When workers come home in coffins, the least the country can do is show some respect.

Young girls and women losing their precious lives to a deadly superstition is distressing.

Making the streets safer for pedestrians and drivers should be a major policy priority.

While collecting microdata is a great move, question design and execution will determine usefulness.

Nepali athletes should be able to earn enough during their short careers to last their lifetime.

Schools in other parts of the country need to start exercises in laying down rules and provisions aimed at curbing instances of sexual assault in schools.

The recent spike in onion prices, coupled with an impending long-term shortage, should make us re-examine our food habits.

Candidates running for office--be it at the local, provincial or federal level--have the responsibility to be true to their words and lead by example.

Nepalis are forced to work abroad and the government should do everything to ease their burden.

Ensuring safe motherhood and appropriate health facilities during and after pregnancy is the prerogative of the government.

Ride-sharing is here to stay, and laws will make the operators more responsible.

Nepalis are consuming more iodine than is good for them.

Our leaders like to build grand view towers, but their vision is myopic.

The government needs to explain why it thinks an expensive and opaque government-to-government deal is better.

Child molesters often enter gullible poor countries as aid workers.

Nepal needs to develop national guidelines to tackle pneumonia.

Hope remains that Nepal can somehow manage to host the South Asian Games successfully.

The old practice of fielding wives in their husbands’ former seats continues.

But, as always, how the project is implemented is important.

A core value for a country to develop, the federal govenrment must make amends.