Portal:Current events/2002 November 11
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November 11, 2002 (Monday)
- A three-day general strike begins in Nepal. According to Outlook India, "the capital Kathmandu virtually came to a standstill ... Maoists have called the strike to oppose the King's appointment of Lokendra Bahadur Chand... as prime minister after dismissing the government of Sher Bahadur Deuba."[1] Also, 30 Maoist guerrillas were killed in a renewed assault on the revolutionary forces the country's government is currently fighting against. See also politics of Nepal.
- The Burrell affair takes a turn for the worse as further scandalous rumours begin to circulate about the British royal family and their servants.
- Grigori Perelman uploads an article to arxiv.org with the proof the Poincaré conjecture: Perelman, Grisha (November 11, 2002). "The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications".
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