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From: arao@andy.bgsu.edu (avinash rao)
Subject: Need info. for H1 visa renewal
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 03:00:17 GMT

Hi,
	My cousins need to go to Mexico or Canada to get their H1 visa 
extended. If anybody has any info. about which place is better and other
details like when to go, what documents to take, etc. Please mail some
details ASAP coz this is very urgent.
	Thanx
Avinash
From: chemsn@emory.edu (Sreehari Nimmala)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Olympics Opening Cermony.
Date: 26 Jul 92 15:17:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: emoryu1.819
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

During Olympics opening cermony when India was marching,
Bob Castner of NBC commented in addition to oyher things
"... it(India) is such a poor country that it can't afford
to have an artificial turf surface for training its team ...".
Is it true that India can't afford to have a turf surface?

Incidentally, Pakistan is being mentioned as World Cricket
Champions by the same commentator.

Opinions are welcome on these comments.

---Sreehari.
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From: mallya@octel.com (Satyanarayana Mallya)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: What is life?
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:09:47 GMT
Organization: Octel Communications Inc., Milpitas Ca.

As a aside, I heard this during a harikatha(for nonkannadigas: it is a public
discourse/narration on tales about krishna) in a community park. While most of 
it was in kannada, he told the following quotes in english. 

 Life is a love                      love it
 Life is a play                      play it
 Life is a gift                      Gift it
 Life is a song                      Song it

	Most of those assembled were awestruck by his fluency in english! His 
english aside, he was a great narrator of bhagwad gita and mahabharat. Gawd,how
I wish I could listen to him again.


						Satya Mallya

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From: debchat@vax2.concordia.ca (DEB CHATTERJEE)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: West Bengal: Communists out, ? in
Date: 24 Jul 92 00:19:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <BrszoH.9Aq@acsu.buffalo.edu>, proy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Partha Roy) 
writes...
>..... (stuff deleted) ....
>Partha Roy.
>   

 Because Commi bashing has stopped, Commis - who have nine lives, have to bash
 us (Bengalis) up. I may be termed as `extreme right' ! I have seen what is just
 going on today in W.B. It simply makes me sick ! I do not support Cong(I) at 
 all! To answer your question, let's talk about what are the problems that we
 see in India and what are its reasons ? My mode of thinking is that upon having
 identified the problems - major ones that are there for the last 10-15 years, a
 "end justifies the means" mode is the best. IMHO, we have theorized enough, 
 formed committees and what not !!!!! What have we achieved financially ? Why
 a small island - Singapore can flourish, and, we cannot - with such an 
 extremely talented pool of brains and resources ? Why Prof.Sunit Mukherjee will
 have to commit suicide ? Why Prof.Sudhangsu K.Deb (Jadavpur University) will be
                                                                         *******
 forced to return the generous funding alloted by UGC/ DOE and Ministry of 
 ******
 Defence for developing low-noise microwave oscillators for use in Sat. Comm. ? 
 Why the law and order will rapidly degrade, and, why we cannot live like
 Calcuttans of the 1950's - at least !!!! Why `magaj-dholai' by CPI(M) will be
 tolerated ? Why ISI Calcutta is getting a hard time from CPI(M) because the
 profs. there are interested in research ? There is no democracy in Calcutta !
 One cannot talk against anything there. Why will Calcutta be gripped by what
 we call: " Red Fear " ??????? Communists, inherently reject democracy !!! Why
 then talk at all about democracy under bunch of liars - who have come to power
 via exercise of "adult franchise" (something that Lenin and Stalin abhorred) ?


 My point: CPI(M) is to be blamed completely at least since 1967-'69 and then
           from 1977 onwards....

 Let's pary that this govt. goes to hell very fast !!!! DOWN WITH CPI(M) !

 - deb chatterjee
(a good samaritan)
From: axs2776@usl.edu (Subramanyam Arunkumar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: from the one and only MASOCHISTO MUKHOPADHYAYA
Date: 23 Jul 92 22:23:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: usl.1992Jul23.222331.13632
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana

In article <21JUL199218110364@jane.uh.edu> cosc177y@jane.uh.edu (92H02966) writes:
>hope you find this interesting!
>
>YOU BEAT -> I CRY
>I CRY    -> YOU LAUGH
>YOU LAUGH-> I LAUGH
>....BETTER YOU BEAT!
>	
>		- Sir Thinkax Crazionsa.
>
>Any extensions to the same are wweellccoommee.
>

You post -> I get sick
I get sick -> I flame
I flame -> You get sick
You get sick -> You post
You post -> I get sick
I get sick -> ...

...Better you dont post !!!


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From: rana@evax2.engr.arizona.edu (NAME=Vivek S.J.B. Rana)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
Subject: Stock-Exchange
Date: 22 Jul 92 20:58:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: arizona.1992Jul22.135846.3524
Reply-To: rana@evax2.engr.arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona, College of Engineering and Mines, Tucson


                FIRST EVER STOCK-EXCHANGE IN NEPAL                                              ----------------------------------

    Nepal will for the first time have it's own stock exchange in a 
bid to develop the capital for economic advancement of the country.
               The Nepalese minister of Finance said that taking 
lessons from the "security scandal" in India, the Nepalese govern
ment would take steps to plug loopholes so that the unscrupulous
buisnessmen do not take undue advantage and manipulate the market.
From: rana@evax2.engr.arizona.edu (NAME=Vivek S.J.B. Rana)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
Subject: Golden Diplomatic Pouch
Date: 21 Jul 92 21:27:16 GMT
Reply-To: rana@evax2.engr.arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona, College of Engineering and Mines, Tucson


                     GOLDEN DIPLOMATIC POUCH
                     -----------------------

Customs officials at the Tribhuvan Airport found over 24.360 Kg
of gold and 19.780 Kg of silver worth $370,570 hidden in two
diplomatic mail pouches brought under the name of the United 
States Embassy.
       However, U.S Embassy officials, invited to examine the
pouches by the customs, told officials that the contraband
metal did not belong to it.  The case is under investigation.
        A United States Information Service in a press release 
 office and the customs office and the U.S Embassy , "as a 
joint investigative effort, discovered gold inside diplomatic
pouches in July 6.  The U.S. Embassy believes the pouches are 
stolen property."
        The Nepali Customs office and the U.S. Embassy will 
continue to mitually assist one another in the investigation.  
The U.S Government does not comment on matters under investi-
gation, it said.
         The contraband metal was brought in on a Royal
Nepal Airlines's Singapore-Bangkok-Kathmandu flight on 
July 6.
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Tuesday, 21 Jul 1992 17:00:42 MST
From: <ASPRA@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
Subject:    1992-93 Budget

            Copyright (c) 1992 The British Broadcasting Corporation;
                          Summary of World Broadcasts

                            July  22, 1992, Wednesday

SECTION: Part 3 The Far East; Weekly Economic Report; A. ECONOMIC AND TECHNICAL;

 NEPAL

PAGE: FE/W0240/A/ 1

LENGTH: 303 words

HEADLINE: THE BUDGET;
Development-oriented 1992-93 budget

SOURCE: AFP news agency Hong Kong in English 0205 gmt 11 Jul 92

 BODY:
   The Nepalese government has unveiled a development- oriented 33.59bn rupee
(7.9bn dollar) budget for the 1992-93 fiscal year that begins on 16th July.
Minister of State for Finance Mahesh Acharya tabled the budget, during a joint
session of parliament. The budget allocates almost two thirds of estimated state

expenditures for development, and foreign loans and grants meet 69% of the
development expenditure, according to the Finance Minister.

   The budget designates 11.99bn rupees (2.82bn dollars) for regular government
expenditure. This includes defence, police, judicial services, school, college
and university teachers' salaries, pensions and gratuities. Spending for defence
and police was set at 3.08bn rupees, or 25.6% of all regular expenditures.

   Of the total set aside for development, 3.55bn rupees (82.35m dollars) has
been allocated for education, followed by 3.37bn rupees (79.3m dollars) for
transport and public works including roads and bridge construction. Some 2.26bn
rupees (53.17m dollars) are earmarked for agriculture, 2.05bn rupees (48.23m
dollars) for irrigation, 2.71bn rupees (63.76m dollars) for electric development
programmes and 1.21bn rupees (28.48m dollars) for drinking water projects.

   Excise duties on cigarettes, beer and light liquors were increased. The
embarkation tax for foreigners and Nepalese leaving the country rose 33% to 600
rupees (14.11 dollars), or 500 rupees (11.70 dollars) for those travelling to
South Asian nations. In order to facilitate public and tourist transport
services, duties on sedan cars and other conveyance vehicles imported by
registered taxi or public transport series will be eligible for a 50% tax
allowance. The same benefit is being extended to registered travel agencies
importing one air-conditioned bus each.
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Friday, 31 Jul 1992 10:16:10 MST
From: <ASPRA@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
Subject:    Plane Crash in Kathmandu

Copyright 1992 Extel Financial Limited, AFX News
July 31, 1992, Friday - 12:27 Eastern Time
KATHMANDU, Nepal

     A Thai Airlines International Airbus with 113 people aboard,
including foreign tourists, crashed in bad weather south of
Kathmandu on its way to Nepal from Bangkok, rescue officials said.
A land search team from the Royal Nepalese Army sighted part of the
Airbus A310/300 lying in a valley south of Kathmandu, an army
source said. But the search party could not reach the aircraft,
some 50 kilometres south of the Nepalese capital, because of heavy
rains and lack of roads.
---------------------------------------------------

Copyright 1992 Extel Financial Limited, AFX News
July  31, 1992, Friday - 07:55 Eastern Time

HEADLINE: THAI AIRBUS A310/300 FEARED TO HAVE CRASHED NEAR
KATHMANDU

     A Thai Airlines Airbus A310/300 with up to 210 passengers on
board, bound here from Bangkok, is feared to have crashed somewhere
outside Kathmandu valley, airport officials said.
    They said the flight may have crashed about 90 kilometers south
of the Nepalese capital.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
From: psycho@makalu.Stanford.EDU (Mr. Knotty Sycho)
Subject: Sacked Nepalese agriculture minister replaced
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government,
        government corruption 
Organization: Peace and Freedom Institute, Stanford University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 00:17:18 GMT



	KATMANDU, Nepal (UPI) -- Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
appointed a new agriculture minister Monday to replace his niece, who he
sacked from the post Sunday for alleging widespread corruption in his
14-month-old government.
	Koirala gave the portfolio to Development Minister Ram Chandra
Paudyel after confirming the dismissal of Sailja Acharya, the only woman
in his inner Cabinet.
	Acharya made the corruption claims after she was charged with
importing 1,800 tons of fertilizer from India at a cost $4 more than a
firm from Singapore which had received a tender to supply Indonesian
fertilizers.
	Reacting to the accusation, she told Parliament, ``It is difficult to
work with people in my ministry as they have extensive links with
commission agents.
	``The agriculture ministry is in the hands of commission agents. But
there is greater corruption in the ministries of commerce and industry,''
she told Parliament.
	Koirala told Parliament Sunday he had asked King Birendra to sack his
niece, and accused her of making irresponsible comments and casting
aspersions on her colleagues.
	``It is irresponsible and objectionable. The charges are baseless and
highly personal,'' he said. ``Such a statement does not help the newly
elected government. No minister has the right to disregard the council
of ministers and act in an undisciplined manner.''
	Denying the claims of corruption, he said, ``Corruption is an issue
that has been hotly debated over the years. The Nepali Congress
government is committed to fighting corruption and will take action
against anybody involved.
	Observers said Acharya's allegations threatened an unprecedented
crisis in the government of Koirala, who came to power in May 1991 in
Nepal's first free general elections in 32 years.
	King Birendra, the country's constitutional monarch since April 1990,
accepted Acharya's resignation and appointed Paudyel in her place,
according to a royal palace statement Monday.


Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
From: rauniyak@ucs.orst.edu (rauniyar krishna aihm )
Subject: test
Organization: University Computing Services - OSU
Distribution: soc.culture.nepal
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 06:01:40 GMT
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Friday, 24 Jul 1992 16:39:27 MST
From: <ASPRA@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
Subject:    Fake Dollars in Nepal

                      Copyright 1992 Kyodo News Service
                            Japan Economic Newswire

                             JULY  21, 1992, TUESDAY

HEADLINE: Nepalese State Bank Hit by Fake Dollar Bills

    Nepal's state-run Rastra Bank has stopped selling 50 and 100
dollar bills for the time being, Finance Minister Mahesh Acharya
told the parliament on Tuesday.

   The move follows the revelation that dollars recently purchased
by the bank from an American bank included fake dollar bills, he
said.

   The revelation was made after the government ordered an inquiry
into how a Nepalese commercial bank had issued fake 100 dollar
bills to parliamentarians prior to their recent visit to China.

   When they tried to cash the bills in Beijing and later in Hong
Kong, the parliamentarians were told the notes were fake.

   The commercial bank had acquired the bills from the Nepalese
state bank.

   Acharya said in the parliament that the Singapore branch of the
New York-based Republican National Bank had admitted making the
mistake and had apologized.

   He also read out a letter from the U.S. bank which said fake
dollar bills have been in circulation recently and even machines
have failed to detect them.
--------------------------------------------------------------

                    The Xinhua General Overseas News Service
                          Xinhua General News Service

The materials in the Xinhua file were compiled by The Xinhua News
Agency. These  materials may not be republished without the express
written consent of The Xinhua News Agency.

                             JULY  21, 1992, TUESDAY

HEADLINE:  nepal investigates dollar bills incident

   the american dollar bill, alleged to be counterfeit while
nepalese parliament members tried to exchange them in china, are to
be sent to the singapore center of the republican national bank,
new york, for investigation. minister of state for finance mahesh
acharya told the national council today that the nepal rastra
(central) bank could not come to a conclusion as the equipment
which checks the authenticity of currencies could not give
satisfactory result. even the republican bank has said that the
counterfeit currencies currently in circulation are so similar to
the real ones that the existing equipment also has proved
unsuccessful in differentiating whether they are counterfeit or
authentic, the minister of state said. it is for this reason, he
said, that the nepal rastra bank has adopted the policy of not
issuing 100 u.s. dollar denomination bills to the customers. the
u.s. dollars issued to the parliament members in the delegation led
by speaker daman nath dhungana to china have been checked by the
bank's equipment, he said. he informed that during recent
investigation, no bank staff is found guilty of issuing knowingly
counterfeit currencies to the parliament members. the incident was
inquired into at the current session of the house of
representatives.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
From: joshee@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jeetendra R. Joshee)
Subject: Re: Video format used in Nepal
Keywords: Video, Nepal
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:38:03 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.204239.14267@leland.Stanford.EDU> ami@leland.Stanford.EDU (Amitava Biswas) writes:
>In article <14197@borg.cs.unc.edu> reeves@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Randy Reeves) writes:
>>What broadcast system or tape system is used in Nepal? I was thinking of
>>buying some videos for a friend of mines kids and need to know what
>>format the video has to be in or if I have to convert run-of-the-mill
>>NTSC video into something else.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Randy Reeves
>>reeves@cs.unc.edu
>>

>They use PAL, so you'll have to do the conversion. THere are quite a few places
>in Kathmandu that do conversions, mostly in the New Road area. It's pretty
>expensive to do it in the US (like $50/hr) - if you can find someone who does 
>it cheaper, please tell me about it! I've got a PAL tape from Nepal that I
>need to get into NTSC.
>
>Regards,
>
>Ami
>
*********************************************
Try calling:	S. Krishnan @ (614)759-8341 in Columbus, Ohio.

I have heard that he does it for only $9.99 a tape. I have never used
that place, so I can't guarantee how the service is.
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Tuesday, 21 Jul 1992 17:06:22 MST
From: <ASPRA@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
Subject:    No Big Dollar Denominations to Travellers


                    The Xinhua General Overseas News Service

                          Xinhua General News Service

The materials in the Xinhua file were compiled by The Xinhua News Agency. These
materials may not be republished without the express written consent of The
Xinhua News Agency.

                            JULY  18, 1992, SATURDAY

LENGTH: 73 words

HEADLINE: nepalese bank stops issuace of big dollar denominations to travellers


DATELINE: kathmandu, july 18; ITEM NO: 0718077

 BODY:
    nepal  rastra bank has decided not to issue 50 and 100 dollar denomination
bills to those travelling abroad to avoid embarrassment of fabrications.  the
decision was made after the bank had inquired into the incident in which some of
the currencies taken by the members of the parliamentary delegation led by
speaker daman nath dhungana to china were counterfeit.  the incident was
questioned at the current session of parliament.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
From: ami@leland.Stanford.EDU (Amitava Biswas)
Subject: Re: Video format used in Nepal
Keywords: Video, Nepal
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 20:42:39 GMT

In article <14197@borg.cs.unc.edu> reeves@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Randy Reeves) writes:
>What broadcast system or tape system is used in Nepal? I was thinking of
>buying some videos for a friend of mines kids and need to know what
>format the video has to be in or if I have to convert run-of-the-mill
>NTSC video into something else.
>
>Thanks,
>Randy Reeves
>reeves@cs.unc.edu
>


They use PAL, so you'll have to do the conversion. THere are quite a few places
in Kathmandu that do conversions, mostly in the New Road area. It's pretty
expensive to do it in the US (like $50/hr) - if you can find someone who does 
it cheaper, please tell me about it! I've got a PAL tape from Nepal that I
need to get into NTSC.

Regards,

Ami
From: sanjay@media.mit.edu (Sanjay Manandhar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
Subject: Re: Stock-Exchange
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:28:50 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory

As I remember, Nepal has had a stock market for a few years now. At
least five years ago I read about it in the Far East Economic Review.
The Review had also mentioned that Nepal's stock market has its own
characteristics -- it does not change much, not even during Black
Monday in NYC a few years ago.

-- 
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Sanjay Manandhar  MIT Media Laboratory       sanjay@media-lab.media.mit.edu
                  Siemens-Nixdorf Info Systems          sanjaym@sni-usa.com
                  Cambridge, Massachusetts. USA              (617) 349-5047
From: bbb@shiratori.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp (Bhed Bahadur Bista)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
Subject: Find
Date: 22 Jul 92 01:04:44 GMT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Shiratori Lab, Depart of Information Engineer, TOHOKU Univ,
	Sendai, Japan

I am currently studying in Japan and I read news, articles etc. regularly in 
soc.culture.nepal. I would like to know if there is any other Nepalese student
reading this soc.culture.nepal in Japan. I also would like to know if there is
 Nepalese student association or any association or group organized by Nepalese in Japan.Please reply to 
bbb@noguchi.riec.tohoku.ac.jp
Thanks.
Bued Bahadur Busta.
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Tuesday, 21 Jul 1992 17:04:56 MST
From: <ASPRA@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
Subject:    Lumbering Causes One Death


                    The Xinhua General Overseas News Service

                          Xinhua General News Service

The materials in the Xinhua file were compiled by The Xinhua News Agency. These
materials may not be republished without the express written consent of The
Xinhua News Agency.

                            JULY  18, 1992, SATURDAY

LENGTH: 115 words

HEADLINE: large-scale illegal lumbering causes one death in eastern  nepal

DATELINE: kathmandu, july 18; ITEM NO: 0718151

 BODY:
   one was killed on the spot by forest guards when a crowd of some 150 people
were trying to carry away timber through illegal lumbering of the jungle in
eastern  nepal's  siraha district friday.  a mobile team of forest guards from
the siraha district forest office were forced to open fire in a clash with these
people after stopping their illegal lumbering in vain, according to the nepalese
national news agency rss today.  local opposition party workers held a
demonstration in protest of the incident, condemning the shooting and demanding
adequate compensations for the victim's family, rss said.   nepal  has been in
short supply of timber in the market for the past several years.