Post-election blues

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

Post-election blues

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

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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.

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Trump’s collaborators

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

Trump’s collaborators

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.

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Melamchi risks

Published On: October 24, 2017 08:30 PM NPT By: Devendra Gautam

Bringing the expected 510 MLD of water into the valley after the completion of Melamchi Phase I and II will be next to impossible.

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Translingual benefits

Published On: October 24, 2017 01:30 AM NPT By: Shyam Sharma

Translingual benefits

Scholarship based on classroom observations has consistently shown that teachers of content subjects, in general, cannot teach in English effectively.

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Numbers don’t lie

Published On: October 24, 2017 01:00 AM NPT By: Narayan Manandhar

Numbers don’t lie

There is no shortage of communist ideologues in Nepal who assume that now is time for the country to solely focus on economic prosperity.

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Appeasing neighbors

Published On: October 24, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Gaurav Bhattarai

Appeasing neighbors

Fragile internal politics combined with complex geopolitics oblige every political leader in Nepal to try to appease India and China.

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The neocon specter

Published On: October 23, 2017 07:09 AM NPT By: CK Lal

Urbanites of asocial media generation may not know or care anymore that the person who made the emergence of Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist-Leninist—better known by its acronym UML—possible was a lifelong democrat and one of the Nepali Congress triumvirate of 1980s: Ganeshman Singh.

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On public education

Published On: October 23, 2017 07:04 AM NPT By: Republica

Mahabir Paudyal rightly portrays the public education system in Nepal as a disaster (Reviving Public Education, Oct.16). Education Minister Gopal Man Shrestha has made matters worse.

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Transplanting success

Published On: October 23, 2017 06:56 AM NPT By: Dr. Pukar C Shrestha

Nepal is these days witnessing a profusion of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) compared to the communicable diseases that were the most common until a few years ago.

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