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Pregnant pause
Published On: October 25, 2016 12:45 AM NPT By: Republica
Around 1,500 Nepali women died from pregnancy-related complications in 2015, according to the World Health Organization. Seven percent of them (105 women) would have died due to unsafe abortion.
Leading from behind
Published On: October 24, 2016 01:00 AM NPT By: Republica
This new tendency of Congress to follow rather than to lead has once again come to the fore on the question of impeaching CIAA Chief Lokman Singh Karki.
Impeach him
Published On: October 22, 2016 12:45 AM NPT By: Republica
In a democracy no one is above the law. This basic fact seems to have been entirely lost on Lokman Singh Karki, the now suspended chief of CIAA, the constitutional anti-corruption watchdog. Karki was unfit to lead such an important state institution, both in terms of his inadequate professional qualifications as well as his dicey personal character.
Back in black
Published On: October 20, 2016 12:45 AM NPT By: Republica
The South Asian monsoon is nearly over. Yet the incidents of typically monsoon-related diseases show no sign of abating in Nepal. One of them, dengue, has now been identified in at least 220 people in Chitwan district, with 80 percent infections reported from just one municipality of Ratnanagar.
Why no talk?
Published On: October 19, 2016 12:45 AM NPT By: Republica
The ruling parties, chiefly CPN (Maoist Center) and Nepali Congress, have to either categorically say that there is no need to amend the new constitution, which, after all, was endorsed by an overwhelming majority of the sovereign Constituent Assembly. Or they have to talk to the protesting parties and amend the constitution at the earliest.
Following the June 20th attack on a bus carrying Nepali security guards in Kabul, Afghanistan, in which 13 Nepali nationals were killed, the government had imposed a blanket ban on travel to four conflict-ridden countries: Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Iraq.
Tinged with hope
Published On: October 8, 2016 12:25 AM NPT By: Republica
True, Nepal today has plenty of problems, and many of them seem intractable. More than a year after its promulgation, the new constitution that was supposed to herald an era of peace and prosperity instead remains bitterly contested.
Net effect
Published On: October 6, 2016 12:45 AM NPT By: Republica
Greater spread of information and technology is often touted as the only surefire ticket to Nepal’s development. In fact, the notion that IT and national development go together is widely shared by the educated masses the world over. But this notion can be wrong. The internet brings a wealth of valuable information at your fingertips, but it also tubes pornography and bomb-making techniques right into your living rooms as well.
Bills of rights
Published On: October 5, 2016 12:45 AM NPT By: Republica
Our parliamentarians have decided to shamelessly increase their own pay and perks, to up to double the current levels. After they get elected, it seems, our MPs start believing that they are the law onto themselves.
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