Heads Roll
From gold smuggling to land grabs and fake refugee papers, web of scandals ensnares Nepali politicians and businessmen
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The Year of Scandals
Speaking at a program on the International Day against Corruption on 9 December in Kathmandu, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal admitted that...
Anti-corruption vaccine for Nepal
Politics, being the world’s oldest profession, has been honed into a fine art — and nowhere more so than in Nepal. What...
Anti-corruption vaccine for Nepal
Politics, being the world’s oldest profession, has been honed into a fine art — and nowhere more so than in Nepal. What...
Lies and damned lies
Going by official statistics, Nepal’s economy is doing splendidly. The economy grew at 2.27%, not bad considering that has been battered for...
Aid rarely aids agriculture in Nepal
A combination of rampant corruption, wayward planning, donor interest and an utter disregard for intended beneficiaries has delayed Nepal’s multilateral development projects,...
No shame
Just when we thought everything necessary had been said about Nepal’s corrosive corruption, it seems to be even worse. The idea that ‘corruption’...
A KLEPTO REPUBLIC
All of us witness examples of Nepal’s corruption pandemic every day in every sphere of life: from slipping a few to get...
Transparently corrupt
Not everything happening in Nepal is bad. If you just looked at the glass as half full, the news that Nepal has...
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