Issue #291

March 24-30, 2006

Headline

Editorial

Violence is a deadend

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
State Of The State by CK LAL

Marketting Mao in Nepal

The alternative to a messy parliamentary democracy is complete anarchy

Buried
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED

Buried

Story ideas for biz reporters

Kukur-sukur ra car-sar
Nepalipan by LUCIA DE VRIES

Kukur-sukur ra car-sar

The outbreak of double-barrelled words in Nepali is getting out of hand

Guest Column by ANNA NEISTAT and SAM ZARIFI

Could get worse

But it's not too late to prevent new bloodshed

Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT

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

Schools on the frontline

Education in one of Nepal's remotest districts is set back decades by the conflict

RAJAN PARAJULI in JUMLA

The gift of life

The gift of life

An American billionaire invests in rural health care in Nepal in memory of his son

A ray of sunshine

A ray of sunshine

Solar cookers help feed Bhutani refugees, protect forests

AARTI BASNYAT in JHAPA

Technology

Nature

Melting like icecream cones

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

Crazy weather

Locals near Everest fret about Mother Nature's next surprise

NAVIN SINGH KHADKA in TENGBOCHE

International

Happenings

Happenings - Issue #291: I SEE

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

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

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