Nepal

Bardot appeal over Nepal festival

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Former film star Brigitte Bardot urges Nepal's president to stop a ritual slaughter of animals in an upcoming religious festival.

Gadhimai Festival: Nepal Mass Animal Sacrifice Festival To Go Ahead Despite Protests

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday

KATMANDU, Nepal — A Hindu festival in which hundreds of thousands of animals are expected to be sacrificed will go ahead as scheduled in southern Nepal despite protests, organizers said Friday. The Gadhimai festival, celebrated every five years, is attended by many Hindus from India as well as Nepal. More than 200,000 buffaloes, pigs, goats, chickens and pigeons are expected to be slaughtered...

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Nepal mass animal sacrifice to go ahead

MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday

A Hindu festival in which hundreds of thousands of animals are expected to be sacrificed will go ahead as scheduled in southern Nepal despite protests, organizers say.

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Envoys 'concerned' over Nepal's peace process

Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday

International envoys to Nepal said Friday they are "increasingly concerned" by the slow progress in the country's peace process, three years after the end of a bloody, decade-long civil war.

Nepal's mass animal sacrifice festival to go ahead

Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday

Organizers say they will not bow to ‘interference' from animal rights and religious groups

India, Nepal press ahead with Pancheswor project talks

Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday

India and Nepal Friday kicked off water-sharing talks in the Himalayan republic that will finally give a push to the massive 6,000 MW Pancheswor Multipurpose Project more than 10 years after the two governments signed a treaty to develop the hydro-power project.

Nepal peace pact in tatters on third anniversary

Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday

Nepal's historic peace pact, which ended a decade of violent communist insurgency, turned three years Friday under the threat of unravelling.

Nepal ignores Bardot's plea to halt animal slaughter

Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday

Nepal's coalition government has turned a deaf ear to urgent pleas by celebrated French actress and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot to prevent the slaughter of thousands of birds and animals at a religious fair in the Terai plains next week.

Nepal-India water resources meeting begins in Nepal

People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday

The fifth secretary level Nepal-India meeting on water resources is going to be started in western Nepali city Pokhara from Friday. Western Regional Irrigation Director Pradip Pandey informed that discussion will be held on various issues including irrigation, water induced disaster control, water resources and energy. The two-day meeting is learnt be led by Energy Secretary Shankar Koirala on behalf...

Bardot urges end to animal sacrifice in Nepal

France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday

The legendary French movie star turned animal rights campaigner Brigitte Bardot has written to Nepal's president urging him to stop a mass animal sacrifice from going ahead next week. A temple in Nepal will host what is thought to be the world's biggest ritual slaughter in which hundreds of thousands of buffaloes, goats and birds will be sacrificed to the Hindu goddess of power, Gadhimai.

Nepal mass animal sacrifice festival to go ahead

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday

A Hindu festival in which hundreds of thousands of animals are expected to be sacrificed will go ahead as scheduled in southern Nepal despite protests, organizers said Friday.

Nepal mass animal sacrifice festival to go ahead

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday

A Hindu festival in which hundreds of thousands of animals are expected to be sacrificed will go ahead as scheduled in southern Nepal despite protests, organizers said Friday.

Nepal once is never enough

Travelblog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Itrsquos hard to say what I was expecting as the local bus rumbled to the border at Sonauli for us to cross into Nepal. Tired and sore wersquod all been duped and put on a local bus rather than a coach to the border and the journey had so far involved many arguments much tension a flat tyre several mosquito bites and the ongoing suspicion that the situation wasnrsquot going to improve

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Transadvocate Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

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World Day Against Child Abuse being observed in Nepal

People Daily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

The World Day Against Child Abuse has been observed in Nepal on Thursday with various awareness creating programs organized across the country with the main theme "Role of Youths and Parents to Protect Child Rights". Thursday morning hundreds of Nepali youths marched in the rally in capital Kathmandu to advocate child rights on the occasion of two decades of the United Nations Convention...

Abercrombie & fitch announces 15 Extreme Adventures for 2010

abercrombiefitch | 30/10/2009

“Notes from Norway Abercrombie&Fitch : on an opportunity to surmount kind instead of the care and renew the will Some kind to the gale of achieving special quests against character,” says Geoffrey Kent, Founder, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Abercrombie & Kent. Nevertheless sometimes it’s the little-by-close challenges and triumphs experienced On the Trail of the Polar Bear (March 21-30, 2009)....