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Nation
In the face of expensive private medical services, Kathmandu Valley's government hospitals need to be better supported so they can continue providing large numbers of people the stellar services they are known for.
HEMLATA RAI & SALIL SUBEDI

If equal parts of happiness and exasperation have ever lain in winding, narrow streets packed with people, shops, pubs, restaurants, hostels, travel and tour agencies, video and pool parlours and cybercafes, they\'ve done in Thamel.
NEPALI TIMES REPORT

An Indo-Pakistan nuclear exchange is not a matter just for those two squabbling neighbours, it will affect us too.

The 72-point headline "Saving Nepal" was probably intended to grab the attention of readers sick

The new education policy aims at making primary-level learning "joyful" and involving communities in their children's schooling.
HEMLATA RAI

This bideshi doctor looks like Noam Chomsky, has written Nepal's first trekking guide, and swears by John Rawls' theory of justice.
STEPHEN BEZRUCHKA

If "development" was real, why was Rapti zone so favourable for the development of the Maoist movement?

Domestic Brief






Sports
Nepali football is at a stalemate.
MUKUL HUMUGAIN


History

Culture
Poubha artists are set to create a huge mural inside Patan's Golden Temple, melding devotional art and architectural preservation.
SALIL SUBEDI

Nepali Society

Business
Nepal's traditional gold and silver craftsmen are facing a two-pronged challenge-from new investors and changing tastes.
ALOK TUMBAHANGPHEY

Indo-Nepal trade has soared and both countries have benefited.
BINOD BHATTARAI

 
EDITORIAL

COLUMNS
State Of The State
by CK LAL
Corruption, Nepalis and the Expat

Economic Sense
by ARTHA BEED
Travails in eastern Nepal

Here And There
by DANIEL LAK
The usual suspects

Under My Hat
by KUNDA DIXIT
Gross National Holiday Index

LETTERS

FROM THE NEPALI PRESS

BIZ NEWS


 

SPECIAL

Madesh Special

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