Issue #29

Prachanda wrote to Sher Bahadur Deuba assuring an end to the violence as soon as they reached the negotiating table.

Regardless of its outcome the only way forward for the Maoists is armed struggle.

Any topic of interest to anyone can be freely discussed at Martin Chautari. It is the world of the word, but its members are also successful activists.

The valley's precious groundwater is threatened by indiscriminateand wasteful exploitation and contamination

Daya Bir Singh Kansakar's last dreams, to set up a home for the aged and a medical college, remained unfulfilled when he passed away at the age of 90.

Ralph Frank, US Ambassador to Nepal Nepali Times: It's been a sort of a tradition for your predecessors to come out strong with everything they…

Nepal's garment industry must turn more competitive rather than hanker for preferential access to its traditional markets.

A new collection of historical and ethnographic essays focuses on Nepal's western hills-an area long neglected by scholars.

Krishna fearing that Yalambar would join the Kauravas, decapitated the king with a blow so powerful that his masked head flew across the lower ranges of the Himalaya to come to rest in Kathmandu.

Indra Bahadur Rai

Nepal's garment industry must turn more competitive rather than hanker for preferential access to its traditional markets.

Ernst J?nger-tech visionary, sceptic, Nazi supporter-wrote about a future in which "human perfection and technological perfection are incompatible."

Narayan Wagle was pleasantly surprised when his article on Thinley Lundup Lama, the charismatic and crusty salt trader in Caravan, triggered off…

"If losing a game makes us stronger, I'll take the loss."

(Excerpts from an interview with leading industrialist Mohan Gopal Khetan Punarjagaran, 30 January)

Deshantar, 4 February

Deshantar, 4 February

Jana Aastha, 31 January

Budhabar Saptahik, 31 January

Prakash Saptahik, 29 January

Five opposition parties submitted their formal charge-sheet to the Prime Minister on 5 February. Their conclusion: he should resign for having…

A dozen MPs of the main opposition UML trekked to Purnagiri in Dadeldhura district and came back with a revelation last week: India has begun…

The Private and Boarding Schools Organisation of Nepal (PABSON) organised a rally to celebrate the contributions made by private schools to…

Police set fire to hundreds of huts put up by kamaiyas on land which the government says belongs to the Cotton Development Board 3 February,…

The Supreme Court has ordered the government to explain how it decides on the declaration of public holidays, in response to a petition filed by…

Kodak Nepal (P) Limited has filed a petition in the Supreme Court demanding that it be provided a Certificate of Origin (CO), needed to qualify…

Nepal's vegetable ghiu-hydrogenated vegetable oil-exports jumped by about 126 percent to Rs 1.09 billion in the first four months of the fiscal…

200 employees of Nepal Lever donated a day's salary and wages towards eathquake relief in Gujarat to the charge d'affaires of the Indian…

The Hetauda Textile Industry is to shut down on 12 February?RIP. The government took the decision to close down the ailing mill and release Rs…

The Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) has acquired a 10 percent equity in the Nepal Industrial Development Bank, a company press…

Thanks for the Information Technology Special (#27) and Mark Turin's "The Internet on the roof of the world". However, the article gives an…

We read "Dharan at 100" (#25). In the context of the reference to the BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, we wish to mention that it was…

Your article titled "Rana renaissance" (#28) was a very good read. Whatever said and done the "Ranas" are an indelible part of Nepali history.…

Your paper comes as a breath of fresh air in Nepali journalism, it is professional and not jingoistic. But "Rationalism and nationalism" (#25)…

Just a short note to let you know how much my husband and I enjoy your paper. When he is out of the country, I have to send him Under My Hat. I…