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
CHENNAI: Nepal’s Parliament unanimously passed a resolution to adopt a new map in which some Indian territory claimed by Nepal has been included. Is it plain cartographic aggression? Let us see how the claim originated. The India-Nepal boundary in Kalapani area is aligned to the Kali river, based on the Sugauli Treaty of 1816. Nepal […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India launched a broadside at Nepal on Monday, dismissing its efforts to claim Indian territory through a constitutional amendment. Sources said Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s “actions are myopic and self-serving and meant only to further his political agenda,” a pointed reference to his internal political battles with other leaders of the NCP […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A sliver of land over which India and Nepal have contesting claims has strained ties between the neighbours that share a long and porous border. Tension over territorial claims has been simmering since November last year after India showed Kalapani as part of a new map it issued that month and Nepal sought […]Read More
NEW DELHI: An approximately 1,700 km long porous border between India and Nepal has contributed to the deep and strong civilizational and people-to-people links between the two nations. But as often happens with close neighbours, the two are currently at loggerheads over contesting territorial claims. At stake are the territories of Kalapani, Lipu Lek and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: What is the official view of the Nepali government on the Coronavirus? According to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, “Indian virus looks more lethal than Chinese and Italian. More are getting infected”! Usually prime ministers are circumspect, clearly not this one. It’s a pointer to how low the bilateral relationship has fallen. The […]Read More
NEW DELHI: ‘Undermining Loktantra’ (Undermining Democracy)–“Yet, it seems that the large mandate has been entirely misinterpreted by the man in charge of both the ruling party and the federal government, Prime Minister KP Oli. It is no secret that Oli has been critical of the move towards federalism from the start. It is also not […]Read More
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