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gulfnews.com
December 22, 2017
2005 - South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk resigns from his university after he was found to have faked stem-cell breakthroughs. 2006 - UN Security Council votes unanimously to impose the first set of sanctions on Iran. 2007 - The world's last Hindu monarchy is swept aside in Nepal. 2011 - CzechÃÂ ...
Jacobin magazine
November 26, 2017
Thanks to what was effectively a royal coup, Nepal had no elected government at either the local or national levels. For the next four years, local government was ... In February 2005, the king, despairing of his government's inability to deal with the insurgency, intervened. He declared a state of emergency,ÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
November 11, 2017
... with heading the government by two generations of Nepal's former monarchs, died after a prolonged battle with cancer. He stepped down from politics after Nepal became a multi-party democracy and constitutional monarchy in 1990. However, after the bloodless coup staged by King Gyanendra in 2005,ÃÂ ...
World Politics Review
July 20, 2017
Since the 2005 coup, Nepal has made huge strides. It ended a decade-long civil war with Maoist rebels in 2006, and two years later abolished the centuries-old Hindu monarchy to become a secular republic. After lengthy debates and several political impasses, it eventually promulgated a constitutionÃÂ ...
Nepali times (blog)
June 6, 2017
Nepali Congress (NC) President Sher Bahadur Deuba on Tuesday became Nepal's 10th Prime Minister in 10 years, and head of government for the fourth time in ... Deuba's previous three tenures as Prime Minister were marred by the Maoist war, the royal coup of February 2005, and a stagnant economy.
Nepali times
May 19, 2017
After the 2005 coup, the military, under direction from the palace, tried to gag the media. It sent soldiers into newsrooms to censor content, ordered FM stations to only broadcast music, and jailed and tortured radio journalists in the districts. Radio Sagarmatha was relatively protected because of itsÃÂ ...
Nepali times
May 11, 2017
The Election Commission (EC) published a front page notice in major Nepali dailies on Thursday to try to clear the confusion explaining that the parties that have a seat in Parliament must use one symbol and the EC needed to use two of the same symbols in the seventh column to differentiate one wardÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
May 4, 2017
An argument is being advanced that India opened the door to bringing the Maoists into the political mainstream and that this is the root cause of the current political instability in Nepal. In actual fact, in the wake of the royal coup of February 5, 2005, it is the mainstream political parties, as the Seven PartyÃÂ ...
Classic and Performance Car
June 12, 2017
The coupe seems to be a bit of a dying breed these days, with most manufacturers destined produce numerous small, large and stylish SUVsÃÂ ...
New Atlas
May 24, 2017
... most beautiful cars, it is the Talbot-Lago T150C SS Teardrop Coupe built by Parisian Carrosserie Figoni and Falaschi during the late 1930s.
Grand Forks Herald
April 5, 2017
In the next two days, Towne will fly from Minneapolis to Chicago to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to Kathmandu, Nepal, to Lukla, Nepal.
BBC News
June 5, 2015
The ITUC went to the embassies of Nepal and India, two countries which are ... Qatar's economy tripled in size between 2005 and 2009, and aÃÂ ...
Eagle-Tribune
May 15, 2015
DONNA MARSHALL/Courtesy photo Members of the Sapana Women's Skill Project begin packing the hand-made key chains and other itemsÃÂ ...
The Salem News
May 10, 2015
BEVERLY — Three Beverly elementary schools banded together last Friday, May 8 to help Nepal recover from the earthquake that devastatedÃÂ ...
The Kathmandu Post
March 22, 2017
... category for going on to serve at the king's pleasure, as arguably does Madhav Kumar Nepal for 'applying for the position of prime minister', but that the RPPs did not oppose the February 2005 royal coup speaks volumes about where their preferences ...
Liberation
January 3, 2017
The World Federation of Trade Unions General Secretary George Mavrikos has guided the organization since 2005, after a lifetime of working-class struggle.
lareviewofbooks
January 1, 2017
As regional neighbors like Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore shot to prosperity in the 1960s and 1970s, Burma slumbered under the rule of General Ne Win, who led the 1962 coup and introduced what came to be known as the "Burmese Way to Socialism." This ...
TIME
December 31, 2016
Though he didn't regard himself as a war photographer, his pictures taken in turbulent places throughout China, Nepal, Pakistan, Iran and Africa, Tibet and Japan earned him a reputation as the eminent photojournalist of his time.
ch-aviation
December 28, 2016
Northwest Airlines (NW, Minneapolis/St. Paul), which merged with Delta in 2008, placed the order in 2005. At the time, it included options and purchase rights for fifty additional B787s.
The Kathmandu Post
December 28, 2016
The 'establishment faction', led by Rana, wanted a departure from the party's support of the monarchy and the Hindu agenda, citing that the public had lost faith in the Palace after the 2005 coup. This led a faction led by Thapa, a long-time confidant ...
Firstpost
December 21, 2016
In 2005, fireworks maker Monroy was just leaving when the explosions broke out; nearly a year later, he was standing on a bridge overlooking the market when the sky lit up again.
International Business Times UK
November 20, 2016
Belarus, Afghanistan, Iran and Mongolia have observer status while Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Nepal are dialogue partners. Erdogan ... Accession talks only started in 2005. Erdogan ... Despite Ankara and Brussels agreeing to ...
The Kathmandu Post
October 23, 2016
Oct 23, 2016- When Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba recalled the times faced during former king Gyanendra Shah's direct rule in the context of the ongoing saga of the CIAA chief in our central committee meeting on Thursday, it gave me a ...
KXRO Newsradio
October 14, 2016
The cause of the outbreak was initially unclear, but epidemiologists and other medical experts made an interesting discovery when they examined the strain of the Vibrio cholerae bacteria that causes cholera and found it was a match for a strain in ...
Daily News & Analysis
September 28, 2016
India pulled off a diplomatic coup against Pakistan by getting Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan to its side by forcing cancellation of the 19th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) summit.
Aljazeera.com
September 11, 2016
Rashed recalls that the Marxist state opened up the market after the bloody coup in 1986 and allowed merchants to import clothes.
Financial mail
September 2, 2016
While spending on material goods increased incrementally between 2005 and 2015, according to research from consumer trends agency Future Foundation, spending on experience outpaces this.
Kathmandu Post
August 27, 2016
Aug 28, 2016- As I was following the coup attempt in Turkey on the news, I began to think of the coups that have transpired in South Asia.
New Vision
August 12, 2016
Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkey invaded the north in response to a military coup on the island which was backed by the Athens government.
Nepali times
August 11, 2016
In its recent history, Nepal has been through various forms of totalitarian rule: a century of the feudal Rana regime, 30 years of an absolute Panchayat monarchy, and the authoritarian streak of King Gyanendra who staged a military coup in 2005. In ...
Nepali times (blog)
August 7, 2016
Through recent history, Nepal has seen various forms of totalitarian rule: a century of the feudal Rana regime, 30 years of an absolute Panchayat monarchy, the authoritarian streak of King Gyanendra who staged a military coup in 2005. In between we ...
Humanosphere
July 29, 2016
Flash floods and landslides have killed at least 68 people in Nepal in the past three days and another 15 are missing, local authorities said on Thursday.
UN Dispatch
July 29, 2016
Flash floods and landslides have killed at least 68 people in Nepal in the past three days and another 15 are missing, local authorities said on Thursday.
Economic and Political Weekly
June 15, 2016
Likewise, in Nepal, the movement by marginalised tribals gained recognition, representation and funding, but the ideal of ethnic federalism remained a dream, with even Dalits and other marginalised communities being left out.
Knack.be
May 31, 2016
Drie dagen later gaf hij echter ook de geest en werd zijn oom Gyanendra opnieuw Koning van Nepal. Gyanendra was dat als kind al eens geweest gedurende enige weken, tijdens een coup begin jaren 50, maar hij werd toen niet internationaal erkend.
Center for Research on Globalization
April 29, 2016
A 2005 RAND study also concluded that Jihadists shooting down a civilian airliner would put a temporary freeze on worldwide air travel, causing a $15 billion loss to the world economy.
Kathmandu Post
April 27, 2016
Or, his contribution to the civil society movement and the restoration of people's trust in the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML after the 2005 coup by the then king Gyanendra at a time when the leaders of the two parties were despised for their misrule ...
Brown Political Review
April 26, 2016
Experts believe that peacekeeping troops from Nepal may have carried the disease into Haiti, exacerbating the national crisis.
Stuff.co.nz
April 25, 2016
Nepal earthquake one year on: Behind the scenes of a disaster gallery. Nikki Macdonald spent a week .... Idrees jokes that he's gone from epicentre to epicentre, from the 2005 earthquake in his homeland of Pakistan to Unicef's Gorkha office. He's lost ...
gulfnews.com
April 24, 2016
1957 US Sixth Fleet sails for eastern Mediterranean as King Hussein proclaims martial law in Jordan and seals frontiers after a Palestinian coup attempt. 1974 Portugal's bloodless "Revolution of the ... 2005 A crowded Japanese commuter train derails ...
gulfnews.com
April 14, 2016
1974 Military coup in Niger overthrows government of president Hamani Diori. 1982 Five militant Muslim militants are executed in ... 2005 Flames and smoke send people jumping from windows of a hotel in Paris in an overnight fire that leaves 20 dead ...
Republica
April 14, 2016
Did the political transition in Nepal end with the promulgation of new constitution on September 20th, as the Big Three claim?
gulfnews.com
April 8, 2016
1978 Troops in Somalia crush attempted coup by army officers. 1986 West Berlin expels two ... 1990 A three-decade ban on political activity is lifted in Nepal. 1991 Georgia ... 2005 Haitian police shoot and kill Remissainthe Ravix, a prominent rebel ...
Republica
April 6, 2016
The first time the US publicly accepted that they followed India's lead in Nepal was in 2005, following King Gyanendra's February 1st coup. Talking to Indian reporters on February 22nd, David C Mulford, American ambassador to India at the time, had ...
Knack.be
January 31, 2016
Het paar ging na het huwelijk in Amsterdam wonen, waar ook de drie kinderen werden geboren: Anna in 2001, Lucas in 2002 en Felicia in 2005. Het gezin leeft in betrekkelijke .... Het was uiteindelijk onder meer die reputatie die leidde tot een militaire ...
Kathmandu Post
January 16, 2016
The royal coup of 2005 was another major turn in Nepali political history that contributed to the abolishment of monarchy.
Kathmandu Post
January 16, 2016
The royal coup of 2005 was another major turn in Nepali political history that contributed to the abolishment of monarchy.
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