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Busloads of joy
Published On: September 14, 2016 12:45 AM NPT By: Republica
There are already far too many vehicles on the streets of Kathmandu. Yet the year-on-year import of private vehicles continues to increase at an astonishing clip. For instance, despite the five months of border blockade, last year saw a 43 percent increase in vehicle imports from India.
Old habits
Published On: September 13, 2016 12:45 AM NPT By: Republica
Our parliamentarians are giving a dreadful account of themselves with their notorious record of absenteeism. On Sunday, fed up by their disregard of her repeated urgings, Speaker of the House Onsari Gharti Magar had to threaten parliamentarians to strip them off their parliament membership if they continued bunking even important House meetings.
Of vital interest
Published On: September 12, 2016 12:45 AM NPT By: Republica
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has repeatedly clarified that during his four-day visit to India starting September 15th there will be no new agreements and that his focus will be reviewing and implementing old agreements.
Trial and error
Published On: September 10, 2016 12:45 AM NPT By: Republica
The acquittal of Nepal Army Colonel Kumar Lama—who on September 6th was cleared by the Central Criminal Court in London of all charges pressed against him in the UK—raises many questions.
Common nonsense
Published On: September 8, 2016 12:45 AM NPT By: Republica
The government should be doing everything in its ambit to support the ailing tourism industry, which is yet to completely recover from last year’s devastating earthquakes and the nearly five months of the border blockade.
Home truth
Published On: September 7, 2016 12:25 AM NPT By: Republica
Unless there is a miracle, local polls won’t happen by mid-April, 2017, the deadline set by the previous KP Oli government. And if the mid-April timeframe for local elections is missed, it will then be impossible to hold the three sets of elections—local, provincial and federal—in the next 17 months, as mandated by the new constitution.
Root around
Published On: September 6, 2016 12:45 AM NPT By: Republica
During his three-day India visit later this month Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is not expected to raise the issue of the sudden discontinuity of ginger export to the southern neighbor. He should.
Pandora’s box
Published On: September 5, 2016 12:45 AM NPT By: Republica
Banking, like every other sector of the economy, operates on the principle of demand and supply. When the market is flush with money, the demand for it is low, which is reflected in the low interest rates that banks offer against the deposits, both personal and institutional, they mobilize. Nepali banks, swimming in remittance money, have been offering ultra-low interest rates to their depositors.
What’s the plan?
Published On: September 3, 2016 12:45 AM NPT By: Republica
The only way to evaluate the seriousness of our political class to implement the new constitution is to see if their actions so far have been in line with the constitution. In this they have failed miserably. The new constitution capped the number of ministers in the cabinet at 25. Both the governments formed after the promulgation of the constitution on September 20th, 2015 violated this provision.
New chinks
Published On: September 1, 2016 12:30 AM NPT By: Republica
Twenty-four-year-old Deepa Rai (Limbu) of Arun Tole, Dharan is trapped in Oman. She wasn’t meant to be there. The traffickers who had lured her with a lucrative job offer had promised to take her to Saudi Arabia instead. Once in Oman, she became a virtual slave, forced to work from five in the morning to midnight. The family that employs Deepa also subjects her to repeated abuse, both verbal and physical.
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