World’s largest democracy is about to stage the biggest peacetime repatriation
India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation (MOCA) and Department of Military Affairs (DMA) are set to stage what is being dubbed the greatest peacetime repatriation exercise.
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Modi offers help to fix up ailing Oli
3 December 2019 I Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reportedly written to his Nepalese counterpart, KP Sharma Oli, offering “assistance for further medical attention and advice”. Mr Oli has…
Dr Gobinda KC’s letter to PM Modi: “citizens of all nation states have dignity and self-respect”
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…
Indian election: Modi win delivered thanks to faith in economic growth pledges
By Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada, University of Southampton 24 May 2019 India’s electoral colossus has re-elected Narendra Modi’s BJP party, following the largest democratic exercise in the world. India has united…
Debate: Why the Indian elections are more about Narendra Modi than anything else
By Britta Ohm, Université de Berne 12 May 2019 India votes until May 19, and Western media and opinion seem to be slowly waking up to the dangers faced by…
“Gujarat’s Hitler” Hardik Patel says he would go to Nepal if he ever needed to hire watchmen, “chowkidars”
23 April 2019: In taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chowkidar title, an Indian National Congress (INC) leader has made an extremely upsetting comments against the South Asian…
India’s elections will be the largest in world history
By Erin Watson-Lynn, University of Western Australia 11 April 2019 The world’s largest democratic election is set to take place in India. Voting will take place in seven phases from…
PM Deuba’s Delhi trip: gainful game for Nepal?
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 –…
China-India border dispute a grim sign for stability in Asia
By Nick Bisley, La Trobe University July 27, 2017 Conflict was almost baked into Asia’s post-1945 international order. Taiwan’s contested status following the communist victory in China’s civil…
Behind Modi: The growing influence of the India lobby
By Ashok Sharma, UNSW, Canberra at ADF Academy 29 June 2017 One has 32.9 million Twitter followers; the other has 31 million. When U.S. President Donald Trump met Indian Prime…
To slow climate change, India joins the renewable energy revolution
By Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan 9 June 2017 On June 3, two days after President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord, Indian…
Don’t force Nepal to choose sides between India and China, Beijing-based media urges
15Dec16: A Beijing media has urged both India and China to respect Nepal’s “balance policy” instead of forcing the fragile republic to choose one of the two “rising powers” of Asia. China and…
Modi’s bank note ban has inflicted pointless suffering on India’s poorest
By Ranjit Goswami, Vice-Chancelllor, RK University 25 November 2016 The world is full of stark contrasts; and contrasts present great opportunities for spin doctors. In India, the spectre of black…
Donald Trump’s pitch to Indian Americans: “Ab Ki Baar Trump Sarkaar”
27 October 2016: “We love the Hindus. We love India,” pitches the candid US presidential candidate in his latest campaign video. Donald Trump’s latest pro-Hindu election advertisement is reminiscent of…
Indian PM Narendra Modi tries a tweet in Nepali language, “veggies did not sell”
16 October 2016: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, or one of his staff anyway, has tried a tweet in Nepali language to welcome the prime minister of Nepal, a country…
Report claims PM Narendra Modi refused to “welcome” Nepal constitution
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 17 September 2016 India “has once again refused to welcome Nepal’s constitution” – a report by nagariknews journalist Surendra Poudel claimed today. According to the Kathmandu-based vernacular…
“In the history of our friendship, today is significant day”: Modi tells Prachanda, promises US$750 million
16 Sept 2016: Editor’s Note: “In the history of our friendship, today is significant day.” This was the first sentence Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi uttered today, following the customary salutations, during…
Greeted like a rock star in London, Modi must face up to rising religious tension in India
By Anderson Jeremiah Lecturer in the department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, touched down in the UK to an…
“No country is too small to defend its dignity. Remember Vietnam?”
Of the 28 million people that call Nepal home, only 15 million or so live in the turbulent Terai region – that’s already 13 million minus the total population of…
