KIRAN PANDAY

In a week when government ministers and officials have been scrambling to accommodate a visiting multi-billionaire Saudi royal, it's ironic that the newspapers have made so much of what he might invest in. Didn't the government tell him Nepal hasn't had a proper budget for four months?

Thankfully, we seem to be finally moving beyond this vacuum. All eyes will now be on the Maoist plenum due to start on 21 November.