Opinion / Interview

Will 25% increment in pay bring more efficiency to Civil Servants? (Commentary)

Kathmandu: The government recently hiked the salaries of civil servants by 25 percent, which brought happiness to them, but the question is whether the increased salary will bring efficiency in the civil servants. Civil Servants are considered as ‘a permanent government’ in all countries and they play an important role in running the country but […]


SLC 2016: Iron Gate finally comes falling down (Commentary)

By Manoj Karki / Kathmandu: The results of the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examinations were something that hundreds of thousands of students and their parents early awaited at the end of every academic year in the country. With the SLC results almost deciding the fate of a student’s future as far as their eligibility to […]


Pursuit of peace and justice still a far cry (Commentary)

Krishna Sapkota / Kathmandu: ‘It was nearly two decades ago on February 1, 1997 that my father was brutally tortured and hacked to death when he was bound to Rolpa district headquarters Liwang from Uwa. The then rebels arbitrarily took him out from a house where he was taking shelter and left him beheaded in […]


World Environment Day 2016: Confronting country’s key environmental issues

Deepraj Sanyal / Kathmandu: The World Environment Day (WED) is being marked across the world today amidst various programmes and events highlighting the importance of the environment and its protection. As mankind continues to make progress with more and more sophisticated knowledge and discoveries along with advancement of technology, he is putting a lot of […]


Meaningful public participation in budget process: the sooner the better (Commentary)

Krishna Sapkota / Kathmandu: Amidst the Kathmandu-centric protests of Federal Alliance – comprising Madhesi and ethnicity-based parties – demanding rewriting of the constitution and rumours of change in guard lately, the government unveiled the national budget for the fiscal year 2016-17 in the statutory date of 15th Jestha (May 28). This is the first budget […]


Nepal’s transition to prosperity: Time to think big and act on it (Commentary)

Kathmandu: Recently social media was abuzz with debate in favor and against the recent statements of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli. Although his statements look very ambitious at a time when people are facing problems of hand to mouth but these are not unrealistic dreams and this is the time to think big and act […]


Practicable budget for ensuring relief, propping up economy (Commentary)

Narayan Prasad Ghimire / Kathmandu: A large number of people are facing mounting sufferings with the approach of monsoon, as they are yet to reconstruct their houses demolished by the devastating earthquakes last year. Industrialists are yet to regain business pace, for they suffered worst with the economic blockade preceded by the earthquake. Similarly, the […]


Indebted kidney patients hope for longer life with immediate implementation of free dialysis decision (Commentary)

Pabitra Guragain / Kathmandu: With a feeble body, wrinkles on her forehead and a little hope for (longer) life, kidney failure patient Binita Oli, 31, from Ota VDC of Rolpa, a hilly district in mid-western Nepal, is waiting for her turn to undergo hemodialysis at the Bhaktapur-based Human Organ Transplant Center. This is now her […]


Buddha’s message to alleviate human sufferings in all its manifestations (Commentary)

Manoj Karki / Kathmandu: Two thousand five-hundred sixty years is a very long time to even think of, forget calculation of the time-period that has passed by in between. But the birth of a person so many years ago continues to hold significance and relevance today not only in and around the place where he […]


Minimum monthly wage for journalists: How far will it be implemented? (Commentary)

By Pritam Bhattarai (Kathmandu) / May 18: Working journalists recently received a gift of an increment in their monthly minimum wages to a minimum of Rs 19,500 with the Cabinet meeting on May 5 approving a proposal to that effect. The increment is almost double-fold from earlier Rs 10,008. The salary revision has provided a […]




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