P Kharel
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Readers’ Voice in Content Choice
Readers’ Voice in Content Choice

Are all printed media shrinking to the path of extinction? Far from it. They are not on any flight to oblivion, but many, if not most, will be diminished as readers migrate to new and alternative information pastures—those of news and other content.
Dec 17, 2024

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Unusual ritual
Unusual ritual

Yes, President Bidya Devi Bhandari went to China on a state visit pegged to address Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, and returned home last week. That is a fact. It is also true that her only predecessor President Ram Baran Yadav visited the communist country up north twice...
May 06, 2019

OPINION
Footprints of uncertainty
Footprints of uncertainty

Nepali governments have a habit of engaging in negotiations only when a conflagration breaks out. Biplav proved to be a tougher nut to crack than Oli-Dahal had imagined
Apr 22, 2019

OPINION
The Chinese are coming
The Chinese are coming

There need be no doubt any longer. The Chinese are coming conspicuously and visibly—big and fast. Forthcoming months will witness Beijing unveiling a multi-pronged strategy, according to Chinese academics who talk to Nepali visitors. As a counter to the Chinese thrust in expanding their reach and in...
Apr 08, 2019

OPINION
Indian elections and Nepal
Indian elections and Nepal

Just about the time India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi looked vulnerable, with his popularity rapidly declining, exchange of aerial strikes across the border with Pakistan seems to have reversed the slide. He looks like being back on the track in buoying the prospects of his Bharatiya Janata Party...
Mar 25, 2019

OPINION
Fractured Nepali Congress
Fractured Nepali Congress

Nepali Congress can salvage its reputation by being true to its traditionally held principles that came in good stead for so many decades. It should abandon expediency of opportunism
Mar 11, 2019

OPINION
Selective memory
Selective memory

Nepal’s mainstream party leaders squirm in their seats of power and privilege when faced with a series of foreign policy successes recorded in previous decades
Feb 25, 2019

OPINION
Oli on back foot
Oli on back foot

Amid sinking hopes at the popular level, the government’s promises are far insufficient
to assuage public disenchantment which threatens to break loose any time soon.
Feb 11, 2019

OPINION
Assessing media attack
Assessing media attack

When public figures indulge in media attacks, the prospects and conditions for the media grow dimmer and dangerous by the day
Jan 28, 2019

OPINION
Competing for influence
Competing for influence

Is the United States flashing a friendlier face or is it a ploy at unsettling China which sees Nepal as the most vulnerable among its 14 neighbors?
Jan 14, 2019
