12 January 2019: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar wants to upgrade a 552.3 km under-construction road along the Indo-Nepal border into a four-lane highway in view of its “strategic significance for…
By Bikram Timilsina, Brisbane 29 August 2017 Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has returned home after a 5-day long state visit to India. The coalition partners in Kathmandu –…
25 June 2017: Nepal’s ambassador to India has called on Uttar Pradesh government to remove “illegally constructed structures” from Lalita Ghat, one of key ghats in the holy city of…
12 June 2017: Former Indian ambassador to Nepal, Rakesh Sood, has penned an article for The Hindu urging the Government of India to help newly-elected Nepal Prime Minister so that…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 23 April 2017 China’s state-run daily newspaper, Global Times, recently claimed that Nepal downsized the ongoing military exercise between the communist giant and the Himalayan nation because of…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 17 April 2017 A seemingly low-key reception accorded to Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari as she arrived in New Delhi Monday afternoon appears to have caused…
4 April 20174: It’s not been long since angry protesters demanding federal republic damaged statue of a Prithvi Narayan Shah, the architect of modern Nepal. While Nepalis got what they…
By Choodamani Bhattarai, Leesburg 28 December 2016 Last week, Nepal’s deputy prime minister and finance minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara hosted a dinner in honour of visiting Chinese leader Liu Qibao. The…
By Chiran Jung Thapa, Kathmandu 19 December 2016 Almost a month after Pakistan appointed General Qamar Javed Bajwa to succeed General Raheel Sharif as its new Army Chief, India too has…
11December 2016: The 6070 kilometre-long “rail and road cargo service” between Guangzhou and Kathmandu will be more frequent as time passes, the general manager of Tibet Tianzhi Import and Export…
By Choodamani Bhattarai, Kathmandu 8 December 2016 The subject of dual nationality is currently eating away at Nepal. This hidden agenda came to the fore when the government led by…
By Chiran Jung Thapa, Kathmandu 27 November 2016 Filipino President – Rodrigo Duterte has hogged the limelight for his draconian measures against drug peddlers and users, and also for his erratic…
By Ritu Raj Subedi, China.org.cn 14 November 2016 Despite oodles of diplomatic platitudes heaped on Indian President Pranab Mukherjee’s visit to Nepal to boost Nepal-India relations, the Indian president in…
By Chiran Jung Thapa, Kathmandu 11 November 2016 Another prominent dignitary from India is currently visiting Nepal on the heels of President Pranab Mukharjee’s recent state visit to Kathmandu. General…
By Chiran Jung Thapa, Kathmandu 6 November 2016 Indian President Pranab Mukharjee’s visit to Nepal has whipped up a storm of controversy. While the Nepalese government accorded the highest honor…
By Krandan Chapagain, Kathmandu 2 November 2016 When head of state of a friendly nation arrives on an official visit, citizens of the host country usually line up the route and hail the…
30 October 2016: India is sending at least 70 fully armed security personnel to Nepal to provide extra protection for Pranab Mukherjee who is arriving in Kathmandu on November 2…
28October 2016: Nepalese people say their national pride has been compromised by the declaration of “public holiday” on November 2, the day Indian President Pranab Mukherjee arrives in Kathmandu for…
11October 2016: The “anti-India” sentiment which was said to be prevalent in Nepal following the recent blockade by India was not really an “anti-India” sentiment but it was rather a feeling of “hurt”…
Hinting at Oli government’s increasingly cosy relations with China, Nepal’s ambassador to India Deep Kumar Upadhyay has reminded his political bosses in Kathmandu that it is with India ‘but no other country that’…
