Issue #4

August 9-15, 2000

Headline

What India wants from Nepal

Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala went to New Delhi, not hoping for much. His only worry was that bilateral relations should not get worse…

RAJENDRA DAHAL

Editorial

Labour pains

It is well known that the first thing a Nepali politician does when he becomes a minister is he starts running his office like an employment…

Columns

Guest Column by RUPA JOSHI

Looking grey-t

I feel like screaming "Let it be..."

Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED

Microbuses and the macroeconomy

The big happening on the streets of Kathmandu recently was not the bandh, but the arrival of micro-buses as public transport. Purely from the…

Under My Hat by Kunda Dixit

The August House

With only a little bit more training our Honourable Peoples' Representatives could join the Nepali martial arts contingent heading out to…

Nation

How Nepalis and Indians see each other

Arina Singh Pradhan Student Kathmandu India and Nepal have a lot in common. Because India is a lot bigger it sometimes misuses its power. The…

SALIL SUBEDI AND ALOK TUMBAHANGPHEY

Into the valley of AIDS

Its not just truck drivers, sex workers or drug users who are at risk anymore, all Nepalis are vulnerable.

The Tinkune mess

Kathmandu's most visible eyesore is hopelessly bogged down in litigation.

HEMLATA RAI

Maili, Sani and Zina

Maili and Sani have both ended up in the streets of Kathmandu with many things in common: poverty, illiteracy, drug use, commercial sex work.…

PRAKRITI K.C. AND SANGEETA LAMA

Business

Kathmandu’s super-shoppers

The valley's middle class is increasingly shopping in supermarkets instead of the neighbourhood pasal.

MUKUL HUMAGAIN

Culture

Bestseller in Braille

Bhaktaprasad Bhagyuto, the inimitable amphibian, will now enthral the blind with his adventures. The by-now-classic Dhumdhamko Ghumgham by Kanak…

MANESH SHRESTHA

Festival of death and satire

Yama Raj, the God of Death, sits in judgement on all souls, deciding which are to be admitted to the gates of patal

DESMOND DOIG

Leisure

The Pill

A miracle of birth control, a facilitator of women's independence, a vast medical experiment carried out by men on women,

TANIA UNSWORTH

Technology

Sports

A month of action

Gold medalist sanjeet pradhan extreme left in action at the 2nd SAARC bodybuilder championship.

MUKUL HUMAGAIN

Olympic TV rights row rumbles on

SYDNEY - Organisers of the Sydney Olympics have insisted once again that foreign media without exclusive broadcast rights who are unhappy with…

Nature

Looking beyond Lukla

The trek from Lukla to Namche can be boring after the first two times. Even the dogs recognise you as you trudge up past Phakding and Monjo. To…

PADAM GHALEY

Nepali Society

Kumari

Nine-year-old Chandra Shila Bajracharya is just like any other Patan girl. She plays gotti by herself in the Gabahal courtyard. Her entire…

From The Nepali Press

Why the haste?

Deputy Leader of Opposition, K.P. Oh in Drishti 1 August

Domestic Brief

Koirala's balance sheet

. Ties: Review relationship over 50 years SAD: Special additional tax lifted . 1950 Treaty: Foreign Secretaries to work on it . Security: ISI…

Paras does it again

When Paras Shah handed out prizes to children at the Friends of the Zoo function last week, many thought the royal brat had mended his ways. But…

Khum makes his move

Long-time Koirala loyalist Khum Bahadur Khadka is leading a group within the Congress party to give the prime minister an ultimatum: be party…

Chinese buses for Sajha

Having cannibalised its Japanese-gifted blue buses, the down-and-out public sector Sajha Yatayat may be getting ready to acquire 200 new buses.…

Business Briefs

SAD story is over

In what is being viewed as Prime Minister Koirala's biggest achievement of his visit to India, a tax which was imposed barely months earlier was…

Defining manufacturing

During Koirala's India tour, the governments of Nepal and India also tried to reach an understanding on the definition of "manufacturing" for…

Safas cost 30,000 less

There is good news for the prospective electric three-wheeler (safa tempo) buyers who have been threatened by the arrival of microbuses. The…

More bad news on RNAC

The national flag carrier has yet to collect over Rs 400 million due from past ticket sales from its sales agents both within Nepal and abroad.…

Radisson over-subscribed

Shares of Oriental Hotels Limited (authorised capital Rs 500 million)?managed by Radisson International?was oversubscribed by at least seven…

Letters

Tolerance

Do you actually think that English is a more rational language? (Why English? #1) I can cite numerous examples of bigotry, intolerance,…

Greed

Your story "Breeding ground for greed" (#1) came as a shock to many of us. People working for the United Nations are among the best paid in the…

Nepali times

Congratulations on bringing out a paper that is informative, professional and above all, suited to the Nepali ethos. I am sure your weekly will…

In this issue:

What India wants from Nepal | Labour pains | Editorial: Are we becoming another Bihar ? | How Nepalis and Indians see each other | Into the valley of AIDs | Maili, Sani and Zina | Koirala in the firing line | What will happen after the Prime Minister returns? | Why the haste? | Microbuses in the capital | Army wants Spanish Plane | Rising chrisitian population | Suspect Indian in Nepal - Britian Chamber | End of the road for Rautes? | Looking grey - t | Microbuses and the macroeconomy | Kathmandu's super - shoppers | The Pill | Why the Pill didn't have a chance in Nepal | Who owns your domain? | Bangladesh NGOs under fire | Maldives declines graduation from poorest to poor | protests greet SL's new constitution | Pakistan to export nuclear material | China get tough on corruption | A year later, little progress in Kosovo | UNIFIL moves into Isareli pullout area | US smoker may cough up $5/pack | Japan takes on US domination of Internet | New alluring face wipe | Private airlines eye international routes | A month of action | Festival of death and satire | Bestseller in Braille? | The Tinkune Mess | The August House | Kumari |