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Budget 2026/27

What is budget, and how is it formed?

Every mid-Ashar, Nepal's fiscal year ends and a new fiscal year begins. Before the start of the new year, the government announces the budget for the coming year. For everyone from the private sector to the general public, the budget is the most important basis for planning for the future.

Economy

Let there be more international students in Nepal

In this second episode, we talk with Prof. Uddhab Pyakurel, Kathmandu University School of Arts, who emphasises that Nepal’s government must prioritise international students — for instance — simplify the visa process and fees for them and extend adequate support to universities, and budgetary support to extend scholarship opportunities to international students.

Society

For balanced international relations, the house has to be in order first

This episode with Gaurab Shumsher Thapa touched upon the foundational understanding of the broader themes of international relations, the history of Nepal's IR, the essence of soft power, national interest, and the principle of Panchsheel.

Until the state acknowledges the full extent of the harm done to its youngest combatants, its path to true reconciliation will remain fundamentally broken.

Op-ed  Suruchi Belbase

An anti-poor agenda is purposefully set by governments to shift the housing crisis, rent problems and unemployment to the fault of the public.

Op-ed  Sinchu Bhurtel

A secretariat can also serve as an entry point for younger voices to engage directly in political and policy processes, strengthening their sense of ownership …

Op-ed  Aman Pant

In the latest development, ICC member states are preparing to conflate two separate questions—whether serious misconduct occurred and whether the prosecutor should be removed—in a …

International  Josep Borrell

The protestor concludes that their living voice has been rendered entirely silent by bureaucracy, corruption, or tyranny, and that only the horrific, public destruction of …

Op-ed  Suruchi Belbase

Membership in the MPIA would help safeguard Nepal’s interests in an uncertain global trading system while reinforcing its commitment to rules-based international trade.

Op-ed  Subheksha Joshi

The myth of laissez-faire America has proved remarkably durable, functioning almost as a national religion, even as the practice diverged from the creed.

Op-ed  Shang-Jin Wei

Students are on the streets demanding accountability for a flawed Grade 12 evaluation. They deserve answers. But Nepal's education system owes them more for something …

Op-ed  Shalav Rana

How a nation that survived kings, Maoists, and catastrophes is now learning to genuflect before a new kind of lord

Op-ed  Suman Gyawali

If Nepal wants a healthy, transparent, and globally competitive gold jewellery sector, serious reforms are necessary, particularly stable and transparent gold import policy, taxation and …

Business  Mukesh Jodhani

What made manufacturing the powerful economic escalator it used to be was that it could employ large numbers of low-skilled workers while making limited demands …

Economy  Dani Rodrik

The psychology of cross-border communities is completely different from how an international border is understood from Kathmandu.

Op-ed  Prem Kumar Sah

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