360 Scrutiny

Nepal, as a country, has always been famous for gambling. Historically, we’ve loved gambling so much that the early European visitors to the Kathmandu Valley used to be baffled by the open gambling…

The first phase of the local level elections is over. When this article is being written, Election Officers are busy counting votes polled by different candidates at a pace which would have put to …

The year 2017 started with two bangs which have brought down the age old dictums that communism stands for state-control where as capitalism stands for free market. President Xi of China, who is al…

On evening of November 8, 2016, the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi announced that the currency notes of INR 500 and 1000 circulating until that date would no longer be legal tender effective…

Office goers in Nepal should be a very happy lot. The government of the day gives them ‘Bida‘ or holiday on pretext as flimsy as the visit of the Indian president. The opposition especially the ext…

The 20th century saw a rapid growth of international trade and global economic integration. Economic globalisation has yielded significant results in the form of global economic growth and wealth c…

These days Monopolies and competition are on the news. Rattled by a number of bus accidents with great many fatalities, we as a nation seem to have suddenly woken up to the sorry state of our trans…