From the Nepali Press
Cartoons that speak 1,000 words
Cartoonists have the capacity to say with a sketch what would take writers 1,000 words. Especially in times of crisis, cartoonists have been at…
Last letter to Rolpa’s Nepali family
Nagarik, 10 February 2020Tilak Ram Nepali was among the 600 teachers who were killed or disappeared during the conflict. He was abducted on 10…
Alarming rise in violence against women
Rinadevi Mahara from Dhanusha, abandoned at Godavari Modern Hospital in Janakpur for lack of money to pay hospital chargesAjaya Anuragi in Himal…
US-bound Nepalis trafficked to Malawi
Four Nepalis who had been held hostage in the Southeast African nation of Malawi have been rescued by the Nepal Police Human Trafficking Bureau.…
Migrants abroad left in lurch
Pic: KantipurHom Karki in Kantipur, 29 JulyThe Nepal Government banned labour permits aiming to block women from going abroad as domestic…
Banned pesticides are widely used in Nepal
Pic: GOVINDA BHANDARIHimal Khabarpatrika, 20-26 July At a time when pesticides found in vegetables imported from India are causing a ruckus in…
Rs40 billion outflow by Nepali students
Naya Patrika, 23 JulyNepali students going abroad for higher studies spent 19.7% more in the past year than during the previous one, reaching…
Development = Destruction
Photo: Bikram RaiNaya Patrika, 17 JulyNationwide, there are problems with landslides and floods. People have been killed, made homeless, crops…
Taking away forests from communities
Bharati Pathak, Chair FECOFUN. Pic: Onlinekhabar.comOnlinekhabar.com, 17 JuneParliament’s Agriculture Committee has started debating the…
Revolutionary violence, or terror?
There was sharp and widespread condemnation of the bomb terror unleashed by the Biplav-led Communist Party of Nepal this week on the Nepali…
The minister and the anchor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SloxDS_otUIThe 12 May episode of Sakas Rajniti, a talk show on Avenues TV in which host Sushil Pandey got into a…
Nepali twittersphere
Comrade Prachanda @cmprachanda April 28I am here today because of the journalists and the press:Chairman PrachandaSaurav Dhakal @DhakalSaurav…
Why VVIP movement torments citizens
Photo: NAGARIKNEWS.COMBasanta Khadka in nagariknews.com, 24 AprilIn 2008, Nepal’s 240-year monarchy came to an end. Citizens could be elected to…
Boomtime
Photo: SARAD OJHAInterview in Himal Khabarpatrika, 21-28 AprilAs the main trade hub of Nepal and the only metropolitan city in Province 2,…
Biplav is just following the footsteps of mentors
UjyaaloonlineMilan Timilsina in Ujyaaloonline.com, 13 MarchKP Oli rose to prominence with the Jhapa movement. Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda)…
Stop the extortion
Photo: NAGARIKEditorial in Nagarik, 26 FebruaryThe Nepal Communist Party Maoist led by Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav) has resorted to violence in…
Extortion in a federal state
Photo: SETOPATIKantipur, 26 FebruaryThe Nepal Communist Party Maoist led by Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav) has been sending letters to all rural…
“Yes, we planted that bomb”
Photo: SETOPATIInterview in BBC Nepali service, 24 FebruaryThe Nepali Communist Party Maoist led by Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav) hs owned up to…
Why there is no foreign investment in Nepal
Photo: KUNDA DIXITBikas Thapa in Annapurna Post, 5 FebruaryThe Nepal government is holding an investment summit in March to woo foreign…
Communist internationalism
Jana Aastha, 30 JanuaryVenezuela’s political crisis has divided world opinion into two distinct categories. The opposition has the backing of…
A conflicting stance
Devprakash Tripathi in Ghatana ra Bichar, 29 JanuaryNCP Co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal recently expressed strong support for the sovereignty of…
Doctors solidarity with Govinda KC
Photo: YOYOKHABARNagarik, 31 JanuaryDoctors across the country have taken to the streets to protest the government’s inaction on Govinda KC’s…
Dry port at Chobhar faces resistance
Photo: Deshsanchar.comhamrakura.com 17 JanuaryPrime Minister KP Oli inaugurated the construction of a dry port in Chobhar last week, despite…
More than half of Nepal’s electricity imported from India
Naya Patrika, 14 JanuaryNepal imported 653MW electricity from India on Friday, the biggest amount so far since the country ended powercuts three…