Protecting plant breeder’s right

Published On: November 6, 2018 12:00 AM NPT By: Abhigya Pant

Protecting plant breeder’s right

Innovation, creation and development do not happen overnight. It requires effort, diligence and devotion to fit in the position of novelty. Novelty remains vacant in the absence of recognition. Every innovation is respected and recognized through intellectual property (IP) and plant breeders right is one of them.

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Are we sensing political changes soon?

Published On: November 5, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: P Kharel

Are we sensing political changes soon?

Baluwatar could have handled the situation more subtly by taking an early decision and wording its public position with utmost diplomatic nuances

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We are not prepared for Zika virus outbreak

Published On: November 5, 2018 01:00 AM NPT By: Bishnu Prasad Upadhyay and Binod Rayamajhee

We are not prepared for Zika virus outbreak

Government of Nepal should conduct awareness programs about the virus. Health authorities should run screening and protecting protocol

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Auf Wiedersehen, and Good Riddance

Published On: November 5, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Philippe Legrain

Auf Wiedersehen, and Good Riddance

The eurozone crisis greatly enhanced Germany’s financial clout within the currency union

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Dear President

Published On: November 4, 2018 12:25 AM NPT By: Anjali Subedi

Dear President

If you want to be taken and remembered as an arrogant and extravagant president, go on. But if you want to live in the people’s heart, then prove your worth by your deeds.

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Labor pact with Malaysia, a welcome step

Published On: November 4, 2018 12:20 AM NPT By: Mahendra Subedi

Labor pact with Malaysia, a welcome step

Until six months ago, departure of Nepali migrant workers to Malaysia was unhindered, but the agonies, hurdles and pains of our potential and returnee migrant workers were beyond words. However, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on ‘Recruitment, Employment and Repatriation of Workers’ signed on October 29 between the government of Nepal and the government of Malaysia will hopefully make things better for Nepali workers. Thanks to a dozen plus migrants-friendly points.

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Stop killing messenger

Published On: November 4, 2018 12:15 AM NPT By: Robert Mahoney

Stop killing messenger

NEW YORK – What does it cost to silence a muckraking reporter? In the Philippines, officials needed just $250 in 2011 to buy the services of a journalist-slaying gunman. In Slovakia, Ján Kuciak and his fiancée were killed in February for about $80,000.

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How can we improve our export?

Published On: November 4, 2018 12:10 AM NPT By: Suman Kumar Regmi

How can we improve our export?

Nepali industries have been receiving protection for many years. The protection has resulted in our industries not willing to go beyond the home market. It is a great irony that Nepali industrialists and traders are still looking for the assured market.

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Understanding Kautilya to design Nepal’s security

Published On: November 3, 2018 12:15 AM NPT By: Surya Prasad Khanal

Understanding Kautilya to design Nepal’s security

Complying with the geo-political reality in South Asia, the Great King Prithvi Narayan Shah in the late 18th century appropriately defined Nepal as “a yam between two boulders”. However, in due course of time, the equal and great friendship with its two giant neighbors, China and India, intended to ensure Nepal’s overall prosperity, did not live up to the Great King’s expectation.

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The Brexitization of European politics

Published On: November 3, 2018 12:10 AM NPT By: Guy Verhofstadt

The Brexitization of European politics

BRUSSELS – Far from settling the question of the United Kingdom’s future, the 2016 Brexit referendum and subsequent negotiations with the European Union have triggered a full-blown identity crisis and culture war in Britain. Two years after the UK electorate voted by 52 percent  to 48 percent  to withdraw from the EU, it is safe to say that former Prime Minister David Cameron’s ploy to settle a long-running niche debate within the Conservative Party has backfired spectacularly.

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