Now is the time

Published On: March 24, 2019 01:05 AM NPT By: Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh

Now is the time

Each of the WHO South-East Asia Region’s Member States has played a critical role in the global push to End TB by or before 2030. In 2017, for example, health ministers from across the region issued a Call for Action, highlighting the measures needed to rout the disease. That was built on the following year by a Statement of Action, which pledged intensified efforts to achieve that outcome, even as domestic funding reached unprecedented levels.

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Fed’s dovish turn

Published On: March 24, 2019 12:25 AM NPT By: Nouriel Roubini

Fed’s dovish turn

NEW YORK – The US Federal Reserve surprised markets recently with a large and unexpected policy change. When the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met in December 2018, it hiked the Fed’s policy rate to 2.25-2.5 percent, and signaled that it would raise the benchmark rate another three times, to three to 3.25 percent, before stopping. It also signaled that it would continue to unwind its balance sheet of Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities indefinitely, by up to $50 billion per month.

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Fuel for thought

Published On: March 23, 2019 08:43 AM NPT By: Purushottam Ojha

Fuel for thought

The streets of Kathmandu witnessed yet another agitation in the never-ending series of protests staged by students unions against petroleum price hike by Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC). It has become bit of a ritual: there is a price hike, followed by protests, stage-ins, general strikes and targeted vandalism of government vehicles.

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Curse of uranium

Published On: March 23, 2019 01:25 AM NPT By: Dr Mahesh K Maskey

Curse of uranium

A hasty push for endorsement of the ‘nuclear bill’ in the parliament is being made amidst rumors of the discovery of uranium mines near trans-Himalayan terrain of Lo Mangthang of Mustang district. In fact, Office of Investment Board’s website claims that “a large deposit of uranium has been discovered in Upper Mustang region of Nepal... spread over an area 10 km long and 3 km wide and could be of highest grade.

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Business over safety

Published On: March 23, 2019 01:05 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

Business over safety

The aviation world was rocked by Ethiopian Airline’s (ET) recent crash involving a B737Max8 that happened less than five months after Lion Air (JT) crash in Indonesia. Normally, the period is not crucial, but the common narratives seem to show very identical circumstances with both crashing within few minutes after takeoff.

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To go or not to

Published On: March 23, 2019 12:25 AM NPT By: Simone Galimberti

To go or not to

Last week a scandal erupted in the US involving some wealthy, predominantly white American families buying, some illicitly and others in legally but ethically dubious ways, their children’s tickets to some of the best universities in the country.

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Reforming universities

Published On: March 21, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: Ram Kantha Makaju Shrestha

Reforming universities

Universities should have structures dedicated to connecting with their potential partners in the community, government, industries, foundations, and so on

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Maduro’s useful idiots

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

Maduro’s useful idiots

Western non-intervention killed Spanish democracy in the 1930s. Venezuela must not be next

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Undervalued forests

Published On: March 21, 2019 12:30 AM NPT By: Ananta Bhandari

Undervalued forests

Despite all the value our forests hold, the economic contribution they provide are not being reflected as they should be

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Isolating terrorism

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

Isolating terrorism

SAARC leaders should show vision, courage and sincerity to recognize the regional organization as the only institutional and pragmatic forum to create atmosphere of mutual trust

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