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Hanging chairs:Activists of Nepal Federation of Indigenous People in a sit-in in front of CA building in Naya Baneshwor, Kathmandu, on Sunday, against parliament's inability to elect prime minister.

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Whose debacle is it anyway?

PHANINDRA DAHAL, Kathmandu, SEP 05

It was sensation, flourish, climax...and anti-climax. The prime ministerial election ended inconclusively for the sixth time on Sunday after both UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Nepali Congress (NC) Parliamentary Party leader Ram Chandra Poudel failed to secure a majority....

Split in Madhesi Morcha? No, says MJF

POST REPORT, Kathmandu, SEP 05

The sixth round of prime ministerial election seems to have altered the dynamics within the Madhes-based parties’ alliance—Samyukta Loktantrik Madhesi Morcha...

Contest for coveted PM chair goes for a six

POST REPORT, Kathmandu, SEP 05

Six consecutive failures in the race for prime minister have not deterred the parties from going for another round of polls on Sept....

Sole railway service stalled

SHYAMSUNDAR SHASHI, JANAKPUR, SEP 05

It sneezes, it wheezes, it wobbles, it grinds along at an excruciatingly slow pace. Yet it is bravely carrying on the banner of being the country’s sole railway service that makes a snail seem supersonic in comparison....

Newsdigest

SEP 05

Engineer goes missing KATHMANDU: A 35-year-old engineer is missing for the last three days from Lalitpur area. Family members said Mahendra Chundal, who works in the Centre for Rural Technology,...

Editorial

The Biman mishap could easily have turned into a tragedy ...

Metro

Not many of us know that drivers’ assistants in the public transport sector also need licences. Part V of the Vehicle and Transportation Act 2049 (BS) provisions for a “conductor’s licence” but the clause has, like many others, not been implemented....

Sports

Sailesh Rana bagged five gold medals on the first day of the First NAS National Open and Age group Swimming Championship on Sunday....

MONEY

Nepal will achieve most of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets by 2015, except for the more complex ones—such as total employment and climate change —which will require more effort and appropriate environment. ...

Letters

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Nation

Senior Nepali Congress (NC) leader Sher Bahadur Deuba, a three-time prime minister, has announced his candidacy for the post of party president in the run up to the party’s 12th General Convention scheduled to take place on Sept 17-21. ...

Oped

There is direct correlation between poverty, gender inequality and violence against women...

et cetera

The folk ensemble regaled the audience with some amazing fusion...

Abin

He was collecting money from people saying he would get them a cop’s job. Held him, but freed him after he told me he would make me a havaldar!

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