Grassroots graft
For a long time the all-party mechanisms governing local level units after the dissolution of elected...
For a long time the all-party mechanisms governing local level units after the dissolution of elected...
Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali says changes in geopolitics and international politics should be reflected in Nepal’s foreign policy, offering the example of the emergence of a multi-polar world and rise of China and India
Conflict victims and human rights defenders lighting candles at Maitighar, Kathmandu, in memory of those ‘disappeared’ during the conflict /Amnesty International Nepal
There was no substantial progress till the 1990 democratic change. The dispute gained more prominence after left parties started broaching it that year. In 1992, lawmaker Prem Singh Dhami spoke about the Indian encroachment in the upper house
Members of the indigenous Newar community protest against the bill that seeks to nationalize all trusts regulating religious sites [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]
The federal government, which has been charged with reluctance to delegate rights and resources to provincial and central governments, seems to be in no hurry to adequately empower the commission
The JSPN is projecting itself as a national party. But analysts say, while there is a realistic chance of it holding on to its Madhes base, it will struggle to expand in the hill areas and in Kathmandu
The country’s democratically elected rulers continue to use religion. The goal this time is to employ the fabled opium of the masses to puff up the rulers’ anti-India nationalist credentials.
The growing consensus among Nepali intellectuals and the political class is that Hinduism can no more be used as the primary tool of political mobilization in Nepal. The people of Nepal have still less appetite for a return of monarchy
Budhamagar gets the credit for the birth of the communist movement in Thabang, which was already a Maoist stronghold when the then CPN (Maoist) started its armed rebellion in 1996
Before the unification, say those close to him, Nepal’s position in the party was at par with Oli. After it, Oli has systematically weakened his hold on party organizations
Recent news reports on Nepal by Indian TV channels, according to experts, is a serious breach of the journalist code of conduct, and the Press Council of India should thus take action against them
Besides the impact of Covid, constant floods and landsides will make party activities difficult in July and August. Similarly, in the winter that follows, mountainous districts will be covered in snow
The country’s current political leadership has done little to strengthen democratic institutions or to make people believe it is working in their interest. It also seems minded to rely on external actors to protect its reign
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