Good opportunity

Published On: December 1, 2018 12:05 AM NPT By: Santosh Kumar Paudel

A number of heads of states and governments are in Kathmandu for an important conference. Cambodian Prime Minister, the vice president of Republic of the Philippines, and Myanmar’s state counselor Aung San Suu Kyi are participating in the Asia Pacific Summit 2018. Moreover, speakers of the house, members of parliament and other high ranking officials from around the world are here.

America is watching

Published On: November 29, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: Mahabir Paudyal

Nepal will have to watch not only how India is responding to Nepal’s engagement with China but also be mindful that United States is watching us as much

Revolutionizing agriculture

Published On: November 29, 2018 01:00 AM NPT By: Bhairab Raj Kaini

Nepal aims to achieve a double-digit growth in the next five years. But this won’t be possible without agricultural revolution

Testing times for democracy

Published On: November 28, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: Dinesh Bhattarai

While in opposition communists make nationalism their sole agenda. When they lead the government they tend to attack democracy and lean toward authoritarianism

Lust for luxury

Published On: November 28, 2018 01:00 AM NPT By: Chiranjibi Paudyal

How do we explain President Bidya Devi Bhandari’s craving for luxury? Is this her obsession with power? Has she started to think of herself in terms of former kings and queens?

China’s four traps

Published On: November 28, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng

Chinese leaders earn their legitimacy not by winning the most votes, but by delivering results

Fury against media

Published On: November 27, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: Bhanu Bhakta Acharya

Instead of reviewing its own faulty policies and mending their ways, the government ministers are becoming more and more intolerant to media and public criticism

Inflation without cause

Published On: November 27, 2018 01:00 AM NPT By: Ajaya Kusum Adhikari

In the past two decades, food price has blazed through the roof to unimaginable heights and yet the government has done nothing to pull it down

Lost lessons of World War I

Published On: November 27, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Dominique Moisi

The risk today is that generations that have not known war will reproduce the chain of events that lead to it

Geopolitics of religion

Published On: November 26, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: CK Lal

The risk of proselytizing Christians is perhaps a ruse to cover secularist versus Hindutva geopolitical contestations between Beijing and New Delhi