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Serious skullduggery? It was the first week of March a air force cargo plane flying from New Delhi safely landed on the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), Kathmandu. [More News]

Gross flippancy The possibility of timely draft of the new constitution in time is getting more tenuous by each passing day. [More News]

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Declining economy and frightening load-shedding The country's economy is being increasingly debilitated by prolonged load-shedding hours [More News]

The fuel behind bank-teller The banking sector, despite experiencing frequent hiccups because of political instability and the accompanying vulnerability of economic policy, shows two encouraging trends in Nepal. Innovative packages for the urban bank-users are emerging day by day thanks to creative financial marketing. Micro-financing for grass-root farms and enterprises in villages also is making its presence felt in a noticeable manner due to the democratic sense of making economic development meaningful at people's level. [More News]

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The heart of India is under attack…… The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa. The hills watched over the Kondh. The Kondh watched over the hills and worshipped them as living deities. Now these hills have been sold for the bauxite they contain. For the Kondh it’s as though god had been sold. [More News]

Talks for the sake of talks? In its bilateral relationship with India, Pakistan would no more like “talks for the sake of talks”. Rather, it is interested in a “result-oriented and sustained dialogue and no format of engagement other than Composite Dialogue”. These are some of the afterthoughts of the Foreign Office conveyed to media by its spokesman Abdul Basit, in his Weekly Press briefing, following the daylong inconclusive Indo-Pak secretary level talks held in New Delhi on February 25, 2001. [More News]

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Strained US – China Relations: China’s Crucial Role as America's Creditor The Obama Administration has heightened tensions with China through a series of measures which can only be characterized as major provocations designed to undermine relations between the two countries. These provocations include political support for separatist movements, such as the US-funded theocratic-monk led Tibetan secessionists and the Washington-based Uyghur secessionists, as well as through the $6.4 billion-dollar advanced arms sales to Taiwan, a virtual protectorate of the US Navy. [More News]

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Prospects For A Multipolar World Contrary to Samuel Huntington's concept of the allegedly inevitable clash of civilizations, the conclusion drawn in the SCO framework was that harmonized interactions between civilizations and their mutual assistance were possible. [More News]

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Child Labour : A hindrance in development As we can see today child Labour is mushrooming in our country. Just like a plague which spreads in a place. It is so rampant in Nepal that it is becoming difficult for Nepal government to weed it out from the very Nepali roots. Child Labour is not only a hindrance in child’s development but also a hindrance in nation’s development. Children are universally recognized as the most important asset of any nation and child Labour, in the recent past, has evoked a great concern among all. [More News]

Uncivilized practices of the civil society The term ‘Civil Society’ is mostly used for voluntary organizations, non-governmental organizations and non-profit institutions. These are also called as civil society organizations. Interestingly, most of these organizations are always busy in criticizing the state (which is of course not wrong as the state is a failure), but they themselves behave like the state when it comes to the issues of marginalized people, Dalits and Women of D-section (deprived sections), even though they have also failed in delivering justice to marginalized peoples. [More News]

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Flashback: "Women’s Day" Women’s Day’ is a link in the long, solid chain of the women’s proletarian movement. The organised army of working women grows with every year. Twenty years ago the trade unions contained only small groups of working women scattered here and there among the ranks of the workers party… Now English trade unions have over 292 thousand women members; in Germany around 200 thousand are in the trade union movement and 150 thousand in the workers party, and in Austria there are 47 thousand in the trade unions and almost 20 thousand in the party. [More News]

100 Years Ago: Women's Day Women are a revolutionary force. That fact shows in their holiday, International Women’s Day (IWD), both its past and present. Because the profit system depends on the second-class status of women, the day that honors them is bound to be connected to momentous happenings. [More News]

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A Tripitaka for the 21st Century: The Development of the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon We know that the various editions of Tibetan Kanjur contain the translation of the most of the important texts of Sanskrit Buddhist canons. In the catalogue index of Tibetan Kanjur prepared by Dharma Publishing there are more than 1000 Sanskrit titles in it. [More News]

Stopping diarrhoeal disaster Man Bahadur and Dhansari are orphans in Rukum. They both lost their parents to a preventable basic disease: diarrhoea. The story of how eleven-year-old Yam Bahadur Chanara became an orphan is the same. He too lost his parents to this preventable disease. [More News]

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Security crisis It goes without mentioning that the current wobbly has totally failed to address the security crisis in the country. And, of course, the nation’s top functionary, entrusted with the task of maintaining public security, is to be blamed for ceaseless lapses. [More News]

Energy crisis The country's economy is reeling under the yoke of prolonged load-shedding hours. [More News]

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Machine-readable or electronic passports? Indeed, passports are documents that are not only sensitive from security standpoint they also symbolize national pride, national independence and self-respect for every one who carries it during overseas travels. From security perspectives, therefore, it becomes the bounden duty of the every Government to ensure that those documents which are a symbol of national identity and pride are secure, highly reliable, tamper-proof and easy for processing at international airports by immigration officers. [More News]

Economy in the lurch! At present it has become a very common state policy of obtaining loans from other countries and multi-lateral agencies and also from internal resources through circulation of debenture of loans. [More News]

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Tibetan Glaciers are retreating at an alarming rate Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, sometimes called Earth's "third pole", hold the largest ice mass outside the polar regions. These glaciers act as a water storage tower for South and East Asia, releasing melt water in warm months to the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra and other river systems, providing fresh water to more than a billion people. In the dry season glacial melt provides half or more of the water in many rivers. [More News]

Why Copenhagen Failed To anybody interested in the future of the earth’s climate, the conclusion of the Copenhagen conference represents either colossal disappointment or profound rage. The financial pledges— if honored— that rich nations made to poor nations will do nothing to combat global warming. The few climate related agreements that were made were of zero substance, especially when compared to what the situation demanded. [More News]

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Along A Hidden Trail Bandipur Bandipur, situated at an altitude of 1030 meters in the Western hills of Tanahu district, is an ancient Newari town that used to be the main trading center from the late 18th century to recent times before being replaced by Damauli which later became the district headquarters. Bandipur is a mere three and a half hours drive from Kathmandu along the Kathmandu-Pokhara highway, eight kilometers of which is graveled from Dumre onwards. You can also follow a popular two hours foot trail from Dumre bazaar to get there. The town is 143 kilometers from Kathmandu and 73 kilometers from Pokhara. [More News]

Dharan : A Queen of Eastern Nepal Dharan is a city in Koshi Zone, Sunsari district, eastern Nepal Acity of Ex-Gorkhas, unity in diversity, Dharan lies right at the foot of hills, but the transformation when coming from Terai is dramatic. In the distance of 540 KM from Kathmandu, the city is highly rich with different culture, religion, natural beauties and modern development. [More News]

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Wen Jiabao, offers some gestures of conciliation AT THE opening of the annual session of China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC), the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, could not resist a bit of boasting. China’s economy, he said, in a two-hour speech, had been the first in the world to make a turnaround. With an implied sneer at the West’s continuing malaise, he spoke of socialism’s “advantages”: quick decision-making, effective organisation and an ability to “concentrate resources to accomplish large undertakings”. [More News]

Sino-U.S. ties disrupted, urges moves to mend ties Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said Sunday China is firmly opposed to the recent moves by the United States that undermined China's core interests and the overall interests of bilateral ties and called for joint efforts to promote a return to sound relations. [More News]

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Golden jubilee of Nepal, Pak diplomatic ties Pakistani embassy here is planning to mark the establishment of the diplomatic relations between Nepal and Pakistan with various programmes in March. [More News]

Deuba against creation of Tarun Dasta Senior Nepali Congress leader Sher Bahadur Deuba has flatly rejected the notion of forming a semi-militant youth wing of the party, and said that Maoist-aligned Young Communist League and UML's Youth Force should also be dismantled. [More News]

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Nepal-China Joint Press Statement in Beijing The following is the text of the joint press statement issued today in Beijing, following the 6-day official visit by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal to China. Both sides agreed to further strengthen political and economic ties. [More News]

Buddhism and Sino-Nepali cultural linkage [A Programme organized by Institute for Chindian Studies & Department of Social Sciences, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China in partnership with Liuzu (Huineng) Temple at Zhenshan, Sihui City. Date: 26-28 December 2009. Following is the Speech delivered by Prem Kumari Pant, President of Nepal China Society and Editor of The Weekly Mirror] [More News]

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