Competing for influence

Published On: January 14, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: P Kharel

Competing for influence

Is the United States flashing a friendlier face or is it a ploy at unsettling China which sees Nepal as the most vulnerable among its 14 neighbors?

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Case for clean feed policy

Published On: January 14, 2019 01:00 AM NPT By: Punit Sarda and Aashish Chalise

Case for clean feed policy

Finance Minister Yubaraj Khatiwada should coordinate with Ministry of Information and Communication to immediately implement clean feed policy

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Whither Chinese consumer?

Published On: January 14, 2019 12:30 AM NPT By: Jim O’Neill

Whither Chinese consumer?

By 2020, Chinese consumers would be more relevant to the global economy than anyone except Americans

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Costs of inequality

Published On: January 13, 2019 02:00 AM NPT By: Cecilia Keizer

Costs of inequality

Key among the development challenges facing Nepal is the ever-widening income and wealth gap between the haves and have-nots

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Symptoms of decay

Published On: January 13, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: Narayan Manandhar

Symptoms of decay

Political parties, parliamentarians and government ministers feature as the most distrustful institutions in almost all surveys

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Tapping diaspora’s knowledge

Published On: January 13, 2019 01:00 AM NPT By: Raju Adhikari, Pramod Dhakal, Ambika P Adhikari and Drona Rasali

Tapping diaspora’s knowledge

Nepal should take a leap in scientific pursuit through mobilization of its large contingent of diaspora talent and scholarship

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Isolation of indigenous groups

Published On: January 13, 2019 12:30 AM NPT By: Brahma Chellaney

Isolation of indigenous groups

Indigenous people are an essential element of cultural diversity and ecological harmony. Let them live in peace in the ancestral lands

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Positive spin gone awry

Published On: January 12, 2019 12:15 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

Positive spin gone awry

It was unbelievable that something big, both in terms of size and money involved, would ever be purchased/leased without extracting a proportionate kickbacks in this country. But we were made to believe, right in the beginning, that everything would be made “quite transparent” this time. It was in a way, a tacit admission that things were murky in previous instances.

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My tryst with social media

Published On: January 12, 2019 12:10 AM NPT By: Babu Ram Neupane

My tryst with social media

An urge to connect, communicate and share is inherently human. There is nothing queer about using social media in today’s virtual world. However, motivations to use them diverge vastly based on the worldviews and choices of statements we want to make.

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Teach them English

Published On: January 12, 2019 12:05 AM NPT By: Rishi Ram Paudyal

Teach them English

While in home district few months back I visited a community primary school in which I had taught in its initial year. I’m an English language enthusiast and lover of teaching English, but I still consider myself a student of this foreign language.  I enjoy watching English teachers teaching English and I welcome such teachers to observe my style of teaching. I believe in the proverb ‘iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.’

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