Issue #318

October 13-19, 2006

Headline

Close to a deal

Close to a deal

Barring last-minute hitches, a historic agreement is tantalisingly near

NARESH NEWAR

Editorial

The EPA

The EPA

Nepal is on the mend. The Maoist leadership's intention is to give up the bloody 'People's War' and join mainline politics, and they are being…

Columns

Looking Phelps-wards
Strictly Business by ASHUTOSH TIWARI

Looking Phelps-wards

Valuable lessons from the economics Nobel laureate

No-fly season
Meanwhile by SUMAN PRADHAN

No-fly season

Don't challenge the Himalayan monsoon

State Of The State by CK LAL

Food for thought

Much-needed agricultural reforms can't wait for elections

The edifice complex
Backside by Ass

The edifice complex

On those slow lazy days after Dasain when you don't feel like working, you may want to browse Google Earth and check out all the new embassies…

Nation

Race for identity

Race for identity

Ethnic-based federal autonomy may open up another can of worms

JB PUN

Faulty feeding

Faulty feeding

Ignorance fuels malnutrition in the western tarai

SUMAN PRADHAN in BANKE and KANCHANPUR

Interview

Halving poverty by 2015

Halving poverty by 2015

Kim Hak-Suis, executive secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commision for the Asia and Pacific (UNESCAP).

Leisure

Clown Therapy

Clown Therapy

Smiling ambassadors try healing through humour

SOPHIA TAMOT

Music

From The Nepali Press

Letters

Wing and prayer

Soma Sen ('Wing and Prayer', #317) is absolutely right in saying it is too early to draw conclusions on the crash. The jury is still out, so to…

Still among us

I had the opportunity to read all the stories published in the Nepali Times about the tragic loss of Nepal's conservation experts ('Remembering…

Full disclosure

We are not surprised by Comrade Baburam's latest revelation, that India was a key actor in the inking of the 12-point pact between them and the…

Armed and dangerous

It is interesting to read pundits seeing royalist conspiracies behind every bush. Meanwhile, the Maoists threaten a flare-up of the rebellion…

Mainstream maoist

The inclusion of Maoist leaders in the interim government cannot but be welcomed, provided, as the prime minister has been insisting, the Maoist…

Basic values

You make a genuine observation about the responsibility of the foreign missions in Nepal ('Cantonment commitment', #316). At this critical…

Permanent seat

Under my hat, Backside, All Sides. can't a person wish for some semblance of permanence in these unpredictable will o' wisp times? If you got…

In this issue:

Close to a deal |The Epa |Editorial: Revolutionary ways |Food for thought |No-fly season |Halving poverty by 2015 |Looking Phelps-wards |A dalit is born |Code breach |Royal right |MPs peeved |Summit satire |Clown therapy |Abused on both sides |Race for identity |Faulty feeding |Collateral damage |Risky rescues |Backside:The edifice complex