Deepraj Sanyal / Kathmandu: The restructuring of the local bodies has become a new bone of contention among the political parties of late. Many people had hoped the country would get a political outlet with the Madhes-centric parties participating in the Legislature-Parliament in the election of the new Prime Minister after a gap of nine […]
Krishna R Pandey: Deal makers, investors and entrepreneurs Shrivastav Brothers are betting that Nepal will likely remain an unattractive country for foreign investments unless the government and private sector both change the way they have been used to do business. Pankaj Shrivatav and Ash Shrivastav have advised and invested in many companies in different geographies […]
Pritam Bhattarai / Kathmandu: Going against the long ‘customary practice’ requiring Nepal’s Prime Minister to pay his or her first official visit to India, then Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal in 2008 chose to make his first official visit to China instead. This act turned out to be harmful for Dahal, apparently angering New Delhi […]
Deepraj Sanyal / Kathmandu: The Gorkha Earthquake of 25 April 2015 should have taught all of us a lesson regarding how we should build our structures. As is said, it is not the earthquake that kills but the infrastructures that we have constructed that do. The magnitude 7.6 temblor flattened houses, buildings and other structures, […]
Pritam Bhattarai / Kathmandu: For an ideal nation, both the government and the citizens share responsibilities and are bound to abide by the rule of law. To be more precise, in a democratic nation, how the rule of law is functioning determines the running of the state of affairs. On May 26 earlier this year, […]
Manoj Karki / Kathmandu: Like Nepal, Bhutan too is a landlocked country squeezed between two giant neighbours —China and India. However, unlike Nepal, Bhutan has not had any issue of doing the balancing act between the two emerging economies. Bhutan has also not suffered like Nepal for becoming too close or distant with any of […]
Narayan Prasad Ghimire / Kathmandu: A shock wave ran across the globe as Britain voted last week to exit from the European Union, the regional association to which the country was tied for four decades. Any country with small or large economy, or a tiny nation to the super power, the British severance from the […]
Deepraj Sanyal / Kathmandu: Have you had your meal today? If yes, you most likely had the common Nepali dish, i.e. dal-bhat-tarkari-achar. Bhaat or rice is the staple food for most Nepalis, and for that matter most Asians. We have so great a penchant for rice that if for some reason we had not eaten […]
Pabitra Guragain / Kathmandu: She is a journalist from Jajarkot. She writes for a local daily newspaper. But she is rarely paid for her work. As a result, she is forced to also work simultaneously as a teacher at a private school for daily survival. However, as writing is her passion, she cannot keep herself […]
Pritam Bhattarai / Kathmandu: Visibly encouraged by his party’s sweeping victory in the erstwhile first Constituent Assembly (CA) elections, then UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal made a proclamation of turning Nepal into the ‘Switzerland of Asia’. Dahal-led government and his party also envisioned ending load-shedding in three years and generating 10,000 MW, 20,000 MW […]
