Whose Media Council?

Published On: May 22, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: Dharma Adhikari

Drop the draft bill, don’t even consider revising it. Rather, force the media community to form their own independent press standards mechanism. Let them call it whatever name they choose

Neglected plants

Published On: May 22, 2019 01:00 AM NPT By: Kamal Aryal and Uma Partap

As climate uncertainty looms and crops fail, the role of wild edible plants as a source of food and nutrition has become more important. But these plants remain largely neglected

Austria and plot against Europe

Published On: May 22, 2019 12:30 AM NPT By: Charles Tannock

Brexit, after all, is as much a Kremlin project as it is anyone else’s. Putin wants to divide Europeans, and in the UK, Brexit has succeeded in dividing Britons

Disintegration of business

Published On: May 21, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: Bishal Thapa

Efforts by industries to contest the retroactive electricity bills raised by Nepal Electricity Authority illustrates how businesses have lost control of their narrative

Resilience of Arab world

Published On: May 21, 2019 01:00 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami

Though militaries have often proved adept at staging coups, from Egypt to Thailand to Myanmar, they have been far less effective in securing transitions to civilian rule

Together against pollution

Published On: May 21, 2019 12:30 AM NPT By: Nitigya Oli and Durga Sapkota

Air pollution should be controlled immediately. Otherwise, we will witness huge loss in human resources, production and economic growth

Understanding China

Published On: May 20, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: Dinesh Bhattarai

Attempts to contain and convert China will be counterproductive. Understanding China and working together with it to shape a secure and prosperous future is the need of the day

Is America tired of losing?

Published On: May 20, 2019 01:00 AM NPT By: Anne O Krueger

In 2016, Trump promised Americans that he would negotiate so many great deals on their behalf that they would get “tired of winning.” Now Americans are probably growing quite tired

African malaria threat

Published On: May 20, 2019 12:30 AM NPT By: Dr Sher Bahadur Pun

Malaria imported from African continent has been increasing steadily in the last few years, and is posing unnoticed public health threat to Nepal

Sex and society

Published On: May 19, 2019 02:05 AM NPT By: Ushma Rebel

When I first heard the word nymphomaniac, I loved its exotic sound. I didn’t understand what it meant at that time. But it just sounded so posh. Or so a 12-13 year old me thought at that time.