Distancing India

Published On: September 4, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: Sukhdev Shah

Nepal’s 50 years of effort at distancing ties with India has come at the cost of hurting its economy and creating a hurdle to connect the country to the world outside

Boris the Bolshevik

Published On: September 4, 2019 01:00 AM NPT By: Nina L Khrushcheva

British parliamentary democracy may never be the same again. It will certainly never again be the model that so many people around the world once admired

Make your father proud

Published On: September 4, 2019 12:30 AM NPT By: Sudarshan Neupane

We need to change the stereotypical attitude toward parenting that rests firmly on traditional belief that fathers are the breadwinners and mothers are the homemakers

Testing times

Published On: September 3, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: Gopal Thapa

With the new developments in Kashmir, Nepal may have to listen to and deal with the pressures and persuasions from India, China and Pakistan, all at the same time

Rebranding Lumbini

Published On: September 3, 2019 01:00 AM NPT By: Biranchi Poudyal

Apart from saying ‘Buddha was born in Nepal’ how many worthful initiatives have we taken to promote the birthplace of Gautam Buddha?

Private data, public good

Published On: September 3, 2019 12:00 AM NPT By: Stefaan G. Verhulst

“Data collaboratives,” an emerging form of partnership in which participants exchange data for the public good, have huge potential to benefit society and improve artificial intelligence

Rationalists of Nepal, unite

Published On: September 2, 2019 10:01 AM NPT By: Mahabir Paudyal

Anyone critically following views and opinions peddled by media in Nepal, including social media and major news media, must have sensed this. The information landscape is flooded with half-information and misinformation. Emotion prevails. Reason has taken the backstage. It is easy during such times to lose foresight and context. The costs of decisions made during periods of half-information can be very high and irrevocable.

Betting on foreign investment

Published On: September 2, 2019 09:56 AM NPT By: Purushottam Ojha

The commonly accepted objective of foreign direct investment is to create conducive policy, regulatory and operational environment for attracting foreign owned companies or the multi-nationals to invest into the host country. The investment made in the productive sector of economy not only helps create job and employment opportunities through injection of foreign capital and technology but also helps in increasing productive capacity of the economy and improve balance of payment through increased export of goods and services.

What divides NATO?

Published On: September 2, 2019 09:51 AM NPT By: Marco Overhaus

BERLIN – When US President Donald Trump arrives in Poland on August 31, he is certain to receive a rapturous welcome from the country’s government. And, having recently proclaimed himself the new Messiah for the people of Israel, Trump may interpret the applause in Warsaw to mean that he is the king of Poland, too.

Flailing at China

Published On: September 1, 2019 02:00 AM NPT By: Stephen S Roach

Notwithstanding all the criticism of China in the West, progress on the road to the Next China actually has been quite extraordinary over the past dozen years