FINALLY A COMMITTEE FORMED TO INTEGRATE ARMY………PM SAYS IN RISHI’S PROGRAM

Nepali Prime Minister and chairman of Communist Party of Nepal- Maoist (CPN-M)Pushpa Kamal Dahal, also known as Prachanda, speaks with journalist in Kathmandu.

The Nepali government formed afive- member special committee for the integration of the fighters of the Communist Pary of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) under the leadership of the Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Bam Dev Gautam on Tuesday
Other members of the committee are defence minister Ram Bahadur Thapa, Madhesi Janadhikar Forum leader Mohammad Habiullah and peace and reconstruction minister Janardan Sharma (ex-officio member) while the remaining one member will be inducted from the Nepali Congress.
The special committee, which will oversee the "management, integration and rehabilitation" of the Maoist People's Liberation Army (PLA), has been formed after prolonged dispute among the parties including the ruling allies
Photo : BIMAL GAUTAM
28-Oct- 2008

!!! KOIRALA SPEAKS IN REPORTERS CLUB PROGRAM !!!

Nepali Congress President and former Prime Minister Girija prasad Koirala speaks with media in Kathmandu. Koirala says fighter of the CPN-Maoist should not be intregrated with the National Army.
Photo : Bimal Gautam

!!!!!!!!! CONDOM DAY 2008 IN KATHMANDU !!!!!!!!!

The Condom Day organized to bring awareness about sexually transmitted diseases.More than 70,000 people in Nepal infected with HIV AIDS.
Photos : Bimal Gautam/ 18 oct. 2008

THIS IS NOT A ROYAL REGIME TIME PATROL.

Nepali Army personnel patrol in Kathmandu, on Oct. 17, 2008. The integration of the Nepali Army (NA) and the fighters of the Communist Pary of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) becomes the controversial issue in the Nepali politics.
PHOTOS : BIMAL GAUTAM

BOOK LAUNCHING

Nepal's President Yadav launching Book related to Ganesh Man Singh, founder of Nepali Congress Party on Friday.

!!!!!!! PASHUPATI FESTIVAL KICKED OFF !!!!!!!!!!

A young girl looks during the program.

Nepal’s President Ram Baran Yadav (R) inaugurating Pashupati Festival in Kathmandu.

PHOTOS : BIMAL GAUTAM

17. OCtober 2008

NEPAL HINDUS DASAIN CELEBRATION !!!!TIKA RECIVES FROM PRESIDENT VS. OUSTED KING (MONARCH)

This me, BIMAL GAUTAM, photojournalist, reciving Tika and blessing from my father, HEM RAJ GAUTAM at my resident in Kathmandu on the occassion of Dasain.






Ousted royal couple offers tika and blessing to their suppoters at their private resident in Kathmandu.








Nepal' former home minister in the royal reime time Kamal Thapa struggles in the gate of Nirmal Niwas, ousted King's resident, to recives Tika and blessing from ousted royal couple.

Nepal's former Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand struggles in the gate of Nirmal Niwas, ousted King's resident, to recives Tika and blessing from ousted royal couple.

My brother SABIN RAJ GAUTAM recives Tika and blessing from father at my house.

Ousted royal couple offers tika and blessing to children at their private resident in Kathmandu.

This is me BIMAL GAUTAM

Friend of mine, photojournalsit SABIN TULADHAR recives Tika

Friend of mine, photojournalsit SUNIL SHARMA recives Tika

Nepal's President Ram Baran Yadav offers Tika to the wife of Chief Justic Kedar Prasad Giri (second) at his resident in Kathmandu

Ousted King Gyanendra talks as he offers tika to the people at his resident at Nirmal Niwas in Kathmandu.

Ousted King Gyanendra returns after recives Tika from his mother from former Narayanhity palace.

PHOTOS : BIMAL GAUTAM

18 people killed in a plane crash in Lukla Airport.

People in Nepal looking at the wreckage of a Yeti Airlines aircraft in Luckla Airport
Photo by : Suroj Kunwar/ AFP

Nepalese carrier Yeti Airlines pilot Surendra Kunwar being brought to a hospital for treatment at Teaching hospital inKathmandu. He is only a surviver on the crash.

photo : Pradeep Shrestha/ AFP

Nepal army soldiers carry the bodies of victims of a Twin Otter aircraft crash in east Nepal, as the bodies arrive in Kathmandu .

Senior officials of the Tribhuvan International Airport gather in an emergency meeting to discuss an air crash, which occurred at the Lukla airport.

Photos : Bimal Gautam

18 KILLED IN A PLANE CRASH IN NEPAL

Nepali aviation authority confirmed 18 died in an air crash in Lukla airport on Wednesday morning.
At least 18 people killed while a A Nepal Yeti Airlines domestic plane on Wednesday morning caught fire while landing at Lukla airport, east of Nepali capital Kathmandu.
Mohan Adhikari, general manager of Nepali Kathmandu Tribhuvan International Airport on behalf of the related Nepali aviation authority, said at a press conference that 18 people died in the accident.
Mohan Adhikari further told the 18 dead including two crew members, 14 German passengers, two Australian passengers and two Nepali passengers, while the only one still alive is a Nepali passenger. The injured is treated in Kathmandu hospital, Mohan Adhikari said.
"Altogether there were 19 people on board and most of them were foreign tourists," an official in the Lukla airport once on Wednesday morning. Lukla airport is gateway to mount Mt.Qomolangma (Mt. Everest), some 130 km east of Nepali capital Kathmandu. International tourists are coming to Nepal at the beginning of October, the end of Nepali monsoon season.

NEPALI GOVERNMENT CALLS ARMED GROUPS FOR TALKS

Leader of the government talk committee , Minister for peace and Reconstruction Minister, Janardan Pravakar speaks in a news conference in his ministry in Kathmandu. He invites formally for peacefull negotation to the armed groups of southern plains.



Minister Janardan Sharma himself becomes a ministers from armed insurgency as names people's war.

Nepal’s Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist-led coalition government invited armed rebel groups in the country's southern plains for talks and named three government negotiations committee headed headed by Minister for Peace and Reconstruction Janardan Sharma.

The team has Minister for Local Development Ram Chandra Jha and Minister for Education Renu Yadav as members.

More than a dozen armed groups are fighting a low-intensity insurgency in the country's southern plains bordering India called Madhesh, demanding greater regional autonomy.Dozens of people have died in violence in the south since Nepal's Maoist former rebels ended their civil war and joined a peace process in 2006.

Photos : Bimal Gautam

6 oct. 2008.

!!!!!!!!!! CHILDREN'S DASAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!

This picture taken on sept. 27, shows children flies a kite in a remote Betani village of Gorkha district of Nepal on sep. 27, 2008. Kite flying is popular among children and is especially flown during the upcoming Hindus great Dasain festival. Hindus around Nepal are celebrating the 15-day long Dasain festival which involves the sacrifice of animals in honor of the Hindu goddess Durga.

Photo: Bimal Gautam

INTERNATIONAL NON-VIOLENCE DAY OBSERVED IN NEPAL

Peace for Nepal, a NGO working for peace, submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice and the Constituent Assembly Chairman today. Earlier, they organised a rally from the Presidential residence Shital Niwas, rounded the city and reached Baluwatar. This is the second International Day of Non-Violence is being observed worldwide on Thursday.

The United Nations General Assembly declared October 2 the International Day of Non-Violence last year in the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, who helped lead India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

photos : Peace for Nepal

2 oct. 2008