Nepali Times

NATION
AIDS alarm

MALLIKA ARYAL

Reducing risk, preventing HIV, saving lives

SHAILEE BASNET

Let’s stop being polite

RAJIV KAFLE

A full circle

NICHCHAL N PANDAY

Patan fundraiser

INTERVIEW
“I wasn’t King Gyanendra’s adviser”
Sharad Chandra Shaha speaks to Nepali Times about governance, as an information technology adviser to the royal regime.

SPORTS
Where the Bagmati is still clean



Bagging SAG 06
High hopes for Nepal at this month's South Asian Games in Colombo

ISSUE

# 311

	GUEST COLUMN by GOPAL K SIWAKOTI
Laying ghosts to rest

UPDATE
•	Maoists take over school
	24 August \| 6.30 PM NST
•	Interim constitution coming
	22 August \| 11PM NST
•	Petroleum products still scarce
	21 August \| 11.30 PM NST
•	Price rollback
	20 August \| 9.20 PM NST
•	Adding fuel to the fire
	20 August \| 3 PM NST
•	Protests against oil price hike
	19 August \| 9PM NST

LETTERS

BIZ NEWS

		UNDER MY HAT by KUNDA DIXIT
To end the news, the main points once again

The world is watching.