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Press articles (used media abbreviations)

‘Skip a month, readjust date’ (kp 14/01/2008)

PM to use Nepal Sambat in official letter pad (nn 06/11/2007)

Quietly comes the new National Anthem, by Madan Regmi (sp 17/08/2007) [see also text of the new anthem in Nepali and English]

Cabinet approves Maila's song as national anthem (nn 20/04/2007), Cabinet selects Maila's song as national anthem (kp 20/04/2007), 'National anthem represents our nature and people', interview with Pradip Kumar Rai, the composer of the new anthem (kp 23/04/2007)

New list for public holidays announced (kp 17/03/2007), Hindu holidays in secular Nepal, by Shyam KC (kp 23/04/2007)

Harka’s maps: Three new Nepal atlases are as interesting for what they tell as for what they miss, by Mark Turin (nt 26/01/2007)

New national anthem ready (nn 30/11/2006), New proposed national anthem to be sent to the cabinet for endorsement, Rai is the lucky writer (nn 30/11/2006), Did poet Maila make a mistake?, by Shekhar Kharel (kp 06/12/2006)

Govt. to recognize Nepal Sambat as national calendar: PM Koirala (nn 24/10/2006), Nepali gov't to recognize Nepal Sambat as national calendar (Xinhua 24/10/2006)

Sunday holiday to resume, by Kiran Chapagain (kp 15/07/2006)

Sankhadhar Sakhwa And Nepal Samvat (nln 03/11/2005)

Adjusting Nepali time: We may be a century ahead of the Gregorian calendar but we are a month behind the sun, by Abha Eli Phoboo (nt 15/04/2005)

Change in Bikram Calendar likely (ht 18/03/2005)

Demand to make Nepal era official (rn 10/11/2004), Govt to set up team to work on praticality of Nepal Sambat (ht 13/11/2004)

Nepal sees seven New Year Days in 365 days!, by Keshav P. Koirala (ht 13/04/2004), Which New Year-Nepali or Western? (kp 14/04/2004)

Nepal Era movement feats (ht 17/11/2003)

Baisakhi, Loshar and Vintuna — what next?, by Mani Dixit (Himalayan Times, 07/11/2003)

Government nod for Nepal Era, finally (Himalayan Times, 27/10/2003)

Call to revise new year celebrations (Himalayan Times, 16/10/2003)

PM’s assurance on Nepal Era (Himalayan Times, 26/07/2003)

15 minutes of fame, by Trishna Gurung (Nepali Times, 25/07/2003)

Toyanath Panta’s Panchanga (Kathmandu Post, 04/05/2003)

Panchanga row, as before (Himalayan Times, 26/12/2002)

PM Chand positive on Nepal Sambat (Kathmandu Post, 29/10/2002); see also Nepal Sambat (Himalayan Times, 29/10/2002), Government committed to promote Nepal Era: PM (Kathmandu Post, 08/11/2002)

Waving the flag: Does our banner yet wave? by Hemlata Rai (Nepali Times, 06/09/2002)

Public holidays (Kathmandu Post, 06/07/2002)

Plea to declare bael national fruit of Nepal (Kathmandu Post, 11/02/2002)

Nepal Era awaits government recognition, by Razen Manandhar (Kathmandu Post, 15/11/2001)

Conversion guide: Flummoxed by Nepali area units? (Nepali Times, 24/08/200)

Govt reviews 5-day week, could make changes, by Tilak P. Pokharel (Kathmandu Post, 17/08/2001)

Nepal Day in Germany to promote Kingdom, by Satish Jung Shahi (Kathmandu Post, 05/05/2001)

Public Holidays: It’s Value And Worth, by Ganesh Shakya (Rising Nepal, 06/04/2001)

Holiday talk (Kathmandu Post, 24/03/2001)

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Govt plans to scrap holidays (Kathmandu Post, 13/01/2001), see also Writ filed against public holidays (Kathmandu Post, 16/01/2001)

A gourmet's guide to Kathmandu (Nepali Times, 27/10/2000)

Background

HMG, Nepali Calendar

Calendars 2057-2060 v.s. (2000/1-2003/4)

Calendars: 2057 v.s. (2000/1), 2056 v.s. (1999/2000), 2055 v.s. (1998/99), 2054 v.s. (1997/98), 2053 v.s. (1996/97)

Country Profile, by Royal Nepalese Embassy, Germany

Dieter Glogowski, web sites of a German TV journalist working on the Himalayas (in German)

General information on Nepal, by Encyclopaedia Britannica

General information on Nepal and the Himalayas, by Mahabir Pun

Janakpur Online (the Gateway to Mithila)

National Emblems of Nepal

Nepal: A Country Study, published by Library of Congress, 1991 (complete book)

Nepal: Basic Fact Sheet

Nepal Encyclopaedia Online, by Madhu Raman Acharya

Nepal Institutional Manpower Directory 1999 (2056 v.s.)

Short general information on Nepal, by Atlapedia Online

World Factbook: Nepal, by CIA