Politics/राजनीति
Follow the idea not the person: Balen case
As we have seen in recent years, many people have become ‘cult of personalities’. These are people everyone initially liked due to what they stood for. And later on they became more and more famous and almost omnipotent in some people’s eyes, and then it got worse. One example recently is Elon Musk. We liked […]
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Did Balen forget he’s also technically the government?
Mayor Shah vented his ire on the social media over that later in the night. “Nothing happened for today. But if any of our KMC vehicles are stopped by the government from tomorrow, I will set the Singha Durbar on fire. Remember, thief government,” Shah posted on the social media Saturday night itself threatening to […]
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Nepal currently imposes a tobacco tax of just 15.5% of retail price which is the lowest among the South Asian countries
On average, in Nepal the average amount of money spent per year on cigarettes is around 11% of GDP per capita. The recent estimates show around US$1.4 trillion of total economic loss results globally from tobacco use which is equivalent to 1.8% of the world’s annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP). About 40% of this cost occurred […]
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