March 24-30, 2006
Headline
Editorial
Violence is a deadend
RAMESWOR BOHARABy renewing their pact with the Maoists last week, the parties have once more shown that they can bring the rebels out of the…
Columns

Marketting Mao in Nepal
The alternative to a messy parliamentary democracy is complete anarchy


Kukur-sukur ra car-sar
The outbreak of double-barrelled words in Nepali is getting out of hand

Herojig - Issue #291

Could get worse
But it's not too late to prevent new bloodshed
Us yeomen must think positive
Thanks to the yeoman's service imparted by our country's current rulers in the past year, we can say with confidence that things can't get any…
Nation
Schools on the frontline
Education in one of Nepal's remotest districts is set back decades by the conflict
RAJAN PARAJULI in JUMLA
Technology
Not doing too badly in IT outsourcing
Despite political instability, a power crisis and slow internet Nepal's dot coms come of age
GAURAB RAJ UPADHAYA
Nature
Melting like icecream cones
Yet, global warming and retreating glaciers don't make it to the World Water Forum
MALLIKA ARYAL in MEXICO CITY
Crazy weather
Locals near Everest fret about Mother Nature's next surprise
NAVIN SINGH KHADKA in TENGBOCHE
International
Happenings
Happenings - Issue #291: I SEE
I SEE: Vice-chairman Tulsi Giri being shown around the CAN Infotech information technology fair that opened at the BICC on Thursday. (PIC: RAM…
Nepali Society
In tune with Nepal
MARTY LOGANIn 17 years, musician Yoshihiro Akita has not dreamt once of his homeland. He's only visited Japan once in the past decade and today,…
Update
From The Nepali Press
Pact reaffirmed
Text of the second MOU between the Seven Party Alliance and CPN (Maoist) issued separately
Feudal Maoists
Expelled Maoist central committee member, Rabindra Shrestha, in Nepal Samacharpatra, 19 March
Business Briefs
Respect the law
Tourism bodies have demanded that any member of the security services who manhandled Qatar Airways employees in an incident on 9 March be…
Revenue rises slowly
Total government revenue in the first eight months of the current fiscal year grew by only four percent missing the Finance Ministry target of…
New Era customer focus
The New Era Career Development Institute launched its Customer Focus Year 2006 on the occasion of its 16th anniversary. Pioneers in professional…
New Products
Mortgage loans: Rastriya Banijya Bank is now offering mortgage loans for personal and business needs. One of the country's biggest banks till…
Letters
Chu Nyima
I am deeply saddened to read the news of the demise of Chu Nyima Rimpoche in Charles Gay's tribute ('Chu Nyima is gone and we're still here',…
No tomorrow
If Nepal continues, as it is now doing, to rupture economically, it won't matter who's in power at all. (Editorial, 'As if there is no…
Mini-EV
In contrast to the gloom and doom environment that we have been given by the media and the greedy, self-centered, power brokers Kunda Dixit's…
Jack Welch
Having worked for Jack Welch at GE, I concur with most of what Ashutosh Tiwari writes in his column Strictly Business ('Growing a human face',…
Southasia Beat
Re: Kanak Mani Dixit's Southasia Beat ('India gets US nod on nukes', #289) What about your Chinese communist buddies up north? They have been…
Healthy living
Congratulations on a very good article ('Staying Alive' #290). It would be suna ma sugandha if you also could throw some light on healthy…
Stigmatisation
I have strong reservation regarding the Guest Column by Shyam Chalise in which he describes different personality types of our current political…
In this issue:
Nearer and nearer |Voilence is a deadend |Editorial: Could get worse |Marketting Mao in Nepal |Schools on the frontline |Let communities run schools |Buried |Not doing too badly in IT outsourcing |Pact reaffirmed |A human wave |Feudal Maoists |Indian goons |Parties’ ploy |Guns and books |Water for all |Melting like icecream cones |Crazy weather |The gift of life |Kukur-sukur ra car-sar |A ray of sunshine |Treading carefully in Sri Lanka |An escalating war comes closer to the capital |Meet my tennis team |In tune with Nepal |Us yeomen must think positive















