8 July 2020 I The sheer access Nepalese leaders readily grant to New Delhi’s secret intelligence operatives becomes apparent from a news article published by an Indian news website. The…
By Amit Gautam, Kathmandu 2 July 2020 Past two months have seen a sudden shift in the manner and frequency of Indian media’s coverage of Kathmandu’s political soap opera. Until…
The government of Nepal tabled a constitution amendment bill earlier this week – a way towards endorsing a new political map that the government had issued late last month.
A Change.org campaign seeking to have divisive Indian television host Arnab Goswami “banned” from broadcasting is suddenly trending hot after tons of angry Nepalese supporters throw their weight behind the online petition.
What a state manages to achieve in a bilateral or multilateral negotiation depends very much on its institutional memory. Institutional memory here refers to what a negotiating state presents as statistical and subjective evidence during a negotiation process.
By Bikram Timilsina, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University 12 December 2019 Nepal’s former foreign minister Dr Bhekh Bahadur Thapa has drawn an interesting analogy around Indo-Nepal border disputes. In a…
20 November 2019 I Some Indian media outlets maintain that the Nepal Communist Party, that holds two-thirds majority in the parliament, is responsible for perpetuating Kalapani clamour. A disputed range…
19 November 2019 I India is rather surprised at Nepal’s unusually “aggressive tone” on the disputed Kalapani region, website of a popular Hindi-language newspaper reports. Last weekend, Prime Minister KP…
By Bikram Timilsina & Ram Khatry 16 November 2019 Earlier this week, some agitated Nepalese youths poured onto streeets and burnt effigies of Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping – executive…
13 November 2019 I Nepal’s repeat hunger-striker Dr Gobinda KC has penned an open letter to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi as he ended his 17th hunger strike yesterday. In…
30 April 2019: Yeti, a subject shunned by science, has become a trending topic on Twitter after Indian Army told its nearly six million followers that its mountaineering expedition team…
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…
