Tag: #corruption

Nepal GenZs inspired Filipinos

Visuals of youth-led unrest in Kathmandu energised protesters in the Manila last month

Two sides of the same coin

Politicians were targeted, but what of bureaucrats who worked hand-in-glove with them to plunder the state?

Trial By Fire

The GenZ movement now has to unite to take the lead in reconstructing the Nepali state

Nepal’s 8 September massacre

The government has stirred a hornet's nest of anger among youth with Monday's killings

SLAPPing Democracy

In Nepal, politicians and bureaucrats do not even need absolute power to corrupt absolutely -- because they work hand-in-glove.

Public-Private Collusion

Government agencies supposed to protect the public interest operate at the whim of powerful lobbyists

Black, white and grey

Inability, or unwillingness, to curb black money will put Nepal on the FATF grey list

Mismeasuring corruption lets rich countries off the hook

Corruption did not disappear as countries grew richer, it evolved, becoming more sophisticated

Unholy developments at holy sites

Corruption and commerce threaten World Heritage Site status of Lumbini and Pashupati

Nepal’s corruption carousel

Public pressure to curb graft is making heads roll, but is it all just political drama?

Lharkyal Lama’s Lumbini, Inc

Private developers with political patronage still trying to turn the Buddha’s birthplace into Disneyland

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there

Former bureaucrat and planner reacts to Nepali Times analysis Business As Unusual

Nepal gets Gold Medal for corruption

There is national consensus among politicians only when it comes to protecting each other from prosecution

Crime and/or Punishment in Nepal

Big heads roll for the first time in corruption crackdown, but bigger heads are being deliberately spared

Losing our moral compass

The fake refugee scam is a reflection of everything that is wrong with Nepal and the people who run it

In a Federal Kleptocratic Republic of Nepal

Heads are rolling as another former minister is arrested in a fake refugee scandal that is rocking Nepal’s government

Embossed plate company involved in scam

After the Department of Land Transportation (DoTM) issued a 16 July deadline for vehicle owners in Nepal to replace current license plates with…

Nepal’s shortsighted view-tower craze

Resunga tower in Gulmi. Photo: WIKIMEDIA COMMONSPoliticians at all three levels of government in Nepal appear to be racing against time to build…

The business of politics

Illustration: BHANU ACHARYA/NEPALI TIMESDuring the 2017 elections, Baburam Bhattarai’s Naya Shakti Party propped up the Nepali Congress (NC)…

Hi-Level Mechanism

Nepal is serious about democracy, and that is why we have to keep restoring it every decade or so because we believe in government for the…

Sting operation ruled illegal

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declared the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority's (CIAA) use of sting operations…

Anti-corruption antigens

Nepal party reincarnating Hindu monarchy

Photo: @KTnepalLoyal readers will remember royal leaders we have covered in these pages over the past two decades. The uneasy transition to…

Nepal party reincarnating Hindu monarchy

Photo: @KTnepalLoyal readers will remember royal leaders we have covered in these pages over the past two decades. The uneasy transition to…