Fix this mess
Min Ratna Bajrachaya At a time when Nepal is getting its 10th prime minister in ten years, the capital is preparing to welcome its first Mayor…
May 26 - June 1, 2017
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Editorial
FEDERAL FEMININE REPUBLIC OF NEPAL
Nepal is still a patriarchy. Girls are discriminated against within families, communities and society. Men from privileged castes dominate…
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Columns
GUEST EDITORIAL by Kantika Sejuwal
Madam Mayor
I was just 14 when they got me married, I had my first baby one year later and dropped out of school. I had always dreamed of going to college,…
So far so good by Lisa Choegyal
Landing hard in Meghauli
The Twin Otter lurched, and a blur of elephants and people flashed past the left wing
Comment by Marty Logan
Fired up over tobacco
Nepal should focus on its current commitments before taking on plain packaging of cigarettes
Connecting Dots by Dinkar Nepal
Radically decentralised
Newly-elected representatives have a huge challenge to fulfill the people’s pent-up expectations
Miss Moti-vation by Kripa Joshi
Nothing will work unless you do
Backside by Ass
Climbing Mt Buggery
This week Nepal faced a crisis with far-reaching implications for its territorial integrity. When history looks back at this momentous time, it…
Nation
From royal to republic
Nepal sets an example in smoothly transitioning from monarchy to republic
Shreejana Shrestha
Including the excluded
The real winners of the local elections are not political parties, but women
Nepali Times Buzz
In a puff of smoke
Nepal has some of the strictest laws against smoking, but suffers from poor enforcement
Sonia Awale
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From The Nepali Press
Necessity or gerrymandering?
Former government secretary Balananda Paudel who headed the Local Bodies Restructuring Commission fears that the government decision to increase…
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Biz Brief
Bleak report
The World Bank’s Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) on Nepal titled Climbing Higher: Toward a Middle Income Nepal says that despite a rapid…
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In this issue:
Fix this mess | Editorial: Federal Feminine Republic of Nepal | From Royal to Public | Royal Assets | Landing hard in Meghauli | Jet Set, Go | Fired up over tobacco | In a puff of smoke | Radically decentralised | Included the excluded | Double Affirmation | Climbing the Mt Buggery