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1041 Political Crisis www.nepalitimes.com www.nepalitimes.com #1041 25 - 31 December 2020 12 pages Rs 50 © ABHUSHAN GAUTAM A year of living dangerously hroughout 2020, the ruling began. Nepal Communist Party Road traffic accidents had 250 Thas been so embroiled in claimed 1,400 lives between 200 an internal power struggle that its March-August 2019, but because senior leaders either do not realise of the lockdown it dropped to 150 PRINT IS BACK (or do not care) that there is a less than 700 this year. Our graph 100 From Friday, 1 January 2021, Nepali Times Covid-19 crisis. (right) shows AQI worsened after is resuming its weekly hardcopy edition Helloooo. There is a pandemic September, and road fatalities per 50 with the world-class design and content going on. Now, in addition to the month was creeping back up more that it has been always known for. health crisis, Nepal is also facing a ‘normal’ levels by December. 0 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov political crisis. Traffic Police spokesperson, The return to print represents a new year, In this year-ender issue of Shyam Krishna Adhikari tells us, new decade and new hope for Nepal. Nepali Times, we take a look back “People have been driving more Air Qualtiy Index (AQI) Covid-19 Cases at 2020 and how the coronavirus recklessly after the lockdown, they Have your copy hand delivered to your Uncertainty, job loss, and lack of “infodemic” of news of death and pandemic has impacted on the are drinking and driving because home or office every Friday morning in social contact has led to depression sickness in the media. economy, environment, and socio- there is less checking.” Kathmandu Valley. cultural lives of Nepalis. We have On the other hand, various and psycho-social disorders. At least 1 million people Societal taboos mean mental depended directly on tourism, and mined data that show a clear other parameters like suicides, rape, For subscription details email: health is not mentioned. To make indirectly it benefited many more. correlation between the spread of domestic violence, child marriages [email protected] matters worse, Nepalis are now also The Visit Nepal 2020 campaign Covid-19 from January to December (page 12), all worsened dramatically Text: +977 9801975288 worried about political uncertainty with a target of 2 million tourists with positive aspects like cleaner from April-August. The most Or call: +977 1 5005601 air and fewer highway fatalities. worrying are police figures for and the fear of renewed violence. had to be cancelled, and it looks (page 10-11) suicides: the monthly average for “Being cooped up at home like 2021 will also be a washout. We wish all our readers and partners a The Air Quality Index (AQI) suicide casess in Nepal pre-Covid for months and being socially Still, the former CEO of the Healthy and Happy 2021. in Kathmandu started improving used to be 350. It shot up to 668 in distanced is one of the main causes Nepal Tourism Board Deepak Raj immediately after the lockdown June and 972 in July. By October, for the high number of suicides, Joshi is hopeful: “The motto is to went into effect on 24 March, monthly total suicides had dropped the lockdown has not been helpful survive 2020, revive in 2021 and and except from a spike in April again to near pre-Covid levels. at all,” says psychiatrist Kamal thrive in 2022.” Himalmedia because of forest fires, got even There is a parallel mental Gautam, who FULL STORY PAGE 10-11 Alisha Sijapati better after the monsoon rains health pandemic across Nepal. also blames the 2 Editorial 25 - 31 DECEMBER 2020 #1041 ONLINE PACKAGES .com Step back from the brink WHAT'S TRENDING s feared, Prime Minister KP Oli’s Leninist control of the Government by the brinkmanship has led the country to Party, against which the Prime Minister Athe edge of the cliff. This cartoon in became increasingly angry and rigid. Nepali Times last week was prescient, which Oli feels Dahal will endanger the polity, is why we are republishing it. and does not want him to take over the The coming days will show whether we as government under the new Constitution a nation go over, or take a step back. While the without showing contrition for the conflict. He role of the Prime Minister to bring matters to also sees himself as the rightfully elected party the point of dissolving the House is obvious, Chair, and believes Nepal should wait for the RED-HANDED it is also important to recognise the cast of upcoming General Convention to succeed him. Watch video of a Department of Foreign Employment sting Nepal’s highest-ever tiger sighting characters who pushed him to the rim of the On the one hand, lack of effective operation at a recruiting agency that had overcharged two workers A tiger was caught in a camera trap at 3,165m - the highest precipice. governance meant that Oli did not have a going to Saudi Arabia. The department has conducted 11 such proven sighting in Nepal. This could be another indication Nepal has not had a prime minister buffer of public support, and he has been operations in the past month to deter Nepalis desperate for jobs that tigers may be moving higher up the mountains due to serve a full term since the endnd ooff tthehe RanaRana furtherfurther burdenedburdened byby an iimplacablymp hostile being cheated. Story: page 5. changes in the climate, or due to habitat destruction in the regime in 1950. The continuityity ofof thethe HeadHead ofof press.press. plains. Details in this story on our website. Government in office itself waswas boundbound to hhaveave On thet other hand, Most reached and shared on Facebook provided political stability andnd economic NepalNepal and Dahal wanted stimulus. That was PM Oli's promise during to be party Chair and RESCUED MIGRANT the 2017 elections, which is whywhy he primeprim minister right Poor lady, I am glad she is safe now (‘Nepali in Saudi was voted to power. away.awa Arabia rescued after 12 years’, Upasana Khadka and K P Oli had a second As the divisions Marty Logan, #1040). How many more Nepalis are kept prisoners like her? Don’t go to Saudi-Arabia, kidney transplant in May, withinwi the NCP Middle- East countries as domestic help. Rarely are and the past ten months gotgo more and more they treated well. have been overtaken by the intractable,intr everyone Arctic Traveller Eira Covid-19 crisis, but it is whowho supported his style of leadership politicalpoliti stability had Rs953,000 as compensation for thirteen years' that has undermined hopedhope that it was work and maltreatment? Is there not some the government’s prospectpros of a party international court where we can sue the employer/ How a 105-year-old beat the virus performance. splitspli that would make the Saudi Arabian state? By Rupa Joshi He turned the thethe threet main actors – Elif Ledrön Meet a 105-year-old Nepali great-great grandmother who Prime Minister’s Office Oli,Oli, DahalD and Nepal – recovered from the coronavirus that infected her whole household. Read how she beat Covid-19 on nepalitimes.com into a parallel power backtrackbacktrack atat the lastlast moment.m This did Many of those poverty stricken and naïve people centre to Singha Darbar. notnot happen.happen. don’t know if there is anything called ICJ or the Most popular on Twitter Decision-making was GettingGetting windwind ofof a no-confidencen existence of basic rights to get compensation, that’s centralised, and the he vote byby thethe Dahal-NepalDahal-Nep faction on why people from countries like Nepal need to work seemed to revel in acting SundaySunday morning,morning, thethe primep minister for them, so that its workers are protected. Ngawang Tenzin imperious and allowing recommendedrecommended dissolutiondissoluti of the Lower animosities to fester. House,House, and President BhandariBh (who tends GURKHA REBELLION Most inexplicable SUBHAS RAI / NEPALI TIMES #22, to see things in the same light as the Prime 22-28 DECEMBER 2000 A legacy of British imperialism (‘A forgotten Gurkha has been his deliberate Minister) promptly signed the letter. rebellion’, Ram Kandangwa, #1040). Time to stop. sidelining of Madhav Kumar Nepal, which Prime Minister Oli overstepped the No Nepali would join British, Brunei, Singapore or made the latter go into an Constitution in calling for a Indian Army if the pay wasn’t good. unnatural embrace of Pushpa When the dust disbandment of the House. It was Raj Shrestha Kamal Dahal and his Maoist settles, let’s plan for a an anti-democratic move that has Nepali in Saudi Arabia rescued after legacy. put the country at peril. It was liberating reading the real experience and 12 years The train of events that free, fair and peaceful Today, the party is virtually not all the rethoric of a British Gurkha soilder. I By Upasana Khadka and Marty Logan made the prime minister elections in 2021 split. There are parallel Central agree with your assessment, the British involvement Lilamaya Dhimal spoke exclusively to Nepali Times after violate the Constitution has to Committees, both factions claim in recruitment process should be eliminated. It’s landing in Kathmandu last week after 13 years working for do with his inability to ‘manage’ Dahal. It was the party banner at the Election Commission. appalling that they keep more than half of your salary. the family of an abusive Saudi employer. Read the story Samyek Shrestha online and watch her describe her torture, dramatic rescue a matter of massaging his ego, and adhering Despite their outward opposition to Oli's and return to Nepal in this video on our YouTube channel.
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