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Enhanced integrity measures for India, Pak immigrants to Australia

by ANI January 27, 2010 World

Melbourne, Jan 27 (ANI): Australia’s Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) is applying enhanced integrity measures to applicants from India, Mauritius, Nepal, Brazil, Zimbabwe and Pakistan in order to check infiltration related fraud.
The infiltration of Australia’s 16 billion dollars foreign education sector by organised crime has been exposed in a confidential report to the DIAC [...]

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UN urges Nepal’s leaders to resolve differences

by AP November 1, 2008 World

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Nepal’s leaders Saturday to resolve their differences and speed up the integration of thousands of former communist rebels into mainstream society.
The rebel combatants were confined to camps monitored by the United Nations after they ended their decade-long insurgency in 2006 as part of a peace deal. [...]

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21 killed in floods, landslides in Nepal

by Agencies September 21, 2008 World

At least 21 people have been killed and thousands displaced due to massive floods and landslides in four districts of western Nepal.

Twelve people were killed in Kailai district, five in Doti and two each in Gulmi and Palpa districts due to floods and landslides as incessant rains lashed the region, police said, adding two dozen [...]

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India, Nepal reactivate committee on water; to meet this month

by Agencies September 19, 2008 India News

With India and Nepal agreeing to check recurrence of floods in Kosi river and putting on fast track projects to utilise water for irrigation and power generation, top officials of the two neighbours will meet this month in Kathmandu to streamline the process.

The Joint Committee on Water Resources, which last met in 2004, will meet [...]

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Nepalese Premier, Prachanda arrives in Delhi

by Agencies September 14, 2008 India News

A month after becoming the Prime Minister of Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ arrived in New Delhi on Sunday, his first visit which is expected to reshape the Himalayan country’s relations with India.
The Maoist leader, who will be in India for five days, was received by Minister of State for Home Shakeel Ahmed [...]

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Nepalese Premier Prachanda begins five-day state visit to India today

by Agencies September 14, 2008 World

Asserting that he aimed to take Indo-Nepal ties to a “new height” and build an atmosphere of confidence, Nepalese Premier Pushpa Kumar Dahal ‘Prachanda’ assured enhanced security for Indian joint ventures and other multi-national companies in the Himalayan state.
Ahead of his first visit to India after becoming the prime minister, Prachanda said he also aimed [...]

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Prachanda on two-day India visit from Sep 15

by Indo-Asian News Service September 4, 2008 India News

Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kumar Dahal ‘Prachanda’ will arrive in India for a two-day visit on Sep 15, the first top-level contact between the two countries since Nepal became a republic and elected a Maoist to head the government.
Prachanda will visit India a week before he heads to New York to attend the meeting of [...]

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Nepal declares emergency in flood-hit areas

by Indo-Asian News Service September 4, 2008 World

Faced with his first crisis within 72 hours of being sworn in, Nepal’s new Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” Thursday declared a state of emergency in the worst flood-devastated areas in southern Nepal to speed up rescue, relief and rehabilitation work.
The newly expanded council of ministers held its first meeting at Singh Durbar, [...]

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Prachanda says his first ‘political visit’ will be to India

by Agencies August 27, 2008 India News

Amid criticism of his move to visit China first instead of India after assuming office, Nepal’s new Premier Prachanda on Wednesday said his maiden “political” trip will be to New Delhi and that it will take place “very soon.”

Prachanda, who undertook a five-day visit to Beijing to attend the closing ceremony of the Olympics, was [...]

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