INCLUSIVE DEMOCRATIC NEPAL

The Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction has unveiled projects to accelerate the process of rebuilding infrastructure and assets destroyed d...

Lok Nath Bhusal Indeed, time has come to put the poverty alleviation agenda at the heart of the development debate and action for since a l...

Dr. Trilochan Upreti William Bulti-tude, Managing Director of Australia's Snowy Mountain Engineering Corp (SMEC), has reportedly said th...

Rajesh Man KC Unplanned and unmanaged urbanisation has become a matter of global concern. Nepal in this regard is no exception. Rapid urba...

Following the announcement of the date for elections to the constituent assembly, debate on restructuring of the state has gathered speed an...

Bishwambher Pyakuryal Following the implementation of Foreign Aid Policy, 2002, grants have exceeded loans, projects have been prioritise...

Lok Nath Bhusal Being a resource scarce economy, Nepal's future course of development critically hinges on the realisation of the commi...

Amrit P. Shrestha The budget communicates information about the priorities of the government. Each act in the budgetary process is importan...

Successive governments have formed too many commissions and committees to look into the long-ailing public corporations (PEs) and suggest me...

Rajendra Bhandari The parliamentary Natural Resources and Means Committee has been meeting to decide on what could be the turning point in ...

Following two days of 'intense' deliberations, the National Development Council, the apex policy-making body of the National Plannin...

Presentation of the national budget (2007-08), the first by the eight-party interim government, is only two weeks away. This budget will als...

Lok Nath Bhusal Amid the ongoing political transition, the National Planning Commission (NPC), the apex planning authority, is trying its b...

E conomists have expressed concern about the Nepali economy and one big source of it is the lack of clarity in the economic policy of the ma...

THE overall economic scenario of the country seems to be in the right direction despite some negative trends in certain areas. According to ...

The units of local self-governance — the 75 district development committees, some 4, 000 village development committees and 58 municipalitie...

John Child Maoist leaders' speeches at the annual Chambers of Commerce meeting contained comforting commitments but plenty of radical r...

The row over Sitaram Prasain, a former chairman of a development bank accused of committing financial irregularities amounting to 280 millio...

The promise of 10 percent free energy to Nepal from the 750-megawatt West Seti hydroelectric project, awarded to Australia's Snowy Mount...

KATHMANDU: After the Asian Development Bank washed its hands of a major development project, Nepal's image took another beating in the e...