Nepal, Feb. 13 -- The bad news is the order of the day in Nepal. One such to come by - certainly not the only one - is that the Department of Roads has yet to start restoration of the five major highways damaged by the massive rains in September 2024. According to the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, they require a sum of Rs 20 billion for, what they call, "permanent reconstruction" of the fully destroyed sections of the roads. That ministry's spokesperson has gone on the record saying that the Ministry of Finance has not allocated the required funds thus far. Needless-to-say, the Physical Infrastructure and Transport Ministry has not initiated any process for the reconstruction of the roads, because the ministry does no...