On May 9 Victory Day celebration at Red Square, Moscow, everyone was expecting President Vladimir Putin to say something about his special military operation in Ukraine that he ordered on 24 February…

"War is the father of all things" - Heraclitus   When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, the war was expected to last not more than a couple of days. Given the relatively fla…

One of the distinct features of Nepali politics is that the country has been in transition for a prolonged period of time. If modern political history of Nepal is to be traced back from 1950s then th…

Besides possibility of rethinking on fossil fuel consumption, one positive outcome from Ukraine crisis could be the resurgence in global anti-corruption drives which, since last decade or so, have co…

First, coronavirus wreaked havoc in 2019. The virus created global economic topsy-turvy. The world is still struggling to recover from Covid infection. Second, after two decades of occupation, US abr…

Ukraine crisis popped up at a time when Nepal was already badly embroiled into another crisis that was having a geo-political ramification. It has to do with the crisis of Millennium Challenge Corpor…

With the parliamentary approval, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) hiatus is over. Now, the successful implementation of MCC project squarely rests on technical and managerial capacities of the …

Two things can possibly happen today: (1) the parliament will either approve or disapprove Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), or (2) in line with Nepali spirit of doing everything at the Elevent…

The excessive politicization of MCC had led us to a situation where five-party alliance and MCC are now presented as mutually exclusive options. Last year, I wrote an op-ed for this news portal, c…

The publication of this year’s Transparency International’s publication of Corruption Perception Index 2021 (25 January) has revealed that global movement against corruption has come to a…

During dreadful panchayat days I did encounter many people harking back on old rana days. As a youngster, I remember some elders praising ranacracy for maintaining strict discipline and control in th…

The Pandora Papers, published on Sunday, by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ) has exposed dozens of world leaders and hundreds of public officials using offshore tax hav…

The reason why the Afghan Government failed to resist Taliban is simple: The government depended heavily on foreign money while Taliban survived and thrived on internally generated funds. This money …