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Friday, 29 October 2026 · Late city edition
Page oneCouncil passed the spending plan just before midnight. Today the wards count what it costs them.
Budget 2026
The numbers behind the front page.
The budget adds fourteen ward offices, freezes the taxi fare and finds money for two new bus lanes. Opposition members walked out before the vote; the mayor says the plan pays for itself by spring.
By Sunita Rai · City desk
Inside the paper
Morning editionEach desk keeps its own sources and its own mistakes. Names of editors are printed so you know who to argue with.
01 · Desk
4 reports todayThe floor, the back rooms and the votes that get traded before either opens.
Editor · Anil Shrestha
02 · Desk
6 reports todayWards, budgets, water tankers and the contracts that keep the dust down.
Editor · Sunita Rai
03 · Desk
3 reports todayRemittance, rates, the informal market and who actually carries the cost.
Editor · Pratik Adhikari
04 · Desk
2 reports todayBooks, stages, kitchens and the arguments a city has with its own memory.
Editor · Maya Gurung
Today's paper
Morning editionThe contractor on three ward roads is the same man who signed off on them
Investigation
18 min readA paper trail through two ministries shows approvals moving faster than the asphalt. Nobody has been asked to explain the coincidence.
By Pratik Adhikari
City
9 min readSix months of counts show the lane moving, and the fleet not.
Courts
12 min readThe bench says the file was archived. The archive says it never arrived.
Economy
7 min readSmall buyers are back, paying in installments the boards do not advertise.
Opinion
6 min readEvery promise has a fiscal year. The wards live in a monsoon one.
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You printed the bus timetable when the board would not. It is on my fridge now. My son thinks this is what newspapers are for.
The story on the ward office said what we had been saying for two years. The difference was the documents.
I disagree with the editorial, but I am glad it was signed. Too much of this city argues from behind a blank page.
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