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 …

There is a saying in Nepali which a non-Nepali may find difficult to comprehend. This goes by baandar ko haat maa nariwal or a literal translation will read like this: “A coconut in the hands o…

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) - a five year long project, involving US$500 million grant assistance for constructing transmission lines and road maintenance works in Nepal was signed in …

On 8 September, exactly a day ahead of her visit to Kathmandu, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) VP Fatema Sumar dispatched her responses to the clarification letter issued by the Finance Minist…

Lately, listening to KP Sharma Oli seems to be burning with ire and is on fire, spewing venom against his opponents. The target of his ire primarily is Madhav Kumar Nepal, his arch rival within his p…