Nepal Highlights

The marriage of Nepali bollywood actress Manisha Koirala has been fixed with Nepali businessman Samrat Dahal. Dahal is the owner of an Alternative Energy company in Nepa and son of owner of Leather Wings owner Surendra Dahal. He returned to Nepal recently after completing education in USA. His father Surendra Dahal is also connected with the liquidation of Bansbari Leather Shoes Factory. He is alleged of corruption when he was the chief. People allege, Dahal established Leather Wings, by taking illegally several machineries from the state owned Bansbari Leather Shoes Factory. Koiral's family priest has calculated the auspicious dates for the marriage on Monday. Swayambar has been fixed for June 17, Mehandi for June 18 and the wedding for July 3. However, the family has not announced the marriage officially. It is also not clear why the family decided to marry or how it will organise the function only four months after the demise of Girija Prasad Koirala. GP Koirala is the...

Bollywood actress Manisha Koirala, otherwise based in Mumbai, is in Kathmandu now. She is living with her parents at a rented apartment somewhere around Dhumbarahi. At a recent function in Kathmandu, Manisha told that she is planning to get married soon, and looking for a Nepali groom. Interestingly, she was talking about tying the nuptial night, few days after her younger Grand pa Girija Prasad Koirala expired.   All I had heard about her love life was that, at one point of time, she was dating an Australian ambassador to Nepal. While browsing this morning, I found this well researched compendium of Manisha Koirala's love life. I have posted it here thinking readers would be interested in it.   Here is the full version:   Falling in and out of love seems like a regular exercise for commitment-phobic Manisha Koirala. Now barely a month after breaking up with Akshay, Manisha's got a new guy, her neighbour and music director, Sandeep Chowta. maniWill Manisha be lucky in l...

Former Prime Minister and founder leader of Nepali Congress Krishna Prasad Bhattarai has called for the revival of the 'Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal 1990' to avoid a constitutional void as it seems improbable that a new constitution will be drafted withing the mentioned deadline of May 28. Former PM Bhattarai issued a press statement Sunday and called for the revival of the 1990 constitution, saying the constitution could not live its full life despite being one of the best constitutions of the world. The 1990 constitution is based on a multiparty democracy with a constitutional monarch. Although, Bhattarai hasn't mentioned the term 'monarchy' clearly in the statement, the revival of the 1990 constitution means revival of monarchy, analysts say. However, Bhattarai has clearly mentioned his call for a 'Hindu' nation. The nation had adopted a secular policy after the people's movement three years ago. Political parties and analysts have tak...

Bollywood Actress Manisha Koirala has revealed she is planning to get married soon, and that, too, with a Nepali boy in Nepal as she does not want to leave Nepal. Speaking at a face-to-face programme organised by Reporters' Club Nepal in Kathmandu on Friday, actress Koirala said, 'Now, I will marry soon and that marriage will be in Nepal, because I don't want to leave Nepal.' However, Koirala did not give any further hints about her marriage - if she had already chosen her partner or not. She does not have a known existing boyfriend in Nepal.

Gas supply, that has been halted due a strike by the gas dealers and factories since last week, will resume Wednesday after successful talks among the representatives of Nepal Oil Corporation, gas dealers and gas factories, Tuesday evening.   The gas dealers came to terms after NOC agreed to postpone by one year its plans to privatise itself with a Public-Private Partnersip (PPP) model.   The gas dealers, who initiated their strike demanding ample supply of LPG, had later added annulment of plans to privatise NOC.

Tourism Year 2011 has kicked off from Friday. People from various walks of life are taking out rallies from five different places in capital Kathmandu to mark the inauguration of the Tourism Year. Political parties will begin their rally from Rastriya Sabha Griha, tourism entreprenuers will begin their rally from Lainchaur, other businesspersons will begin their rally from in front of Nepal Academy and journalists and members of civil society and sportsmen will begin their rally from Dashrath Stadium.   All rallies will converge into a mass assembly at Ratnapark, where Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will inaugurate Tourism Year 2011. At the occassion, representatives of various political parties will also sign a resolution not to organise any strikes during the Tourism Year, according to Prachanda Man Shrestha, CEO of Nepal Tourism Board.  

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the legislative-parliament has directed the government not to print the Machine-Readable Passports (MRP)s in India for security reasons. PAC issued such directive after seeking information from foreign minister Sujata Koirala and foreign ministry officials on MRP printing. PAC had summoned the minister and the officials after reports that minister Koirala is in mood to award the contract of printing the MRPs to Indian company Indian security printers through a cabinet decision became public. The cabinet is meeting Thursday afternoon.  The PAC has directed the ministry to award the contract to one of the four companies which had applied to it earlier. The ministry had cancelled the tender citing technical reasons few months ago.