When the government fails

Published On: September 6, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: Mahabir Paudyal

Oli has failed to deliver on governance front. He seems weak despite being powerful and helpless despite having two-thirds majority support in the parliament

Beyond plagiarism

Published On: September 6, 2018 01:00 AM NPT By: Jayash Paudel

Media should document cases of plagiarism. But it should also highlight novel research findings published in top-tier academic journals

Europe’s populist fifth column

Published On: September 6, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Guy Verhofstadt

Far-right populists are successfully politicizing the very institutions and legal instruments upon which European security depends

Myth of secular stagnation

Published On: September 5, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: Joseph E Stiglitz

Unless and until the selfishness and myopia that define our politics is overcome, an economy that serves the many, rather than the few, will remain an impossible dream

Back to the creed

Published On: September 5, 2018 01:00 AM NPT By: Manjeet Mishra

Why is the government that stormed to power on the plank of political stability and development catering to anti-democratic pathologies of the past?

Unite against rape

Published On: September 5, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Sapana Phuyal

Rather than the victims, rapists should be persecuted, ostracized and humiliated. Survivors need support both from the state and the society

Illusions of cheap solar

Published On: September 4, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: Bishal Thapa

Policy makers must offer a clearer set of regulations on solar for Nepali consumers to benefit from the significant reductions in the costs of solar power being achieved elsewhere

Nepal’s tourism moment

Published On: September 4, 2018 01:00 AM NPT By: Nishan Kafle

Tourism industry can help Nepal burnish its image abroad, emboldening its soft-power for a country with negligible hard-power

Economic costs of Erdoğan

Published On: September 4, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Timur Kuran and Dani Rodrik

When economics becomes a tool for enhancing president’s personal power, the economy pays the price

Shabby and unsporting

Published On: September 3, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: P Kharel

Given the size of the record-large Nepali contingent to Asian Games in Indonesia, the medal tally was solitary silver from participation in 29 out of 40 disciplines