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10-16 July 2015 #766

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Editorial

Fixing what's broken

Columns

Legalese

by Binita Dahal

Enter: Chief Justice Shrestha
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One To Many

by Bidushi Dhungel

Egos at the door, please
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GUEST COLUMN

by Aruna Uprety

Local is best
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GUEST COLUMN

by Bihari K Shrestha

The trilateral path
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Backside

by Ass

Advisory on advisories
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Resurrecting Kasthamandap

The shrine after which Kathmandu was named withstood many quakes in the last 900 years but came down in this one.

By: Sarthak Mani Sharma

Comments

Nation

Who is against zero-cost migration and why?

Labour recruiters are protesting their right to keep on cheating poor Nepali migrant workers

Om Astha Rai

Who is against zero-cost migration and why?

The Tamang epicentre

The death toll from the earthquake been put at 8,844 by now, with 3,012 of them members of the Tamang community.

Santa Gaha Magar

The Tamang epicentre

Will the AIIB work?

With China’s growing importance in the world order, it needs to be given space to forge its own approach to global economic leadership

Kenneth Rogoff

Will the AIIB work?

Gurkhas at Gallipoli - 4

This is the fourth installment of a series of flashbacks of the involvement of Gurkhas in the First World War

David Seddon

Gurkhas at Gallipoli - 4

Interview

“India wants to start afresh in Nepal”

Interview with Deep Kumar Upadhyay, Nepal’s ambassador to India

“India wants to start afresh in Nepal”

Poles apart

Interview with Laxman Lal Karna of the Sadbhavana Party and Agni Kharel of the CPN-UML on their views on the first draft of the new constitution

Poles apart

Business

Rebuilding businesses better

Interview with Pashupati Muraraka, new President of Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI)

Rebuilding businesses better

Nepali Times Buzz

Toys are us

Mothers in Saptari get together to make toys to educate their children

Sahina Shrestha in SAPTARI

Toys are us

Rain god in limbo

The chariot is still in Chyasikot, where it stopped on 25 April, it should be rebuilt in time and complete its journey

Sonia Awale

Rain god in limbo

Foreign affairs

The rise of foreign employment has led to an increase in the number of extramarital affairs in the country

Anjana Rajbhandary

Foreign affairs

Review

Singha Darbar ko Tender

Inefficacy and corruption that goes on behind the scenes of government on the stage in a satirical play

Someplace Else by Sahina Shrestha

Singha Darbar ko Tender

Revolution Café

A place to visit for its mango infused dishes and to eat in quietude

Someplace Else by Karma Gurung

Revolution Café

Must See

Call the Midwife

Series so rooted in historical context, with a spectacular ensemble cast, and written with equal parts humour and compassion

Sophia Pande

Call the Midwife

From our archives

Leapfrogging to nowhere

11th August 2005

The state is punishing the people by denying them mobile phone connectivity

ASHUTOSH TIWARI

War is bad for health

11th August 2005

Health care delivery has worsened because of the conflict

IAN HARPER

"We are moving in the right direction"

11th August 2005

Home Minister Dan Bahadur Shahi in an interview with BBC Nepali Service, 3 August

You can’t just take over, Your Majesty!

11th August 2005

Surya Bahadur Sen Oli in the Note of Dissent column in Jana Aastha, 3 August