WATCH YOUR WALLETS!
The taxman is after your money, and he'll get it even after you die.
BINOD BHATTARAI
July 26 - August 1, 2000
Headline
Editorial
More tax, less income
The whole point about taxes is to raise revenue for regulatory hands off government to function, to finance social welfare for the neediest and…
Storm in a teacup
So this B-grade Kollywood personality wanted permission to shoot the prime minister. And not with a camera. Because of that one remark he made,…
Columns
State Of The State by CK LAL
Why Nepalis love to hate India
Nepal's age-old ties with India are just that: aged, old and fraying at the seams.
Guest Column by JOSEPH STIGLITZ
Think globally, act accordingly
The issue isn't whether Nepal should be a part of the globalised world, it is how to respond to it. The riots in Seattle and marches in…
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
The Power to privatise
The price of power in Nepal (both political and electrical) is number one in the region. We have the most unreliable electricity supply in the…
Nation
DOR BAHADUR ALIVE
"You can always be injured if you are fighting for justice and truth. I am willing to be hurt."
SALIL SUBEDI
Emergency relief for free kamaiyas
Following the government's announcement declaring the end of the Kamaiya system (of which bonded labour was a part), the power elite of…
PRATYOSH ONTA
Radisson goes public
Subscription to Radisson Hotel's 1.25 million ordinary shares opened on Tuesday. This came about just 18 months after the hotel began…
Chariot of ire
The last day of its two-month journey around Patan, the Rato Machhendranath chariot had only another 30 metres to go. Unfortunately, one of the…
SUJATA TULADHAR
Business
Maybe you can drive my car
If there is one time of the year when thoughts turn to buying a car, it is during the rains.
Review
Nepal’ globe-trotting musical ambassadors
The Nepali music band Sur Sudha recently returned home after completing a 40-day tour of the UK,
SALIL SUBEDI
Undrstanding the Kiratase
Politics of Culture: a Study of Three Kirata Communities in the Eastern Himalayas
ANDREW RUSSELL
Cool Demons
All ye diehard Bollywood haters, good sulk. Hindi movies have seen dakus of all whiskers, but the bad guys who stalks this Ram Gopal Varma…
SHANUJ V.C
Culture
The greatest building of them all
Visitors to Kathmandu are invariably told that the great Rana palaces that rise like huge wedding cakes above the lesser confections of the…
DESMOND DOIG
Economy
Maybe you can drive my car
If there is one time of the year when thoughts turn to buying a car, it is during the rains.
Nepali Society
Clean bill of health for king
King Birendra is back from his annual health checkup at the Cromwell Hospital in London. His Majesty had been admitted to the hospital for…
Technology
Nepal goes.com
Nepal has not yet entered the real e-conomy, but some businesses have already seen the future.
GAURAB RAJ UPADHAYA
Contest 2 Win
Contest2win Nepal (nepal.c2w.com) defines itself as a "one stop contest shop which offers online contests to its registered members". What this…
Sports
Nepal U-17 bowled out
Nepal's under-17 cricket team has been bowled out of the ICC Under-17 Asia Cup that was held in Pakistan last week. Ten teams from Pakistan, Sri…
ALOK TUMBAHANGPHEY
Four records broken
Four national athletics records were broken in the two-day National Open Athletic Tournament held 15-16 July in the Dashrath Rangashala in…
Nature
Off The Beaten Trek
There are out-of-the-way places that no one goes to and there are out-of-the-way places that everyone goes to. Gosainkunda during the monsoon is…
PADAM GHALEY
From The Nepali Press
Memorials
Based on various reports in Nepali Newspapers, July 22, 2000 The nation paid homage to Late B.P. Koirala on the 18th B. P. Koirala Memorial Day.…
"The solution is- talk, talk and talk"
Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya, foreign minister during the last days of the Panchayat,
Four districts in Maoist hands
As the police withdraw from vulnerable forward bases, the Maoists are moving in to fill the vacuum in four western districts: Rolpa, Rukum,…
SUDHIR SHARMA
Maobadi Sena
We went looking for the Nepali People's Army in the forests, a five-hour walk from Khalanga, and when we met up with them, the Commander agreed…
SUDHIR SHARMA AND SHARAD K.C.
Army road
The army has now moved into areas known as Maoist-affected. At first villagers would run away from them, but they now view the army as their…
Domestic Brief
The moment for Kodak
Kodak Is giving Nepal one last chance. The US$ 6 million US-India joint venture in Nepal may decide to pack up and leave in a few weeks if it…
Girija on Necon
The prime minister's planned return to Nepal on board the inaugural Royal Nepal Airlines flight from Bangalore on 4 August has been scrapped…
Letters
Many Times
Every word in Nepali Times is a breath of fresh air! It just drips with excellence, in subject matter, investigative journalism, eye-appeal,…
In this issue:
Watch your wallets | More tax, Less Income | Editorial: Why Nepalis love to hate India | Dor Bahadur is alive | PM does not trust me : Deuba | RNAC Chairman out to save job | " The solutions is: talk, talk and talk" | Freedom | Emergency relief for free Kamaiyas | Think globally, act accordingly | The power to privatise | Maybe you can drive my car | Fowl play on screen | Nepal's globe - trotting musical ambassadors | Nepal goes.com | General beats tax evaders | Climbing ban on Kanchanjunga | Human genome, inhuman society | The greatest building of them all | Understanding the Kiratas | Nepal U - 17 bowled out | Four records broken | Cyber - protests target olympics | No to weapons at Olympics | Afghan footballers play in long pants | Four districts in Maoist hands | Chariot of ire | Garbage in, garbage out | Clean billl of health for king