It is part of a wider campaign to get more people in the Nepalese capital – one of the world's most polluted cities – cycling.
The Nepalese government made an urgent appeal for foreign help, with India sending in military aircraft with medical equipment and relief teams.
The UN stabilisation force is still here – although it is bitterly resented among ordinary Haitians for bringing with it a Nepalese strain of cholera which has killed more than 8,800 people, and infected 736,000 since 2010 – but on the choking streets of Port-au-Prince the NGOs and aid agencies are a shadow of their presence even two years ago.
His campaign on behalf of veteran Gurkhas, the Nepalese soldiers who serve Britain, forced a government u-turn in April.
A STRANGE cast of Western tourists, Nepalese pilgrims, Tibetan refugees and Chinese spies is forever circling the great stupa at Boudha in Kathmandu, Nepal's capital.
If the Nepalese government were to insist that rules protecting migrant workers in Qatar should be enforced, Qatari employers might look for workers elsewhere.In this section Coming to a beach near you And still they come ReprintsMr Ruhs has drawn up an index of migrant rights (see chart): he finds that countries with more rights for migrant workers tend to be less keen on admitting new ones.
Claiming to be reincarnated Hindu gods may not be enough to stop the Nepalese ex-royals ending up in obscurity, like the pretenders to the Ottoman or Chinese imperial thrones.
Prachanda has long said he would become the first president of a Nepalese republic.
Some are seeing improvements, but many are grim and badly run.Gorakhpur is a sprawling city near the Nepalese border in eastern Uttar Pradesh, notorious for thuggish religious politics, gangsters and smugglers.
And other Nepalese politicians are not notable for their work ethic.
Smiling, he says he is confident his party will win the election and that he will in time become the first president of a Nepalese republic.
