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1032 16 - 22 October 2020 16-22October #1032 B Perhaps Becausetheydonot Complain Aboutthegovernment, and Crumblinginfrastructure www.nepalitimes.com www.nepalitimes.com #1032 16 - 22 October 2020 32 pages Rs 50 SAFE and HEALTHY DASAIN From all of us here at Himalmedia, we wish readers and partners a safe and healthy Dasain. At a time of unprecedented upheaval caused by this pandemic, our minds must turn to the most vulnerable in our society. Let us bring out the best in us as Nepalis to be kind, compassionate and to help each other to get over this crisis. This week, Nepali Times is bringing out this Dasain Special Edition in both print and ePaper. We hope this compilation of our most read articles of the past seven months will be relevant and interesting to you. With all of your support, we hope to restart the weekly print edition soon every Friday. The Nepali Times editorial team is taking a Dasain break, so there will be no ePaper on 23 October. However, the paper will have daily online coverage throughout the holidays on www.nepalitimes.com Himalmedia KUNDA DIXIT implement policies that would pandemic response, stays put. outwit SARS-CoV-2. Politics The Chair of the Covid-19 Crisis is business as usual in many Management Committee is countries, including Nepal. The stripped of his defence minister pandemic has actually created a portfolio, but is still calling the Upended Dasain ‘buffer’ for the Oli administration, shots at the PMO, despite exposes masking failures in performance of cronies involved in importing and delivery that were evident medical equipment and test kits. even before Covid-19. All three new ministers esides language and shared expect anything from it. They lagged in testing, turned poorly At a time when it should be inducted on Wednesday were history, the glue that binds have stopped grumbling about managed quarantine centres into taking emergency measures to Oli loyalists. In Karnali province, Bthe Nepali world is Dasain. corruption because that is the way incubators for the virus, and defuse the Covid-19 explosion former UML members of the It has traditionally been that it is. Politicians? Less said the failed to learn from Tarai cities. in Kathmandu Valley, the main provincial assembly registered a joyous time of year when the better. Countries around the world order of business for the ruling vote of no confidence against the harvests are in, the clouds part, This Dasain, concerns about that have witnessed the wildest Nepal Communist Party (NCP) is ex-Maoist chief minister. and icy peaks reappear behind health and livelihoods have spread are ones with poor still the one- upmanship The attempted forested ridgelines. added to all the other burdens leadership and governance. between factions led by Running ‘coup’ was foiled only It is the time for people to of society. The pandemic is Politicians were either in denial, Prime Minister K P Oli after Dahal managed go home to their home districts, spreading like wildfire ahead of or dithered. They underestimated and his rival, co-chair to remain to get his ally Madhav emptying out Kathmandu, and the festival, and health experts a virus that had figured out how Pushpa Kamal Dahal. Kumar Nepal to get his for the diaspora to return to warn that the upcoming Dasain- to exploit the human need to Even when senior in place supporters to withdraw the motherland. It is a time of Tihar-Chhat season will be mingle, travel, connect and to advisers are down EDITORIAL the vote. with the virus, and These events clearly renewal and hope. Dasain is the super-spreader events, since they spread through asymptomatic PAGE season Nepalis can briefly take involve family get-togethers and carriers. some ministers are 2 show that the fragile their minds off problems, of large gatherings. In Nepal, the government has hospitalised, they ceasefire between Oli which there are many. A recent Covid-19 is moving from ow surrendered to the virus. It are still haggling over political and Dahal is not holding, and the public opinion survey showed India’s cities to rural areas, has left it up to citizens to take appointees. On Wednesday, there NCP is behaving like it is still two that Nepalis continue to worry Europe is bracing itself for a their own precautions, and the were some cosmetic changes parties. most about jobs, inflation, health third wave, and the United States main priority of the state seems to to fill vacant ministerial posts, The leadership duo is now care, education for their children, is suffering a sustained peak. be keep the economy sputtering including that of the finance going be plotting seriously over and crumbling infrastructure. Nepal was relatively unscathed along, so that there is tax revenue minister. the Dasain break to undermine Strangely, they do not for the first four months after to pay for government expenses. Still, the health minister, each other. The pandemic be complain about the government, the lockdown on 24 March. But Even when their inner circle under whose watch we have damned.. perhaps because they do not Kathmandu squandered that lead, is infected, leaders have failed to bungled and flip-flopped on Kunda Dixit 2 Editorial 16 - 22 OCTOBER 2020 #1032 ONLINE PACKAGES .com PKD runs to remain in place WHAT'S TRENDING he vote of no-confidence this week was the wily Prime Minister's ability to go by former UML leaders of the Nepal behind 'enemy lines' and talk to Dahal's own TCommunist Party of (NCP) in Karnali followers. Province against the ex-Maoist Chief Minister The more Dahal challenges Oli and fails in of their own party has exposed once more the effort, the weaker he becomes politically, that the two sections of the ruling party never and together with him his ally, the former really united. UML Chair and former PM Madhav Kumar The distrust between the ex-Maoist and Nepal. The Dahal-Nepal duo has the numbers ex-UML members of the NCP has now trickled to wreck Oli’s plans, which is how the down from the power struggle at the centre to attempted ‘coup’ in the Karnali assembly this THE JIGSAW PUZZLE OF RESTORATION six of the seven provincial governments that week was foiled. The teachings of the Buddha are in a book written in gold and Declare a health emergency the UML-Maoist alliance swept in the 2017 Dahal is a leader who has to run in order silver letters in the sacred texts of Pragya Paramita, housed in by Shekhar Kharel election. to remain in place, given that his party only four known places. In the latest episode of his Walkabout A feckless government and reckless citizens are dragging now functions without series, Anil Chitrakar delves deep into the meaning of the ancient scriptures. Videos only at Nepali Times YouTube Channel. Nepal headlong into a deeper crisis. Author suggests guiding principles, whereas declaring a health emergency to manage existing health other parties at least have infrastructure and personnel. Visit nepalitimes.com for ideological fig leaves. The continuous and exclusive Covid-19 coverage. Dahal-Oli duel at the top is costing the country dearly, Most reached and shared on Facebook diverting attention when all focus should be on the health Most commented and economic fallout of the worsening Covid-19 crisis. Truth be told, the UML Govinda KC and the Right to Life and Maoist parties united Editorial but there has never been Govinda KC’s campaign is the best thing that could have a meeting of minds. The MELTING MOUNTAINS happened under Nepal's new constitution. What could be more ‘socialism oriented’ than making health and medical electoral alliance in 2017 The Tso Rolpa glacial lake has grown seven times in size since support available to the people at large? KC ended his 19th DIWAKAR CHETTRI propelled Oli to power, and 1957, if it bursts it could aff ect up to 650,000 people downstream. hunger strike on the 28th day with an 8-point agreement. gave Dahal a lifeline for a But many locals in Dolakha think climate change is a hoax. Join Follow us online for latest developments. political career that was all Rastraraj Bhandari on a trip to the scenic, but dangerously full The no-confidence motion The Dahal-Oli duel is set to sink. lake to see how precarious it is. Story: page 6-7. Most popular on Twitter fizzled out on Tuesday at the diverting attention What has changed in the last Karnali Province assembly when all focus should couple of months is that some in Surkhet after some former be on the worsening senior Maoist leaders in the HEALTH EMERGENCY UML members loyal to Madhav NCP have concluded that their Not only health, government must also declare Kumar Nepal sided with the Covid-19 crisis individual medium- to long- fi nancial emergency since private sector are ex-Maoists with Pushpa Kamal term political future now can be crippling with losses and unable to run their Dahal. Prime Minister’s K P guaranteed by the UML stream businesses (‘Declare a health emergency’, Shekhar Oli’s supporters were outnumbered. within the party rather than the Maoist stream Kharel, #1031). Only government employees and Even though Oli and Dahal did patch led by Dahal. the public sector are having good time, they can up their differences last month, the saga of Dahal's troubles create uncertainty about squeeze private sector dry to collect vat and taxes. the epic struggle for supremacy within the the future general convention of the NCP They only shed crocodile tears. party has dragged on with a deadlock in which is meant to cement the unification Arniko Rajbhandary negotiations on a cabinet reshuffle.
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