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  • Nepal’s Trade Deficit Continues to Widen

    Nepal’s total trade deficit in fiscal year 2014-15 surpassed the total annual budget presented for the same fiscal year, reports Republica. The trade deficit rose by 10.8 percent to a whopping Rs 689.36 billion in the fiscal year 2014-15 compared to total fiscal budget of Rs 618 billion, according to the central bank’s report titled

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  • मान्छे मार्नु र मार्न लगाउनु जस्तो कायर काम अरु हुँदैन। किन पत्याउने त्यस्तो ब्यक्तिलाई?

    कनकमणि दीक्षित तथाकथित ‘जनयुद्ध’का शुत्रधार, राष्ट्रिय संरचना ध्वस्त पार्ने योजनाकार – ‘राष्ट्र पुनर्निर्माण’ को हाकिम बन्ने दौडधूपमा छन आजको दिन, देशी-बिदेशीको सहयोग जुराउँदै। नेपाली जनताको महा-अपहेलना ! झण्डै दुई दशक मुलुकलाई ‘डाईभर्जन’मा जाकेर सामजिक अग्रगमनमा भाँजो हाल्ने, रोजगारको संभावना ध्वस्त पारेर युवा बिदेशिने क्रमलाई बल दिने, संबिधान लेखनमा निरन्तर धावा बोल्ने, लोकतान्त्रिक राजनीती ध्वस्त पार्ने

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  • Nepal Earthquake 2015: Damages and losses in the Water and Sanitation sector

    Originally posted on Pragya Lamsal: Pragya Lamsal On Saturday, 25 April 2015 at 11:56 local time, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake as recorded by Nepal’s National Seismological Centre (NSC), struck Barpak, about 76 km northwest of Kathmandu. Government records said that there are over 8,790 casualties and 22,300 injuries. Further, the government has estimated that the…

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  • कसरी सामना गर्ने माओवादी आतङ्कको ? – सी के लाल

    Originally posted on tistung deurali: मैले हिजो यी दुई ट्वीटहरू गरेँ ट्वीटमा राखिएका चित्र पढ्न गाह्रो भएको केही मित्रहरूको गुनासो रह्यो । ट्वीटरमा शायद केही समस्या होला । त्यसकारण मैले लेखलाई जस्ताको तस्तै तल साभार गरेको छु । केवल सो प्रयोजनको निम्ति यो ब्लग तयार पारेको हुँ । https://twitter.com/tistung/status/607160984592084992 https://twitter.com/tistung/status/607166198845964288 सन्दर्भ बाँदरमुढे नरसंहारको हो ।…

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  • #NepalEarthquake: Notes from the field: We shall rebuild

    Dr Swarnim Waglé I was in Gorkha and Dhading this week, in a personal capacity, assessing the loss and distributing relief materials sponsored by the Help Nepal Network (400 sacks of rice), FNCCI (assortment of medicines, mats, rice) and Leapfrog (transport). With nine hours of sleep in three days, I visited or passed by 25

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  • Nepal Earthquake: How can private businesses provide help?

    Ashutosh Tiwari How can private businesses — which provide jobs and taxes, and goods and services that people need and pay for — provide help? (Please use these points ONLY as broad suggestions. Obviously, each business has its own context, limited resources, and limited capabilities to do what it can for its employees, customers, investors

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  • Nepal Earthquake: Gentle note to the British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph

    Dr Swarnim Wagle Yesterday, it asserted in the first line of an article that one political party had announced all quake-related donations MUST go to ITS fund. Today, it has a different version online. After misleading thousands of readers with a lie for a whole day, I think the polite thing to do (and a

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