Nepali Times

Trade is essential for Nepals survival. But Nepal must do more than survive, it needs to prosper.And to prosper quickly there is really no other way than to let trade flourish freely.

Dogmandu

A hundred years after Ekai Kawaguchi (left) travelled across Nepal and Tibet looking for the Buddha s original teachings,a Japanese anthropologist Jiro Kawakita (above)who retraced his footsteps is back in Nepal to see how development is faring under democracy.

Irregularities add up to Rs 25.7 billion, an amount almost equal to what the government plans to spend on the social sector this year.