Tag: #local elections
Articles tagged with #local elections
Women first in 2027
Empowering women to enter politics and preparing candidates for elections two years away
Nepal's Gen Next
Mainstream parties feel threatened by the handover of power from the past to the future
Making Kathmandu great again
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIBalendra Shah, popularly known as ‘Balen’, is a rapper and structural engineer who was elected Mayor of Kathmandu…
#NepalVotes
Senior citizens cast their ballot in Kathmandu's Hanuman Dhoka on Friday morning. Photos: RSS and AMIT MACHAMASINepalis all around the country…
On the road to vote
A political party mobiliser in Kathmandu's Koteswor intersection collecting names of voters in Triyuja Municipality in Udaypur. All photos:…
“We are treated like ATMs”
In an informal survey, Nepalis in the United States were asked about elections back home this year to three levels of government.Most replied…
Election infowar goes digital
The use of the social web has found a dominant role in campaigning for local elections, especially as the countdown to the 13 May local…
Turning a new leaf in 2079
Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVESSome members of the ruling coalition are still trying to postpone local elections slated for 13 May citing the…
Reward performance
Illustration: RABINDRA“We are always proud about the fact that Nepal has a female President and Speaker, but do you think Bidya Devi Bhandari,…
What Nepal’s voters most want in elections
Photo: BIKRAM RAI/NEPALI TIMESNepal is getting into full campaign mode for local elections only a little more than a month away, and political…
Periphery within the periphery in Nepal
Deputy chair of Chaurpati Rural Municipality in Achham district Maya Kunwar has been working to reduce domestic violence, alcoholism and to…
Local government by the people, for the people, of the people
Illustration: SWORUP NHASIJUIn the five years since transitioning into the federal system, Nepal’s local governments have garnered much more…
Power to the periphery
Takam village (above) in Dhaulagiri Municipality is a model for how federalism should function. Photos: JOY STEPHENSBal Bir Biswakarma from the…
All politics is local
When the only ambulance in Diprung Chuichumma could not attend to all the emergencies, Chair Bhupendra Rai himself drove the infected to health…
Think nationally, vote locally
Photo: BIKRAM RAI/NEPALI TIMESWhen the second wave hit Nepal in May 2021, city hospitals ran out of ICU beds and oxygen, and politicians in…
Polls in the time of pandemic
After hemming and hawing about holding local elections, top leaders of the five-party alliance that met on Tuesday finally made some headway.…
Volatile Mix of Politics and Religion
The Election Commission has set local elections for May, with federal elections following early next year. Given the heated debate about…
An alternative to alternative politics in Nepal
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIAlternative politics (वैकल्पिक राजनीति) in Nepal so far has just been limited to creating new political parties.…
How will Nepal develop in the next decade?
Photo : BIKRAM RAINepal is recognised as the only low-income country to have made rapid progress cutting poverty and boosting public health and…
Think locally, act locally
Local activists goad local governments to deliver services
“It is now or never to devolve power to local governments”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcOLeRbQqWwSwiss Ambassador Elisabeth von Capeller Oswald is on her second diplomatic stint in Nepal after also…
4 years after quake, Sankhu rises from the dust
Of all the parts of Kathmandu Valley worst hit in the April 2015 earthquake was the historic town of Sankhu. But this is also where elected…
Open air
The first step in reducing air pollution is to let the public and governments know how bad it is…