Finance Ministry frees up budget for election and post-protest reconstruction, but there is longer-term need to reform the country’s financial systems
When the coalition government of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba took office in July, many had hoped it would restore stability after a…
About 250 years ago when King Prithivi Narayan Shah made Kathmandu the capital of unified Nepal, he realised that the city had great potential…
The pandemic makes Nepalis poorer and ruins the economy, but the government has no solutions
Photo: THE STAR/THE PANGOLIN REPORTSOver 172 million infections and nearly 4 million lives later, the exact origin of the Covid-19 pandemic is…
Widely criticised for its hefty tax on battery-powered vehicles in last year’s budget, Prime Minister Oli’s government under a new finance…
Prime Minister K P Oli visited Singha Darbar in nearly a year when he inaugurated the earthquake-damaged secretariat building on 15 February.…
Connect the dots: oil import, electric cars, drop in remittances, air pollution, corinavirus lockdown
Photos: BIKRAM RAIIf this is the state of the streets in the capital, imagine what it is like in the rest of the country.Exactly a year ago this…
Photo: BIKRAM RAIIn the past three years, federal and provincial governments spent a massive Rs216.5 million on vehicles. If we add the budget…
Citizens should not accept 'Asare Bikas' because we are the only ones who do not benefit from it
Photo: YUVARAJ SHRESTHAAt a ministerial review meeting last month, Prime Minister K P Oli warned bureaucrats he would not take “If’s and but’s”…
We see signs of stalled development all around us, every day, all over Nepal. Dusty, half-finished highways, national pride projects like Tama…
