Nepal's uncivil servants
Making the bureaucracy more efficient faces bureaucratic hurdles
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Covid crisis can spur digitisation
The Covid-19 crisis has accelerated the digitisation process of government services from telehealth to telework, online meetings to remote education. Rarely in...
A green city is a smart city
For those growing up in the 1980s in Kathmandu, the 'Green Belt' became a familiar term as poplars rose up along the...
History on replay
The brutal murder of school principal Rajendra Shrestha in the remote village of Miklajung of Morang district this week is a cruel...
History on replay
The brutal murder of school principal Rajendra Shrestha in the remote village of Miklajung of Morang district this week is a cruel...
Lies and damned lies
Going by official statistics, Nepal’s economy is doing splendidly. The economy grew at 2.27%, not bad considering that has been battered for...
Window on the future
The coronavirus is here to stay. Vaccines will not be available for Nepalis till late next year. There are no proven therapies...
Covid-19 and the new Great Game
One of Barack Obama’s White House staffers once got into trouble for saying that a hurricane disaster presented a good opportunity for...
Nepalis denied tv channels over Dasain
On Sunday night, television viewers across Nepal browsing channels on their satellite and cable systems suddenly found that they could not access...
To beg, borrow or steal?
In 2017, Nepal held its first local election after two decades. A generation of Nepalis had grown up without any experience of...
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