CONSTITUTION TINKERING
The week after Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai spelt out his group's demand to scrap the 1990 Constitution, everyone from the left to the right…
BINOD BHATTARAI
November 24-30, 2000
Headline
Editorial
Left, right. Left, right.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal and his comrades in the bush want the present constitution scrapped. Presumably, they want to have a dictatorship of the…
Numbing numbers
During the Vietnam War, they used to call them "five o'clock follies": evening press conferences in Saigon where they rattled off the daily…
Columns
State Of The State by CK LAL
Bringing the House down
Being a deeply despotic society, we find it hard to accept that someone not born to power can acquire it by being elected. This is why Kathmandu's chattering class loves to hate commoner law-makers.
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
Service charged
The service charge debate concerns labour-legislation as a whole, not just the extra item on your bill.
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
Being John Malkovich
My own country, Canada, may want to spy on the developing ability of Sherpas to play ice hockey, if only on vertical skating rinks.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Mt Everest Prawn Crackers
Unbeknownst to most of us, there is a national crisis building up right under our noses, and unless the government acts immediately to resolve…
Nation
CENSUS 2001
The only thing certain about Nepal's current population seems to be that it is still growing too fast, and that it will double in about 25…
HEMLATA RAI
The travails of a population billionaire
Fertility rates have declined in the last six years, but India's population program needs a review.
TV PADAMA IN NEW DELHI
Misplaced chivalry
Despite Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala's pledge last week that the government would soon lift its restrictions on women travelling to the…
HEMLATA RAI
The Indians aren’t coming
Border questions with India sometimes border on the absurd. There's much heartburn between the two neighbours on restricting the flow of people…
A NEPALI TIMES REPORT
"Peoples’ multi-party democracy offers a comprehensive alternative framework of governance"
We are still in an era of imperialism and proletarian revolution. The validity of Marxism and Leninism has not diminished at all, though…
Ujeli
Ujeli came to Kathmandu from Okaldunga, got lost and lived as the "madwoman" of Samakhusi for over two years.
JAN SALTER
Business
Crew loyalty to Royal Nepal tested
If it doesn't shape up, Nepal's national airline may soon lose all its pilots
KALA PRADHAN
Electric future
You're wrong if you think electric vehicles can only be tempos or very old Chinese trolley buses.
Culture
The city of good deeds
There is a charming story about the Bagh Bhairav temple raised in the sixteenth century, which has a shepherd boy making a tiger of clay.
Leisure
Mountains and movies
Next week, the first-ever international mountain film festival starts in the cultural capital of the highest mountain range in the world.
ANAGHA NEELAKANTAN
Economy
Crew loyalty to Royal Nepal tested
If it doesn't shape up, Nepal's national airline may soon lose all its pilots
KALA PRADHAN
Electric future
You're wrong if you think electric vehicles can only be tempos or very old Chinese trolley buses.
Nepali Society
"Don’t let them put you in a museum."
Snehesh Shrestha, "just another student", is now rather special. Prince Philip personally awarded him the first Gold Award of the Duke of…
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
Melamchi update
Loan negotiations between the Nepali government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) concluded in Manila last week in preparation for the…
Money for kamaiyas
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) will spend $3.5 million on a project for the sustainable elimination of the kamaiya system of bonded…
Downsizing government
The Public Expenditure Review Commission, formed to suggest ways to downsize and to rationalise spending, recommended sweeping measures,…
Friends of the Bagmati
The London-based Alliance for Religions and Conservation (ARC) is to work with a newly formed group called the Friends of Bagmati (FOB) to…
EVs in Bharatpur
Bharatpur Municipality has decided to introduce five electric three-wheelers to serve the Shahid Chowk-BP Koirala Cancer Hospital route. Martin…
Parking full at airport
Kathmandu aiport has run out of parking space for jets. Monday, 20 November, saw the worst-ever congestion, as scheduled international flights…
Business Briefs
UML wants bank ‘reforms’ stopped
The opposition Unified Marxists-Leninists has called on the government to stop the process of handing over the management of two of Nepal's…
FNCCI- Don’t bomb businesses
The Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) has issued a press statement calling for a cessation of attacks on business…
Lawsuit against RNAC
A group of lawyers have filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court calling for a stay order on RNAC's recent decision to lease an aircraft from…
Gorkha Brewery wins award
Gorkha Brewery Pvt Ltd, brewers of two Danish beers, Carlsberg and Tuborg, has been awarded the "Carlsberg Golden Words Award 2000" by its…
Cosmic expands fleet
Cosmic Air has added a second SAAB 340 to its fleet and plans to get a third one next month. This expands the company's fleet of fixed wing…
Nepal in Calcutta trade fair
Over 40 Nepali business and trading houses are to exhibit carpets, pashmina, readymade garments and handicrafts, and also promote tourism in…
Adidas showroom in Kathmandu
Roots Fashion Pvt. Ltd, the authorised distributor of Adidas sportswear in Nepal, has opened a showroom on Putalisadak. The outlet was…
Paddy procurement price fixed
The Nepal Food Corporation (NFC) has fixed the procurement price for common paddy for the Western Nepal zone. Paddy will be bought at Rs 565 per…
Letters
ICIMOD
While on official travel outside Nepal, I was dismayed to belatedly receive a copy of your article "ICIMOD Downsizes". This article contained…
Kow-towing to Koirala
CK Lal's columns, till now, were always truthful and objective appraisals of current issues that I read with interest and admiration. However,…
In this issue:
Constitution Tinkering | Left, right. Left, right. | Editorial: Bringing the house town | "People's multi - party democracy offers a comprehensive alternative framework of governance" | Census 2001 | Being John Malkovich | The travails of a population billionaire | Ujeli | The Indians aren't coming | Misplaced chivalry | Service charged | Mountains and movies | Cars, cars, and more cars | A sinking feeling | Electric future | 2K = 2000 | Pilgrims progress | "Elections under the Congress will not be fair" | " Without us you are nothing" | NC, UML workers in Maoist elections | Newspapers galore | Proposal to raise land taxes | Tiger in this neck of the woods | Nepal's cricket dream deferred | The city of good deeds | Mt Everest Prawn Crackers | " Don't let them put you in a museum