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Rebuilding Nepal’s Political Parties for Democracy
Nepal’s political parties must move beyond legacy-based hierarchies and cadre loyalty to focus on ideas, merit, and public accountability. Meaningful partisan reform requires internal democracy, transparent leadership elections, grassroots candidate selection, and issue-based politics that respond to citizens’ needs.
Jan 02, 2026
Nepal’s Future Demands Ideas Over Power
Nepal’s Future Demands Ideas Over Power
Jan 02, 2026
New Year Resolutions: Living With Purpose Beyond the Ca...
New Year Resolutions: Living With Purpose Beyond the Ca...
Jan 01, 2026
Reflecting on 2025: insights and learning in the develo...
Reflecting on 2025: insights and learning in the develo...
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Nepal earns US$9.436 million from electricity exports to Bangladesh in 2025
Illegal crypto transactions surge as Nepali youths become prime targets: NRB
3Karki-led probe panel questions Deuba and Dahal over Gen Z protest violence
4UML Chair Oli asks party cadres to remain ready for HoR polls
5Home Minister Aryal stresses safe structures for reducing earthquake damage
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Nepal should ideally be in a position to export power, not import it from other energy-starved countries.
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Trump’s supporters
While Western media wax nostalgic about Barack Obama most Middle Eastern governments are relieved he is gone.
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Talking digital journalism
Talking digital journalism
Online journalists understand media owners’ reluctance to invest. Why do more when the online business is already very profitable?
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Secure together
Secure together
If India is willing to sell to Nepal the weapons it builds with foreign technology, we have no reason to look elsewhere.
Apr 11, 2017
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Reel truth
Reel truth
Most media and advocacy campaigns on LGBT rights highlight their problems, not the success of LGBT characters.
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Expressions of subalternity
Expressions of subalternity
BHAIRAHAWA. Like other conurbations of the country, settlements along the north-south road connecting the Indian plains with the East-West Highway of Nepal are emerging as centers of consumption rather than production. On a late-March evening, there was a seven-kilometer queue of loaded trucks waiti...
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Energy for all
Energy for all
Most least developed countries (LDCs), including Nepal, have ample potential for renewable and clean energy. But they seldom tap that potential. Consequently, 70 percent of the 900 million people living in the 48 least LDCs have limited access to energy. In other words, citizens of seven out of 10 L...
Apr 10, 2017
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Great Chinese urbanization
Great Chinese urbanization
HONG KONG: Residential property prices in China’s first-tier cities—Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen—are back up. A home there now runs buyers half as much as a home in the world’s most expensive cities: New York City, London, and Hong Kong.
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Late mover
Late mover
Controlling prophylactic use of antibiotics is not something that can be implemented overnight, but Nepal must make a start
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