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Nepal in 2050
If Nepal is to meet its socioeconomic goals in 25 years, it must have improved governance starting yesterday
Progress and/or Preservation
Nepal needs development, but development needs to be redefined.
When it rains it pours
It was a natural disaster but the high death toll was a testament to criminal state negligence.
West is West
Toni Hagen’s photographs of remote western Nepal from the 1950s show how much it has changed, and how much is the same
Development = Destruction
Kickback-driven maldevelopment is destroying Nepal as megalomania and kleptomania go hand-in-hand.
When it rains, it pours
Below average precipitation is forecast this monsoon, but we must also be prepared for extreme localised rain.
Rust in peace
Looking back at Nepal’s first cargo ropeway built a 100 years ago, and a historical timeline of infrastructure planning in the past century.
BRI enters the tenth year
Looking at the future of the Chinese infrastructure initiative for Asia and Nepal
MCC gets green light in Nepal
Photo:RSSFive years after Nepal signed the US-funded Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact in 2017, Parliament on Sunday finally…
Using power wisely
PHOTO MONTAGE/NEPAL ENERGY FORUMLike a mirage, the nearer we get to Parliament’s ratification of a $500 million US-backed infrastructure…
Nepal House sits for crucial MCC vote
As Nepal’s Parliament finally sits on Wednesday to try to ratify a controversial and long-delayed American infrastructure project, parties…
MCC risks split in Nepal’s ruling coalition
A much-delayed half-billion dollar US government project to upgrade Nepal’s infrastructure threatens to split Nepal’s governing coalition,…
Hiding their head in the sand
Illegal sand mining on Chure rivers displaces farmers, decimates a fragile landscape
Nepal struggles to balance nature and industry
Photo: SHAURYA CEMENTSNepal’s economic planners are proud of the fact that Nepal is now self-sufficient in cement. Indeed, domestic production…
The cost of no MCC
Photo: BIKRAM RAI/ NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVESNepal could lose Rs142 billion a year in wasted surplus energy if the Millennium Challenge Corporation…
Infrastructure for wildlife in Nepal
Vehicular and wildlife crossings ongoing construction at East-West electrified railway lines near Bardibas, Nepal. Photos: PRAMOD NEUPANENepal’s…
MCC ball in Nepal’s court
“Countries knock at our doors all the time for capital, as it is getting harder and harder to obtain development funds. We are holding $500…
Digital path to social buffers in Nepal
Photo: MADHU ACHARYAWorldwide, the impact of Covid-19 underscores the need for more social security buffers built upon the access to four basic…
Nepal’s first hydropower from a glacial lake
Turning global warming into opportunity, melting Himalayan glacier is harnessed for electricity
Power politics delays MCC in Nepal
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRINepal's prolonged political deadlock has not just affected the country’s response to Covid-19, it has also delayed…
Power politics delays MCC in Nepal
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRINepal's prolonged political deadlock has not just affected the country’s response to Covid-19, it has also delayed…
Nepal building a highway to Everest
Excavators at work on Thamdada, 24km south of Lukla, despite the fact that the Khumbu Municipality has run out of money to complete the…
“China’s BRI will ride out the pandemic”
Pradumna B Rana is Visiting Associate Professor at the Centre for Multilateralism Studies of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies…
Some silver linings
It has become a cliché to say that every crisis comes with opportunities. But that does not mean it is not true. It is up to us to grab that…