Obama will cash in on success of Operation Osama

Everybody was talking about bin Laden’s death today. At work, while commuting, in the cafe… everywhere where there were more than one person!

Osama vs Obama: A tongue twister

Interestingly, I was re-enlightened with this fact: a single letter makes a  big difference.

While talking about the big news, people were saying (President) Osama announced (al-Qaeda leader) Obama’s death or Osama will win another US election as he wiped out Obama.  It’s not that they  don’t know about difference between the very two persons at odds.

Their tongue slipped, obviously.  The names in fact are similar, except the second letter.

I tweeted this thing hours ago, and wrote Facebook status also. Interestingly, a friend posted a link of a Fox News video on my   status, in which the anchor mistakenly says President Obama is dead, and apologises in no time for the blunder.

With Osama’s death, it’s likely that President Obama will live more in  he office.  Obama certainly will try to cash in on the success of Operation Osama.

By the way, I have a question to President Obama (I double checked the spelling, it’s correct!). Has justice been done to everybody? What about the innocent people who have been killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan during the US operations launched to hunt down the terrorist leader?

wikileaksWikiLeaks

 US suspected/knew since 2008 that Osama was living in Abbottabad–which begs the question why the delay? http://is.gd/LtSvHC

Though this question will prevail, hope the world will turn a better place to live without Osama.

झक्कुलाई झापड: Jhakku gets slapped

A nobody has slapped somebody again. And, it’s news. Coincidentally, the subject is another Jha=झ  this time also.

Prem Raj Devkota who runs a small café at a stone’s throw from the Kantipur Publications premises in Tinkune slapped  Maoist lawmaker Jhakku Prasad Subedi twice this afternoon, in what appears to be the expression of frustration over the delay in constitution drafting.

Courtesy: ekantipur.com

I know this mustachioed gentleman. He is soft, polite and cool. Not violent at all.

I have eaten veg Waiwai prepared by him and drank hot lemon many a time in the evenings when I was with Kantipur till June last year. I have bought chocolates from his shop hundreds of time.

However, he had a different avatar today that by all means is at odds with his characteristics. At least the ones that I as a customer and an acquaintance know. It was not easy for me to believe that this lucid and composed nobody ventured to smack the former guerrilla leader.

But it’s him. No doubt, it’s him who did this. Right now his soft and slow voice is echoing on my ears! And, I have smiles on my face.

Sometimes, Davids take on Goliaths, and also they beat the latter !

Subedi came to the lime light after knocking down the then CPN-UML chairman, Madhav Kumar Nepal, in the Constituent Assembly polls from the Kathmandu Constituency No. 2 three years ago.

And, it’s Devkota’s turn to be popular now. Did he slap Jhakku only to be popular, by the way? Or, was it an impulse? Be that what it may, Subedi is a representative of the common people who struggle everyday for bread and butter. And, his “big subject of the day” is one of the 601 individuals (notwithstanding the fact that there are some seats vacant in the Constituent Assembly)—or, better say the tools of arrogant, selfish, stupid (I can add hundreds of adjectives for them) parties—who have reneged on their words regarding the new constitution and are squabbling for the power and post and  partisan interests instead.

On Janauary 21, one Devi Prasad Regmi had slapped CPN-UML Chairman Jhala Nath Khanal in Itahari in eastern Nepal.
Regmi’s slap turned to be blessing to Khanal as he was elected the prime minister later.

Now, what for this mighty Jhakku who beat the UML heavyweight in the elections? What is for him in stock?
My best wishes to Devkota sahujee! Hope he won’t be in trouble because he did not do what he did today maliciously.
Sabai ko buddhi firos!

UK royal couple coming to Nepal for honeymoon?

News24 claims the United Kingdom’s Prince William and his newly wed wife Kate are coming to Nepal for their honeymoon, with no named source quoted. Or, is it another hoax?
Covering the  news on the high profile royal wedding, it said  preparations are being made secretly for their week-long trip to the Himalayan country.
The TV station is too confident. But none in the British Embassy here in Kathmandu and the Foreign Ministry officials verify this. “
Did News24 get carried away by The Himalayan Times April First prank:  UK royal couple to honeymoon in Nepal ? Appears so!

Update:  Till 6 pm bulletin, the Kathmandu-based television channel reported that the British royal couple has chosen Nepal for their honeymoon, colligating William’s closeness with Gurkhas.

For a while,  we people at The Himalayan Times were surprised first at the “Breaking News”.  Seeing at the certitude of the baby news channel, we were compelled to call up  the “probable sources”.  But none verified the claim. :)

Later, they did not highlight the Nepal part  (Or, did I miss that?) But their website still carries the transcript of the same old news in Nepali:

Prince William kisses his wife Kate

शाही जोडी हनिमुनका लागि नेपाल आउदै 

वेलायतका राजकुमार विलियम्स र केट मिडलटनको शुभविवाहको रौनकमा अहिले पुरै लण्डन प्रणयोत्सवको पोखरीमा पौडिरहेको छ । वेलायतको भावी राजा र महारानीकोरुपमा हेरिएका यी दुई जोडीको विवाहले संसारको ध्यान खिचिरहेका वखत नेपालीका लागि पनि खुसीको खबर प्राप्त भएको छ । वेलायती सेनामा कार्यरत गोर्खाली सेनासंग निकटको सम्बन्ध राख्दै आउनु भएका वेलायती राजकुमार विलियम्सको नेपाल प्रेम यसपटक पनि उजागर भएको छ । उहाँले विवाह पछि केटसंगको पहिलो खुसी साटन् नेपाललाई नै रोज्नु भएको छ । यसअघि सगरमाथाको आधारशिविरमा सैन्य तालिम लिने इच्छा देखाउनु भएका विलियम्स र केटको हनिमुन यात्राको लागि तयारी पनि आरम्भ भइसकेको वताइएको छ । नेपाल स्थित वेलायती दूतावास र परराष्ट्र मन्त्रालयले यस बारेमा गोप्यरुपमा तयारी आरम्भ गरिसकेको बताइएको छ । हेलिकप्टर चार्टर गर्ने तथा होटल र सुरक्षाका आवश्यक तयारी शुरु गरिएको वताइएको छ । यद्धपि विलियम्स र केटको भ्रमणको मिति र नेपालको कुन कुन जिल्लाको भ्रमण गर्ने भन्ने बारेमा भने नेपाल स्थित वेलायती दूतावास र परराष्ट्र मन्त्रालयले औपचारिक जानकारी पछि मात्र दिने वताइएको छ । पर्यटन बर्ष मनाइरहेको नेपालको लागि विलियम्स र केटको हनिमुन भ्रमण नेपाल र नेपालीकालागि सुखद उपहार वन्ने देखिन्छ । राजकुमार चाल्स्र र स्वर्गीय युवराज्ञी डायनाको पहिलो सुपुत्र विलियम्स अफगानिस्तानमा नेटोले गरेको सैन्य कारवाहीमा गोर्खाली सेनाको समूहमा रहेर लामो समय विताउनु भएको थियो । विलियम्स र केटबीचको शुभविवाह केही समय अघि वेलायतको वेष्टमिनिष्टरमा सम्पन्न भएको छ । वेष्टमिनिष्टरको गिर्जाघरमा आयोजित विशेष समारोहमा वैवाहिक समारोह सम्पन्न भएको हो ।

They begin English this way

Kids learning alphabet at a school in rural Panchamul of Syangja district of western Nepal.

कस्तो नसुहाएको

What you say?

Taking a break from all the worldliness

Hopefully, it will be short but very fruitful!

In Kathmandu, int’l scientists will discuss black hole growth

ASTRO-WATCH
KESHAV P. KOIRALA

KATHMANDU: Leading physicists and space scientists from across the globe including four from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Chandra X-ray image of radio galaxy named 4C +00.58. At the centre of the galaxy is a supermassive black hole that is actively pulling in large quantities of gas. (Photo Credit: NASA/CXC/UMD/Hodges-Kluck et al)

will meet in the capital from October 10 to 16 to discuss the process of growth of central black hole.
In the international conference “Accretion and Outflow in Black Hole Systems”, 130 scientists will take part

Prachanda writes to UN, seeks six more months for UNMIN

Prachanda

The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has sent a letter to the United Nations on Thursday, September 9, 2010, disagreeing with the Nepal government’s request to extend the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN)’s tenure by four months only.

Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, nom de guerre Prachanda, asked UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to extend the UNMIN term by six months from September 15. The UN body’s sixth term is expiring in mid-September.

UNSG Ban Ki-moon’s Report presented at the Security Council

Ban Ki-moon

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presented his report on Nepal’s peace process and UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN)’s mandate at the Security Council on September 8, 2010.

Some observations: 

Nepal govt takes exception to UNSG Ban’s report

Submits letter for UNMIN term extension at UNSC
BY KESHAV P. KOIRALA

KATHMANDU: Nepal has expressed its dissatisfaction over United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s recent report on the country’s peace process at the UN Security Council meeting in the UN headquarters in New York, suggesting that some of its contents were not based on correct observation.
Taking exception to the questioning of the regular functioning of the incumbent government–though it is bearing a caretaker role after Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s resignation on June 30–with full authority as per the country’s constiution, the Permananent Mission of Nepal to the United Nations recorded Nepal’s official views apropos to the content of the report on Tuesday.

UNMIN or no UNMIN?

The non-Maoist parties want to reduce UNMIN’s mandate.
UNMIN says the alternative to its mandate revision could be its termination. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says UNMIN should stay in Nepal without its mandate curtailed.
Former foreign ministers oppose to Ban. But none has an alternative to suggest.
Why this fuss?

Foreign Ministers of Nepal Oppose to UNSG Ban Report on Nepal Peace Process

Aghori at Aryaghat

@ 3 a.m.

I spent whole night at the cremation site  in the Pashupati area on Wednesday, July 14.
Ghat is a separate world, with hundreds living their life in their own style. And, it’s microcosm of the men’s world, if not the bridge between the heavens and the earth.

I don’t know how to explain it in words however.

Braving dark, all tall tales of phantoms and unappeasable happenings (including screams of the bereaved and the strident sound from the funeral pyre that probably is generated when the skull or bones burst) at the place where the dead are burnt, I spent the night capturing the moments there while waiting for the sun to rise to carry out the last rites of one of my grandaunts.

The clock struck three in the morning.

And, I saw a a black-robed man coming out from the dark. He went to the River and performed some rituals. Not very far from the dead body lying at the Brahmanal.

German gems fail to dazzle, La Roja makes it to the final

Last night there was an abrupt power outage in the Kathmandu Valley. For about a couple of hours. A system failure? May be.

Black out at the place where a 18-hour outage is imposed is not a big deal. But the World Cup semis between Germany and Spain was about to kick off. So, I was anxious. I did not want to miss the match.
With 40 percent battery left in my machine, I started following the FIFA live update. It was 10th minute of the match when the electricity supply resumed.

Ja, I said in my primitive Deutsch, ich kann den deutschen Sieg sehen!

Unfortunately, the German gems failed to dazzle. La Roja dominated the whole game, instead.

Spain beat Germany 1-0 with Carles Puyol’s beautiful header.

For the first time, Spain made it to the FIFA World Cup final. But it is yet to see whether the European champions can face up the Dutch challenge.

SLC 2066 results

उहिले हाम्रो पालामा पत्रिकामा मात्रै हुन्थ्यो SLC result. अहिले त यी यहीँ छ ।
btw, my symbol-number-sake also passed in distinction. congrats young fellow!
Here is the list of regular examinees who got through the “iron gate”.

SLC 2066 Results Regular

world cup fever