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Passage of amendment bill will embolden secessionist elements
Passage of amendment bill will embolden secessionist element...
Ever since the government of Pushpa Kamal Dahal registered a constitution amendment bill in parliament on November 29th, 2016, the main opposition, CPN-UML, has been consistently opposing the rastraghati (anti-national) bill and asking for its withdrawal. But which provisions in the bill are anti-na...
Jan 28, 2017
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Nepal’s strategic location prevents it from being a burden for India or China
Nepal’s strategic location prevents it from being a burden f...
Huang Youyi serves as an expert at the Charhar Institute, a prominent Chinese think tank that gives the Chinese government inputs on China’s diplomacy and international relations, including in South Asia. A close student of Nepal-China relations, Youyi was recently in Kathmandu to take part in the ‘...
Jan 21, 2017
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Nepal an important partner country: KOICA veep
Nepal an important partner country: KOICA veep
Vice President for Projects and Regional Coordination of Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Sungho Choi is currently in Nepal to assess the progress of projects run by KOICA, and forge new strategies for the development cooperation with Nepal. Choi spoke to Republica about KOICA activiti...
Jan 20, 2017
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Criminals have no land to hide
Criminals have no land to hide
We are hopeful that the conference will be instrumental in crime controlling and a forum for dwelling on crimes and difficulties faced in the course of tackling them. The central focus of the conference will be to develop a procedure so that criminals will get no space to hide in any corner of the...
Jan 18, 2017
ECONOMY, Interview
An Efficient road network is a base for national unity
An Efficient road network is a base for national unity
Kathmandu is nearer to New Delhi than Dhangadi, the far-western city of Nepal, due to lack of proper connectivity. The remoteness has not only created trade and economic bottlenecks, but also created political gap between Kathmandu and the rest of the country which has, in some way, weakened nationa...
Jan 16, 2017
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The real danger is when both India and China conclude Nepal is a burden
The real danger is when both India and China conclude Nepal...
The Director of Center for South Asian Studies, Nischalnath Pandey, is a keen student of diplomacy in South Asia and of the strategic rivalry between India and China in Nepal. As Nepal and China prepare for a joint military drill, Biswas Baral and Mahabir Paudyal caught up with him on Wednesday afte...
Jan 12, 2017
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Failure of amendment bill will have unimaginable consequences
Failure of amendment bill will have unimaginable consequence...
What do the Madheshi parties make of the Supreme Court verdict on constitution amendment? Do they in fact even support the amendment bill tabled by the ruling coalition? Biswas Baral and Mahabir Paudyal talked to Sarbendranath Sukla, General Secretary of Tarai Madhesh Democratic Party, a key constit...
Jan 05, 2017
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The proposal to change Province-5 boundary is unconstitutional
The proposal to change Province-5 boundary is unconstitution...
Chairman of Constitutional Committee of the first Constituent Assembly Nilamber Acharya has been a first-hand witness to the evolution of the constitutional process since the first CA elections in 2008. Biswas Baral and Mahabir Paudyal wanted to know from the veteran constitutional expert what he ma...
Dec 29, 2016
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It is not easy to federate a country as old as Nepal
It is not easy to federate a country as old as Nepal
Senior Nepali Congress leader and former finance minister Ram Sharan Mahat is an advocate of fiscally strong federal units. He believes Nepal’s federal experiment has gone wrong because it became an emotive issue, and not one based on economic logic. So what does he make of the current disputes over...
Dec 22, 2016
ECONOMY, Interview
Gulf Oil has seen a lot of opportunities in Nepal
Gulf Oil has seen a lot of opportunities in Nepal
Ravi Chawla, the managing director of Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd, was recently in Nepal, along with former Manchester United footballer Quinton Fortune, for brand promotion of Gulf lubricants in Nepal.
Dec 20, 2016