Editorial - As if there is no tomorrow
There may be no military victory to this conflict. But there is certain to be economic defeat. Revenue is down, the bottom has fallen out of…
March 3-9, 2006
Headline
Editorial
As if there is no tomorrow
There may be no military victory to this conflict. But there is certain to be economic defeat. Revenue is down, the bottom has fallen out of…
Columns
Strictly Business by ASHUTOSH TIWARI
Growing a human face
Nepali businesses must learn to invest in HR
Herojig by
Herojig - Issue #288
State Of The State by CK LAL
Basking in reflected glory
The two chairmen are mirror images of each other
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Complain, complain, complain
It is an age-old custom in this part of the world to have Complaints and Suggestions Boxes located at convenient intervals throughout the…
Nation
Growing up in a war
TOM FARRELL FOUR YEARS OLDER: Last week, this young Maoist teenager in Budagaun in Rolpa (top) displayed one of the socket bombs in his backpack…
Bilaterals vs multilaterals
Donors in row over continuing development aid to royal regime
NAVIN SINGH KHADKA
Business
Review
Pico makes an ass of himself
In a reversal of roles, Pico Iyer goes from hero travel writer to zero commentator
KUNAL LAMA
Leisure
Delhi’s Little Himalaya
Majnu ka Tila is a speck of Boudha in the teeming Indian capital
DANIEL B HABER in NEW DELHI
Star Gazing
Happenings
Happenings - Issue #288: POKHARA, NOT BAGHDAD
POKHARA, NOT BAGHDAD: Chipledhunga in Pokhara soon after a Maoist bomb exploded leaving 11 people injured on Tuesday. FREEDOM CALLS: NC leaders…
Nepali Society
Number one by design
Swapnil Acharya's story is a lesson for those who think the only way to learn the tricks of a trade is to attend a professional school. Until…
Sports
Steve and Emi
Two cyclists pedalling around the world arrive in Nepal after surmounting overwhelming odds
DEEPTI GURUNG in POKHARA
Coz it’s there
Wait! It's not April First yet. But get ready anyway for the most daring hoax of 2006: an 85-year-old British woman and her dog will climb…
From The Nepali Press
Between two extremisms
Senior advocate Ganesh Raj Shama in Kantipur TV and transcribed by Jana Satta, 25 February
Domestic Brief
New products
Come home: Southern Heights, Upper Harisiddhi housing estate opened for bookings on 25 February. Located 4 km southwest of the Ring Road en…
Nepal-China deals
Nepal and China will sign two agreements during the special visit of Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Thang Jia starting 16 March, sources say.…
Expensive strikes
A single day shutdown causes a loss of Rs 870 million to the non-agricultural sector and about Rs 1 billion in total, said speakers at a recent…
Letters
Moriarty
I think we are giving a bit more emphasis than necessary to Ambassador Moriarty's speech ('Professor Moriarty strikes again', #287). First we…
Killing ministers
As always, Kanak Dixit's outburst in his Southasia Beat column ('Why not to kill the minister', #287) comes with sense and rational arguments.…
Travel advisories
It's helpfully provocative to have H Marceau's views (Letters, #287) in which he says: 'The embassies don't issue these advisories on a whim but…
At risk
Your silence on the issue of the security of people working in development is regrettable. If a newspaper such as yours does not raise this then…
Unmasked
I'd grown so used to the masks. Why has Kunda Dixit reverted back to wearing those outrageous hats again? Subodh, email
In this issue:
Donors divided |As if there is no tomorrow |Editorial: What intervention? |Basking in reflected glory |Where will the money go? |Bilaterals vs multilaterals |Growing a human face |Economic alert |Between two extremisms |Whose welfare? |Why foreigners? |Dangerously dry |Capital plan |Condition critical |Maoist mistakes |Lean and mean in Thamel |Pico makes an ass of himself |Delhi’s Little Himalaya |Shadowy times |A taste of Tibet |Bush talks to India about Nepal |‘Scrambled’ golf? |Steve and Emi |Number one by design |Complain, complain, complain