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Nepal

Everest Dilemma

Nepal’s decision to increase permit fees for climbing Mount Everest signals a critical shift in its approach to managing the world’s tallest peak. While the hike in fees ~ from $11,000 to $15,000 during the peak season ~ will undoubtedly bolster Nepal’s revenues

Nepal bans import of medicines from 16 Indian companies

Publication of the list by the department, the national regulatory body of the drugs markets, both allopathic and ayurveda, means that medicines manufactured by those companies cannot be imported to Nepal, according to the Kathmandu Post daily.

Window to Nepal

The incoming Nepali government is a serendipitous opportunity that must be handled with care and even distance; no talks of ‘interference‘ (as often murmured) must be allowed. There will be occasional speed-breakers that must be spared condescending and coercive innuendoes, as the immediate past of the last seven years must be buried and perhaps the better past that survived for centuries invoked, without suggestions of appropriations and usurpations