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Mahakali Treaty outcome of economic nationalism

By Hari Bansh Jha

It was on 12 February 1996 that the the Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and the then Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narsimha Rao signed an agreement on the integrated development of the Mahakali river in Delhi. The Pancheshwor Project under the Treaty was expected to produce 6,000 MW of hydro-power with the investment cost [...]

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Analysing food versus fuel

By Damodar Kanel

The future of biofuel is at a crossroads. Soaring fuel prices, debates on global climate change and environmental consequences, and sustainability and intergenerational equity concerns of fossil fuel usage have prompted governments to expand production and use of biofuels. The potential adverse impacts on food security and human suffering associated with biofuel expansion, on the [...]

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