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Headline
"You will see everything will start happening within ten days."
- Girija Prasad Koirala
RAJENDRA DAHAL IN POKHARA

Nation
The government ban on news on FM radio is seeing a backlash led by a parliamentary committee.
HEMLATA RAI

Banning climbing only because the mountain is beautiful has no rationale. The prettiness or otherwise of the mountain cannot determine whether it should be climbed or not.

This is the first time that free, poor, indigenous yet landless people have issued a frontal challenge to the government.
-ASHUTOSH TIWARI in Dhangadhi

The Swasthani Brata is one month of fasting, prayer and penance. Not to mention the walking and rolling.
SALIL SUBEDI

There is no military solution to this crisis. Pursuing that option will destroy the country, and may ultimately cost us our sovereignty.
Dr KANAK BAHADUR KC

Domestic Brief



Technology
MARK TURIN in LEIDEN

The 7th CAN Info-Tech trade show this week focuses on value-added services.
GAURAB RAJ UPADHAYA

Nepali Society
Subhash Newwang, a soft-spoken MP from Ilam, strikes terror in the hearts of corrupt government officials

Culture
The new pools are stagnant, their fountains refuse to play. The flowerbeds try valiantly to battle the press of people.
DESMOND DOIG

Literature
MANJUSHREE THAPA

 
EDITORIAL

COLUMNS
State Of The State
by CK LAL
In the jungle raj

Economic Sense
by ARTHA BEED
Can Nepal Do IT

Here And There
by DANIEL LAK
White man's burden

Under My Hat
by KUNDA DIXIT
A multi-steakholder approach

LETTERS

FROM THE NEPALI PRESS

BIZ NEWS


 

SPECIAL

Madesh Special

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