June 24-30, 2005
Headline
Editorial
From warfare to welfare
During the six-month ceasefire period in 2003, Nepal's donors spent much money taking our politicians, human rights activists and journalists to…
Columns
State Of The State by CK LAL
Death of an engineer
Dinesh Chandra Pyakhurel's suicide is a symbol of the country's own dead-end
Strictly Business by ASHUTOSH TIWARI
Mindless ‘mistakes’
The decision-making apparatus in the Maoist party promotes violence
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
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As a part of the government's laudable efforts to help the media industry become more self-reliant, self-important, self-righteous and…
Nation
Hope in Kapilbastu
It is a 45-minute drive down a long dirt road from the highway to the village of Singraha in Kapilbastu near the Indian border. Villagers are…
AARTI BASNYAT
The most cost-effective way to raise enrolment
Eight years ago, Save the Children US, in partnership with local organisations, started the first of its community-based Early Child Development…
UDAYALAXMI PRADHANANGA and SHERIDAN BARTLETT
Building bridges
Instead of building walls we should build bridges, physically and figuratively
ABHA ELI PHOBOO
Business
Review
Turning nature’s megapixels into art
To be able to capture nature in all its hues is Prajwal Pradhan's biggest challenge
AARTI BASNYAT
Update
Toon time
The very measures designed to curb media freedom have allowed Nepali cartoonists to come of age
PESHAL POKHREL
Nepali Society
Mangal, the musician-maker
It takes one artiste to recognise another. Mangal Krishna Shrestha is a musician and painter with a difference: he promotes other people's works…
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
World’s highest book and CD release
As the race to outdo each other on Chomolungma, musicians are the latest to get into the act. Ramesh Adhikari, lyricist, had his book of…
MDG alarm bells ring
Nepal is falling behind in targets to meet the UN's millennium development goals (MDGs) to halve poverty by 2015. With only 10 years to go, the…
Reducing poverty
World Bank has approved a $32 million grant for road infrastructure in rural areas. An estimated 36 percent of Nepal's 24 million people live…
Letters
HM on FM
The Secretary of the Ministry of Communication and Telecommunication Lokman Singh Karki has made a false statement in 'HM on…
SLC
I don't quite agree with CK Lal ('How about those who didn't pass?', #252) that we overdo the garlanding and vermilion. In fact, I think we…
Ironies
It was ironic to read Bijen Jonchhe's 'Ironies abound' (#252) because the writer ironically found more ironies surrounding the political parties…
Trees
The trees are struggling to live despite being chopped down (#252). Help them survive. Bring back the trees. We need the greenery, use the rainy…
Masks
Since the hardcopy edition of Nepali Times doesn't reach me in Seoul, I have been reading it on the Internet. But lately, I notice Kunda Dixit…
In this issue:
How much longer? | From Warfare to Welfare | "Editorial:The lion king | "Death of an engineer | Hope in Kapilbastu | From the grassroots up | The most cost-effective way to raise enrolment | MDG alarm bells ring | Mindless ‘mistakes’ | World’s highest book and CD release | Autos and the upwardly mobile | Power by proximity: the inner circle | Unnatural alliance | Mohan Bikram | NGOs in Sallyan | Why torment us? | “Thick skinned like a rhino” | Turning nature’s megapixels into art | Lying still | Building bridges | Pre-monsoon weddings | From outback to inside | A different stroke | In the tall grass | Mangal, the musician-maker | This space is reserved for government ads