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Nepal: Ensuring that Local Polls are Truly Free and Fair
Ensuring the code of conduct is followed, that candidacies are inclusive, and the expense ceiling is adhered to are as important as ensuring that...
Accountability
Years of Policy Failure and COVID Throw Sri Lanka Into Deep Crisis
Sri Lanka is collapsing and its economy is at a tipping point. The country is witnessing one of the worst economic and political crises...
Freedom of speech and expression
Chronicle of a Tragedy Unfolded
While officially, the burqa ban is justified on grounds of need for uniformity and wearing of hijab is not seen as necessary to religious...
Accountability
US–China Rivalry Complicates Development Aid in Nepal
On 1 March 2022, Nepal’s coalition government, led by the Nepali Congress party, finally ratified the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)’s Nepal compact, a US$500 million infrastructure and...
Accountability
Pakistan’s Historic Court Ruling: ‘Rome Has Spoken, the Case Is Finished!’
After three days of mulling over the issues involved, the five-member bench gave its “short order” ruling, upholding the supremacy of the Constitution at...
Empowerment
India’s Female Representation Bill Is Still Seated
It has been 25 years since the Women’s Reservation Bill — a constitutional amendment proposing that 33 per cent of seats in India’s central...
Finance and Economy
Sri Lankan Economic Crisis Inflicted by Self-Serving Elite
Once deemed a basic human needs success story, Sri Lanka is now in its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948. Nonetheless, Sri Lanka’s...
Finance and Economy
High Cost of Debt is Crippling Developing Nations: How Can We Bridge the Finance Divide?
The 2022 Financing for Sustainable Development Report: Bridging the Finance Divide report released by the United Nations last week finds that the ‘finance divide’...
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Are Government Schemes Meaningful in the Absence of Land Rights?
It is evident that the effects of the project are not uniformly distributed, as certain villages experience benefits while...
Sub-Committee for GRAP Directs Agencies to Take Dust Abatement Measures
The sub-committee for GRAP has undertaken a comprehensive review of the air quality scenario in the National Capital Region...
Educating the Mind Without Educating the Heart is No Education at All
By Yasmine Sherif
The words above, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, serve as a reminder that we still have...
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Are Government Schemes Meaningful in the Absence of Land Rights?
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Sub-Committee for GRAP Directs Agencies to Take Dust Abatement Measures
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