Bhutan lessons

Published On: October 30, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Shraddha Gautam

Nepal has a lot to learn from Bhutan on how to, and how not to, deal with India on hydropower.

Being Xi

Published On: October 29, 2017 01:30 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

The western press and those influenced by it have a hard time accepting that good leaders do not need to be chosen through a popular vote.

Commercializing agriculture

Published On: October 29, 2017 01:00 AM NPT By: Bhairab Raj Kaini

Although rice is the main crop of Nepal, there are many reasons why it cannot compete against Indian rice.

China’s own path

Published On: October 29, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng

Xi’s plan is far more comprehensive and forward-looking than most observers seem to think.

Women’s relationships

Published On: October 28, 2017 12:47 AM NPT By: Usha Pokharel

Women will have to be smart to adjust to the ever-changing relations she has to adjust to throughout her life.

Crime does pay

Published On: October 28, 2017 12:37 AM NPT By: Gunjan Upadhyay

There are no blurry lines between crime and politics in Nepal. They are inseparable bedfellows.

Kids, screens and parental guilt

Published On: October 28, 2017 12:29 AM NPT By: Barbara Ortutay

Go ahead and hand your kid a gadget now and then to cook dinner or get some work done.

Post-election blues

Published On: October 26, 2017 01:30 AM NPT By: Biswas Baral

How was Nepal elected to the top United Nations human rights body with such a checkered rights record of its vital state actors?

Income for all

Published On: October 25, 2017 12:38 AM NPT By: Bamadev Paudel

The best strategy is to move gradually, first implementing the program only in the most deprived regions.

Trump’s collaborators

Published On: October 25, 2017 12:17 AM NPT By: Nina L. Khrushcheva

After nine months of Donald Trump’s presidency, the leaders of the Republican Party appear finally to be waking up to the harsh reality that their country stands at the edge of an abyss. They now have a choice: they can either continue to collaborate with Trump, thereby sustaining his destructive leadership and courting disaster, or they can renounce him, finally putting their country’s democracy ahead of loyalty to their party/tribe.