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विकल्पबारे जानकार हुँदाहुँदै पनि सर्वोच्चले किन रोकेन वीरगञ्जको मुख्य सडक विस्तार? - Ajoriya

विकल्पबारे जानकार हुँदाहुँदै पनि सर्वोच्चले किन रोकेन वीरगञ्जको मुख्य सडक विस्तार? - Ajoriya

ajoriya.com — करिब दुई दशकदेखि वीरगञ्जको मुख्य सडक विस्तार कहिले र कति हुने अन्योलताबीच सर्वोच्च अदालतले टुंगो लगाएको विवाद केवल वालेन्द्र शाह नेतृत्वको संघीय सरकारको सार्वजनिक जग्गा अतिक्रमण हटाउने अभियानको विषय मात्र होइन। फैसलाको पूर्णपाठले विगत एघार वर्षमा सरकारको नेतृत्व एवं यस क्षेत्रका जनप्रतिनिधिहरुको गैरजिम्मेवारपना उजागर हुने गरी अर्को गम्भीर प्रश्न पनि उठाएको छ। २०८३ वैशाख ६,...

When identity hardens into conflict | The Farsight Nepal

When identity hardens into conflict | The Farsight Nepal

The Farsight Nepal — On the night of March 4, Nepalis went to bed carrying a familiar burden: uncertainty. The promise of elections the next morning, framed as a reset after months of youth-led anti-corruption protests and a near-collapse of governance, offered a fragile...

Birgunj under curfew, Gaur recovers; Critics question 'repeat curfew' response | The Farsight Nep...

Birgunj under curfew, Gaur recovers; Critics question 'repeat curfew' response | The Farsight Nep...

The Farsight Nepal — On Monday morning, the District Administration Office in Birgunj imposed an indefinite curfew across major parts of the metropolis, calling it a preventive and precautionary measure after tensions flared overnight in Ward 11, Shreepur. According to Chief District Officer Bholanath...

What does Oli's return to UML leadership mean in politics? | The Farsight Nepal

What does Oli's return to UML leadership mean in politics? | The Farsight Nepal

The Farsight Nepal — KP Sharma Olis dominating re-election at the 11th General Convention of the CPN-UML reflects more than personal popularity. It reveals an enduring grip on party machinery at a time when Nepals multiparty democracy is shrouded in uncertainty. The vote came...

'Social media broke hierarchical communication without meaningful dialogue' | The Farsight Nepal

'Social media broke hierarchical communication without meaningful dialogue' | The Farsight Nepal

The Farsight Nepal — In the wake of recent widespread protests that escalated into violence, I sat down with Lekhanath Pandey, a seasoned Kathmandu-based journalist, Assistant Professor of Journalism at Tribhuvan University, and public commentator, to analyse the complex web of factors that led...

Who called on students in school uniform? | The Farsight Nepal

Who called on students in school uniform? | The Farsight Nepal

The Farsight Nepal — It was the morning of September 9 when I returned home after an unintended all-nighter at the office. The Kathmandu district administration would impose a curfew from 8:30 AM to contain expected public unrest following the death of 21 protesters...

How to form the next government constitutionally? | The Farsight Nepal

How to form the next government constitutionally? | The Farsight Nepal

The Farsight Nepal — A leadership vacuum looms at the highest level of the government amid the deadly devastation across the country that swept the state institutions. Amid devastation and a brief episode of anarchism across the country, including the arson attack carried out...

Barbād-e-Gulistān: Why India is right about the West's double standards | The Farsight Nepal

Barbād-e-Gulistān: Why India is right about the West's double standards | The Farsight Nepal

The Farsight Nepal — Barbād gulistān karne ko bas ek hi ullu kaafi tha, Har shākh pe ullu baithā hai, anjām‑e‑gulistān kyā hogā. Bashir Badr One owl would have been enough to destroy the gardenbut now each branch has one. What will be left?...

From pumps to politics: Birgunj's water conflict has begun | The Farsight Nepal

From pumps to politics: Birgunj's water conflict has begun | The Farsight Nepal

The Farsight Nepal — People in the Gulf buy new clothes because they dont have water to wash the old ones, my father would often say more than a decade ago, whenever someone in our house left the tap running. It sounded exaggerated then,...

At the mercy of a mighty syndicate | The Farsight Nepal

At the mercy of a mighty syndicate | The Farsight Nepal

The Farsight Nepal — On June 2, a nationwide transport strike brought the entire road-based public transport to a standstill, leaving students, patients, caregivers, workers, and the public in large stranded. The strike continued for the next two days. The shutdown was called by...

Deepening water crisis in Birgunj has sustainable solutions | The Farsight Nepal

Deepening water crisis in Birgunj has sustainable solutions | The Farsight Nepal

The Farsight Nepal — As daily temperatures soared over 40 degrees Celsius with little to no rainfall this monsoon, hand pumps have run dry in Birgunj, the plains most populous city, serving at least 1.4 million people. The city has faced low to moderate...

Nepal suffers, the world shrugs: Sagarmatha Sambaad meets political apathy at home and abroad | T...

Nepal suffers, the world shrugs: Sagarmatha Sambaad meets political apathy at home and abroad | T...

The Farsight Nepal — As Nepal battles extreme weather events worsened by disasters and loss and damage from the plains through the hills and mountains, the country geared up to televise its first bid to become a climate leader, which went live on May...

A decade of our fault lines

A decade of our fault lines

The Farsight Nepal — A decade since the devastating earthquake, Nepal remains a seismic red zone, where calamities quickly turn into disasters due to lack of governance and limited economic capacity.

Cybercrimes on upward trend | The Farsight Nepal

Cybercrimes on upward trend | The Farsight Nepal

The Farsight Nepal — In our earlier story, we reported a particular modus operandi of online financial frauds, where people were lured into investing in fraud schemes. They eventually lost hundreds of thousands of rupees in bid to secure their previous deposits and avert...

Dalit children don't go to school. They rely on free community tuition

Dalit children don't go to school. They rely on free community tuition

The Farsight Nepal — The clock hit 4 PM. The calendar read February 14, Friday. I was at a Dalit settlement in Kehuniya, Bindawasini of Birgunj Metropolitan City ward number 19. Children gathered at a vacant piece of land situated between two mud and...

‘Madhesh Library to build conscious Madheshi intelligentsia through knowledge production’

‘Madhesh Library to build conscious Madheshi intelligentsia through knowledge production’

The Farsight Nepal — While beginning this conversation about the Madhesh Library and Research Centre with its coordinator Anshu Kumar and founder and guardian Aavash Guru — we stumbled upon a notion: ‘जति यो देश तिम्रो, त्यति मेरो पनि’ and the onus of proving this sense always lying on Madheshis. Why is it so?

Another wildfire season on horizon which claimed 17 lives last year

Another wildfire season on horizon which claimed 17 lives last year

The Farsight Nepal — Observers say wildfires in the months of January and February, when mountain forests are covered with snow, are unusual while the winter months (December-February), like the past two years, remain dry this year too.

How scammers are stealing big

How scammers are stealing big

The Farsight Nepal — They first credit your account with 1000s. Then lure you to credit theirs 100 times more.

Scoreboard: NPL in numbers

Scoreboard: NPL in numbers

The Farsight Nepal — How does CAN’s dream project fare in economic numbers?

NPL was blockbuster. But racism remains out of discourse

NPL was blockbuster. But racism remains out of discourse

The Farsight Nepal — The league will inevitably become the home of Nepali cricket fans, supporting their favourites, and of economic activities. But the first edition has left a scar on Madhesis who won but lost — after incidents of racism against Bolts’ supporters at the match venue and social media.

Government must move with incremental growth targets, presses think tank IIDS

Government must move with incremental growth targets, presses think tank IIDS

The Farsight Nepal — The second IIDS Policy Conclave proposed revisions in the government’s 15th periodic plan under ‘Nepal Vision 2100’, adducing government targets for 2100 overambitious.

बहस लिगले ल्याएको राष्ट्र निर्माणको अवसर बारे हुनुपर्थ्यो

बहस लिगले ल्याएको राष्ट्र निर्माणको अवसर बारे हुनुपर्थ्यो

Artha by Farsight Inc — तर बिडम्बना नेपाली समाजले क्रिकेट जस्तो सद्भाव तथा एकता कायम गराउने खेलमार्फत पनि होच्याउन नै रोज्यो।

Almost 70% of the Nepali diaspora in the US migrated post-2010: a report

Almost 70% of the Nepali diaspora in the US migrated post-2010: a report

The Farsight Nepal — Over 5.3 million Nepalis applied for the EDV program between 2012 and 2021.

Your Excellency! We want your aid once again

Your Excellency! We want your aid once again

The Farsight Nepal — BP Highway is a prime example of Nepal’s failure on learning technology and ramping up its construction abilities, leaving the country ever reliant on external support to build and maintain its vital infrastructures.
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