Looking back on 2005
While the rest of the region looks back on 2005 as a year of natural disasters, Nepal's disasters were entirely manmade. The Indian Ocean…
December 30, 2005 - January 5, 2006
Headline
Editorial
Let’s not go back there
Nepal waits with a deep sense of foreboding for the unilateral Maoist ceasefire to end next week. Nepalis are also bracing themselves for a…
Columns
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
More of the same
Indications are that the new year will be no different than the old one
Herojig by
Herojig - Issue #279
Game Point by SUJAY LAMA
Leaving home
It was great to meet so many Nepalis on my recent visit who are genuinely concerned about the future of tennis in this country. Everywhere I…
Guest Column by PUSKAR GAUTAM
A ceaseless ceasefire
The goal is not just to stop this drift towards dictatorship but to steer the Maoists back to pluralism and non-violence
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
2005 headlines
It is that time of year again when it is mandatory for every respectable newspaper worth its salt in a civilized country like ours to take a…
Nation
PAX VOBISCUM 2006
The Nepali Times guide to where to go, what to drink and how to write new headlines for the New Year
MALLIKA ARYAL
Long-term vision
One of the world's largest eye hospitals is in the middle of nowhere in Lahan
MALLIKA ARYAL
Interview
"Prospects for Nepali tea really good"
Germany's Wolfgang Heilman has worked as an expert in raw tea and coffee processing and production for the last 30 years, specialising in…
Business
Review
God isn’t big enough for some?people
Human beings are religious animals. It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification and the hope provided by…
UMBERTO ECO
Leisure
Where do you want to be on New Year’s Eve?
A 10-party alliance is gearing up to be in full swing to welcome the new year on Saturday night
C2H5OH
Forget all the fancy beverages this New Year's Eve. If you want to savour all those sweet n' sour memories of the past year and imagine the next…
Nepali films in UK
After the British film festival in Nepal organised by the British Council there is now a Nepali film festival in Britain organised by the group,…
Star Gazing
Happenings
Happenings - Issue #279: JUMPING THE GUN
JUMPING THE GUN: This display by the RNA of its recently acquired Chinese armoured vehicles at Ratna Park was billed as a Shiva Ratri rehearsal…
Nature
Glacial research frozen
Another government squabble stalls study of melting Himalayan glaciers
NAVIN SINGH KHADKA
Sports
Hoop hoop hurrah
Basketball is finally a spectator sport as the national tournament takes off
ANOOP PANDEY
Nepali Society
A yearning for learning
For a Magar woman from the eastern hills, Menuka has covered more territory than most more-privileged Nepali women. The first of 11 children in…
From The Nepali Press
Business Briefs
John Players Collection
John Players has released its Fall Winter Collection 2005. Focusing on youth, it includes options for work and party wear?Structures@Work and…
Domestic quarrel
Royal Nepal Airlines pilots flying domestic routes have given an ultimatum to management till 31 December to meet pay, progression and benefit…
New Pokhara bank
Pokhara entrepreneurs have established the Himchuli Development Bank in the resort town. The bank was inaugurated last week by Nepal Rastra Bank…
High five for Laxmi
Laxmi Bank recorded 150 percent growth in net profit in 2004-2005 compared to the previous year, it announced at its 5th AGM in Birganj on…
New Products
HAIR STUDIO: the reputed beauty parlour in Bhat Bhateni Department Store, has shifted to another location within the Deptartment Store itself.…
Letters
Baffled
I have been reading Nepali Times and have a pretty good impression of your team's in-depth independent analysis of news and events. But one…
Not pirates
Great article by Vibek Raj Maurya ('Windows of opportunity for Nepali computing', #278). But as an ex-software giant employee and a firm…
Credit where it's due
Typos are one thing but for such a snafu to pass through the editorial desk tells me that someone needs to brush up on their business grammar. A…
In this issue:
Looking back on 2005 |Let's not go back there |Editorial: A ceaseless ceasefire |The year of the hawks |Thoughts escape |Indian sinophobia |More of the same |“Prospects for Nepali tea really good” |The king goes east, the army goes west |Have faith |Capital plans |Encroachment |Kicked out |Wilful defaulter |Royal airline |Nepal calling |Glacial research frozen |God isn’t big enough for some people |Robbing the poor |Long-term vision |Year of the eclipse |Elections are not enough |Hoop hoop hurrah |Leaving home |A yearning for learning |2005 headlines