NEW DELHI: Winds of change in the India-Nepal relationship? That remains to be seen, but the visit later this week of India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla to Kathmandu suggests a determination to address the bumps in the relationship. The most recent bump of course, is the bitter border dispute over Nepal’s claims to the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s Army Chief General MM Naravane is an unlikely candidate to repair the recently strained India-Nepal relations but his three-day visit to Kathmandu beginning today might just be the opening that both sides have been looking for to mend ties after months of bickering and bitterness. Traditionally, all Indian Army Chiefs are conferred […]Read More
NEW DELHI: When chiefs of intelligence agencies travel, whether in the country or outside, it’s rarely known and therefore rarely reported upon. Which is why the visit of Samanta Goel, chief of India’s external espionage outfit RAW (Research and Analysis Wing), to Nepal is odd. According to the respected Kathmandu based English language paper My […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China’s border issues with India have tended to obscure its territorial claims in other parts of this region. Nepal has seen a sudden surge in anti-China sentiment amid reports of Beijing taking over Nepali territory in a remote border district. It hasn’t helped that Nepal’s ruling communist party has been quick to give […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India doesn’t appear inclined for talks with Nepal on the Kalapani territorial dispute. A senior Indian official in Delhi told StratNews Global, “It’s not going to happen in the near future. It’s doubtful if these talks will be held.” Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has been seeking foreign secretary level talks on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: What prompted Nepal’s foreign minister Pradeep Gyawali to say recently that the tripartite agreement of 1947, which allows his country’s Gorkhas to serve in the Indian army, has become “redundant”? And that Nepal would instead like to have separate bilateral pacts with India and the UK—the other two signatories to the agreement. Gyawali’s […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In what could be a tentative effort to break the ice, Nepal’s Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli dialled his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for a chat on Saturday afternoon. The pretext was to congratulate India on the occasion of its 74th Independence Day and discuss cooperation on the coronavirus, but Oli may have […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Signs of a thaw in bilateral relations? India’s Ambassador in Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra is scheduled to hold discussions with Foreign Secretary Shankar Das Bairagi on August 17, the first such meeting in nearly nine months. The discussions are under the ambit of the Oversight Mechanism, which is normally a routine affair to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The central or the middle sector along the India-China Line of Actual Control (LAC) is the least troublesome sector so far unlike the Eastern (Arunachal Pradesh-Sikkim) or Western (Ladakh) sectors mainly because both sides have limited military options to gain advantage in this area. Not surprisingly, it has remained quiet but for occasional intrusions […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Nepal’s embattled Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli lives to fight again! A meeting of the powerful standing committee of the ruling Nepal Communist Party, scheduled for Wednesday, has now been put off to Friday. It gives Oli some more time to try and win over or divide those against him, currently 30 of 44 […]Read More
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