ONE YEAR LATER
King Gyanendra balances his constitutional role with the need to help sort out the country's political crisis from behind-the-scenes.
KUNDA DIXIT
May 31 - June 6, 2002
Headline
Editorial
The next six months
In the past three years, we have got used to saying that our nation is at the crossroads. Even though that metaphor has become threadbare, at no…
Columns
Guest Column by DR ROOP JYOTI
Guilty until proven innocent
A member of the Upper House says the government's new anti-corruption legislation may let the real crooks go scot free while exposing the innocent to prosecution.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Touching raw nerves
I have spent the better part of the past two weeks in the company of a dentist in a hard hat who has been boring deep inside my oral cavity with…
Nation
Break for the border
Stolen cars are some of the most lucrative goods traded across the border with India. But that may be about to stop.
SHER BAHADUR KC in BUTWAL
Nation - Issue #96: These pictures are taken from the collection of Dr Khagendra Bahadur Shrestha, Royal Physician, whose exhibition "Remembering Late King Birendra
These pictures are taken from the collection of Dr Khagendra Bahadur Shrestha, Royal Physician, whose exhibition "Remembering Late King…
Yak Yeti Yak
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
Clean sweep
Japanese climber Ken Noguchi is intent on making a clean sweep. A year after his Noguchi/ Asia Qomolongma Clean up Expedition brought down 1,600…
The war in numbers
The death toll is rising. According to the human rights organisation INSEC 2,883 Nepalis have died in clashes between security forces and the…
The mess we're in
It's even worse than we thought. The Central Bureau of Statistics says GDP growth this year will be 0.84 percent-the lowest ever in the past 20…
Education for all?
The government will soon set up assessment centres in all 75 districts to ensure education for all children by 2015 under the Education for All…
Jettisoning the load
In an attempt to reduce its financial constraints, Royal Nepal Airlines has decided not to renew the contracts of 25 cabin attendants. The…
Business Briefs
Eye on the sky
The Royal Nepal Army is seeking to buy three aircraft, two helicopters and a fixed-wing aircraft with Short-Take-Off and-Landing (STOL)…
Plastic, not paper
After years of lobbying to introduce its new note-printing technology in Nepal, Note Printing Australia has clinched a deal worth A$3 million to…
Qeok Yii Shing
Case closed
The Appellate Court of Lalitpur has quashed the writ of the Chaudhary Group challenging the Nepal Indosuez Bank Ltd. and its parent French bank…
Dearer gold
Uncertain politics and a volatile investment environment, combined with the wedding season rush, have pushed gold prices to their highest levels…
Chinese herbal cure
Neelam Medicine Industries has begun production of a Chinese herbal health drink using herbs available in Nepal. The company says it has…
The ozoniser
Greenery Enterprises has begun to market an ozonising device that it claims can sterilise, disinfect, deodourise as well as help get rid of…
Letters
Manjushree Thapa
Is Manjushree Thapa hinting at bringing an end to her Nepaliterature column just because someone questioned her? ("Mid-Column Blues," #95) I…
Politics as usual
At a recent gathering of his party cadre, the general secretary of Nepal Communist Party (UML), Madhav Kumar Nepal, was quoted as saying that…
Blame ourselves
Dr Naryan Khatri's "Soul Searching" (Letters, #95) proves that we are still not ready to look within ourselves to identify the cause of the…
Dalai lama
I enjoyed CK Lal's "The Prince of Peace" (#95), and after reading him, and being a member of the Tibetan diaspora in Nepal, I see a glimmer of…
Artha Beed
Artha Beed's "Amrika Return" (#95) raises questions but doesn't provide answers. One of these is about the direct airline connection between the…
Not wars
I've looked over the articles and letters these last two weeks in your paper, and in other papers from the Valley, all bemoaning Nepal's…
Nepali Taleban
I was deeply saddened by the news of the destruction of Mahendra Sanskrit University in Beljhundi by Maoist rebels. There is no justification…
In this issue:
One year later | The Next Six Months | Editorial: A year after | Break for the border | Wonderful life | Who’s the boss? | Guilty until proven innocent | “Ke gardeko?” | “I think it was premeditated.” | Separate but equal | A crazy system | Air war over Lukla | Touching raw nerves