Costs of migration

Published On: June 30, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: Sindhu Gyawali

For our temptation for career and financial gain abroad, are we not ruining the quality of life of our parents?

Redefining local leadership

Published On: June 30, 2019 01:00 AM NPT By: Shyam Dahal

Better governance outcomes are possible only when local politicians become more flexible and open-minded to share leadership roles with the chief administrative officers

Trump’s art of the spin

Published On: June 30, 2019 12:30 AM NPT By: Stephen S Roach

Policy blunders of epic proportion have become the rule, not the exception. It won’t be nearly as easy to spin the looming consequences

In instrument we trust

Published On: June 29, 2019 01:25 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

Most find it baffling as how aircrafts fly long distances, safely and amidst crisscrossing traffic—seemingly under no control. If that was so, it would have resulted in frequent collisions or other types of midair calamities typically reflecting Kathmandu traffic scene where lack of patience rules supreme. It is not that drivers do not know the rules.

Hungary’s fights for impunity

Published On: June 29, 2019 01:05 AM NPT By: Bálint Magyar/Bálint Madlovics

BUDAPEST – Hungary has become a post-communist mafia state. It is led not by a party but by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s political-economic clan, which treats society as its private domain while formally maintaining a democratic façade. The Hungarian state’s actions are not impersonal but rather discretionary, aimed at taking down the clan’s opponents and redistributing wealth and assets to loyalists.

Home is where you belong

Published On: June 29, 2019 12:25 AM NPT By: Rishi Ram Paudyal

It’s ages since I have lived in Kathmandu but I do not call it my home yet. I live in a house here but this is not my home. When I think of home, my mind’s antennas rise up with lots of memories—my identity, my mother, siblings and my neighbors. How they call me is different from what other people call me. My ears are tuned to that sound and respond to it quickly.

Oli’s missed opportunities

Published On: June 27, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: Jainendra Jeevan

The two-thirds majority government formed after 20 long years of short-lived coalition culture was expected to focus on nation building. It is missing that opportunity every single day

What’s wrong with Passport Bill?

Published On: June 27, 2019 01:00 AM NPT By: Roshani Giri

Problem with the Passport Bill is not with power of the executive to deny or cancel passport but with absence of clear grounds on which the executive can write for denial and cancellation

America in the crossfire

Published On: June 27, 2019 12:30 AM NPT By: Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng

If anybody is going to convince Trump to change course, it is probably corporate America. But, when it comes to Trump, there is no such thing as a sure thing

Why Newars are raging

Published On: June 26, 2019 08:30 AM NPT By: Gérard Toffin

Newars will not easily give up the fight and will clearly protest until the badly drafted Guthi Bill is completely scrapped or totally rewritten in collaboration with Newar stakeholders