December 26, 2003 - January 1, 2004
Headline
Editorial
It’s never too late
There are times these days when the sense of d?j? vu is so acute it gets unbearable. The appearance on state television news of Prime Minister…
Columns
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
Time passages
A new year is as good a time to ponder the benefits of time zones.
State Of The State by CK LAL
Boom, gloom and doom
We live in the present with the memories of our past, and undermine our future.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
BEEEEEEEEP
What is this country coming to? Do I now have to bribe you to read this column, or what? However, since it has now been established through…
Nation
Glued to the streets
The Valley's street children crisis has a growing new dimension: glue addiction.
NARESH NEWAR
Voice of the people
A television program shows that Nepalis still have the courage to speak up. The nation listens.
KISHORE NEPAL
Interview
"Media competition will ensure quality advertising."
Sanjeev Roy-Director for the region of French-based Euro RSCG
History
"Man-eating Gurkhas!"
In this installment of the memoirs of veteran Gurkhas we begin 89-year-old Bharati Gurung's story this week. He fought in the Northwest Frontier…
Culture
Happily ever after
Inter-caste, inter-ethnic, inter-racial. Nepalis are getting married all over the place.
SRADDHA BASNYAT
Book Worm
Eleven Minutes
Eleven Minutes Paulo Coelho Harper Collins, 2003 Rs 472 Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, is left heart-broken after her first…
Nepali Society
Ms Engineer
Pushpanjali Khanal proves that it's not just a man's world. Without even trying to be a symbol for the sisterhood, this 34-year-old is the only…
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
WB pollution report flayed
A World Bank report presented at an environmental meeting in Manila last week that named Kathmandu as the most polluted city in Asia has been…
Loan
The Asian Development Bank this week approved a $20 million loan to Nepal to improve levels of food security, nutrition, incomes and employment…
New Products
A special Derby: There's no horsing around with whisky and although plenty of it is available, Nepal Liquors and McDowell believe "the unique…
Letters
Royal resolve
The World Bank country director in Nepal, Ken Ohashi, wrote in a local English daily recently that the Managing Director of the World Bank,…
Royal Nepal
Your puff piece on Royal Nepal Airlines ('Royal Nepal Airlines battles battered image', # 175) does nothing to mitigate the suffering of…
In this issue:
It's never too late | Editorial: Boom, gloom and doom | Voice of the people | Glued to the streets | Time passages | Dam development | Art for mart's sake | Happily ever after | Judging Saddam | Harsh justice | World view 2004 | Sheriff Musharaff | Scott and the Sherpas | The disappeared | Man-eating Gurkhas! | Full circle | Trafficking in Kathmandu | Ms Engineer