ECONOMY
Current account in deficit as remittances growth slows
Current account in deficit as remittances growth slows
KATHMANDU, May 17: Remittances growth slowed to 6.3 percent in the third quarter of the current fiscal year 2016/17, down from 13 percent in the corresponding period of the last fiscal year.
May 17, 2017
POLITICS
Manang drops consensus way
Manang drops consensus way
POKHARA, May 17: Breaking with the tradition of electing their local representatives unopposed, voters in Manang district decided to go for a vote this time.
May 17, 2017
Editorial
Better and better
Better and better
Forecasts about the economy should always be taken with a pinch (or two) of salt. Nonetheless, it is hard not to be optimistic when credible international institutions repeatedly increase the country’s growth forecast.
May 17, 2017
ELECTION
Vote counting of KMC concluded in 6 days in 1997
Vote counting of KMC concluded in 6 days in 1997
KATHMANDU, May 17: Although concerns are being raised from various quarters in Kathmandu over the snail-paced counting of votes, not many people seem to be aware about the time it took to conclude vote counting in Kathmandu Metropolitan City in the last local election held 20 years ago.
May 17, 2017
OPINION
Age-old bonds
Age-old bonds
It is important to link Janakpur and Ayodhya not only through roads but also through railways, airways and optical fibers
May 17, 2017
POLITICS, ELECTION
Candidates with better luck
Candidates with better luck
KATHMANDU, May 17: Election is not just a game of numbers but of luck as well. This saying has come true for a Nepali Congress candidate who had filed his candidacy for the chief post of Dhorchaur Rural Municipality-4 of Salyan.
May 17, 2017
ELECTION
Slow counting leaves voters disappointed
Slow counting leaves voters disappointed
POKHARA, May 17: The delay in vote counting has disappointed the voters who are desperate to see their new representatives assume their offices.
May 17, 2017
OPINION
Arid manifestos
Arid manifestos
Political parties know agriculture is still very important for Nepal yet it is low in priority in their election manifestos
May 17, 2017
ELECTION
EC instructs to expedite vote counting process
EC instructs to expedite vote counting process
KATHMANDU, May 17: Concerned with the tediously slow vote counting process, the Election Commission (EC) has instructed returning officers to expedite vote counting by involving maximum available human resources and representatives of political parties in all 281 local units where votes were cast on...
May 17, 2017
OPINION
The Sixth Republic?
The Sixth Republic?
The Fifth Republic has since come to be seen as enshrining an unsavory concentration of powers
May 17, 2017