Opportunity in adversity
MIN RATNA BAJRACHARYA FULL TANK: Purna Devi Maharjan adjusts the rainwater harvesting system on her roof terrace in Bhotebahal after Wednesday's…
February 10-16, 2012
Headline
Editorial
Opportunity cost
Anyone deliberately out to destroy this country and sabotage the economy couldn't have done a better job than successive governments after 2008
Columns
By The Way by ANURAG ACHARYA
A gathering storm
Kathmandu is choosing not to see another gathering storm over the Madhes
My Two Paisa by PAAVAN MATHEMA
Mind your own business
Mixing business with politics is driving investors away
Backside by Ass
Minister Declares Bund
Homely Minister Gutch seems to think it is in his job description to coddle gangsters. An outlaw named Jayaraj who got a five year sentence for…
Nation
Energy emergency
The real story behind the shortages of petrol, diesel, cooking gas, water and electricity
DEWAN RAI
Blood bricks
A new certification system for bricks aims to remove exploiting and pollution from brick-baking
LUCIA DE VRIES
Interview
"Back to square one?"
Yash Ghai and Jill Cottrell (left) are constitutional experts who have advised the governments of Kenya, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Nepal on…
Review
Station BBQ
PICS: MARCO POLO Blame the rain. Grey clouds Wednesday stormed out expectations for a carne cookout at the nearly year-old Station BBQ in…
SOMEPLACE ELSE by MARCO POLLO
Life Times
A win-win situation
A JICA community mediation project in Sindhuli and Mahottari may have lessons for resolving national-level disputes
NAOKO KITADATE in MAHOTTARI
Inspired by Miss Moti
Kripa Joshi's Miss Moti takes a plus-size woman's anxiety about her body and turns it into a comic book with a strong message: size does not…
Hepatitis E vaccine
A potentially life-saving vaccine for our part of the world was recently approved by China's State Food and Drug Administration. The world's…
DHANVANTARI by BUDDHA BASNYAT, MD
Must See
The Artist
A marvelous mustachioed Clark Gable look-alike hero, a sylph-like heroine, a gangster-like cigar smoking studio executive, a loyal…
SOPHIA PANDE
Special
Green light for ecology
Little green store Ecoprise, a company that focuses on environment-friendly products and solutions has opened a store called ecoKendra that…
Mean green
Going green is no longer a fad, but a necessity. Meet the exhibitors at Nepali Times eco fair to learn innovative ways to be environment friendly.
Electric city
In an ideal world, we would have a smart government. It would recognise our growing dependence on expensive imported fuel and give tax breaks…
From The Nepali Press
"We want a Khas state", Annapurna Post
Interview with Commerce and Supply Minister Lekhraj Bhatta, 8 February
In this issue:
Opportunity in adversity | Editorial: Opportunity cost | A gathering storm | Energy emergency | Mind your own business | A win-win situation | Hepatitis E vaccine | Blood Bricks | “Back to square one…” | Minting money | Chequemate! | Rapid fire with the young turks | Former foes | “We want a Khas state” | Backside: Minister Declares Bund