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Deputy Speaker of the reinstated Parliament, Chitra Lekha Yadav, chaired the parliament meet as speaker Taranath Ranabhat resigned from his post on Wednesday. The first sitting of the reinstated House of Representatives (HoR) on Friday (Apr 28, 2006) registered a proposal by PM Girija Prasad Koirala to hold an election to a constituent assembly. more »
photos by Rajesh KC
Following the Monday night royal proclamation, thousands of people took to the Kathmandu streets marking the œvictory of people™s rights over œautocracy on Tuesday (April 25, 2006). Hailing the royal address, rallies were taken out across the nation. more »
19th day of the general strike nationwide called by the seven-party alliance (April 24, 2006). more »
Eighteenth day of the general strike nationwide called by the seven-party alliance (April 23, 2006). Curfew was imposed inside KTM ring road from 0900-1900 hours on Sunday. more »
Seventeenth day of the general strike nationwide called by the seven-party alliance (April 22, 2006). Curfew was imposed from 0900 hours to 20 hours inside Kathmandu ring road. more »
photos by Rajesh KC
Defying the curfew orders approximately one million demonstrators (as per BBC reports) entered the Ring Road area chanting slogans in favour of republicanism. Today’s participation made a record in the history of Nepal.
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Security personnel continued to use bullets, rubber bullets, teargas shells and batons to quell the demonstrations organized by the agitating seven-party alliance (SPA) in various parts of the country including in the capital on Thursday, Apr 20, 2006. Curfew was imposed in Kathmandu from Thursday 0200 hrs to Friday 0300 hrs. more »
Fourteenth day of the general strike nationwide called by the seven-party alliance (April 19, 2006). more »
Women in front
Thirteenth day of the general strike nationwide called by the seven-party alliance (April 18, 2006).
12th day of the general strike nationwide called by the seven-party alliance (April 17, 2006). more »
Festival of Bode
by Bikas Karki
Buddha Krishna Bagh Shrestha, 33, of Bode, Thimi walks with the pierced tongue in Bode during the Bisket Festival. It was Shrestha’s second year of piercing tongue. The festival which is one of the biggest for the Newar community of Bhaktapur is celebrated on the first week of each Nepali new year with chariot carrying and color-powders. more »
Eleventh day of general strike called by the seven-party alliance nationwide (April 16, 2006).
Tenth day of the general strike nationwide called by the seven-party alliance (April 15, 2006). more »
