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Nepal’s EV Conversion Push: Ambition Without Readiness?

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Nepal’s push toward EV conversion reflects real ambition and opportunity, but without standards, skilled manpower, infrastructure planning, and battery management systems, the transition could create serious safety and sustainability risks.
3 days ago
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When Social Media Becomes a Courtroom

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In Nepal, social media comment sections have become violent digital courtrooms where women are judged, humiliated, and convicted before justice even begins — a single post is all it takes for a trial to start; she speaks, and she is prosecuted.
4 days ago
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Can Multi-Rate VAT Discourage Nepal’s Informal Border Trade?

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Introducing multiple VAT rates in Nepal could help reduce informal border trade with India, support domestic industries, and create a more balanced and competitive economy.
4 days ago
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Money, Power, and the Changing Face of Election Campaigns in...

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Nepal’s recent elections reveal that while money still shapes campaign strategies, electoral success is increasingly determined by non-financial factors such as credibility, voter perception, and digital influence.
5 days ago
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Beyond “Free Visa”: Rethinking Nepal’s Labour Migration Syst...

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Nepal must shift from bureaucratic and populist foreign employment policies toward a strategic human resource management system focused on skills, efficiency, ethical recruitment, and global competitiveness.
5 days ago
OPINION

Wearing Heritage Without Apology: Sunita Dangol at Cannes

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Sunita Dangol’s appearance at Cannes in the traditional Newah Hāku Patāsi transformed a fashion moment into a powerful global statement of indigenous identity, heritage, and cultural pride — worn without apology.
May 22, 2026
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New Mandate, New Risks: Nepal’s Foreign Policy Under Scrutin...

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As an untested new party with overwhelming parliamentary majority exercises power in Kathmandu, its handling of international affairs needs to be carefully monitored to avoid shoals and pitfalls.  
May 21, 2026
OPINION

From Traffic to Togetherness: Rethinking Patan Without Cars

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A vehicle-free Patan Durbar Square reveals that removing cars restores safety, social life, and economic vitality—proving that heritage streets thrive when people, not vehicles, come first.
May 21, 2026
OPINION

The Feminization of Farming: Nepal’s Silent Agricultural Shi...

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Despite women sustaining Nepal’s agriculture, structural barriers and shifting aspirations raise a critical question: will future generations of young women choose farming as a dignified and viable career?
May 21, 2026
OPINION

Nepal Between Reform and Recklessness

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Nepal’s political rupture may have been necessary, but genuine democratic reform requires accountability, humility, due process and the courage to confront the damage left behind.
May 20, 2026