Whether syllabuses have worked or failed have always been decided by the learners of the language.

Members of the global community are paying a heavy price for their economic intimacy.

Nepal Health Research Council must not stand in the way of the country’s contribution to the global knowledge base on Covid-19.

Financial institutions need to play their part in helping the continent to recover.

In any grouping, one can find a privileged centre surrounded by those that deviate from what constitutes the majority. States need to learn this, too.

Stepping up efforts to ensure food security for all is essential to preventing the Covid-19 crisis from becoming a humanitarian calamity.

India and Nepal will play the role of a catalyst in shaping the narrative of a new regional and sub-regional alignment.

No policymaker is prepared to allow a killer epidemic to run its natural course, because the potential death toll would be unacceptable.

And we need firms and organisations to invest more in research and analysis.

Movement restrictions and office closures have hamstrung the anti-corruption work of oversight bodies, activists and the press.

The Nevsun case can help individuals residing in legally weak countries gain justice against foreign-owned corporations.

There seems to be a misconception that lockdown measures alone will tackle the novel coronavirus. This is far from the truth.

The country being in a highly-vulnerable seismic zone, one would think the government and society would plan better.

Nepalis knew all along that the economy, based largely on remittance, is unsustainable. But we never realised that it would meet such a chaotic fate.

What the Chinese narrative on Mt Everest tells us about shaping international views.

Communist parties have always disliked the idea of out-migration yet have done little to help Nepalis stay back.

Out of the desperation and urgency of the pandemic, governments can affect great change by promoting social entrepreneurship.

The task of tackling the challenges of governance seldom goes with neo-nationalism; Oli has found another issue to distract from his poor record.

The motor vehicle agreement between Nepal, Bangladesh and India has potential--but it, unfortunately, may go the same route as SAARC.

The government needs to reassess budget priorities, but it seems reluctant to listen to sound advice.