revolutionaries, of the Socialist Country" at the Eighth Congress of the Korean Children's Union (KCU) on June 6, Juche 106 (2017). The following is the full text of his speech:
Dear delegates of the Korean Children's Union,
Dear membe...
Pyongyang, June 6 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK gave the following answer to the question raised by KCNA on June 6 as regards the Trump administration's announcement to withdraw from the Paris Agreement (on climate change):
On June 1, Trump officially announced the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement asserting that the agreement is not fair to...
“Connecting people to nature”, the theme for World Environment Day 2017, encourages us to explore relationships between humans and nature, and understand the invaluable support nature lends to human well-being and prosperity. Every year, World Environment Day is marked on June 5 around the world to celebrate nature and its importance to human survival, and raise awareness on t...
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service
“There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.”
— Robert Woodruff , Coca Cola CEO 1926 -1954
5 Jun 2017 – India spends more on programmes for the poor than most developing countries but is not getting the expected dividends that significant public expend...
Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un gave field guidance to the Kangso Mineral Water Factory.
After being briefed on the factory before a map showing its panoramic view and a mineral water production diagram, he went round the monument to the field guidance of the peerlessly great persons of Mt Paektu to the factory, the room for education in the revolutionary history and the room dedicated ...
Written by Yubaraj Ghimire | Updated: June 5, 2017 12:07 am
n the few weeks preceding his resignation as prime minister and as “caretaker” executive head, the one message Pushpa Kamal Dahal has tried to send out is that he is not “India’s man”. His government took a series of decisions that have significant political import...
Sunday, June 04, 2017
With Sher Bahadur Deuba set to embark on his fourth term as prime minister, it might be enlightening to review the Nepali Congress luminary’s chequered political history for pointers to the future.
During his first term as head of government in 1995-96, Deuba projected himself as a consensus builder. Atop Nepal’s first experiment in coalition governance, he l...
By : M. Hal - THE footage of a Kashmiri male strapped to the bonnet of an Indian Army jeep triggered a controversy last month. Human rights activist declared the act as cowardly stating that the Kashmiri was subjected to inhuman treatment. While following an inquiry, India’s Army Chief General Bipin Rawat praised the perpetrator of the act Major Nitin Leetul Gogoi and nominated him...
26 May 2017
Group photograph of some of the delegates with ICIMOD staff
High level delegates from the governments of Bhutan, India, and Nepal emphasized the need for regional cooperation on strengthening the potential and benefits of tourism in the Kangchenjunga landscape.
A regional policy dialogue, ‘Shared Natural and Cultural Heritage for Susta...
Wasantha Rupasinghe | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service 24 May 2017 – Indian army head General Bipin Rawat has awarded a commendation to the officer who gained national notoriety last month for ordering a Kashmiri youth tied to the hood of a jeep as a “human shield.” The honor is part of a full-throated establishment campaign in defence of Major Nitin Leetul Gogo...
Legislators accuse Karki of playing 'favouritism' in constituting the bench for this issue, and fast tracking it while a similar case is pending before the court for the past three years.
Written by Yubaraj Ghimire |
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Sushila Karki, right, and Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ...
By : Bhatt - ICJ staying the death sentence in indecent haste of Kalbushan Yadav, a serving Indian Naval Officer arrested in Pakistan’s Baluchistan Province carrying another fake passport with a Muslim name of Mubarak Husain Patel, without ascertaining whether the accused was entitled to relief on humanitarian grounds as an ordinary citizen arrested crossing over by default, ...
The key issue of amending the constitution to meet the demands of agitating madhesis and other groups remains unadressed.
Bikash Karki/AFP, May 25, 2017
hen former Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal or Prachanda stepped down as prime minister of Nepal on Wednesday, ending his 10-month rule, it was a smooth, non-dramatic affair. This was in sharp co...
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Those of us who have exited The Matrix are concerned that there are no checks on Washington’s use of nuclear weapons in the interest of US hegemony over the world.
Washington and Israel are the threats to peace. Washington demands world hegemony, and Israel demands hegemony in the Middle East.
There are two countries that stand in the way of W...
May 22, 2017 The burning and the destruction of Kashmir, which is rightly called the “Abandoned Heart and Soul of Dead India”, both spiritually as well as materially, started at least a century before we got “independence”. This process was initiated by the British and then perpetuated by the British-installed puppet Dogra Kings and subsequently perfected by both th...
NIRANJAN SAHOO · This brings one to ponder how an ideology that has long lost its appeal among the Chinese masses and often been demonised as “catastrophic” and “obsolete” by the subsequent regimes in China and even among strong ideologues of the Communist Party retains ideological a...
THE UNITED NATIONS, 8 May 2017
Nimmi Gowrinathan and Kate Cronin-Furman – Al Jazeera
The UN peacekeepers’ capacity to commit rape with impunity undermines prospects for sustainable peace around the world.
In 2007, more than 100 Sri Lankan peacekeeping troops were sent back to their home country from Haiti in disgrace as a result of sexual abuse allegations, write Gowrin...
Lipy Adhikari
Tuesday 16 May 2017
Himalayan nettle, a fibre-yielding plant, has become an important livelihood option for people living in the remote mountainous villages of the Hindu Kush Himalaya
Nature never fails to surprise us. In many parts of the world, natural resources are the only source of livelihood opp...
- Janita Gurung and Anu Kumari Lama
Biodiversity and tourism linkages
Biodiversity is the basis for many tourism activities in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH). Scenic landscapes, forests, lakes, mountains, and farmlands attract many tourists to the region. Iconic bird and animal species are also major attractions.
The snow leopard is a flagship mountain species found in the Karakoram, Hindu Ku...
Zorawar Daulet Singh As China pushes ahead with B&RI, India must reconcile geopolitical interests with wider developmental goals In a consequential development over the past week, India decided to stake out a clear position of defiance against the Belt & Road Initiative (B&RI), an ambitious Chinese idea that seeks to reshape the Eurasian geo-economic space....
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- The Institute for Asian Studies of the DPRK Institute for International Studies issued an article Tuesday to denounce the Japanese reactionaries for working with bloodshot eyes to render the situation on the Korean peninsula extremely tense and attain their sinister intention by giving a shot in the arm of the U.S. in its reckless moves to provoke a war against...
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry Tuesday gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA as regards the successful test-fire of ground-to-ground medium long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12: The successful test-fire of Hwasong-12 is of great and special significance in ensuring peace and stability i...
By : Dar PEOPLE of Indian Occupied Kashmir are being humiliated, tortured, injured and even killed with impunity by the brutal Indian occupying forces. What crime have they committed? Is asking for the promises to be fulfilled a crime? The promise of right of self determination was made to them by the Indian leadership (both Mr Nehru and Lord Mountbatten) and the world (UN Security Council) du...
Sachin Parashar Justifying its decision to officially join China's One Belt, One Road (OBOR) project despite opposition from India, Nepal has said that it cannot ignore China as the latter is not just an economic powerhouse but also its neighbour. Talking to TOI, Nepal's ambassador to India Deep Kumar Upadhyaya said India reservations to OBOR were mostly about the China Pakistan Econo...
The Ministry of State Security of the DPRK released the following statement Friday:
The last-ditch effort of the hostile forces, taken aback by the strong spirit of the DPRK dashing toward the final victory of the cause of Juche revolution, has gone beyond the limits after reaching the extreme phase.
The recent hysteria about "beheading operation" and "preemptive attack&quo...
Mehdi Hasan – The Intercept
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U.S. troops bring in North Korean prisoners of war, Oct. 7, 1950. Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images
3 May 2017 – “Why do they hate us?”
It’s a question that has bewildered Americans again and again in the wake of 9/11, in reference to the Arab and Muslim worlds. These days, however...
Maila Baje -
Sunday, May 07, 2017. Terms like resignation, impeachment and restoration are swirling around us and yet the United States believes it can take a leaf from Nepal's constitution.
Since it’s former US House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi who made that remark in Kathmandu the other day, you can take it with a pinch – nay, a fistful – of sa...
By : K Bozdar
SINCE the Indian Navy officer, Kulbhushan Yadav was given capital punishment by Field General Court Martial under Pakistan Army Act and the Official Secrets Act, Indo-Pak relations have been plunged. Yadav could appeal against capital punishment to Pakistan’s Supreme Court within 60 days. He was indicted for secret activities, sabotaging and espionage. Yadav had admitted be...
Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Institute for American Studies of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK released the following statement Friday:
The U.S. carried out inter-continental ballistic missile test-fire on May 3 in the wake of the one on April 26 at a time when the situation on the Korean peninsula has reached the extremely dangerous phase due...
Current face-off between the executive and the judiciary in Nepal will further erode the credibility of both institutions
By: Editorial | Published:May 3, 2017 12:05 am
At the root of the crisis is the politicisation of the judiciary, to which both the political parties and the judges have contributed.
The move to impeach Sushila K...
Pyongyang, May 1 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK in a statement Monday said that the touch-and-go situation, created on the Korean peninsula due to the U.S. DPRK-targeted joint military exercises for aggression and the military threat, has left a serious lesson.
The confrontation between the DPRK and the U.S. has lasted for more than half a ...
Indigenous Peoples – Best Allies or Worst Enemies?
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS, 1 May 2017
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS
Credit: FAO
25 Apr 2017 – It all happened on the very same day—4 April. That day, indigenous peoples were simultaneously characterised as fundamental allies in the world’s war on hunger and poverty, while being declared as co...
VIJAY PRASHAD Wednesday, April 26,2017 HARTFORD: A few years ago, I asked a retired Iraqi Air Force officer what it felt like to be bombed periodically by the United States in the 1990s. Whenever US President Bill Clinton felt irritated, I joked, he seemed to bomb Iraq. The officer, a distinguished man with a long career serving a military whose political leadership he despised, smiled....
Water is always a central concern for us here at ICIMOD, and I’d like to share with you three recent opportunities we had to focus on its importance: through a first of its kind training in Afghanistan on mapping and monitoring glaciers, through the celebration of World Water Day on 22 March, and through the Human Right to Water Declaration signed in Rome by Pope Francis and water exp...
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK released the following statement on Friday:
The situation on the Korean Peninsula and in the region has reached an extremely dangerous phase due to the mad-cap nuclear war provocations of the U.S. to violate the sovereignty and vital rights of the DPRK at any cost.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service
24 Apr 2017 – As the professor of economics Milton Friedman wrote “Only a crisis — actual or perceived —produces real change. When the crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing p...
Thomas L. Friedman – The New York Times
12 Apr 2017 – The Trump foreign policy team has been all over the map on what to do next in Syria — topple the regime, intensify aid to rebels, respond to any new attacks on innocent civilians. But when pressed, there is one idea everyone on the team seems to agree on: “The defeat of ISIS,” as Secretary...
The U.S. should be punished according to international law as its military attack on Syria was an undisguised act of aggression and war crime, says a spokesman for the Korean Jurists Committee in a statement on Friday.
Recalling that the U.S. attacked an airbase of the army of the Syrian government with dozens of cruise missiles on March 7 under the absurd pretext of ...
By : Dr M Khn -
AFTER the announcement of death sentence to Indian spymaster, Kulbhushan Yadav by the Military Court of Pakistan Army, the Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj cautioned Pakistan for the consequences. In her statement she said, “I would caution the Pakistani govt to consider consequences for our bilateral relationship if they proceed on this matter.” She a...
16 April 2017, Anirban R Banerjee
Whether the Nepalese want the palace back, is a matter to be resolved among themselves. What India requires to do, is to step u1p its efforts to assist the people of the Himalayan kingdom to realise their shattered dreams
It’s time for India to redefine its Nepal policy, correct the mistake of the previous Congress-led UPA (backed by the Left) pla...
M. K. Narayanan
APRIL 15, 2017 00:02 IST
The 17th century Buddhist monastery perched on top of and surrounded by high mountains shrouded in cloud in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, India. This monastery is home to some 500 monks and novices and is also the centre of religious and cultural life for Buddhists in the region of western Arunachal Pradesh.
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Apr 11, 2017 Courtesy- International Daily Mail
— Kidnaps an ex officer of Pakistan army from Nepal
— Retired Pak Army Colonel was invited by a dubious firm on internet for job interview in Nepal
— Lt. Col (rtd) Muhammad Habib trapped by RAW through a fake British firm in a pre-planned cyber operation
— RAW runs its cyber ...
2017/08/PR
10 April 2017
KATHMANDU, April 10 - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body for assessing the science related to climate change, will present its findings with a focus on South Asia at a regional outreach event in Kathmandu on 11-13 April 2017.
It will also present its work programme for the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) cycle at t...
Retired Lt Col Mohammad Habib. ─Photo courtesy of author
ISLAMABAD: A retired Pakistan Army officer has mysteriously gone missing while visiting Nepal for a job interview.
The officer, identified as retired Lt Col Mohammad Habib, has been untraceable since Thursday (April 6) from Lumbini, a Nepalese town near the Indian border and a Buddhist pilgrimage site, soon aft...
South Asia is a complex region given its varied commonalities and diversities. The idea of SAARC as a leading regional forum has highlighted the need and urgency to learn and work with ideas coming across the boundary of the member nations. SAARC, like the practices in other regions has been trying to find answers to regional challenges in their shared customs, values, cultures and practices. O...
By SALMAN RAFI SHEIKH MARCH 29, 2017 1:48 PM (UTC+8)
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Having previously been almost entirely dependent on India for its trade, Nepal is slowly, but surely, coming out of decades of economic isolation. Like other regional countries, it is reaching out to China, another immediate neighbour, to strengthen economic relations, and is keen...
New Delhi is waking up to China’s growing relations with India’s neighbours. Written by C. Raja Mohan | Published:March 28, 2017 12:00 am What we see today is the geographic expansion of the Chinese defence profile way beyond Pakistan to cover India’s other neighbours in South Asia and the Indian Ocean. India’s plans to sign agreements on defence cooperation with Bang...
Zamir Akram former Ambassador of Pakistan. By all accounts Vipin Narang is an outstanding scholar at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) specialising in South Asian strategic issues. At a recent conference on Nuclear Policy hosted by Washington’s Carnegie Endowment this Indian-American academic spilled the beans about the true nature of Indian nuclear doctrine by...
April1,2017
(Essay of Kim KwangHak,
Researcher of the IFAS of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DPRK)
In his report to the 7th Party Congress of the Worker’s Party of Korea (WPK) the Respected Supreme Comrade Kim Jong Un, the Chairman of the Worker’s Party of Korea, said as follows:
“Over the last 60 or so years since the signing of the Armistice Agreement the Unite...
April 2, 2017 IDSA 0 Comment Banagladesh, China, Foreign Policy, India, Military, Nepal, Pakistan, South Asia By IDSA The Chinese Defence Minister and State Councillor General Chang Wanquan undertook a three-day official visit to Kathmandu from March 23 to 25, 2017. Chang led a 19-member high-level military delegation to...
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope
3 Apr 2017 – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi now stands on the cusp of ne...
Baher Kamal |Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service
For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, one of the darkest chapters in human history. Slavery is, nevertheless, far from being just a chapter of the past—it still there, with estimated 21 million victims of forced labour and extreme exploitation ar...
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service
1 Apr 2017 – Some days ago, a man committed an act of terrorism in the center of London, a city I love.
He ran over several persons on Westminster Bridge, stabbed a policeman to death and approached the doors of Parliament, where he was shot dead. All this in the shadow of the tower of Big Ben, an irresistible photographi...
Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces are busy staging madcap joint military drills for aggression with more than 300 000 troops, U.S. nuclear carrier Carl Vinson and B-1B and other nuclear strategic assets involved.
The on-going saber-rattling under the simulated conditions of an actual war assumes more serious nature ...
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS
This story is part of IPS coverage of World Water Day, observed on March 22
Pastoralists in the Ufeyn region of Puntland are walking further and further to find water for their livestock. Credit: @WFP/K Dhanji
21 Mar 2017 – During the final exams of Spanish official high school of journalists, a student was asked by the panel...
21 Mar 2017 – While the U.S. makes it easier for coal companies to dump mining waste into streams and waterways, other countries are acknowledging the importance of water and granting personhood to these precious resources.
The High Court of the Indian state of Uttarakhand ruled that the Ganges and Yamuna rivers and their tributaries are “legal and living...
David Molden, Director General, ICIMOD
“Why waste water?” This is the provocative question-slash-theme posed by the United Nations this year in honor of World Water Day. And this question comes at a key moment when rising concerns about global water access has inspired the recent Human Right to Water Declaration signed in Rome by Pope Francis and water experts from around the wor...
Pranita Bhushan Udas
Somewhere in a mountain village in the Himalaya, a woman folds a taro leaf into a cone, fills it with soil, and sows a seed. She waters her little cone with waste water from the kitchen, creating an enabling environment for the seed to germinate in. She hopes that in time the seed will add a bit of greenery to her kitchen. For her, water flows down in the river where it ...
Shree Prasad Devkota and Navin Pandey – TRANSCEND Media Service 20 Mar 2017 – The global climate change and associated shifts in weather pattern are not an abstruse notion but an alarming reality today. Climate change is the alteration in statistical distribution of weather patterns for an extended period that disturbs the balance in ecosystem, hence creating havoc. Accordin...
KPA Strategic Force Spokesman
The U.S. and its vassal forces are running around like a chicken with its head cut off following the ballistic rocket launching drill conducted by Hwasong artillery units of the Strategic Force of the Korean People's Army (KPA) on March 6.
It is against this backdrop that the UN Security Council, at the instigation of the U.S., Japan and the south K...
Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Institute of International Studies on Wednesday released a "white paper on human rights situation in the U.S. in 2016".
The following is the full text of the white paper:
Styling itself an "international human rights judge," the U.S., the most heinous criminal state against humanity,...
Be Bold for Change: Achieving Gender Transformative Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya
In our work, we document the change we see coursing through mountain communities in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH). While each mountain community from Afghanistan to Myanmar displays unique qualities and faces distinct challenges, one thing that unites them all is change.
For good reason, much of the ...
Kamala Gurung and Golam Rasul
Empowering women and ensuring gender equality is more than just a development goal. It is vital to advancing human development and achieving sustainable development. Sustainable development will not be possible without girls and women fully realizing their rights in all spheres of life.
The gender landscape has changed positively since the 2000s l...
Vithal Rajan –
By 1917, a hundred years ago, millions of men had already been killed in war-torn Europe, and hundreds of French villages and towns destroyed. When the war ended in November 1918, the Allies were almost on the point of surrendering but Germany succumbed first. Field-Marshall Foch called the Treaty of Versailles an ‘armistice,’ and so it proved, for anot...
International Women’s Day 2017
In our work, we document the change we see coursing through mountain communities in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH). While each mountain community from Afghanistan to Myanmar displays unique qualities and faces distinct challenges, one thing that unites them all is change.
For good reason, much of the change that draws our attention these days is c...
A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry released a statement on Saturday in denunciation of the ongoing U.S.-south Korea joint military drills against the DPRK.
The spokesman branded the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises being staged by the U.S. in south Korea as the most undisguised nuclear war move to throw the Korean Peninsula and the rest of No...
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In game theory, there is this hypothetical strategy game that is used to explain why two rational individuals may not cooperate even when it is in their mutual interest to cooperate. It goes like this: Police arrest two criminals, but cannot find evidence to indict either of them on the principal charge, so decide to c...
Dewey Sim |
“It is probably the worst kind of habitat a human can live in.”
3 Mar2017 – When she was 11, Hasina Begum was shot in the back. She had found herself in the crossfire between Rohingya protesters and the police force at the Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Bangladesh where she was housed.
Things didn’t get better. Three years later, in 2007, the ...
Chhaya Vani Namchu and Menaka Hamal -
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, it is important to reflect on the importance of the inclusion of gender in academia. The goal of gender professionals is to ensure fair representation of marginalized groups in a variety of discourses – be it literature, science, history, or even current affairs and popular culture. A larger...
Dr Ramesh K Vankwani PRIME Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif during his recent visit to Turkey has exchanged his views on various important matters of regional importance; including national mega project of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Different news reports related to his statement about western conspiracies against CPEC are still emerging in media. According to my information, the Prime...
Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army (KPA) issued the following statement Thursday as the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet warmongers kicked off joint military exercises for aggression against the DPRK on Wednesday:
The largest-ever war drills will reportedly be staged by unprecedentedly huge...
The Koshi River originates in the Middle Himalayas in southern China, passes through Nepal, and joins the Ganges River in India. The Koshi River is one of the most important transboundary rivers in South Asia, and its basin is prone to a range of natural hazards such as landslides, debris flow, and glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) that can result in tremendous social and economic loss. To ad...
I would like to provide an update into the development of our new Strategy and Results Framework, plus give an overview of an interesting meeting to understand similar issues in the Arctic and the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, and to see where there can be more collaboration between people working in the two regions.
Revisiting ICIMOD’s Strategy and Action Plan
Our five...
http://nepalinetbook.blogspot.com/
Emerging from its much-publicized unity convention, the right-of-center Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) is seeking to project the image of your normal political party. And the Big Three political parties have contributed much to the normalization process.
From the balminess and banter the Nepali Congress...
By : Shakt The 2002 Gujarat riots were a three-day period of communal violence in the Indian state of Gujarat by extremist Hindus under the guidance and command of the Indian Prime Minister Narinder Modi who was chief minister of Gujarat and mastermind the massacre of the Muslims. Besides previous massacre of Muslims, more than 2500 Muslims were killed in the BJP-ruled Indian state of Gujar...
By : Shakt - The 2002 Gujarat riots were a three-day period of communal violence in the Indian state of Gujarat by extremist Hindus under the guidance and command of the Indian Prime Minister Narinder Modi who was chief minister of Gujarat and mastermind the massacre of the Muslims. Besides previous massacre of Muslims, more than 2500 Muslims were killed in the BJP-ruled Indian s...
Donors, international agencies are blamed for fuelling secessionist demands.
Yubaraj Ghimire | Published:February 27, 2017 12:00 am
Nepal’s 16-month-old constitution is flawed, not yet owned by a large section of the populace, and impossible to implement in the current form. (Representational Image)
Nepal’s 16-month-...
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service
15 Feb 2017 – As the evening prayer ended, hundreds of boys rushed out of the building in waves, mats slung over their shoulders. On opposite sides of a dusty road, thousands of Muslim students in this remote farming town of Akkalkuwa in Nandurbar district of Maharashtra, touching the Gujarat border, are preparing for very different future...
A citizen of the DPRK bearing a diplomatic passport suddenly fell into a state of shock before boarding an airliner and died on the way to a hospital in Malaysia on February 13.
At that time the Foreign Ministry of Malaysia and the hospital side informed the DPRK Embassy in Kuala Lumpur exercising the right to consular protection of DPRK citizens that they confirmed he died of heart stroke a...
The wounds, which militarist Japan inflicted on the peoples of Korea and several other countries by committing crimes against humanity in the last century, have not been healed, and they ardently wish that such unhappy history would not repeat itself.
However, until today, which has witnessed changes of centuries and generations, Japan has not yet made a self-examination of and an apology fo...
A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA Wednesday as regards the fact that the U.S. and its vassal forces faulted the DPRK's surface-to-surface medium to long-range strategic ballistic missile test-fire:
The UN Security Council issued a press release under the manipulation of the U.S. on Feb. 13 in wh...
Pyongyang, 13 February, Juche 106(2017)
Rt. Hon. Onsari Gharti Magar
Speaker of Legislative Parliament
Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
Mr. Speaker,
Please allow me to convey warm greetings to you and all of your parliamentarians on behalf of the Supreme People's Assembly(SPA) and my own person.
It is with pleasure that I am sending you this letter to help y...
William I. Robinson - teleSUR
As U.S. hegemony declines and Chinese hegemony possibly rises, it is clear that the political scaffolding of world capitalism is hopelessly outdated.
Combination of photos showing Chinese newspaper, stacked 100 yuan banknotes and US$100 bills. Photo: Reuters / teleSUR
14 Feb 2017 – When China’s richest man, Wang Jianlin, w...
Mahabir Paudyal
Madheshi Morcha leaders echo CK Raut on several fronts, with only slight variances in their tone and phraseology
You may wince at the title but some in Nepal have been using threat of secession as a bargaining chip to establish their ‘political’ agenda. This is ugly, wicked, immoral and un...
By : Jaml Hundreds of Afghan protestors gathered outside the Pakistan embassy in Kabul to protest against Pakistan’s alleged support to the Taliban, which appears to be an act of frustration on the part of India and Afghanistan for their failure in isolating Pakistan. There is incontrovertible evidence that pro-India Afghan group supported by Afghanistan’s National Directorate of S...
His speech if of mortgaged bedding,
On his kine he borrows yet.
At his heart is his daughter’s wedding.
In his eye foreknowledge of debt
He eats and hath indigestion
He toils and he may not stop
His life Is a long-drawn question
Between a crop and a crop
— Rudyard Kipling, The Masque of Plenty
13 Feb 2017 – More than a billion people in the wor...
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS
In much of the Andes, soil erosion is thought to be one of the most limiting factors in crop production. Soil is vulnerable to erosion where it is exposed to moving water or wind and where conditions of topography or human use decrease the cohesion of the soil. ©IFAD/ Juan I. Cortés
9 Feb 2017 – They are more than ...
Bharatpur, Chitwan, Nepal – 15 February 2017
To address the growing challenges of climate change and disaster risk reduction, 70 district officials in Chitwan district gathered on 14 February to begin a four-month long certification programme in climate change. The certificate programme has been organized by the Chitwan District Development Committee, Government of Nepal with tec...
Jeffrey D. Sachs - The Boston Globe
Daniel Hertzberg for the Boston Globe
5 Feb 2017 – Today’s China offers a rude awakening for Americans who believe that the United States and the United States alone should dominate world power. Donald Trump seems to count himself among these neoconservatives, and China is their deepest phobia today. Trump is following a game plan...
Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Forests in the Brahmaputra, Koshi, and Upper Indus River Basins : ICIMOD Research Report 2017/1 (2017)
Ravindranath, N. H.; Bala, G.
Two dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs), IBIS and LPJ, were used to assess the projected impacts of climate change on forests in terms of the shifts in vegetation types and changes in...
By : Haider Warning that India’s design to monopolise Indian Ocean was “causing concern”, the Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz reminded the Pakistan Navy of its mounting responsibilities, assuring it simultaneously of Pakistan government’s “unstinted support” to enable it to play its vital role of safeguarding the countrys’ sea...
By : SUKHANVER -
London based Indian writer Mirza Waheed very vehemently exposed the real face of the Indian atrocities in Kashmir in his article ‘India is blinding young Kashmiri protesters’. The article was published on 18th July 2016. He says, “Two sets of images have haunted me these last few days. One is a series of photos of people splashing bucket-loads of ...
उत्तर कोरियाका राजदूत किम योङ ह्याक :
यतिखेर किम जोङ उन चर्चाको शिखरमा छन् । उनले दक्षिण कोरिया र अमेरिकासाग मुकाविला गर्न ब्यालेष्टिक मिसाइलमात्र होइन, आणविक अस्त्र निर्माण गर्नसक्ने क्षमता बृद्धि गरेकोमा उनको चर्चा भएको हो । यद्यपि उत्तर कोरियामाथि राष्ट्रसंघले नाकावन्दी लगाएको छ र त्यो नाकावन्दीका कारण उत्तर कोरियाका सबै आर्थिक क्रियाकलापहरु सिमित बन्न पुगेका छन् । तैपनि उत्त...
Policy workshop sets ground for a regional assessment of adaptation responses for the Hindu Kush Himalaya
Kathmandu, Nepal 3 February 2017 – As the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) is one of the fastest warming and most vulnerable regions on Earth to climate change, implementing adaptation measures that target these mountains and downstream areas is crucial. But to what extent are existi...
The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Kathmandu celebrated the 69th National Day of Sri Lanka on 4th February 2017. The morning celebrations was held at the Embassy premises with the lighting of the traditional Oil Lamp followed by hoisting of the National Flag by Her Excellency W.S. Perera, the Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Nepal with the participation of Sri Lankan community in Nepal.
The R...
Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), chairman of the DPRK State Affairs Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, gave field guidance to Pyongyang Orphans' Primary School which provides the best environment for education and living conditions.
He went round the school building, hostel and other places to learn in ...
Pyongyang, January 26 (KCNA) — Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un in his New Year Address reviewed with pride the achievements made by the army and people of the DPRK last year and clarified the stand of the DPRK government on its foreign policy.
A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry declared in a statement on Thursday that the DPRK would carry through the tasks in th...
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service 27 Jan 2017 – Stephen Bannon is correct that the US media—indeed, the entire Western print and TV media—is nothing but a propaganda machine for the ruling elite. The presstitutes are devoid of integrity, moral conscience, and respect for truth. https://www.rt.com/usa/375271-bannon-trump-media-cnn/ Read the co...
Over the past decade, ICIMOD has actively engaged media in its programmes. Every year, we host a variety of events (e.g, workshops, conferences, seminars, press events) aiming to improve our exchanges with journalists and the strength of our messaging to the public. Media coverage on our work has grown over the years, and this has increased our visibility within and outside the Hindu Kush Himal...
The annual index of Transparency International issued on Wednesday for 2016 placed India with Brazil and China in the 40th position. : A major international index of corruption and transparency has placed India on the watch list for its inability to curb mega corruption scandals and petty bribery. The annual index of Transparency International issued on Wednesday for 2016 placed India with...
Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA Friday in connection with the fact that serious human rights abuses have been disclosed in Australia:
A report of an international human rights organization revealed that Australia applied harsh punishment system to child terror suspe...
ANGLO AMERICA, 23 January 2017
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service
17 Jan 2017 – On the day President Trump is inaugurated, thousands of writers in the United States will express their indignation. “In order for us to heal and move forward…”, say Writers Resist, “we wish to bypass direct political discourse, in favour of an inspired focus on...
By : Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai-
“Kashmir is an integral part of India, constitutionally, legally and morally something that is non-negotiable.” Ram Jethmalani, Outlook Magazine, October 8, 2016.
“Let me state unequivocally that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and will always remain so.’ Sushma Swaraj September 26, 2016
The fallacy advocated by the...
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The Globalization of War is undoubtedly one of the most important books on the contemporary global situation produced in recent years.
In his latest masterpiece, Professor Michel Chossudovsky shows how the various conflicts we are witnessing today in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and Palestine are in fact inter-linked and inter-locked through a si...
काठमाडौं, ५ माघ – चिनियाँ थिङट्यांक चाहर इन्टिच्युटका अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय सल्लाहकार बोर्डका महासचिव तथा चिनियाँ पिपुल पोलिटिकल कन्सल्टेटिभ कन्फरेस (सीपीपीसीसी) का सदस्य हुवाङ योईले एमाले अध्यक्ष तथा पूर्बप्रधानमन्त्री केपी शर्मा ओलीले नेपाल–चीन सम्बन्धलाई ‘नयाँ उचाई’ मा पुर्याएको भन्दै प्रशंसा गरेका छन् । नेपाल–चीन थिंकट्यांक सम्मेलनमा सहभागि हुन चिनिया...
9 January 2017 Shree Prasad Devkota and Pradip Raj Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service 7 Jan 2017 – We often worry about degrading political practices in Nepal. Unemployment, politicization of every institution, increased criminal activities and corruption has created a frustrated generation. Youths are migrating abroad and remittance has become life line of our economy. Diffe...
India will continue to have a Hindu majority by 2050, the study said.
Written by Vishnu Varma |
Representational Image
A comprehensive Pew Research Center study shows that by 2050, India will surpass Indonesia to have the largest Muslim population by any country in the world. However, India will continue to have a Hindu majority, the study ...
16 January 2017
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service
8 Jan 2017 – The text below is an Open Letter to the next American president urging complete nuclear disarmament as an urgent priority. The letter was prepared under the auspices of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and its current list of signatories is listed below. It is hoped t...
By : Sajad Pakistan is a grave victim of water scarcity, because of being on lower riparian in relation to the rivers emanating from the Indian-Held Kashmir (IHK). India has never missed an opportunity to harm Pakistan since its inception; it is creating deliberate water shortages for Pakistan with the aim to impair Pakistan agriculturally. Historically, India has been trying to establish he...
A spokesman for the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee (KAPPC) issued a statement Friday to denounce the Obama administration for foolishly resorting to the racket for putting military pressure on the DPRK although it is nearing its end.
The Obama administration has now gotten busy, sending 93 000-tonnage nuclear-powered carrier Carl Vinson to the waters off the Korean peninsula from the U.S...
Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), chairman of the DPRK State Affairs Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, gave field guidance to the Ryugyong Kimchi Factory, a model and icon of the nation’s kimchi factories.
He went round various places of the factory to learn in detail about the technological specifications of the productio...
By : Shakat-
IT is most regrettable that by ignoring the modern global trends like renunciation of war, peaceful settlement of disputes and economic development, India has activated dangerous arms race in South Asia. In this respect, India test-fired its longest range surface-to-surface nuclear ballistic missile Agni-5 from the Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha on December 26, t...
Pyongyang, January 7 (KCNA) -- The entire Korean nation is pervaded with confidence and enthusiasm to certainly open up a broad avenue to independent reunification this year, greatly encouraged by the idea of national reunification set forth by respected Supreme LeaderKim Jong Un in his New Year Address.
His New Year Address calls upon all Koreans to pool their w...
The Party and government of the DPRK are making positive efforts to usher in a new chapter of developing the foreign relations in line with its changed international position.
Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un clarified in his New Year Address that the Party and government of the DPRK would remain committed to the ideals of their foreign policy of indepen...
Commfort woman' (C) in Busan, South Korea, that has provoked the recall of Japan's ambassador to its neighbour (AFP Photo/) Tokyo (AFP) - Japan recalled its ambassador to South Korea on Friday to protest the placing of a statue symbolising victims of Japanese wartime sex slavery outside its consulate in the city of Busan last month. In a move likely to reigni...
2 January 2017
Mohammed Basyoni Abdulhaleem | Future for Advanced Research and Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service
Shadi Hamid, Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam Is Reshaping the World, (New York: St. Martin’s Press, June 7, 2016)
The circumstances that Muslim majority countries, in the Middle East, in particular, have revealed a sort of “Islamic e...
Donald Trump speaks at the Republican National Convention. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)
By Fareed Zakaria Opinion writer December 29, 2016
Two decades ago, I wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs that described an unusual and worrying trend: the rise of illiberal democracy. Around the world, dictators were being deposed and elections were proliferating. ...
2 January 2017
Future for Advanced Research and Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service
27 Dec 2016 – In light of new alliances with crime mafias, gangs involved in the trafficking of human organs have increased in various countries of the region including Egypt, Sudan, Libya and Morocco, to name a few. The trafficking network includes university professors, doctors, members of ...
Dear Comrades,
Having seen out 2016, in which we glorified each and every day with gigantic struggle, creating a new history of great prosperity unprecedented in the history of the Juche revolution, we are seeing in the new year 2017.
Availing myself of this meaningful opportunity, when we look back with dignity upon the great year filled wi...
Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) — Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un made a New Year address for 2017.
In his address he sent New Year greetings to all Koreans and the progressive people of the world.
2016 was a year of revolutionary and auspicious event and great turn to be specially recorded in the history of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the country, he said, referring to the a...
गोपाल बुढाथोकी
‘अहँ, भारत जाँदिन, निर्वासनमा जाँदिन, भागेर जाँदिन, जे गर्छु नेपालकै माटोमा गर्छु’ यसो भन्दै नेपाली राजनीतिका एक शिखर पुरुष जेल बसेका थिए । उनी थिए कृष्णप्रसाद भट्टराई । सन्त नेता भनेर कहलिएका किशुनजीलाई सधैं सम्झाउने दुई चिज छन्– छाता र सुराही ।
ती चिज आज कहाँ छ भन्ने शायद कांग्रेसलाई थाहा छैन । किशुनजीको पार्टी कांग्रेसलाई किशुनजीको देशभक्ति थाहा हु...
कम्युनिस्ट विचारधाराबाट प्रभावित भएर चेतनशील भए । चेतनशील भएपछि काङ्ग्रेस नै देशको उद्धारक हो भनेर बुद्धिजीवी कहलिए । बुद्धिजीवी भएपछि देशमा काङ्ग्रेस होइन राजतन्त्र चाहिँदो रहेछ भनी निचोड निकाले । झण्डै साढे तीन दशक पत्रकारिता क्षेत्रमा कलम चलाए । कलमले के लेख्योभन्दा पनि कलमले उनलाई कहाँ–कहाँ पुर्यायो महत्वपूर्ण छ । कलमले उनलाई देशका सीमान्तकृत झुपडी हुँदै विदेशको शयर र सत्ता सङ्घर्षमा ...
By : Lone
There are times, when in conflicts, established hierarchy betrays, reverses or inverts itself and the place or the binary distinction breaks down, in moments of rupture of blunt torture and oppression. When the seemingly dependent entity (pro-India political parties in Kashmir) turn out to be the foundations for the dominant entity (India), the subservient installation becomes the ...
Yubaraj Ghimire | Updated: December 26, 2016 4:28 am
Former King Gyanendra. (Reuters File)
On Thursday, A cabinet meeting was expected to chart the path for the adoption of a constitution amendment by the parliament. But the meeting ended after the prime minister and his team expressed fear and anger over a statement issued by the former king Gyanendra, a day earlier. Deputy Prime M...
Choi Sun-sil's collapse theory was rooted in Shamanism, many analyst's predictions are just as shaky
Tim Beal
December 7th, 2016
Everyone is interested in the notion that North Korea is on the verge of collapse. The idea has been around a long time, certainly since the early 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, if not before. Peter ...
Porters, including Ganga on the left, carry an Australian trekker to a waiting rescue helicopter.
Nicholas Boyack has been a regular visitor to Nepal since 2008, trekking to some of the most remote parts of the country. There is, he says, an ugly side to Nepalese tourism – the exploitation of porters and the trafficking of children that New Zealanders too o...
9 Dec 2016
The theme for this year’s International Mountain Day calls for us to recognize and celebrate the diversity and identities that populate mountain regions around the world. At ICIMOD, we embrace this theme with great enthusiasm, as we strive to connect our research to unique mountain communities throughout the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH).
Our relationship to mountain comm...
Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- NATO, an organization serving the U.S. in Europe, is biting off more than it can chew.
The North Atlantic Council, a decision-making body of NATO, at a "special meeting" on Dec. 15 issued a statement denouncing the DPRK over the measures it has taken to bolster a nuclear force for self-defence.
The ...
Anjal Prakash and Arun B Shrestha
The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) is one of the most dynamic, diverse, and complex mountain systems in the world, providing fresh water resources to more than 210 million people in the mountains and 1.3 billion people downstream. Several river and glacial systems originate in the HKH, making the region a “Third Pole” of the Earth. Scientific evidence...
JUSTICE, 19 December 2016
Lulu Ramadan - Palm Beach Post
11 Dec 2016 – Ben Ferencz once worked under the glare of the world spotlight seeking the semblance of justice for crimes that claimed millions of lives. Today, seven decades later, his arena is a home office in a retirement village in suburban Delray Beach, but he says his battle is not won and he works daily to make sure some...
By : Ashrf It is indeed hard to take an issue with those who believe that peaceful co-existence with India was not possible as it had not accepted the partition of the sub-continent and was relentlessly pursuing a policy to harm Pakistan, unmindful of the fact that continued animosity and hostility between the two countries would not only hurt both the countries but would also endanger peace, ...
Takes ICIMOD Prize at the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival Kathmandu, Nepal, 12 December 2016 With stirring images and stories from before and after the devastating 2015 Nepal earthquake, director Pradip Pokhrel conveys a powerful story of loss, hope, and redemption in his hour-long documentary, “A Song for Barpak,” which has earned the ICIMOD best film prize at ...
12 December 2016
Kathy Kelly | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
December 10th marks the U.N. Human Rights Day, celebrating and upholding the indispensable and crucial declaration of universal human rights. On the eve of this event, I visited a refugee camp housing 700 families in Kabul. Conditions in refugee camps can be deplorable, intolerable. Here, the situation is ...
By : Shaukat Although by arranging various false flag operations like the attacks on Indian Parliament in January 12, 2001, in Mumbai attacks on November 26, 2008, at Indian Air Force Base in Pathankot on January 2, 2016 etc., India succeeded in deflecting attention of the world from the uprising in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) due to the US-led West’s double standard, yet Indian ru...
NepalVR team receiving the Award certificate
(Kathmandu, Nepal, 12 December 2016)
Virtual reality for tourism, a crop database, a landslide warning system, and documentaries on Himalayan environments… these four topics took home top prizes from ICIMOD’s third annual ICT for Mountain Development Award.
The ICT for Mountain Development...
Celebrating diversity and strengthening identity Mountain areas are home to a large proportion of the world’s minority populations. While most of these consist of small numbers of people, some large groups exist, such as the Quechua in the Andes, the Amhara people in Ethiopia, and the Tibetans and Yi in China. Isolation, created by the rugged topographic barriers, has helped create and ma...
December 6, 2016
A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK Sunday gave the following answer to the question raised by KCNA in connection with the fact that European countries are calling for "international commitment" as regards the anti-DPRK "sanctions resolution" adopted at the UN Security Council:
After the U.S. prodded the UNSC ...
SNAPSHOT December 5, 2016Campaign 2016Democratization Why Populism Is a Pathway to Autocracy By Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Erica Frantz Populism is gaining ground. Around the world, economic hardship and growing unease with globalization, immigration, and t...
T.P. Wilkinson
Recovering the Virtue of Jacobins
Editor’s Note: Dr. Wilkinson delivered this paper about Haiti to a colloquium commemorating 40 years of study of African literature at the University of Porto, Portugal.
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24 Nov 2016 – Permit me to begin by saying that I am new to African literary studies. My academic training has been in the fields o...
Diane Perlman, PhD - Dear President-Elect Trump, with special attention to Ivanka, Melania and Kellyanne, Congratulations on your election. I am among those who were shocked and frightened when you won. My brother loves you. I get how you make him feel good and how the Democrats didn’t reach him. We who fear your presidency would love you to prove us wrong and go down in...
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- The UN Security Council adopted a "sanctions resolution" faulting the nuclear warhead explosion test conducted by the DPRK in September last.
A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK in a statement on Thursday said that the DPRK strongly censures and categorically rejects it as another excess of authority and violation...
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- The parents of the 12 girls who fell victim to a group abduction operation masterminded by the south Korean authorities sent the following letter to the United Nations high Commissioner for Human Rights and the President of the Human Rights Council on November 28:
We are parents of the 12 girls abducted to south Korea in April this year...
By : Dr Khan OVER the last two months, there have been over fifty civilian deaths owing to unprovoked Indian firing at different locations along the Line of Control (LoC). The worst demonstration of cross LoC firing was on November 23, 2016 in Neelum Valley. This heavy weapon firing on a passenger bus killed 10 innocent civilians and injured eleven. The ambulance service too was fired up...
MK BHADRAKUMAR
The reports quoted Pakistani officials saying that China proposes to deploy its naval ships in coordination with the Pakistan Navy to safeguard Gwadar port, which is the gateway to the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
India would have had some intelligence tip-off, which probably explains the mysterious episode on November 14 ...
India’s NGOs: A Mixed Blessing
BRICS, 28 November 2016
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service
“The growth of civil society has been one of the most significant trends in international development.”
— The World Bank
23 Nov 2016 – India has tens of thousands of NGOs, including local arms of global charities and homegrown groups, working on a wide...
28 November 2016
TRANSCEND Media Service
Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela, loyal friends to the end.
Introduction- 27 Nov 2016
A person who changed human history by defying the US Empire (not USA!), run from the “imperial state” New York, has left us. Yes, Cuba is not a multi-party state, the USA has had some problems recently not being one either, facing re...
Here’s an interesting Call for Participation to International Mountain Day 2016 – Mountain Cultures Photo Contest being organized by the Mountain Partnership. It’s a part of celebrating International Mountain Day on 11 December 2016.
The deadline is 5 December 2016.
For any queries, please write directly to Sara Manuelli (FOA) at&n...
The DPRK's Strengthening of its Nuclear Forces Is a Righteous Choice
to Defend Itself from the Extreme Moves of the U.S. to Stifle It
Five years have gone by since the DPRK, after having lost its great leader, engaged itself in an all-out confrontation with the U.S. imperialists to cope with their ever-worsening hostile moves and increasing nuclear threat against it.
The people of ...
award recognizes innovations, use and applications of Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICTD) that help to promote mountain development and environmental conservation. More details are available on our website at www.icimod.org/ict4md
ICT for Development is increasingly being used across the world, including in some parts of the Hindu Kush Himalayan ...
By : Ndeem-
The term game changer is used to refer to $46 billion china Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC) project which is by far the most ambitious mega project that Pakistan has undertaken since its independence with its most reliable, closest strategic and economic partner China. Ideally, the CPEC will put Pakistan back on track, weaken the extremists, encourage armed forces to support pe...
BY TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 21 November 2016
Paul Larudee – TRANSCEND Media Service
11 Nov 2016 – With the possible exception of Venezuela, all democracies on earth are considered at least moderately pro-American. Is this because the US is such a model democracy that all other democracies are naturally friendly to it? Or are all democracies naturally friendly to each othe...
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- The Permanent Mission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the United Nations issued the following press statement with regard to the forced adoption of the "draft resolution" A/C.3/71/L.23 on the human rights situation in the DPRK submitted by the European Union (EU) and Japan at the Third Committee of the 71st Session of the Uni...
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- Jang Su Ung, researcher of the Institute for American Studies of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK, issued the following commentary titled "Nonsense talked by those on deathbed" on Thursday:
Robert King, "special envoy for human rights in north Korea" of the U.S. Department of State, recently sponsored together with ...
ohan Galtung from Washington DC, 13 Nov 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service Donald Trump passed the CBS 60 Minutes TV test on Sunday evening 13 Nov in Washington. So did the very well prepared journalist. What came through was a relaxed Trump, in command not only of voice and body language and short crisp answers, almost always straight to the points, but also of an amazing array of facts.&...
Gandhian Perspectives on Conflict and Peace – Hindu University, FL USA Johan Galtung, 14 Nov 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service Gandhi was born 2 October 1869, was killed 30 January 1948 by a Pune brahmin, Godse. I was a 17 years old boy in Norway who cried when hearing the news. Something unheard of had happened. But I did not know why I cried, and wanted to know more. W...
Pyongyang, November 3 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Disarmament and Peace Institute of the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA Thursday in connection with the fact that traitor Park Geun Hye is trying hard to seek a way out of the worst crisis in provocations against the DPRK:
Traitor Park has been thrown into an inescapable predicament following the ...
David Molden and *Ashok Gurung
* HUC Steering Committee Member and Professor at the New School, New York, USA
25 October 2016
At ICIMOD we recognise the exceptional nature of mountains: the rich diversity of people, rich resources, the natural beauty, and the importance of the Hindu Kush Himalayas to Asia. We also know that mountain areas have exceptional challenges: vulnerabi...
By : Raza Malik -
Background
The saga of Kashmiris’ sufferings is spread over a period of almost seven decades. It started with the landing of Indian troops in Jammu and Kashmir on October 27 in 1947 and since then, Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and across the globe observe the day as Black Day. Every year, the day is marked by complete shutdown ...
A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA Saturday as regards another joint military drill launched by the U.S. in league with Japan and the south Korean puppet forces against the DPRK:
The U.S., Japan and south Korean puppet forces Saturday started a provocative joint naval drill chiefly targeting the DPRK wi...
By : Hali Genesis: The origin of the water wars between Pakistan and India date back to the time of the partition of India in August 1947. India realised that in accordance with the 1947 Independence Act, the people of the princely state of Kashmir would not cast their vote in favour of India since they comprised a Muslim majority, which had already suffered under the yoke of slavery of ...
Maila Baje- @ nepalinetbook.com, Sunday, October 02, 2016 So it eventually had to come to this. A decade after triumphing in their ‘people’s war’, Baburam Bhattarai is accusing Pushpa Kamal Dahal of betraying the nation in order to maintain his grip on power by signing a despicable agreement with India during his recent trip down south. Bhattarai said the 25-point communi...
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate, and Mark Pieth – Vanity Fair
After the leak of more than 11 million documents detailing sensitive, and often terrifying, information about offshore financial and legal activities, the Nobel-laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz was enlisted to help Panama reform its practices. But nothing could have prepared him for what came next.
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पहिलो संविधानसभाबाट सबैभन्दा ठूलो दलका रूपमा उदाएको तत्कालीन नेकपा माओवादी गुटबन्दीको शिकार हुँदा हालसम्म दशाँै चिरामा विभक्त भएको छ । उक्त दलका अध्यक्ष पुष्पकमल दाहालले नेतृत्व गरिरहेको हालको माओवादी केन्द्र पनि हालसम्म गुटमुक्त हुन सकिरहेको छैन । दोस्रो संविधानसभामार्फत सबैभन्दा ठूलो दल बनेको नेपाली कांग्रेसमा केही समयअघि सम्पन्न महाधिवेशनमार्फत तीनवटा गुट प्रष्ट देखिएको छ ।
विगतमा गुटबन्द...
बिसन्तर शाक्य
नेपालको धर्म संस्कृति, परम्परामा राजाहरुको आस्था ,लगाब तथा यसको संरक्षणमा सदैब राजाको मात्र चिन्ता हुन्छ भन्ने कुरा नेवार समुदायको विशिष्ट तथा विश्व प्रशिद्ध पचली भैरबको मुर्ति ( गाग्रीमा भैरबको मुर्ति) निर्माण गरिबक्सेर देखाई बक्सेकोछ । प्रत्येक १२ बर्षमा पचली भैरब र राजा बिच खड्ग सात्नु पर्ने सदियौं देखि परम्परा समेत रहेको पचली भैरबको मुर्ति पुरानो भई जिर्ण भएकोल...
ठमाडौं आश्विन ८, हरेक वर्ष कौलाथ्व पञ्चमीमा जात्रा गरिने टेकूस्थित श्री पचली भैरवनाथको मूर्ति नयाँ निर्माण गरिएको छ । प्रयागपोखरी ललितपुरका मूर्तिकार श्री सिद्धिराज शाक्यज्यूले तेश्रो पटक निर्माण गरिएको मूर्तिमा नयाँ प्रयोग स्वरुप मूर्तिलाई बाहिर निकाली घ्याम्पोमा टाँसेको देखिन्छ भने यसअघि पनि घ्याम्पोको गोलाईमा टाँसिएको हामी पाउँछौं । पहिले माटोको निर्माण गरिन्थ्यो भने पछि पछि...
The U.S. Embassy, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), celebrated the successful completion of the Saath-Saath project and announced its new LINKAGES Nepal project. The new project will continue to provide support for HIV prevention, care, and treatment. LINKAGES project starts in October 2016 and will support (1) Nepal’s ambitious goal of an AIDS-f...
Mr. President,
Excellencies,
Distinguished delegates,
Ladies and Gentlemen.
We congratulate Mr. Peter Thomson on his election as President of the 71st Session of the General Assembly. We agree that implementation of the Sustainable Development Agenda should be the focus of this Session.1
We also pay tribute to Mr. Mogens Lykketoft for his capable stewardship of the...
Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, visited the Sohae Space Center to guide the ground jet test of a new type high-power engine of a carrier rocket for the geo-stationary satellite.
The newly developed high-power engine is a single engine whose thrust is 80 tf.
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Prof. Dr .Harish Gupta &nb...
Suntali Rai Danuwar’s uses Jholmal to fertilise her broccoli in Kavre Palanchowk, Nepal.
Photo: Roshan Subedi/CEAPRED
The village of Bhoterungti in Kavre Palanchowk District, Nepal was one of many settlements in the region affected by the April 2015 earthquake. Most houses were constructed with bricks and mud mortar and were deemed unsafe. People now live in temporary shelte...
Shree Prasad Devkota, Shiba Bagale and Shreeya Devkota – TRANSCEND Media Service
Shree Prasad Devkota
19 Sep 2016 – Nepal being one of the developing nations, it is facing many difficulties in different sectors. As recommended by Jeffery Sachs one of the world’s leading expert on economic development there are 7 indicators by the presence of which a country ...
By :Kamram
Pakistan has recently applied for the membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). Much has been written on the subject, but as is always the case with matters of such complexity, much more remains unsaid. In the context of the upcoming plenary session of the group, it has become exceedingly important however that these conversations take place.
The NSG is part and parcel o...
Kathmandu, September 11
Ncell, country’s leading mobile service provider, has taken an initiative to support reforestation and also implemented environmental awareness program in Dhanusha, aiming to contribute in awareness and conservation of environment.
Under the initiative implemented as a part of its corporate social responsibility, Ncell has planted 50,000 trees in 33 hectares ...
12 September 2016 Shree Prasad Devkota, Shiba Bagale and Shreeya Devkota - TRANSCEND Media Service 6 Sep 2016 – From the time immemorial patriarchy has always been a part of human civilization. It may be because of the roles that have been assigned to the genders or the practices that has always demanded women to give more to the world than she takes. One way or ano...
Today we have gathered to pay tribute to those martyrs and heroes of the Nation whose unmatched sacrifices, courage and sense of duty has enabled us to breathe in an independent and respectable country.
The war of September 1965 is a glorious chapter of our national history that bestowed a new determination and unity upon the people of this country. The supreme valour of the men and officers...
September 8 this year marks 71 years since the U.S. military occupation of south Korea.
A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK in a statement Wednesday said that the 70-odd history of the U.S. forces' presence in south Korea has been the one in which war, confrontation and escalation of tension have persisted on the Korean peninsula, adding that the U.S. forces in south Korea a...
Pyongyang, September 11 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK issued the following statement on Sunday:
Scientists and technicians of the Nuclear Weapons Institute of the DPRK successfully conducted a nuclear explosive test for judging the power of nuclear warheads. Much upset by this, the Obama group has gone foolish in its moves to incite an atm...
राजन कार्की -
पञ्चायत र बहुदल अफाप भयो भनेर बनाएको गणतन्त्र नयाँ कृति हो। हलो मासेर फाली बनाएको होइन, जनताले गरेको नौलो सिर्जना हो। त्यो कृतिमा राजनीतिक सजिवता, नेतृत्व क्षमताको कलात्मकता, राजनेतृत्वको जिवन्तता भर्ने काम नेताहरुको काँधमा थियो। नेताहरुले गणतन्त्रजस्तो सुन्दर कृतिमा विकृति र बिसंगतिका कालो पोते, बिगारे। आफू कलंकित बने, आफू हाँसेर जनतालाई रुवाए। नेपालको इतिहासको यो कालखण्ड ...
“Japan Has Always Been The True Friend of Nepal” Ambassado Masashi Ogawa
2 September 2016, Stockholm, Sweden
The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region has nearly 500 GW hydropower potential, but only a fraction of it has been developed. As countries in the region gear up for increased hydropower production to alleviate energy poverty, they find themselves grappling with increasing climatic and social risks. Aseminar convened by the International Centre for Integra...
IN FOCUS, 29 August 2016
Goldie Osuri – Al Jazeera
The growing pockets of solidarity expressed for Kashmiris are heartening, as is the solidarity for Palestinian struggle.
24 Aug 2016 – The India and Israel alliance has been described as a full-blown romance, but the ongoing siege of Kashmir makes this a bloody affair – covert for y...
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- The chief of security officers of the Korean People's Army (KPA) at Panmunjom warned the provocateurs as follows Saturday against their deliberate provocation getting on the nerves of the soldiers of the KPA side in the area of Panmunjom:
Floodlight directed at the KPA side at random is taken as an intolerable means of provocation an...
Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- The U.S. and its followers committed a serious hostile act of releasing a UN Security Council's press statement finding fault with the DPRK's measures for bolstering nuclear deterrence for self-defence such as the strategic submarine-launched ballistic missile test-fire.
A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK in a state...
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Binod Chaudhary Awarded 'Asian Man of the Year'
Chaudhary (second from left)receiving award
President of Chaudhary Group Binod Chaudhary has been awarded with 'Asian Man of the Year Award'. A US-based humanitarian organization, We Care for Humanity, recognized Chaudhary with the award for his outstanding philanthropic works in post-earthquake Nepal.
We are pleased to inform you that ICIMOD will be an active participant and contributor to the 17th IUAPPA World Clean Air Congress and 9th CAA Better Air Quality Conference (BAQ) 2016 being held in Busan, Republic of Korea from 29 August to 2 September 2016. At the conference, ICIMOD will be organizing a break out session to share and discuss approaches to mitigate air pollution in...
In his report to the 7th Party Congress of the Worker’s Party of Korea (WPK) the Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the Chairman of the Worker’s Party of Korea, said as follows:
“The United States should squarely recognize the strategic position of our Republic, now that it has joined the front rank of nuclear powers, and the trend of the times; it should scrap its anachronisti...
Date: August 26,2012
Film Workers Union of Korea Slams Park Geun Hye Group for Anti-DPRK Film Production
Since Park Geun Hye came to power, her group has spent a large amount of money collected from the south Korean people as taxes to massively produce and screen different kinds of films groundlessly hurting the system in the DPRK and inciting confrontation with the compatriots.
These ...
By : Mir
Yet another dastardly attack was carried out against a Hospital at Quetta resulting in 73 deaths and many more injuries, mostly among the lawyers who had congregated there on the death of their senior colleague, who was shot earlier in the day. It was obviously a well-planned and a well-coordinated action – beyond the ken of an ordinary terrorist.
The Chief Minist...
ICIMOD looks forward to the 2016 edition of World Water Week in Stockholm and welcomes you to the below sessions where you can learn more about ICIMOD’s work on water and mountains of the Hindu Kush Himalayan region.
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ENVIRONMENT, 22 August 2016
Markus Becker and Gerald Traufetter – Der Spiegel
When American authorities revealed that Volkswagen used software to trick pollution tests, it spurred widespread outrage. Documents obtained by SPIEGEL show that European officials knew about the deception for years – but didn’t act on it.19 Aug 2016 – Managers at Volkswagen know wit...
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service
In Memory of Sérgio Vieira de Mello (1948-2003)
19 Aug 2016 – The United Nations General Assembly has designated 19 August as “World Humanitarian Day” to pay tribute to aid workers in humanitarian service in difficult and often dangerous conditions. 19 August was designated in memory of the 19 August 2003 bomb...
Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK issued a statement on Wednesday in connection with the fact that the situation on the Korean peninsula has entered a very grave phase due to the U.S. ceaseless nuclear arms buildup targeting the DPRK.
The statement said that the U.S. brought to the Anderson air force base on Guam, on which...
Only Miserable End Awaits Aggressors and Provokers:
Pyongyang, August 18 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army (KPA) released a statement Thursday, 40 years since the occurrence of the "Panmunjom incident" which showed the world the miserable end of senseless provokers.
Detailing the "Panmunjom incident"...
Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance to Taedonggang Combined Fruit Farm
Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, gave field guidance to the Taedonggang Combined Fruit Farm.
He set forth tasks and ways to turn the farm into the world's leading orchard and people'...
RICS, 15 August 2016
Devanuru Mahadeva – Al Jazeera
15 Aug 2016 – He was a firebrand and when he spoke, the warmth in his speech touched us. He was Professor Mariswamy Madaiah, who was born as an untouchable Hindu and died as a Buddhist.
An incident from an interview with Mariswamy has haunted me ever since reading it. Mariswamy was waiting for a bus to go to the n...
- Tabassum
Kashmiris observe 15 August (Indian Independence Day) as black day every year. They express full hate against India and condemn Indian imperialism for continuously refusing Kashmiris right of self-determination. They also inform the whole world about Indian atrocities against unarmed Kashmiris male, female and children which are struggling for liberation from India. The aim of bla...
By Ajaya Dixit, Institution for Social and Environmental Transition-Nepal Question Two: How can we balance today's pressing needs with long term risks? How can public officials, especially in low income countries, address today's short- term pressing needs while preparing for tomorrow's climate-related impacts and surprises? The problems of today...
We have extended the deadline for applications to the ICIMOD Small Story Grant 2016 – Nepal to 21 August 2016.
More details pertaining to the grant are available at the following URL www.icimod.org/?q=23454
Please consider applying using the submission form http://www.icimod.org/?q=23651 and refer closely to the&...
Kathmandu, 11 August 2016
HI-AWARE – a research programme on adaptation, water, and resilience in glacier and snowpack dependent river basins of the region – brought together policy makers and practitioners from Nepal for a two-day workshop to share initial results of research in the Gandaki river basin.
“Engaging with policy makers and practitioners is an important way ...
BRICS, 8 August 2016
Keyu Jin | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service
4 Aug 2016 – Much of the world is watching Chinese President Xi Jinping with concern. Not only has he been re-concentrating power in the hands of the central government; many believe that his radical anti-corruption campaign is a fig leaf for a political purge. They worry that Xi is buil...
IN FOCUS, 8 August 2016
Sean Adl-Tabatabai | Your News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service
A leaked Hillary Clinton email confirms that the Obama administration, with Hillary at the helm, orchestrated a civil war in Syria to benefit Israel.
The new Wikileaks release shows the then Secretary of State ordering a war in Syria in order to overthrow the government and ...
KARACHI: For the first time in the country's history, marriage laws for millions of Hindus living in Sindh have been codified after the Sindh Assembly approved the Hindu Marriage Bill, 2016, on Monday.Senior PPP leader and Sindh Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Nisar Ahmad Khuhro moved the bill in the provincial assembly which was later passed after a debate between the oppo...
The United Nations World Food WFP) has welcomed a contribution of US$2 million from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) - half of a multiyear contribution to the Saemaul Zero Hunger Communities Project in Nepal.
The funds will allow WFP to continue its work reducing poverty and food insecurity in the Far-Western region of Nepal into 2017.
“I am delighted that KOICA re...
The euphoria gripping the Indian media following the resignation of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli evidently stems from New Delhi’s apparent triumph in having returned to the driver’s seat of Nepali politics after a hiatus of nine months.
Granted, reporters and commentators across the southern border have made some effort to portray the difficulties that lay on the pa...
The South China Sea is and will continue to be the ultimate geopolitical flashpoint of the young 21st century – way ahead of the Middle East or Russia’s western borderlands. No less than the future of Asia – as well as the East-West balance of power – is at stake.
To understand the Big Picture, we need to go back to 1890 when Alfred Mahan, then president of&...
My thesis is that the proposals put forward by Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders offer no solutions to the fiscal crisis of the state, and partly for this reason do not and cannot promise social integration. I am not complaining. I am just trying to do my part as a philosopher to help generate better ideas, ideas that will work.
First I will cite some &...
By : Amrit Wilson
Modi's unpopularity here in IOK is perhaps not surprising. The new government's only planned initiative in the northern region so far is a mass movement of population. Hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri Pandits – Hindus who had fled the Kashmir valley in the 1990s in the wake of popular uprisings and an armed struggle for a separate state – are to b...
By : Waheed
Two sets of images have haunted me these last few days. One is a series of photos of people splashing bucketloads of water to wash away blood from the streets of Kashmir, where Indian forces have shot dead at least 45 people since 9 July. Thousands came out to protest and mourn the death of a rebel leader who was killed in an encounter with the Indian army and pol...
After being a freedom fighting colony of Britain for centuries, India, since 1947, has assumed the role of a colonialist nation by annexing and occupying neighboring Jammu Kashmir. India has killed more Kashmiris in a few decades than what it may have lost under British rule for centuries. Over years of misrule in occupied Jammu Kashmir, India has burnt its terror fingers, once again, by...
Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA Thursday in connection with the fact that the U.S. found fault with the ballistic rocket firing drill conducted by the Korean People's Army:
Official figures of the White House and the State and Defense Departments of the U.S. are br...
08 Jul 2016
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Monitoring and Assessment Program’s (HIMAP) Coordinating Lead Authors' Writeshop was organised by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) 11 to 13 June, 2016 at Gokarna Forest Resort in Kathmandu, Nepal. The purpose of the writeshop was to advance the work-in-progress on the ‘Comprehensive...
According to a press release issued by European Union, the Post Disaster Recovery Framework (PDRF) of May 2016 guides the EU and the Government of Nepal's shared aspiration to help the earthquake-affected communities build their houses back better and safer. It also confirms some other important principles, such as ownership, accountability, transparency and an equitable focus on prio...
ASIA & THE PACIFIC, 18 July 2016
Julian Ryall – South China Morning Post
Japan has built structures on uninhabited rocks 1,740 km from Tokyo to mark its territory – just like China has done in the South China Sea.
Japan’s Kitakyushu Island SCS
14 Jul 2016 – Tokyo has been quick to applaud the decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in Th...
One-Stop Portal Created for Key Quake-Related Data
Finding and sharing data after a major disaster is both a critical need and a significant challenge, but in Nepal, after the Gorkha Earthquake, there is now a one-stop site where aid workers, researchers, and government departments can access credible data quickly and in a clear, user-friendly format.
ICIMOD partnered with the Government ...
Message from the Director General
The year 2015 was a memorable year for many reasons. The earthquakes on 25 April and 12 May that affected Nepal and neighbouring countries also disrupted operations at ICIMOD. However, the way ICIMOD and its partners responded will be something that I will not forget. I was proud that we were able to quickly rebound and deliver a full set of results for ...
(ennett Ramberg served as a policy analyst in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs in the George H.W. Bush administration. He is the author of "Nuclear Power Plants as Weapons for the Enemy." The opinions expressed here are his own.)
By Bennett Ramberg
What are Washington and its allies to do about North Korea? In January, Pyongyang tested its fourth nuclear device. It launch...
When you think of countries that make great beer, Germany and Belgium might come to mind.
Probably not North Korea.
Turns out, North Korea’s state-run beer distillery actually makes a decent brew, at least according to some of the reviewers who have actually been able to visit the hermit kingdom and try it out for themselves.
Reuters went inside one of the fac...
•भरत दाहाल
पुष्पकमल दाहाल र बाबुरामहरुले के गर्लान् भन्ने प्रश्नको त्यति महत्व हुँदैन, जति महत्व उनीहरु कस्तो गर्भमा हुर्काईएका थिए भन्ने कुराको हुन्छ । गर्भ भनेको यस्तो इतिहास हो, जहाँ कसैको बिजारोपण र पोषण गरिएको हुन्छ । कुनै प्राणी आफ्नो गर्भको उत्तरदानका रुपमा विकास भएको हुन्छ । गर्भासयसँगको नाताको सम्बन्ध बिच्छेद असम्भव प्रायः घटना हो । यसर्थमा, विभिन्न नक्कली बहानाहरु देखाएर माओवादी...
(Essay of Kim KwangHak, the researcher of the IFAS of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK)
The moves, describing the DPRK’s measures designedto increase the self-defensive capacity as the “threat” to peace and security, are becoming more open in the wake of the DPRK’s successful test-launch of the surface-to-surface intermediate-range strategic ballistic ro...
भुटानका राजा जिग्मे खेसार नाम्गेल वाङचुक, रानी जेटसन पेमाको रसरङ् उर्लिरहेकै छ। भुटानी खुशी हुन्, भुटानी राजारानीले रमाइलो गरे, सार्वजनिक किस गर्दै प्रेम प्रदर्शन गरिरहेकोमा नेपालीलाई कहीँ पनि आपत्ति छैन। तर, १९९० को दशकमा नेपालमा लखेटिएका एक लाख भुटानी शरणार्थीहरुको बिजोग देख्न सकिन्छ। उनीहरुले आफ्नो माटो, आफ्नो देश भन्न पाएनन्। नेपाली मूलकै भएका कारण तिनीहरुलाई भारतको सहयोगमा लेखेटियो, भारतले...
The militants attacked on the Holey Artisan Bakery (Restaurant) in the diplomatic district of Dhaka on July 2, this year and killed at least 20 hostages and two police officers. It includes nine Italians, seven Japanese and one American. The Islamic State group (Also known as Daesh, ISIS, ISIL) claimed responsibility for terror attack on the restaurant. But, without any investigation, Home Min...
DevRaj Dahal-
Introduction
Awareness about gender equality is blowing the winds of change, overturning the historical status quo, shattering the grisly gender myths and reshaping women-sensitive policies. The rebellious generation of women has revealed multiple narratives about their experience of freedom, work and recognition. With determination, you can overcome many structural problems, br...
The DPRK at the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea clarified its policy stand that it will remove the root cause of the threat of nuclear war created by the U.S. and safeguard peace in the region and the rest of the world by means of our powerful nuclear deterrent, it will not use nuclear weapons first, unless the hostile forces violate our sovereignty with their own nuclear ...
During her visit to Mustang, Ambassador Teplitz visited cultural heritage monuments that are being restored with support from the U.S. Government’s #AFCP program. The program has helped restore chortens in Ghemi and in Tsarang, and may support additional projects in Mustang that are doing the same type of work.
July 6: The first meeting of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) comprising diplomats from both Nepal and India has agreed to review a gamut of bilateral issues including the treaties and agreements since the 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship.
HE Indian Ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rae inaugurated five historical-cultural sites in Lalitpur which have been recently restored with the Government of India financial grant of NRs 2,24,09,000. These include Nagbahaltole Suddhar Cheen,Kul Devta Agan Ghar,Bhindya Lachi Chapa and Lukushi Pati and the Ganga Pokhari.
for Nepal, New UN Resident Coordinator Ms. Valerie assumes office
Korea Supports in SKorea Supports in Short Term Fellowship Program on Advanced Agricultural Production Technology and Enhancement of Global Competitiveness
By Associated Press,July 5, 2016
KHANKE, Iraq — The advertisement on the Telegram app is as chilling as it is incongruous: A girl for sale is “Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old…. Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon.”
The posting in Arabic appeared on an encrypted conversation along with ads for kittens, weapons and tactical gear. It was share...
Courtesy- Alexander Mercouris |The Duran – TRANSCEND Media Service
27 Jun 2016 – Away from the distractions caused by the British Brexit vote the process of Eurasian construction has just taken another big step forward with the agreement of India and Pakistan to join the Chinese and Russian led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation as full members.
Iran is expected to follow s...
“Is it true Narendra Modi just boarded a flight to visit India?” Tweeted a critic of Indian Prime Minister’s globe-trotting jaunts. “Welcome home, Pradhan Mantriji! How long will you be staying this time?” Modi has already been to 33 countries just this year alone. The Donald Trump of South Asia, the man out to make India great again, a nationalist and sectarian, d...
The Fourth Session of the 13th Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) of the DPRK took place here on June 29.
Supreme leader Kim Jong Un was present at the session.
It was attended by the deputies to the SPA.
Officials of the party, armed forces and power organs, public organizations, ministries and national institutions, and those in the fields of science, education, literature and arts,...
Kathmandu, 28 June 2016
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and Niti Foundation hosted the first international workshop on ‘Benefit Sharing in Hydropower: Examples from Nepal and Implications for Other Countries in the Hindu Kush Himalayas’. The Vice Chairperson of the National Planning Commission, Yubraj Khatiwada, and the Director General of IC...
Emanuel Stoakes – The Guardian
Remnants of what appears to be an RBK-500 AO-2.5RT cluster bomb uncovered near Chalai, Sri Lanka. Photograph:
The revelations are likely to prompt serious questions for the current Sri Lankan government, which includes several senior members of the cabinet who oversaw army activity during the last days of the conflict.
The photographic evidenc...
The Dalai Lama greets Lady Gaga, right, before a question and answer session at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Indianapolis, Sunday, June 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
BEIJING (AP) — China warned people to be aware of what it said are nefarious motives of the Dalai Lama after he met with Lady Gaga on a tr...
प्रधानमन्त्री र राजदूत सँगै योग गर्छन्, कुम जुधाएर बस्छन् र पनि प्रधानमन्त्री केपी ओली स्वाभिमानका कुरा गरेर थाक्दैनन्। कुनै पनि मुलुकमा नदेखिने दृश्य नेपालमै देखिन्छ। यहीकारण भन्ने गरिएको होला– कहीँ नभएको जात्रा हाँडीगाउँमा। भारतका लागि नेपाली राजदूतलाई फिर्ता बोलाएर र राष्ट्रपति विद्या भण्डारीको भारत भ्रमण (तीर्थयात्रा) रद्द गरेर ओली सरकारले ठूलै कूटनीतिक तरङ्ग ल्याएको थियो। तर अस...