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Kathmandu Tuesday January 01, 2002 Paush 17, 2058.
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Major events of the year, 2001
Post Team
KATHMANDU:
Jan 1- Nepal Bandh called by the Nepal
Sadhvabana Party (NSP)
Jan 4 - PM Koirala Survives no-trust vote in
Nepali Congress-Nepal Bhutan form joint Refugee Verification team
Jan 5- Mongolian president Natsajiin
Bagabandi arrives in Kathmandu, becoming the first ever Mongolian president to come to
Nepal since the diplomatic relations were established in 1961
Jan 12 - Government suspends Royal Nepal
Airlines Corporation (RNAC) executive chairman, Hari Bhakta Shrestha
Jan 19 -Tenth convention of Nepali Congress
kicks off
Jan 22 - PM Koirala re-elected NC President
Jan 25 - Commission for Investigation of
Abuse of Authority (CIAA) interrogates minister for Civil Aviation Tarini Dutta Chataut
Jan 29 - Nepali team headed by Foreign
Secretary Narayan Shumsher Thapa leaves for New Delhi to review all issues pertaining to
Nepal-India 1950 peace and friendship treaty
Feb 3-Five people, including a judge at the
Surkhet Appellate court, killed in Maoist ambush. Chief Justice’s vehicle attacked
Feb 8-Government tables three ordinances
including Armed Police Force and Regional Administration (Fourth Amendment)
Feb 16-Fifteen people trampled to death in a
fire at religious fair at Nawalparasi
Feb 26-King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya
leave for China at the invitation of Chinese President
March 1- His Majesty King Birendra holds
talks with Chinese President, Jiang Zemin in Beijing
March 3-Twenty-six children died in measles
outbreak
March 6 -Names of the Maoists in custody
made public; Government calls the rebels to join fresh peace talk
March 11-Measles and pneumonia kills 24
children below 10 in Humla
March 12-General Secretary of the United
Nations, Kofi Annan arrives in the Capital
March 14 -Hotel employees call for a strike
demanding 10 per cent service charge
March 16-Hotel workers withdraw strike
Mar 25 -Nepal Bhutan begin Refugee
verification work
Mar 28-Supreme Court orders the government
to reinstate the former governor of Nepal Rastra Bank, Dr Tilak Rawal
Mar 30-Japan extends Rs 329 Billion loan for
Melamchi drinking water project
April 2-Maoists rebels kill 35 policemen and
two dozen abducted
April 2 -19th session of the Parliament
postponed; session ends sans a single working day
April 6-Doctors begin surgery on Ganga
Jamuna— Siamese twins— in Singapore
-Maoists kill 29 policemen in Dailekh
April 7-Ganga Jamuna separated successfully
April 12-His Majesty promulgates Armed
Police Force ordinance
April 24-Melamchi project postponed to 2007
April 26-Former RNAC Chief, Board members
arrested; Minister Chataut asked to submit passport
May 2-Ten times Everest conqueror Babu
Chhiri Sherpa dies
May 7-Finance Minister, Ram Sharan Mahat
leaves for Asian Development Bank meet in Hawaii
May 14-Chinese Premier Zhu Rhongzi arrives
for a three-day visit to Nepal
May 23-Public Account Committee charges
Chataut and Rawal of corruption on China South West Airlines deal
-37 climbers scale Everest, new World Record
May 25-CIAA prosecutes 10 RNAC officials
including Minister Chataut on Lauda scam
May 27-Three day Nepal Bandh called by the
alliance of six left parties including the main opposition CPN-UML begins
-First blind man, Erik Weinhenmayer conquers Everest
May 31-Supreme Court quashes Auditor’s
General’s writ
June 1-Royal tragedy stuns Nepal, King
Birendra dead, Crown Prince Dipendra declared King; Prince Gyanendra takes over as a
regent
June 3-King Dipendra declared dead, Regent
Gyanendra crowned new King; vows to uphold constitutional monarchy
June 5-Government muzzles press; Publishers
and Editor of Kantipur arrested
June 9-Census 2001 begins
June 10-Kantipur Publications files case
against detention of its publishers and editor
June 12-RNAC bosses sent to judicial custody
on Lauda scam
June 13-Report on June 1 massacre made
public; then Crown Prince Dipendra held responsible
June 14-Government frees Kantipur editor and
publishers
June 16-UML-RPP forge alliance for National
Assembly polls
June 21-Census day marked
June 21-Canadian Embassy denies visas to
four Nepali cricketers, including the skipper, to participate in the ICC trophy
June 24-20th session of Parliament begins
June25-Nepali cricketers leave for Toronto,
Canada, for ICC trophy
June 26-UML wins in National Assembly Polls;
King nominates 3 for the National Assembly
June27-Thirty killed in Dhading Landslide
July 4-Maoists abduct police personnel and
kill two in Kusus based police outpost at Banke
-Diarrohea claims 11 lives in Nawalparasi
July 5-Maoists kill altogether 41 policemen
in Lamjung, Nuwakot
July 9-Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat
present Rs 99.79 m budget
July 11-Maoists shot dead Rameshwor
Sijapati, SSP of Dang
July 12-Maoists abduct 70 policemen in Rolpa
July 13-Deputy PM Poudel resigns, cites
differences with PM Koirala
July 18-RNAC and Lauda Air terminate the
controversial Boing-767 jet deal six months before the agreement was supposed to expire
July 19-PM Koirala resigns
July 20-All Nepal National Independent
Students’ Union-Revolutionary, close down all educational institutions in the valley
July 22-Sher Bahadur Deuba elected as the
leader Nepali Congress, declared PM
July 26-Deuba swears in as new PM
July 30-Nepal asks India to halt the
construction of controversial Russiyal-Khurda-Lautan barrage
July 31-India halts barrage construction
Aug 2 -Secretarial level trade talks between
Nepal and India begins
Aug 4-RNAC and China South West Airlines
Corporation agree to terminate the Boing-757 jet lease agreement
Aug 8 -Supreme Court reinstates UML’s
Rajendra Prakkash Lohani as the member of the Parliament after one year
Aug 10-Central Bureau of Statistics declare
the preliminary result of Census 2001 as 23.2 million with growth rate of 2.27 per cent
Aug 12-House passes Armed Police Force
ordinance
Aug 13-Encephalitis claims 43 lives in Dang
and Kailali
Aug 15-Maoists unveil three member to
conduct negotiation with the government
Aug 16-Government declares land ceiling and
freeze land transaction
Aug 17-Indian Foreign and Defence Minister
Jaswant Singh arrives Nepal for a three day visit to discuss contentious issues with Nepal
-Government appoints Minister for Physical Planning and Works
Chiranjibi Wagle as their co-ordinator for peace talks with the Maoists
Aug 30-First round of talk between
Government and Maoists begins in Godavari, Lalitpur
-Senior politician Dilli Raman Regmi passes away
Aug 31-Government registers Land Reform Bill
Sept 3-Maoists demand Rs 400,000 from
Kantipur Publications
Sept 10-Second round of talks between
government and the Maoists held in Bardiya
Sept 19-ANNISU-R threats lead to school
closure
Sept 23-Ninth South Asian Federation (SAF)
games postponed
Sept 28-Nepal-India trade talks begin in New
Delhi
Sept 29-Kantipur Editor Yuva Raj Ghimire
hospitalized after accident
Oct 9-House approves 11th amendment in the
Civil Code proposing a semblance of Property rights to the girl child
Oct 12-House approves Land Reform Bill-5th
amendment
Oct 18 -Nepal U-19 cricket team lift Youth
Asia Cup; qualify for Youth World Cup
Nov 4-Sri Lankan Foreign Minister confirms
to holding the 11th SAARC Summit in January 4-6 in Kathmandu.
Nov 9-The emergency cabinet meeting decides
to withdraw the "controversial" Public Security Regulation and release 68
Maoists
Nov 12- Princess Prekshya Rajya Laxmi Devi
with three others killed in a helicopter crash in Rara Lake
Nov 13-Third round of Government-Maoist
talks end; Government refuses to accept Maoist demand for constituent assembly
Nov 18-Ganga and Jamuna return Nepal
Nov 21-The Maoists unilaterally break away
from the peace talks.
Nov 23-Maoists formally break the
four-month-old cease-fire; Attack army barrack, District Police Office, District
Administration Office and other government facilities in Dang. 14 armymen, 9 policemen and
three civilians killed. 12 policemen killed in Syangja
Nov 25-CDO of Solukhumbu Budhi Sagar
Tripathi killed in Maoist attack; 11 armymen killed; more than 250 Maoists confirmed
killed; Faplu Airport destroyed.
Nov 26-Government declares State of
Emergency across the nation; fundamental rights suspended; Maoists declared terrorist
-Maoists kill 4 policemen in Darchula district; 12 Maoists
killed
Nov 29-China, Russia condemn Maoist attacks.
Dec 1-Nepal-India trade treaty extended by
three months
Dec 16-Government decides to turn Shivapuri
Wildlife Reserve into a National Park
- Government demands public apology from Maoists
Dec 24-103 peaks opened for mountaineering
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