US Reportedly Experimenting on Nepali Soldiers

The US Government is reportedly using Nepali soldiers for experiments for finding a vaccine for Hepatitis. The vaccine is expected to protect the US soldiers while serving abroad. Hepatitis E is reported to account for half the hepatitis cases in lesser developed nations. //In 1995, the US Armed Fo...

International Cooperation to Save Drug-Addicted Kids

...ine drug education lectures to over three-thousand nepali children living in the United Kingdom. "Our kids b...Kunwar was invited to the United Kingdom by the UK nepali Association and gave drug education lectures acros... London area. Basanta was a 23-year veteran of the nepali police force and was also the former superintenden...

After the King’s Crown, Maoist Want Miss Nepal’s Cron

... breach of contract and they would take the agency to court for stiff damages. "Bravo, it shows the (Mao)Badis have their priorities right," the nepali Times weekly wrote Friday, commenting on the imbroglio. "Of all the problems that beset this country that needed urgent attention, of course it ...

UNESCO Launches HIV/AIDS Education Kit in Nepal to Combat Epidemic

...er efforts towards HIV prevention, the UNESCO office in Kathmandu has adapted an advocacy toolkit that was first developed in 2002 in Thailand, to the nepali context. The toolkits, which will be supplied to the Ministry of Education, was pre-tested in a two day workshop in November 2006 followed by further ...

Nepal's Most Influential Woman 'Critically' Ill

... last year. The white-haired, diminutive Nona is the widow of Keshav Koirala, an elder brother of the prime minister, and a senior member of his nepali Congress party. While the ailing premier has visited her at least thrice, several ministers and senior leaders of the party have also gone to th...

Dengue Outbreak Feared in Nepal

... The three patients have been sent to King George Medical College in India's Lucknow city. One of the three, Kaluram Chaudhuri, is a migrant nepali worker from Bardiya district in far western Nepal who had returned home from Rajasthan in India about a week ago. The 25-year-old had come to th...

A Princely Assistance to the Nepal Heritage

... The luncheon was followed by a small exhibition-'Selections from the Nepal Architecture Archive'-that was on view at Clarence House. Among the nepali luminaries who attended the luncheon were Prabhakar Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana and Gautam Rana, scions of the Rana dynasty of the all-powerful prime m...

Fuel Price Hike Triggers Violent Protests In Nepal

... the coalition government, including Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala's nepali Congress party and the youth wing of the Maoist guerrillas brought transpor...ve been pleading short supply. The hikes come on the eve of a succession of nepali festivals, starting with Teej, the festival of women Sunday. Fuel pri...

Nepali Rhesus May be Used as an Alternate for HIV/AIDS Research

... Scientists have found that nepali rhesus is by all means a suitable alternate for th...currently been used in biomedical research. // The nepali species can be used in order to assuage the prevai...es of the University of Washington report that the nepali macaques are more closely related genetically to r...

Swearing-in Of Girija Prasad Koirala Postponed Due To Ill Health

...vere respiratory problems and been on oxygen and saline Thursday, was advised rest by his physicians. Krishna Sitaula, spokesperson of Koirala's nepali Congress party, told IANS that the new prime minister's health had improved and doctors were expected to be able to say when he could resume normal ac...

Nepali in Biological News

Rhesus monkeys in Nepal may provide new alternative for HIV/AIDS research

...es of the University of Washington report that the nepali macaques are more closely related genetically to r...uvan University in Nepal. Blood samples from 21 nepali rhesus macaques living at a temple site in Kathman...psychology, said the genetic analyses indicate the nepali rhesus macaques are genetically similar to Indian-...