ALMS RACE
The army's troop strength has nearly doubled in three years. Can we afford such breakneck expansion?
NAVIN SINGH KHADKA
May 28 - June 3, 2004
Headline
Editorial
June First
It is not one of those anniversaries that a country looks forward to. Next week, it will be three years since the massacre of almost the entire…
Columns
State Of The State by CK LAL
Back to the future?
Restoring parliament may have become a moral necessity
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
sddamised
Those who thought getting rid of Saddam was a good thing are now changing their minds
Strictly Business by ASHUTOSH TIWARI
On the job
Employers exploit the fact that labour supply usually exceeds demand
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
More important tips for visitors
Due to overwhelming popular demand to excommunicate this scribe from the All Nepal Non-working Journalists Union for causing several readers to…
Nation
Nepal thrives as regional drug hub
The Robinson case may show why Nepal is still a major transhipment point for international drug trafficking
NARESH NEWAR
Trained to climb
Nepali guides get international-standard training for rock and ice climbing
PRAGYA SHRESTHA in THAME
Business
Send it by train
The new railway agreement will allow Nepali goods to move cheaper and faster through India
NAVIN SINGH KHADKA
Annual 30% growth in the colour tv market
Interview with KS Kim, CEO of Samsung's Southwest Asia Region
History
Review
The massacre books
None of the books that appeared in the three years after the royal massacre bring any deeper insight into that terrible tragedy
Daniel Lak
Book Worm
The Underdevelopment of Development- Essays in Honor of Andre Gunder
The Underdevelopment of Development: Essays in Honor of Andre Gunder Frank Sing C Chew, Robert A Denemark (eds) Vistaar, 2004 Rs 472 Today, when…
Nepali Society
Democratic granny
The participated in anti-Rana protests in 1950. She campaigned on the side of multiparty democracy in the 1980 referendum, she was at the…
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
WHO helps?
"You talk, we die," chanted a group of HIV-infected people in front of the United Nations (UN) complex on Thursday. Braving rain, they prevented…
Records tumble on Everest
It was a lucky season for most Sagarmatha expeditioners. By presstime Thursday, 161 climbers from 13 different teams had made it to the top of…
Targeting media
Maoists ambushed a Himalayan Times van delivering newspapers from Kathmandu to Pokhara near Damauli on Thursday morning, killing the driver and…
Business Briefs
A star is born
After a nearly month-long search for Nepal's most striking model in open selections in Dharan, Pokhara and Kathmandu, we have a winner. Priyanka…
Woman who can
Binita Pradhan is the recipient of the Laxmi Woman Entrepreneur Award 2004, created by Laxmi Bank in recognition of her contributions to the…
Inspired change
Since 1991, the Surya trademark, the flagship brand of Surya Nepal, has carved out a strong position in the kingdom's cigarette market. The…
New Products
HomEmade gravy: At a loss as to what to cook? Home-made Tomato Puree from Dabur Nepal is packaged in TetraPaks and contains no skin or seeds.…
Letters
Federal
I must congratulate you for finally mentioning the big 'f' word, federal, in your editorial. ('Emergency surgery', #197). But what does this…
Life and death
After reading the letters by Debra Stoner and Stephen Bezruchka (#197, 196) critical of Sraddha Basnyat's report 'Trekkers bring medical care to…
Banda aid
This is in response to Ashutosh Tiwari's 'Banda Aid' (Strictly Business, #196). He mentions five days of strike in two weeks, but forgot the…
Soldier poet
Re: 'Soldier poet' (Nepali Society, # 197). There are other things that a soldier and poet have in common besides 'strong sensitivities'. Each…
In this issue:
Alms Race | June First | Editorial: Battle Royal | Back to the future? | Nepal thrives as regional drug hub | Saddamised | None of the above | Shopping list | Trained to climb | Send it by train | On the job | The massacre books | Stuck | Rebelling against rebels | Study in Japan | Starring roles | Is war obsolete? | " Saddam was better" | " We were not fighting for our own country " | Ultralights over Everest | Perfect Putting | Pump it up | Democratic granny | More important tips for visitors