Dealing with China

Published On: July 15, 2018 01:00 AM NPT By: Umesh K Bhattarai

We need to wait and see under which modality China will provide us assistance for railway infrastructure: through grants or loans

Intellectual property

Published On: July 15, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Zia Qureshi

In today’s increasingly knowledge-intensive economy, policies should aim to democratize innovation, thereby boosting the creation and dissemination of new ideas

Revisiting revisionist history

Published On: July 14, 2018 02:20 AM NPT By: Abha Lal

Rajendra Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah was the first queen of the newly-created Kingdom of Nepal with its capital in Kathmandu. She was married to Pratap Singh Shah, one of Prithvi Narayan Shah’s sons, and is believed to have played a large role in continuing her father-in-law’s conquests to give shape to the Nepal that we know now.

Teaching menstruation to boys

Published On: July 14, 2018 02:15 AM NPT By: Ayush Joshi

I vividly remember my first encounter with menstruation. I was sharing lunch with a girl, who I was friendly with, and we were talking about TV commercials. I looked at her, and told her that I had seen a commercial about a product, which could save girls from becoming blind.

Volunteerism for development

Published On: July 14, 2018 02:10 AM NPT By: Simone Galimberti

December 5 is celebrated as International Volunteer Day (IVD) every year to commemorate the achievements of volunteers toward creating a better planet with their contributions stemming from the programs relating to poverty eradication to fight against HIV/AIDS and climate change and many others.

Let women rise

Published On: July 14, 2018 02:05 AM NPT By: Sarmila Bagale

Women will gain nothing if there is no structural change in politics. Without it we cannot transform women’s lives either. The High-Level-Panel of United Nations has highlighted concrete actions for women.

Endangering democracy

Published On: July 12, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: Mukesh Baral

King Gyanendra did not have to fire a single bullet to oust democratically elected prime minister. He used democratic institutions to swing his weapon to destroy democratic norms

Football and new world order

Published On: July 12, 2018 01:00 AM NPT By: Bipin Ghimire & Krishna Sharma

Is fall of mainstream sporting superpowers like Brazil, Argentina and Germany indicative of fall of American and British domination in world politics?

Bungling on budget

Published On: July 12, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Raj Kumar KC

Federal government was much criticized for exercising centralized attitude in allocation of budget. Provincial governments repeated that mistake

Congress must rise

Published On: July 11, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: Mahabir Paudyal

What Congress leaders would have us believe as authoritarianism is actually hubris, arrogance and total disregard to public concerns which every party has displayed while in power