Nepal’s newly appointed Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala waits at Narayanhiti Royal Palace before being sworn in by King Gyanendra in Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, April 30, 2006. Koirala, president of Nepal’s Congress Party, will lead a new all party government which is expected to resolve Nepal’s ongoing political crisis.(MORE Swears/Parliament Session PHOTOS-> । (more…)
Speaker of the Nepalese lower house parliament Chitralekha Yadav, left, addresses the house at the first session of the reinstated parliament, in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, April 28, 2006. Legislators prepared to reconvene parliament for the first time in four years, but faced the prospects of doing so without the country’s ailing 84-year-old prime minister, who was too sick to be sworn in Friday, even as thousands of political activists jammed the streets demanding the incoming legislators quickly make good on promises to have the constitution written..(MORE Victory Historic Parliament Session PHOTOS-> । (more…)
Thousands of Nepalese pro-democracy activists with their respective party flags, take out a victory march, in Katmandu, Nepal,Tuesday, April 25, 2006. Nepal’s opposition alliance called off weeks of devastating pro-democracy protests Tuesday after the king gave in to a key demand to reinstate Parliament, and named a former prime minister as its choice to head the new government.(MORE Victory March Protesters PHOTOS-> । (more…)
Injured protesters lie as police baton charge pro-democracy protesters, within a mile from the royal Narayanhiti Palace in Katmandu, Nepal, Saturday, April 22, 2006. King Gyanendra’s promise Friday to restore democracy in Nepal has met only with an opposition pledge of more demonstrations as 150,000 protesters filled the streets and with a top envoy warning the government could be nearing collapse..(MORE Pro-Democracy Protesters PHOTOS-> । (more…)
Afghan boys sell flowers along a road from Kabul to Istalif in the Shomali plains, about 30 kms north of Kabul. Forty-one suspected Taliban and six policemen have been killed in a major battle in southern Afghanistan in an area where the Taliban leader once lived, a governor said18April2006.(MORE PHOTOS-> । (more…)
Women’s association in Gulmi,Nepal on 13March2006,Various professionals, artists, development workers…have declared their support for the pro-democracy protest demonstrations in Nepal..(MORE PHOTOS-> । (more…)
Nepali Image-Gyanendra is due to give his traditional message to the nation on Nepali New Year day on April 14, 2006, and analysts and political foes hoped he might use the occasion to reach out to his opponents. .(MORE PHOTOS-> । (more…)
An Indian rock python is seen with a guinea pig inside a snake park, 75 km (47 miles) from the northeastern Indian city of Siliguri April 12, 2006. 2006. The guinea pig is a rare species of rats and is used as food for snakes. .(MORE PHOTOS-> । (more…)
Models, all dressed in the same outfit, pass out flowers in New Yorks Bryant Park in celebration of Spring on Tuesday, April 11, 2006. Sears dressed one-hundred models and sent them around the city to showcase the latest apparel offerings in the Sears AccessStytle Guide.(MORE PHOTOS-> । (more…)
Flowers bloom on the sixth hole during practice for the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., Wednesday, April 9, 2006(MORE PHOTOS-> । (more…)
A Women injured seriously when security personnel opened fire at a group of pro-democracy demonstrators in Kathmandu,Nepal. nepal Police beats up an opposition party supporter after about 1,000 supporters took out a rally against King Gyanendra defying a government imposed curfew in Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, April 9, 2006. Curfew was imposed on the fourth day of a four-day strike to thwart an attempt by opposition parties to hold a large demonstration against the king(MORE PHOTOS-> । (more…)
Girls react as U.S. President George W. Bush leaves the White House on the Marine One helicopter in Washington, April 6, 2006. Bush is travelling to Charlotte, North Carolina, to make remarks on the global war on terrorism. (MORE PHOTOS-> । (more…)
Riot police block pro-democracy protestors in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, April 5, 2006. Police detained at least 50 activists including Local lawyer of Arghakhanchi & Kathmandu Mr.Basu Dev Acharya in Nepal’s capital on Wednesday for defying a government ban on protests, officials said. A group of lawyers, journalists, teachers and doctors rallied in support of a planned four-day general strike by opposition political parties beginning Thursday to protest King Gyanendra’s direct rule over the Himalayan nation.(MORE PHOTOS-> । (more…)
Chinese models wear bikinis with the World Cup soccer designs on during a swimsuit design contest as part of the China Fashion Week in Beijing, China, Saturday, April 1, 2006. A week long fashion extravaganza to showcase local and foreign talents ends Sunday.(MORE PHOTOS-> । (more…)
Maoist rebels rest at Musiriya, about 600 kilometers (375 miles) southwest of Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, April 2, 2006. Nepal’s Maoist rebels, fighting a decade-old insurgency against the monarchy, now have influence in nearly every district of this country of 27 million people, and citizens increasingly are wondering how their life would change if the rebels actually took power..(MORE PHOTOS-> । (more…)
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