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  • 15
    Jun
    2012
    12:59pm, EDT

    Maoist party supporters gather for rally in Nepal

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    Supporters of the Unified Communist Party Nepal (Maoist) arrive for a mass gathering in Kathmandu on June 15. According to local media reports, the party leaders of UCPN-Maoist organized the meeting to protest the obstructions presented by the Nepali Congress and the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) to the achievement of a constitution with federalism.

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    Supporters of the Unified Communist Party Nepal (Maoist) shout slogans as they arrive for a mass gathering from a rally in Kathmandu on June 15.

    Niranjan Shrestha / AP

    A Communist flag flutters as supporters of establishment faction of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) gather during the mass meeting in Katmandu, on June 15. The establishment faction of the Maoist party on Friday organized a grand mass rally of their supporters in an apparent show of strength and to protest the obstruction by the opposition party Nepali Congress and CPN-UML for federalism with identity and constitution with federalism, according to the local newspapers.

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  • 9
    May
    2012
    12:14pm, EDT

    Salvaging belongings from a demolished slum in Kathmandu

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    A man, whose home was demolished, visits the area on May 9 where 250 squatter homes were demolished, in Kathmandu.

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    A woman holds a picture of her grandson recovered from her demolished house in Kathmandu May 9.

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    A boy looks up while searches for his belongings in the rubble of his former house at the slum settlement in Kathmandu, May 9, 2012.

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    An elderly woman searches for her belongings in the rubble where her house used to stand May 9 at the slum settlement near the bank of Bagmati River, a day after 250 squatter homes, built illegally, were demolished, in Kathmandu.

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    A demolished wall of a school is all that is left of the slum settlement near the bank of Bagmati River, in Kathmandu, May 9.

    At least 1000 people living in a Kathmandu slum have become homeless and now are living in the park near the slum area. The demolition follows the government's decision to begin evicting nearly 10,000 people who've created squatter camps along the Bagmati river in the Nepali capital.

    “I cried my heart out when I saw bulldozers demolishing our home,”34-year-old Manju Adhikari, a mother of daughters aged 15 and 17, told AFP.

    “When my younger girl came back from school, she asked me where were we going to live. I didn’t have the answer. We have nowhere to go.”

    Full story at Dawn.com

    Photos from yesterday's riot, preceding the demolition on PhotoBlog.

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  • 8
    May
    2012
    7:46am, EDT

    Landless squatters clash with riot police in Nepal

    Narendra Shrestha / EPA

    Landless people hurl stones towards riot police during a clash in Katmandu, Nepal, on May 8, 2012.

    Riot police in Kathmandu arrested more than 20 protesters on Tuesday during clashes sparked by an attempt to evict landless squatters from their homes. Dozens were injured.  

    The demolition drive follows a Nepali government decision to force the squatters out from an area beside the Thapathali hospital and move them to an alternative settlement along with the introduction of a property ownership document, according to local media reports.

    -- Reuters and EPA contributed to this report

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    Bikash Dware / Reuters

    Police arrest landless squatters who live beside the Thapathali hospital during clashes with police personnel who arrived to demolish illegally-built houses in Kahmandu on May 8, 2012.

    Bikash Dware / Reuters

    A girl who used to live beside the Thapathali hospital cries during the clashes in Katmandu on May 8, 2012.

     

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    India has a population explosion dilemma as well as China parts of the Middle East Africa Asia and South America. How long can the west continue to have their borders invaded by those trying to get out of the problem they created? The west voluntarily reduced birth rate growth but it would seem that …

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  • 7
    Feb
    2012
    10:57am, EST

    Raging fire forces closure of Nepal airport

    Niranjan Shrestha / AP

    Nepalese firefighters try to control a grass fire close to the runway of Nepal's international airport in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. The grass fire has closed Nepal's only international airport and forced flights to divert to India. Police spokesman Raviraj Shrestha said the fire spread close to the runway but away from the terminal building Tuesday evening. No damage or casualties were reported, and it was brought under control within hours.

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    Locals run carrying the water pipes of the fire brigade as they try to extinguish the fire caught at the grassland and bushes adjoining the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on Feb. 7. National and international flights were affected due to the fire that started from the bushes adjoining the eastern part of the TIA, according to the local media reports.

    AP reports:

    A grass fire has closed Nepal's only international airport and forced flights to divert to India.

    Police spokesman Raviraj Shrestha said the fire spread close to the runway but away from the terminal building Tuesday evening. No damage or casualties were reported, and it was brought under control within hours.

    The fire and smoke were visible around part of Nepal's capital, Katmandu. Continue reading.

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    Nepalese children watch as a fire spreads at the grassland and bushes adjoining Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on Feb. 7.

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  • 23
    Jan
    2012
    7:56am, EST

    Nepalese women bathe for Swasthani festival

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    Devotees stand on the banks of the Bagmati River during the Swasthani Bratakatha festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Jan. 23, 2012. The month-long festival dedicated to Goddess Swasthani, involves the recitation of folk tales about miraculous feats performed by her in almost every Hindu household.

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    A devotee smiles while speaking with her friends after taking a holy bath in the Bagmati river at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu on Jan. 23, 2012.

    Narendra Shrestha / EPA

    Women pray before taking a mass holy bath in the Bagmati river on Jan. 23, 2012. Some 230 married and unmarried women and dozens of male devotees wearing red attire started their holy tour a day earlier.

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    Devotees take a holy bath in the Bagmati river on Jan. 23, 2012.

    msnbc.com news services report:

    The month-long festival, dedicated to God Madhavnarayan and Goddess Swasthani, involves the recitation of folk tales about miraculous feats performed by them in many Hindu households.

    Some 230 married and unmarried women and dozens of male devotees have been fasting for the past two weeks. Unmarried women take the fast to get a good husband and married women for their families' prosperity. 

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  • 18
    Oct
    2011
    1:32pm, EDT

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    A child cries as her father prepares to depart for Mecca on his Hajj pilgrim from the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Oct.18. Nepalese Muslims have started to leave Nepal for the annual pilgrimage to the holiest place for Muslims.

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    Hajj pilgrims cry as they prepare to depart for Mecca from the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Oct.18.

    Tears as pilgrims leave Kathmandu for Mecca

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

    The annual pilgrimage for Muslims, the Hajj, begins. The captions don't say if the tears have to do with saying goodbye to their loved ones or tears of joy as they head off to make the most significant trip of their lives to the holiest place for Muslims. Maybe a little of both?

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  • 18
    Sep
    2011
    12:21pm, EDT

    6.8 magnitude quake strikes India, Nepal

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    Members of the Nepalese army gather around a damaged car after the wall surrounding the British Embassy collapsed on top of the car that was passing by during the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Kathmandu, Nepal, Sept. 18.

     Read the full story here.

    Diptendu Dutta / AFP - Getty Images

    An Indian man points to a crack in the wall of his home after an earthquake hit the mountainous northeast Indian state of Sikkim, on Sept. 18, in Siliguri, India. A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit the northeast Indian state of Sikkim, triggering strong tremors felt in neighbouring Nepal and Bhutan.

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  • 16
    Aug
    2011
    5:31am, EDT

    Appeasing the demon in the pond

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    According to the AP, the Deopokhari festival in Nepal is held to appease what locals believe is a demon that resides in a pond. Every year, cattle and other animals are sacrificed to the pond demon so that no human lives are lost to drowning in the pond, which locals say was a common occurrence before the festival began.

    Niranjan Shrestha / AP

    Children watch, from behind a fence, the Deopokhari festival in Khokana, Kathmandu, Nepal, on Aug. 15.

    Niranjan Shrestha / AP

    People compete to grab a goat which was earlier thrown into a pond as part of the Deopokhari festival in Khokana on Aug. 15.

    Similarly to the story told in Monday's PhotoBlog post about Indonesians sacrificing chickens to the mountain gods, it appears that there were plenty of skeptics in attendance at the pond, ready and willing to find a more practical use for the sacrificial goat.

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  • 9
    Aug
    2011
    11:05am, EDT

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    A Nepalese indigenous woman attends a program to mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous People in Kathmandu on August 9. Various ethnic and indigenous people of Nepal took part in a parade calling for the preservation of their cultural identity.

    Indigenous peoples of the world unite

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    This woman wasn't on her own for too long. The wires moved various pictures showing larger crowds of people attending this event, but this was the image that caught my attention.

    Read more about the International Day of the World's Indigenous People and see more pictures of Nepal on PhotoBlog.

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  • 6
    Jul
    2011
    7:55am, EDT

    Prakash Mathema / AFP - Getty Images

    An exiled Tibetan dances during an event celebrating the Dalai Lama's 76th birthday at the Namgyal School in Kathmandu, Nepal, on July 6.

    Tibetan exiles celebrate Dalai Lama's birthday

    AFP reports:

    Riot police in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu on July 6 arrested three Tibetan exiles who were attempting to celebrate the birthday of their spiritual leader. Hundreds of exiles from Tibet, who have fled their highly militarized homeland, attempted to attend a birthday event for the Tibetan spiritual leader at a school on the outskirts of Kathmandu. Nepal has a long border with China and is home to around 20,000 exiled Tibetans, but the government has taken an increasingly hard line on their activities under pressure from Beijing.

    Related content:

    • Nepal bans Tibetan rallies on Dalai Lama birthday
    • Slideshow: The life of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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  • 6
    Jul
    2011
    7:01am, EDT

    Nepalese laborer digs deep in search of water

    Narendra Shrestha / EPA

    Onlookers watch as Rishi Dev Yadav digs a well for a water source in Kathmandu, Nepal, on June 15.

    Narendra Shrestha / EPA

    Rishi Dev Yadav, 28, looks up while digging a well for a water source at a depth of around 35 feet in Kathmandu on June 15.

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    EPA moved a set of pictures today of Rishi Dev Yadav, a migrant worker from Inarwa district in eastern Nepal.

    Rishi had to leave his wife and two sons behind in search for work opportunities, and for the last three years he has been digging wells in the capital city, Kathmandu. Rishi receives a wage of 2,500 Nepalese rupees (35 USD) for each well that he digs. According to Rishi, he is sometimes required to dig to depths of more than 50 feet to get to the water, which can be dangerous.

    With the ever increasing population in the Kathmandu valley, the city has been facing an acute water crisis in recent years.

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  • 15
    Apr
    2011
    9:42am, EDT

    Colorful celebrations mark Nepalese new year

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    People throw vermillion powder on one another to celebrate the Nepali New Year, lso known as "Sindoor Jatra" at Thimi, near Kathmandu, Nepal on April 15.

    Prakash Mathema / AFP - Getty Images

    Nepalese people sing and dance to traditional music and smear vermillion powder as they carry chariots of Hindu gods and goddesses during the Bisket Jatra festival in Thimi, in the outskirts of Kathmandu, on April 15. The traditional Bisket Jatra festival is celebrated during the Nepali New Year.

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    People throw vermillion powder on one another and play traditional drums to celebrate the Nepali New Year in Kathmandu on April 15.

    Prakash Mathema / AFP - Getty Images

    Local residents watch as chariots pass during the Bisket Jatra festival in Thimi, in the outskirts of Kathmandu, on April 15.

     See more photos of Nepal on PhotoBlog.

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