Opinion

Mobilizing The Nepali Diaspora For Nepal's Development

The availability of ever-increasing numbers of highly educated and well-skilled Nepalis in the US, their readiness to contribute towards Nepal's prosperity, and welcoming policies and steps initiated by the Government of Nepal, are all essential ingredients for mobilizing and harnessing the expertise and skills of the Nepali Diaspora for Nepal's development. However, this new era also raises a new challenge – that is, developing a financial resource base that could be accessed on a sustainable basis to harness the expertise and skills of the Nepali Diaspora in a timely manner for specific priority areas. Therefore, it behooves us all to think 'outside of the box' and explore new opportunities.

By Shyam Thapa Aug 22, 2019

Inter-dependency And Political Economy: A Case of Nepal

In the context of economics, inter-dependency simply refers to economic interdependence of two or more nations as we have witnessed during the past decades of globalization, expansion of market, trade, investment, innovation and development of technology beyond the borders of industrialized economies of the West

By Kedar Neupane Aug 19, 2019

My First Impressions Of Kathmandu (With Photo Features)

Traffic is a merry chaos, with taxis, motorbikes and buses trying to find their way around by tooting...a lot of tooting.

By Perrine Aguiar Aug 09, 2019

Inundation Takes Toll On Poor People#

Rivers and streams in the plain areas have experienced high rate of bed rise due to sediments, stones, gravels and boulders (in foothills). Our geology permits degradation, aggradation and sedimentation as a natural process

By Batu Uprety Aug 04, 2019

Stable Government But Unstable Governance

Centralization continues on many fronts as the Kathmandu politicians and bureaucracy are trying to keep power and resources within them wherever possible. This had hindered local development in Nepal.

By Dr. Prabin Manandhar Aug 02, 2019

Irrational Exuberance: Nepali Hydropower Edition

What would we do with the surplus power that starts at a few hundred megawatts in 2022 and reaches around 4,000 – 5,000 megawatts in 2027?

By Sagar Prasai Aug 02, 2019

Flood Season Blues

The second reason is that Himalayan rivers carry not just water but also much sediment from natural erosion which, over the many millennia, created the lower Ganga plains from the Tethys Sea including today's Bihar and Bangladesh.

By Dipak Gyawali Aug 02, 2019

The Lost Accountability

We realized that the country, he belongs to, and I belong to have many similarities and anomalies, at least, in terms of development

By LS Ghimire Jul 25, 2019

I Would Like To See Nepal Prosper Just As Korea Did

By Park Young-sik Jul 24, 2019

The 60 MW Upper Trishuli-3A and 37 MW Upper Trishuli 3B: Lest We Forget!

Writer’s Note: Recently Kathmandu Post (Money – March 20, 2019) headlined the news “Upper Trishuli-3A Slated to Begin Generation in April 2019”. The commissioning of this 60 MW Trishuli-3A hydropower project is indeed very good news at a time when Nepal is resorting to heavy import from India. Another newspaper Republica also reported on March 28, 2019 “Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli secures 20 units of share of Trishuli IIIB (37 MW) hydropower project under the government’s People’s Hydropower Program.” As institutions have no memory and public memory is short, the writer would like the readers to go back to July 2013 Hydro Nepal journal wherein the 60 MW versus 90 MW battle over Upper Trishuli-3A was chronicled in detail. If the government had stuck to its 90 MW decision for Upper Trishuli-3A then the cascading Trishuli-3B would have also been upgraded to 55 MW. The writer thanks Hydro Nepal for kindly giving their permission to reproduce that article.

By Santa Bahadur Pun Jul 19, 2019

Environmental Assessment: Mitigating the Adverse Impacts

By Batu Uprety Jul 19, 2019

Flooding And Political Economy

Nepal is exposed to multiple recurrent hazards. Due to climate change, monsoon patterns are changing that add further complexity in the preparation for more extreme weathers

By Dr. Prabin Manandhar Jul 19, 2019

Budgets Of Federal Nepal

Trump has imposed fresh sanctions on Iran and threatened it of total obliteration. We can simply pray that things do not go much beyond the US retaliatory cyber-attack against Iranian missile control system so that situation does not seriously deteriorate in the Middle East\Gulf, which could further complicate matters in Nepal with depleting foreign exchange reserve and alarming trade and current account deficit. Internally, late and inadequate monsoonal rains, projected to be 30 percent less this year, and reported shortage of chemical fertilizers may negatively affect paddy output, a major contributor to Nepal’s gross domestic product. May Lord Pashupatinath continue to save this nation and its people?

By Dr. Tilak Rawal Jun 30, 2019

Langtang Region Revives From Earthquake Destruction

Sunaulosansar, a NGO, supported the constructions of private house in Brabal Village of Rasuwa district

By Sabine Pretsch Jun 29, 2019

Betrayal Of National Interest: NEA Killing Dudh-Kosi Irrigation Potential

The study had identified Kurule as the appropriate site for diversion of the entire flow of the Sun-Kosi river including the Dudh-Kosi flow onto Terai.

By Dr. A.B. Thapa Jun 29, 2019

Lessons From The Guthi Movement 2019

Things suddenly heated up about a week before this otherwise maybe even a boringly academic meeting: Pucha secretary Bharat Jangam got a phone call from senior lawyer and Kangress MP Radheshyam Adhikari about a bill creating a new Guthi Authority brought before the Upper House suddenly and surreptitiously.

By Dipak Gyawali Jun 29, 2019

Nepal’s Development Challenges Of The Decade

By Kedar Neupane Jun 23, 2019

Budget: Missing Ground Reality

The budget should limit 60 percent for capital expenditure and 40 percent for concurrent expenditure. Our budget is exactly opposite. Out of total Rs.1532 billion budget, Rs. 957 billion (62.4 percent is allocated to concurrent and only Rs.459 billion (26.6 percent) is allocated to capital expenditure

By Binod Kumar Chaudhary Jun 11, 2019

Artificial Intelligence The Fear of Job Losses – Real or Imaginary?

Now the artificial intelligence (AI), in the fourth industrial revolution (IR4), is enabling machines to perform nearly everything better, cheaper, safer and faster than human beings.

By Dr. Omkar Shrestha Jun 10, 2019

PPA: Take It Or Not

The decision of Nepal Electricty Authority (NEA) to stop take or pay Power Purchasing Agreement (PPA) for hydropower projects has sparked a row

By Bhim Gautam Jun 10, 2019

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