The decision of 16 student unions to advocate for meritocracy comes as a breath of fresh air.

Regular monitoring of water suppliers and stringent punishment of contaminators is a must.

A year into office, the coalition is increasingly losing relevance by failing to deliver on its promises.

Lax enforcement of guidelines has emboldened industries to continue with problematic practices.

The KMC’s new ban on smoking in public places is laudable. It should not be limited to publicity stunts.

The government must stop distributing tranches of hollow promises as relief to the victims of natural disasters.

Nepal’s development partners could question its commitment to human rights and reconsider funding.

Oli’s new assertion of power in the UML has raised some troubling questions.

Unrealistic programmes and unmet promises on the health sector deepen public’s mistrust of it.

How many more people must die while crossing rivers before the state takes the issue seriously?

Delayed law-making or making laws to please vested interests is a breach of public trust.

Laws must be defended unless there is a clear legal or constitutional reason to change them.

The surfacing of one after another corruption case is adding to public disenchantment with politicians.

You don’t have to dive deep into the digital rabbit hole to fall victim to cybercrime.

What's more brutal than a society that remains unmoved by a woman’s death in a menstrual shed?

It takes breathtaking conceit on the part of Oli and his close circle not to see their unpopularity.

It is unjust to link a child’s identity solely to the father, disregarding the mother’s presence.

It’s in Nepal’s larger interest to open the obstructed border point at Rasuwagadhi at the earliest.

Negative impacts of social media are less about children’s actions and more about lack of oversight.

Shouldn’t the victims of medical negligence in Nepal have the right to seek legal redress?