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No Substitute to SAARC: Nepal Prime Minister

The Opening Statement by the Right Honorable K.P. Sharma Oli, Prime Minister of Nepal at the Inaugural Session of the Fourth BIMSTEC Summit Kathmandu, 30th August 2018. Welcome to the land of Buddha and Sagarmatha! Welcome to the land of peace and harmony! The Government and people of Nepal feel truly honored and privileged to […]

Nepal: Hydropower Development, 1960 ~ 1985

Rabindra Bahadur Shrestha,  June, 2018: The history of electricity goes back to 1911 when the first (second in Asia) 500 KW Pharping hydropower plant was commissioned in Nepal. Only after the reign of the Ranas ended in 1951, did an integrated approach for the development of the power sector start with the establishment of Electricity Department […]

Whither Nepal’s Water Resources?

 Rabindra Bahadur Shrestha Out of all the water on Earth, saline water in oceans/seas make up about 97% and only 3% is freshwater. Freshwater lakes like the Great Lakes of Africa, Russia and North America contain about 87% of this fresh surface water. Brazil is in the top position having the most amount of renewable […]

Restructuring National Planning Commission in Nepal

DURGA D POUDEL, Professor and Assistant Director  School of Geosciences, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Louisiana, USA Failure of planning and implementation has remained a major problem from the advent of planning in Nepal. According to Levi (1959), the First Five-Year Plan was criticized of being very broad encompassing almost every aspect of economic life, […]

Saving Nepal’s Democracy from its “Democrats”

BY BIHARI KRISHNA SHRESTHA PM Oli has much to deliver In 2015, a Washington think tank, New America, published the findings of two democracy researchers, Roberto Foa and Yascha Mounk, who said, “The United States is not the only country in which the population has grown fiercely critical of democracy — and surprisingly open to […]