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1-7 January 2016 #789

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E-Paper

1-7 January 2016 #789

Begone 2015

Editorial

Year on year

Columns

This Is It

by Rubeena Mahato

The endless transition
Begone 2015

Moving Target

by Foreign Hand

One gun leads to another
Begone 2015

Backside

by Ass

Happy New Earful
Begone 2015

Interactive multimedia review of 2015

By: Ayesha Shakya

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Nation

Shivering in shelters

Few here remember a winter as difficult as this one

Seulki Lee in GORKHA

Shivering in shelters

Authority to reconstruct

The Reconstruction Authority finally has a chief, but now there is no money for helicopters

Om Astha Rai

Authority to reconstruct

Sick of the cold

Families who survived the earthquake are now fighting the winter chill

Dambar K Shrestha IN SINDHUPALCHOK

Sick of the cold

Business

City safari on rickshaw

Restrictions on movement of big vehicles imposed by Madhesi protesters have increased the popularity of electric rickshaws

Birat Anupam in ITAHARI

City safari on rickshaw

Nepali Times Buzz

Reams of Dreams

In each of the ten stories that make up City of Dreams, the author has tried to pull off something quite different

Rabi Thapa

Reams of Dreams

Healing together

Religious organisations show solidarity with earthquake survivors

Lucia De Vries in RASUWA

Healing together

Women flying high

Paragliding used to be dominated by men but women are making inroads.

Xiaotong Xu in POKHARA

Women flying high

Must See

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Force Awakens has taken its life from the imagination of the gifted writer/director and its new talents.

Sophia Pande

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

From our archives

‘The age of kings is over’

1st September 2005

Interview with former Speaker Daman Nath Dhungana in Nepal, 28 August

One clear choice

1st September 2005

Ganga Bahadur Thapa in Dishanirdesh, 21 August

Power leakage

1st September 2005

Kantipur, 21 August

Foreign mobiles

1st September 2005

Nepal Samacharpatra, 20 August and Kantipur, 21 August