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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.
The Uri effect
Published On: October 4, 2016 12:45 AM NPT By: Republica
Last week, we had in this space written about how Nepal’s tourism is still reeling from the aftereffects of last year’s twin disasters: first the earthquakes and then the five months of the border blockade. Hotel booking in the paradise city of Pokhara at this peak season has been around 30 percent, the same as last year.
39 and counting
Published On: October 3, 2016 12:45 AM NPT By: Republica
The government of Pushpa Kamal Dahal has now been in office for two months, which means that it has only around seven more months before Dahal has to make way for Sher Bahadur Deuba, his coalition partner, as prime minister. So Dahal’s government, unless there is some dramatic development, has a short shelf life.
Keep talking
Published On: October 1, 2016 12:45 AM NPT By: Republica
Escalating tensions between India and Pakistan seem to have doomed the SAARC project. The Indian media, both print and broadcast, have been quick to announce the ‘death’ of SAARC following the terrorist attack on Uri of the Indian-administered Kashmir, resulting in the deaths of 18 Indian soldiers.
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