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Nepal has almost completed two years of federalism implementation. This has been a landmark achievement as elected representative are working at the local level after gaps of almost two decades. Nepal has successfully elected around 42,000 representatives at local, provincial and federal level. Bulk of the elected representatives is now working at local level. Although it will be too early to assess the performance of federal mode of governance, but two things are evident. First, we wont revert back to old system of governance for any foreseeable future. Second, successful transition from centralist system of governance is not only slow but also complicated due to vested interest of various stakeholders. Focusing on the performance of local government, this paper outlines bright as well as blind spot of the performance of local government in Nepal

Obama's ex-Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote a damning assessment of Biden in his memoirs in 2015. His scathing verdict has, sadly, been vindicated by the president's awful decision to throw Afghans to the wolves. Having held the post of defense secretary between 2006 and 2011, Gates once famously declared that Joe Biden "has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades