Nepali Times
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Headline
MPs couldn\'t finish their homework, but for the first time the Nepali parliament showed multi-partisan maturity in passing laws that matter.
SHIVA GAUNLE

Nation
Nepali Times brings you the behind-the-scenes people that run Girija Prasad Koirala\'s office.

But, as the landslide blockage showed, the capital is dangerously dependent on just one road in and out.

The Nepali army and police benefit from UN peacekeeping roles around the world, but things can turn nasty when there is no peace to keep
SALIL SUBEDI

The government has licensed Nepal\'s biggest FM radio transmitter to a private group, but critics say this goes against is own policy to use radio for development communication.
BINOD BHATTARAI

Domestic Brief






Culture
Our Social Studies. pg8, Grade X, text book
PERRY THAPA

Geologist may have various reasons to believe Kathmandu Valley was once a lake, but they would not be able to match the story of Manjushri.

Business
Kathmandu\'s health-savvy young urban professionals work up a sweat, and the fitness business responds to new demand.
ALOK TUMBAHANGPHEY

Nearly half of all Nepalis need to put on more weight, and perhaps 0.05 percent need to loss some of it.

Technology
All advertising is about interrupting people, but in the Internet age it is about infecting people with the idea virus.
SIMON WALDMAN


Sports

Rukma Shumsher Rana
MUKUL HUMAGAIN

Nature
SALIL SUBEDI

You race the discanding darkness. The presence of the mountains doesn\'t leaves you, it leaves a mark on your soul forever.
PADAM GHALEY

Nepali Society

Arts
"We were intended to be nature\'s creation. We\'re gifted with a special capacity to create and discover. But we have drifted so far from the natural world that there is a sense of loss."
SAUL SUBEDI

 
EDITORIAL

COLUMNS
Guest Column
by BHARAT KOIRALA
Nepal must be more radio active

State Of The State
by CK LAL
The party is over

Under My Hat
by KUNDA DIXIT
Smuggler's Shangrila

LETTERS

FROM THE NEPALI PRESS


 

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