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Urgency of local polls

The Himalayan Times 7 March 2014 Urgency of local polls It has been almost 12 years for the local level bodies being without the elected representatives due to gross negligence of the so called big parties who never got tired of talking about democracy and claiming themselves as its champions. Different mechanisms were tried to implement the development activities at the local level. They were not successful; instead most of the development funds were misappropriated. Representatives of the all party mechanism to implement the development activities were also involved in corruption. Recently, the CIAA announced that most of the local level development funds were misappropriated in the absence of elected local bodies. Assigning a VDC Secretary to look after the daily affairs of two to three VDC was one of the blunders made by the Ministry of Local Development (MoLD). Millions of development budget were haphazardly spent due to the absence of proper supervision and mon...

Now is time to perform

The Himalayan Times 3 March 2014 Now is time to perform Finally, the new coalition government is now in place after the NC decided to allocate the Home Ministry to the UML. The intra and inter party factional political game in NC and UML had delayed the government formation process. The government is still yet to take its full shape with the participation of RPP and CPN-ML. Power sharing among the coalition partners is a delicate balance that needs to be carefully maintained in order to effectively run the government. Otherwise, the performance of the government may remain questionable. Albeit, running the government and the process of drafting the new constitution are completely different, it is still the government that has to facilitate CA 2 to smoothly move ahead to fulfil its mandated job within the expected time as promised by the political parties. The process of nominating 26 lawmakers by the government in accordance with the Interim Constitution should not...

Cards Against Humanity

Card against humanity is a game that is designed by 8 genius people and is widely played in other parts of globe. It is multi-player party game and specially played during New Years Eve. I am not sure so whether this game is available in Nepal or not. However, while I was looking for more information about this, I found this site http://www.cardsagainsthumanity.us/ . If you have similar information, Please share here. Many thanks .