By PR Pradhan Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has returned home with the message that Chinese rails will arrive in Kathmandu in the days to come. Chinese supreme leader and President Xi Jinping, during the meeting with our Prime Minister Oli, also hoped that the Chinese rails will reach Kathmandu …

The Nepali population has found the decade expensive. Our leaders have long run out of excuses. Prime Minister K.P. Oli and his newly strengthened NCP must now tell his party-men to stop pointing out the shortcomings of his fiscal policies in public. The whip notwithstanding, practical politics of one sort …

BY SHASHI MALLA This last Sunday, Turkish voters went to the polls to elect members of parliament and also a new president. These could be transformative elections that will usher a new system of government giving sweeping new powers to the new (old) president. With these elections, the parliamentary system …

By P. Kharel Mole in the Rabbit Hole Charles Shovraj, now serving life term in a Kathmandu jail for murder, once boasted of the possibility of smuggling an elephant through the Tribhuvan International Airport. Subsequent events confirm that Shovaraj’s was not too big an exaggeration. Inormation leaks like water in …

BY KIRAN CHAUDHARY UNDERPINNED by One Belt and One Road (OBOR) and China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), era of new Air Silk Road has come into being with spectacular roll-out of China Southern Airlines (CSA) flight operation from Lahore to Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang autonomous region in far northeast of …

DR. AB THAPA Even the most underdeveloped landlocked country Lesotho, which is also an enclave, was able based on international law (Ref) to reach an agreement with South Africa to use the proceeds from the supply to the latter regulated water discharged after power generation to construct free of cost …

BY FABIO MASSIMO PARENTI A few days ago, Financial Times op-ed “Multilateralism without American Leadership” offered an interesting discussion on changes in the current world order. Even though an opinion piece tends to oversimplify the reality, more so when it is dealing with the entire world, it can raise pertinent …

Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli (Oli) is visiting China from June 19 to 24, his first to China after re-election in February. What’s his take on the cooperation between China and Nepal? What does he think of Nepal’s relations with China and India? Global Times (GT) correspondent Chen Jianyang …

By Our Reporter Kumari Bank Limited (KBL) and Om Hospital and Research Centre Pvt. Ltd (OMHRC), Chabahil, Kathmandu have signed an agreement to provide quality medical services at reasonable cost to all its accountholders and their direct dependents. The agreement was signed by Rajib Giri, Deputy Chief Executive Officer on …

By Our Reporter Anilkeshari Shah has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the NABIL Bank by the Bank’s Board of Directors meeting held on 21 June. Eight years ago, Shah was serving as the acting CEO of the Bank. Later, he had quit the Bank and joined Megha …