The proposed Burhi-Gandaki dam will be in one of the most seismically active areas of the world. The dam site is very close to the epicenter of very recent Gorkha earthquake measured 7.9 in Richter scale. This type of dams is highly sensitive to e
By Dr. A.B. Thapa Mar 10, 2017
We need to distinguish between violence aimed at disrupting electoral process by groups or political parties who do not want the elections to take place, and violence triggered by the rivalry between the contesting candidates or political parties.
By Dr.Prabin Manandhar Mar 10, 2017
A country with a weak economic system can hardly have effective institutions that can sustain the system. This generates corruption and as a consequence it weakens the entire nation and its economic performance. It will take several generations to ge
By Deepak Raj Joshi Feb 25, 2017
Although the King and the Nepal Army have been the only institutions that have faithfully honoured the peace accord of 2006, it became a fashionable precondition for the political parties, their lackey intellectuals and the so-called “international c
By Dipak Gyawali Feb 24, 2017
The LAPAs were talked much in some events. The LAPA was conceptualised in May 2009 during the inception workshop of the National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) project and the Ministry of Population and Environment (MoPE), the UNFCCC focal poi
By Batu Uprety Feb 24, 2017
The introduction of the narrow-gauge Nepal Government Railway or NGR, built by Martin Company of Calcutta in 1925 during PM Chandra Shumsher's time, was the start of a railway system in our country. King Tribhuvan, PM Chandra and their entourage tra
By Hemang Dixit Feb 24, 2017
Police’ It’s already happened to members of the Fourth Estate covering the big women’s demonstration after Mr Trump’s inauguration. Who’s to say such incidences will calm down when Mr Trump sent his very own Winston Smith to re-invent the scene on in
By Greta Rana Feb 02, 2017
At a Mushahar community kindergarten in Mushahari area Babarganj-4, from six thirty in the morning to nine, children crowded a floor closed by walls but without door or roof, studying what a tenth grader tutor taught. Their zeal to study dominated th
By Abhishekh Adhikari Feb 02, 2017
The Chair of Transparency International José Ugaz has maintained that in too many countries, people are deprived of their most basic needs and go to bed hungry every night because of corruption, while the powerful and corrupt enjoy lavish lifestyles
By Dr.Prabin Manandhar Feb 02, 2017
What Sushila Karki’s judicial council has done is taken matters to a new, nepotistic partisan low. I remember discussing in the late 1990s the Vishwanath mal-judgements with my father (former law minister under King Mahendra, the longest (12 years) s
By Dipak Gyawali Jan 20, 2017
We are at the cross roads again, with three elections to be conducted in the next fifteen months. The sad part is that our politicians of all the different shades are quarrelling and displaying their individual idiosyncrasy and holding the country t
By Hemang Dixit Jan 20, 2017
Inequality, by contrast, is a relative term. It refers to the difference between levels of living standards across the whole economic distribution. It is the unfair situation in society when some people have more resource, income, opportunity, power
By Dr.Prabin Manandhar Jan 20, 2017
