Issue #822

August 19-25, 2016

Headline

Fancy footwork

Diwakar Chettri Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has deployed his two deputies on twin errands to the north and south to forge equidistance…

Editorial

Politically correct

While the Big Four parties can paralyse the polity, they are also the only ones who can bring the country to a safe landing.

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Columns

Chandra Kishor
Comment by Chandra Kishor

The Madhes message

The people in the plains want to be a part of Nepal, but they feel alienated by Kathmandu

Ass
Backside by Ass

Journalism exam paper leaked

As we all know, the mass media plays an important public service role in a democracy — to present the news without fear or favour, and let the…

Nation

Fancy footwork

Dahal is only too aware - from his first tenure in 2008 - that playing India off against China comes at a political cost

A battered future

Amrit Gurung’s striking photograph of two Kailali boys has come to represent the kind of Nepal we are handing over to the next generation

Smriti Basnet

Nepali Times Buzz

200 years of botanical art

Britain and Nepal mark a bicentennial of cooperation in documenting our country’s biodiversity

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The beginning of history

A debate between purists and pragmatists is delaying reconstruction of earthquake-damaged heritage sites

Rishi Amatya

Must See

The X-Files

If you have never watched The X-Files, you are in for an interesting time

Sophia Pande

From The Nepali Press

“Watch the watchdog”

Translated excerpts of interview with Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond in Kantipur, 16 August Kantipur: Why is it so…

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Biz Brief

Bottoms up

Diageo PLC, with its official distributor Global Trading Concern Pvt Ltd, has launched two new single malt whiskeys: the Singleton of Glen, 15…

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In this issue:

Fancy Footwork |Editorial: Politically Correct |The Madhes message |A battered future |Children in time and space |200 years of Botanical art |The beginning of history |The game changer |Watch the watchdog |Home they bring the workers dead |The cycle of migration |Backside: Journalism exam paper leaked