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Nepal needs to use its money better
Finance Ministry frees up budget for election and post-protest reconstruction, but there is longer-term need to reform the country’s financial systems
The human cost of Nepal’s political deadlock
When the coalition government of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba took office in July, many had hoped it would restore stability after a…
Giving start-ups a head start
About 250 years ago when King Prithivi Narayan Shah made Kathmandu the capital of unified Nepal, he realised that the city had great potential…
The real cost of Nepal’s second wave
The pandemic makes Nepalis poorer and ruins the economy, but the government has no solutions
The nature of pandemics
Photo: THE STAR/THE PANGOLIN REPORTSOver 172 million infections and nearly 4 million lives later, the exact origin of the Covid-19 pandemic is…
The nature of pandemics
Photo: THE STAR/THE PANGOLIN REPORTSOver 172 million infections and nearly 4 million lives later, the exact origin of the Covid-19 pandemic is…
New Nepal budget sparks electric comeback
Widely criticised for its hefty tax on battery-powered vehicles in last year’s budget, Prime Minister Oli’s government under a new finance…
New Nepal budget sparks electric comeback
Widely criticised for its hefty tax on battery-powered vehicles in last year’s budget, Prime Minister Oli’s government under a new finance…
Nepal's empty corridors of power
Prime Minister K P Oli visited Singha Darbar in nearly a year when he inaugurated the earthquake-damaged secretariat building on 15 February.…
Nepal at the edge of the COVID-19 precipice
Connect the dots: oil import, electric cars, drop in remittances, air pollution, corinavirus lockdown
Disrepair
Photos: BIKRAM RAIIf this is the state of the streets in the capital, imagine what it is like in the rest of the country.Exactly a year ago this…
Driving Nepal deeper into debt
Photo: BIKRAM RAIIn the past three years, federal and provincial governments spent a massive Rs216.5 million on vehicles. If we add the budget…
Nepal’s fatalistic 'ke garne' culture
Citizens should not accept 'Asare Bikas' because we are the only ones who do not benefit from it
Roadblocks
Photo: YUVARAJ SHRESTHAAt a ministerial review meeting last month, Prime Minister K P Oli warned bureaucrats he would not take “If’s and but’s”…
Communist capital
We see signs of stalled development all around us, every day, all over Nepal. Dusty, half-finished highways, national pride projects like Tama…