Food and lodging
KUNDA DIXIT BIKRAM RAI KUNDA DIXIT As urban pressure grows, settlements are encroaching on farms. There is less land to grow the food to feed a…
September 9-15, 2011
Headline
Editorial
Gajanan to Baburam
MIN RATNA BAJRACHARYA Three hundred years ago, Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai's ancestor Gajanan Bhattarai helped King Drabya Shah of Gorkha…
Columns
By The Way by ANURAG ACHARYA
The 9/11 decade
It doesn't matter if America's cruise missiles are guided, if its foreign policy is misguided
Kalam by RABI THAPA
Whose team is it anyway?
"So what's new? 2-1? 1-1? 3-2? Eh?" My cousins smile at my little joke and continue with their sports chatter. I've no idea who's playing who in…
One World by JOSEPH E STIGLITZ
The price of 9/11
George W Bush's war on terror was the first war in history paid for entirely on credit
Backside by Ass
We'll cross that bridge when we get to it
BIKRAM RAI Dr BRB's first ten days in office were accompanied by major national crises, as indicated by the following award-winning headlines…
Nation
"You can't eat slogans"
Many in the Madhes feel that a united federal Madhes will actually make them poorer
RAMESWOR BOHARA in SIRAHA
Keeping the peace
Nepali peacekeepers in the UN missions recently made the headlines for all the wrong reasons. The Haiti cholera outbreak to kickbacks in the…
DEWAN RAI
"Brink of the unknown"
On 18 September 1961, UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in a plane crash while inspecting UN peacekeeping operations in the…
CARL BILDT
Review
Flavor's Cafe
MARCO POLLO Tourist hubs and heritage sites go hand in hand but often yield substandard options for the belly. Restaurants in Bouddha thrive…
SOMEPLACE ELSE by MARCO POLLO
Making A Difference
Growing up behind bars
Pushpa Basnet has devoted her life to helping children who are in prison for their parents' crime
Life Times
From bow to wow
Why buy an expensive pure breed when Nepali mongrels are hardier, friendlier and free?
PAAVAN MATHEMA
K-9 Unit
A police academy for sniffer dogs becomes an invaluable part of the Nepal Police
STUTI SHARMA
The hard facts
In 1985, Stephen Jay Gould wrote a best seller in the US entitled, The Median Isn't the Message. He was a patient with mesothelioma, a deadly…
DHANVANTARI by BUDDHA BASNYAT, MD
Special
Falling for flats
Park View Horizon Apartment, Varun Developers One of the first high-rise apartments in Nepal is Dhapasi's Park View Horizon. Park View has 212…
"We need a single window approval system"
Ichchha Raj Tamang is the chairman of Nepal Land and Housing Developers Association. Tamang talked to Nepali Times after recently hosting the Real Estate Expo.
From The Nepali Press
Business hopeful about Bhattarai, Naya Patrika
Interview with Suraj Vaidya, President of Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FNCCI), 4 September
In this issue:
Food and lodging | Editorial: Gajanan to Baburam | The 9/11 decade | “Brink of the unknown” | Keeping the peace | The price of 9/11 | Growing up behind bars | From bow to wow | K-9 Unit | The hard facts | Whose team is it anyway? | “You can’t eat slogans” | “You can’t eat slogans” | Probe essential | Guerrilla to minister | Backside: We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it