Mayday, Mayday
Analysts have come up with many analogies to describe the present state of the nation: a patient in intensive care, a village on a volcano, a…
Columns
State Of The State by CK LAL
Time to go
It is time Koirala the citizen and Koirala the president of the ruling party asked Koirala the prime minister to step down.
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
Private education, public diktat
The conditions that make educational institutions an easy target for Nepal's revolutionaries are the very ones that would have failed us anyway, in ten, fifteen, twenty years.
Nation
Jumping the gun?
The race to supply the Royal Nepal Army with a new generation of rifles and carbines to replace its ageing SLRs is going into its final lap. The…
Lost in Space and Time
Space Time's plans to go into orbit with Nepali first satellite programming has fallen victim to behind-the-scenes Indian pressure.
RAMYATA LIMBU
Business
Caught reading
A new generation of Nepali readers, writers and illustrators are prodding publishers.
SALIL SUBEDHI
Domestic Brief
EU pulls out
The European Union has put the $13 million Gulmi-Argakhanchi Rural Development Project (GARDEP) on indefinite hold after a project vehicle was…
Buddha was born here
And we thought the debate about where the Buddha was born was over. Not so for an Indian diplomat who recently visited Lumbini. Ashok Kumar,…
Women move mountains
They're warming up. Nearly a decade after mountains were placed on the international agenda at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and…
Anti-Maoists demo
Perhaps for the first time, villagers in Nepal have expressed their displeasure against Maoist tactics. Angry villagers of Chatara, Bayarban…
Red alert
Sales of Red Potatoes, imported from India, have dropped in Nepal as a result of a recent scare that began in Biratnagar. The spuds are supposed…
RPP’s concept
The two-day (19-20 May) Central Working Committee meeting of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) passed a resolution demanding a 'general…
Business Briefs
To Tibet and beyond
For centuries, merchants from Tibet, Nepal and India braved the Himalayan passes to do business. Many set out and never reached their…
Electricity pricing
The government has decided to introduce automatic electric tariff increases, whereby the annual adjustments will be tied to the six-monthly…
Dust under the carpet
It has been about a year since carpet exports began to dip. Industry sources say the slump has resulted because low-grade rugs hitting the…
Garments exports slow
The Garment Association of Nepal said last week that sales in the US, where about 85 percent of Nepali readymade garments are sold, were down by…
Development credit
The Development Credit Bank Limited (DCBL), which went into business three months ago is now planning to issue shares to the general public.…
SEBO vouches Radisson’s listing
The Security Exchange Board (SEBO) wrote to the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) last week asking it to complete the process for listing Nepal…
Economic forecast
Preliminary Central Bureau of Statistics figures expect the economy to grow by 5.8 percent this fiscal year (ending mid-July), slightly slower…
Letters
MAPS
It was very interesting to read that Ramesh Shrestha (“Maps in a difficult terrain”, #39) from the Himalaya Map House blames the lack of…
Mule
Kunda Dixit is right that prime minister Koirala is not a quitter ("Going going." #41, and ".not yet gone" #43). He is as stubborn as a mule.…
Paras
A long time ago was talking about Paras Shah. Your paper carried articles about his involvement in an accident in which a musician was killed…
Buddha
Excellent writing on the Buddha by Rajendra S Khadka (“2,545 years later?” #41). Very relevant, timely and thought provoking. KR Rai England
Expat=Expert
Just thought I'd share this with you. In UNDP's recently published "Nepal Development Cooperation Report 2000" under the "Key Definitions"…
Indian Tourists
CK Lal ("Nepal fizzles as India sizzles", #42) has rightly pointed out that without Indian tourists, Nepal's tourism industry will be in grave…
In this issue:
A classless society? | Jumping the gun? | Mayday, Mayday | Editorial: Time to go| Girija must take the leap | Lost in Space and Time | Hacks in the mist | The political economy of corruption | Hurt, frustrated and hopeful | We don’t need no education? | Private education, public diktat | To whom it may concern | Caught reading | Electronic espionage and the EU | AIDS by any other name | Laughing their woes away | Missiles, Mickey Mouse, and North Korea | Schools: The UML Line | Tyson sues King as saga grinds on | Village of the Dancing Durga | Up the Bhote Kosi | End of the ceasefire