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...happen. He reportedly showed the Prime Minister's office satellite photos indicating that the river had slowly been changing course for years, but that the previous administration failed to reinforce the areas where embankments were coming under increased pressure. Because the Kosi River lies along Bihar's border with Nepal and initially breached on the Nepali side, whatever efforts Kumar did make may have been slowed down. The Indian Express newspaper reported that Kumar sought help from the central government in getting Nepal's co-operation, but was rebuffed...
...Nepal A Guerrilla Takes Command Prachanda, the mercurial chief of Nepal's Maoists, was sworn in as the country's new Prime Minister on Aug. 18, four months after his former rebel group won a majority in landmark elections that transformed the Himalayan kingdom into a secular republic. Nepal's new leader now faces food and fuel shortages, opposition from the displaced Old Guard and friction with regional separatists...
...years, the entirety of the Buddha's journey toward nirvana and death. It fleshes out, warts and all, the more popular image of the Buddha as an eternally serene spiritual master. First, there's his auspicious birth, as Siddhartha Gautama, in the 6th century B.C. in what is now Nepal. His family is so obscenely rich ("like the Indus with the rush of waters") that they sacrifice 100,000 milk cows for the occasion. A diviner foretells Siddhartha's salvific destiny: "This sun of knowledge will blaze forth/ in this world to dispel/ the darkness of delusion...
RECORD SET. By RAMON BLANCO SUAREZ, 60, Venezuelan guitar maker, in becoming the oldest person to climb to the 29,028-ft. summit of Mount Everest; in Nepal...
During the fall semester of his junior year, David B. Rothenberg ’84 traveled to Nepal to learn to play the gyaling, a Tibetan reeded instrument...