April 29 - May 5, 2005
Headline
Editorial
Emergency exit
The state of emergency imposed on 1 February will expire in the next few days. Without a parliament, it will need constitutional contortions to…
Columns
Guest Column by BIHARI K SHRESTHA
Charting our own path
How to help re-engineer democracy by devolution
Strictly Business by ASHUTOSH TIWARI
The landlord syndrome
A rule-bound competitive market can keep excesses in check
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Feel free to throw up on the Fourth Estate
We must mark World Press Freedom Day on 3 May this year in Nepal by dispelling the malicious rumour doing the rounds that we in the Fourth…
Nation
Shot in the arm
There used to be a time when young girls like Sabina and Lila would whimper and cry after getting their shots. It is a gauge of the success of…
NARESH NEWAR
Cry, beloved country
Three weeks after the slaughter of its young men, Somani still grieves in silence
ARUNA UPRETI and RITA THAPA
Review
Travel
Kanchenjunga and Makalu
This month is the 50th anniversary of the first ascents of the world's third and fifth highest mountains
ABHA ELI PHOBOO
Sports
Nepali Society
Nothing stops Ujeli
The men of Tallo Gaun in Simikot love to hate Ujeli Rokaya. They consider her a threat to their patriarchal society, which strongly believes…
Update
Halt, who goes there?
Travel restrictions are illegal and against the UN resolution in Geneva
RADHESHYAM ADHIKARI
From The Nepali Press
Business Briefs
Cambridge awards
The University of Cambridge International Examinations in association with the British Council awarded scholarship prizes of 500 pounds each to…
Not hungry anymore
Asian Thai Foods has started a new thematic brand launch for its product, 2PM noodles. The tagline for the campaign is 'So smooth, so delicious'.
Non-stop to NY
From 1 May, Thai will fly its Airbus A340-500 non-stop from Bangkok to JFK Airport in New York. The total flight time will be only 17 hours.
New Products
UNICORN: Syakar Company has introduced the Honda Unicorn in Kathmandu. It is powered by Honda 4-stroke. MCBORG: McBorg Nepal has launched McBorg…
Letters
Monitoring
CK Lal has finally written something concrete ('Mixed messages', #243). With the help of civil Maoists disguised as human rights advocates,…
Thalara
Aarti Basnyat's profile of Devendra SJB Rana's exhibition of photos ('Thalara's black and white world', #243) raises quite a few concerns.…
Wrong Time
I don't understand the hullabaloo here about Alex Perry's coverage of the insurgency in Nepal in Time magazine which has so many glaring errors…
Ordinance
This is in reference to the report titled 'Royal rejection' (From the Nepali Press, #244) translated from the weekly Drishti which contains…
Misleading
Shiva Gaunle's story, 'What about us', (#244) is misleading. He has tried to explain that Nepal's political parties are stuck at the same point…
Good job
Generally speaking, Nepali Times is different from other media. But I am not going to thank you because that is your job ? to be true to your…
In this issue:
One on one | Emergency Exit | Editorial: Charting our own path | May Day, May Day! | Humla’s class struggle | Shot in the arm | The landlord syndrome | Sun light in Humla | Baburam’s salvo to Prachanda | Vampires | No emergency | Going alone | Direct democracy | Maoist disunity | Manisha’s wish | India’s role | Kanchenjunga and Makalu | Two Himalayan travelogues | We want a happy ending | Cry, beloved country | Halt, who goes there? | France’s ‘Non’ ? | The America-China-India triangle | High on low | Our boys bring home the cup | Nothing stops Ujeli | Feel free to throw up on the Fourth Estate