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what is next for Indian

New Delhi has always been the political Mecca for Nepal .As we all know the incumbent Prime minister had his political training in India . But the land slide victory of Maoist Party in Nepal has confused all the political gurus and pundits in both Nepal and neighbouring India. SO how will Moaist coming to power will effect India and its Foreign Policy??? I found a interesting article by Arvinda Deo former ambassador to Nepal from India : The Maoists are likely to emerge as the single largest party when the final count comes in, but they might decide to opt for a coalition with one, if not both, of the larger parties in the interests of a stable government and also to cobble together a government of national consensus which would facilitate the task of drafting a new constitution for the country. In the words of Kanak Mani Dixit, editor of Himal magazine and a highly respected Nepali commentator on South Asian issues: “Nepali politics will never be the same again. To begin with, on the ...

Relationship between tourism in Nepal and Indian economy

This is a research in which I am currently working on .Trying to employee a regression model to find a relationship between out bound tourism of India and how does it contribute to Nepal's economy... suggestion and comments will be appreciated The World tourism organization has fore casted India is expected to be one of the biggest sources of overseas tourists by 2020, According to the survey in 2004 India was one of the top 25 countries to spend on outbound tourism. International tourism receipts represented in 2003 approximately 6 per cent of worldwide exports of goods and services (as expressed in US$). When considering service exports exclusively, the share of tourism exports increases to nearly 30 per cent. Tourism is the largest industry of Nepal and one of the main sources of foreign reserves and revenue .For the last few years the tourism had plunged due to geo political instability in the region, but recently after the peace accord between the Maoist and the Government, to...

GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS

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These days I am cutting on my Crabohydrates Intake and running at least 45 min every day so that I can built up my six pac abs and impress the ladies this summer .But this is not the case else where .Riots has sparked and people are running all round the city no to built a six pac abs but to protest against the hike of commodity prices ,especially primary source of Carbohydrates Rice .According to World Bank President Robert Zoellick price of rice has gone up 75% since 2005....... Finance ministers gathered this weekend to grapple with the global financial crisis also struggled with a problem that has plagued the world periodically since before the time of the Pharaohs: food shortages. Surging commodity prices have pushed up global food prices 83% in the past three years, according to the World Bank -- putting huge stress on some of the world's poorest nations. Even as the ministers met, Haiti's Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis was resigning after a week in which that tin...