HELLO NEPAL

The Gayatri Mantra This 5000 year old mantra is one of the most ancient sacred and powerful mantras to meditate upon in this world! It is here to assist you in transcending the experience of suffering... Om bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi dhiyo yonah prachodayat English Translation: We meditate on the transcendental Glory of the Deity Supreme, who is inside the heart of the earth, inside the life of the sky and inside the soul of Heave.  May He stimulate and illuminate our minds. http://www.clixsense.com/?3656861

The Himalayan Times 29 July 2011 Promises are not enough An English daily had recently reported that the annual loss of NEA exceeds Rs. 7 billion which could tremendously offset its enormous amount of deficit. Had the NEA been able to save this loss which also could drastically reduce the load shedding hours. The current total power generation of Nepal comes to around 700 megawatts of which Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is bearing around 29 % power loss due to technical loss, leakages and theft. The Energy Minister Gokarna Bista had also recently made promised to fight back to reduce this loss down to 20 % within the next six months. It is yet to be seen whether his good promises would be fulfilled. Also, the government had launched Hydropower Investment and Development Company (HIDC) for power project development to address and improve the current power crisis in the country “New company to boost hydel projects” (THT, July 27, Page 2). Nepal is known to be the second largest ...

The Himalayan Times 15 July 2011 Only blame game rife All the major political parties of new Nepal have been widely exposed because of their inter and intra-party factional politics thus severely   hampering the peace process and drafting of new constitution that are to be completed by the end of the extended three months time in accordance with five-point deal. Maoist senior leaders seem pretty busy in blaming and undermining each other in the name of people’s war as reported in “Baidya-Bhattarai camp busy flexing muscles” (THT, July 13, Page 1). Likewise, the Nepali Congress (NC) senior leaders’ bid to lead the next government is heating up as reported in “Congress statue allows PP leader change: Singh” (THT, July 13, Page 5). Also, the UML’s internal feud has heated up for quite some time. Looking closely at their irresponsible and insensible acts, it does not seem that they would be able to complete the people’s mandated tasks by the dead-line. The current fragile politica...