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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.

An equity tax on education is only as fair as the system that governs it

Budget 2026/27  Shalav Rana

Pokhara has begun demolishing structures along Phewa Lake’s 65-metre buffer zone to enforce long-pending Supreme Court orders aimed at restoring the heavily encroached lake.

Economy  Akansha Karmacharya

As economic frustration, digital mobilisation, and political drift converge, Nepal’s Terai-Madhes is witnessing a shift from lived coexistence to contested identity, with dangerous consequences

Society  Vivek Baranwal

Prohibitory orders enforced after Eid-day violence over loudly playing religious hymns; latest in a string of communal flare-ups across the Tarai-Madhes, with accountability gaps under …

Society  the_farsight

A new bill passed by the National Assembly seeks to give Nepal’s forensic system a legal backbone, introducing a DNA Databank and an autonomous framework …

Society  Akansha Karmacharya

Flag burning, retaliatory vandalism, assaults on students, calls for party volunteers at polling booths reveal a dangerous escalation in Nepal’s election season, where selective accountability …

Society  the_farsight

An indefinite curfew imposed across major parts of Birgunj following a local dispute that spiralled into communal tension has drawn criticism from residents and business …

Society  Vivek Baranwal

Youth from Hindu and Muslim communities clashed in Rampur Khap, Paroha Municipality–9, as police fired tear gas to take the situation under control. The district …

Society  the_farsight

Now, you may be forgiven for asking what a bear attack on a septuagenarian has to do with demographic change in Nepal. The answer, however, …

Society  Geoff Childs

The overall losses correspond to 1.38% of Nepal’s GDP and 4.3% of the national budget for the current fiscal year

Economy  the_farsight

Bidding farewell to cold winter

Society  Prabina Khadka

How online provocation, demographic sensitivities, and delayed accountability turned a local social media controversy into a wider communal flashpoint in the Terai-Madhes.

Society  the_farsight

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