Dahal has got the vote of confidence again. But the scenes on Wednesday suggest turbulence ahead.

The success of women entrepreneurs in the district offers lessons for the rest of the country.

The UML claims high ideals to explain its support for the Dahal government. There is room to doubt it.

Arbitrary pardons and commutation of jail terms are part of a long trend of criminalisation of Nepali politics.

The problems they face are multifaceted and can only be solved with collective effort of all those in the sector.

Little is being done to stop the vicious cycle of deaths and injuries on our roads.

The latest change of coalition is more indication of politics bereft of ethics. Most top leaders are culprits.

No government can succeed without a minimum level of trust and coalition culture.

The upper house of Parliament is not being allowed to play its desired role.

The gentrified Kathmandu of Balen’s imagination, we are afraid, will be a city without a soul.

The state seeing loan shark victims in Parliament premises as a security issue should fool nobody.

The failure to carry out a detailed damage assessment after the Jajarkot earthquake has caused great hardship.

The priority should be sensitising the public about often-deadly consequences of their negligence.

The steady rise in urban poverty calls for a shift in the country’s rural areas-centric approach.

NC Mahasamiti has brought up vital issues that need more debate.

It is time for everyone to come together and celebrate cultural-religious vitality—not virulence.

The long struggle of the women who were sexually assaulted or raped during the conflict period continues.

There is a need to make the holders of highest offices in the land accountable for their decisions.

We would do well to internalise the enormous costs at which recent democratic changes have come.

A political ideology that favours nativism and monoculturalism has no place in a democracy.