Nepal has said that Russia has given “in-principle consent” to cancel the contracts of Nepali nationals who are engaged in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Nepal’s deputy prime minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha who is also the foreign minister said that it “agreed in principle to assist those who have joined the army to cancel their contracts”, […]Read More
It’s been a little over 24 hours since Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushp Kamal Dahal (Prachand) dumped his Nepali Congress allies and brought in the CPN-UML (Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist) into the government. But this new arrangement will be as unstable as the previous one, says Yubaraj Ghimire, Editor of Deshsanchar.com based in Kathmandu. […]Read More
Nepal’s ruling coalition government could break up later today. Kathmandu based Yubaraj Ghimire, Editor of the online portal deshsanchar.com, told StratNews Global on the phone that the Nepali Congress (NC) is expected to pull out its ministers from the coalition following reports that Prime Minister Pushp Kamal Dahal (Prachand), has struck a deal with KP […]Read More
Sixteen years after Nepal became a secular nation, discarding a Hindu tradition going back to 2000 BCE, demands that the country return to its saffron roots are being heard. Some members of the Nepali Congress (ruling in alliance with the Maoists), launched a signature campaign with the aim of winning the backing of the Mahasamiti, the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar kickstarted his first foreign trip in 2024 with a visit to Nepal. The trip which is a two-day official visit saw Jaishankar meet with his counterpart N.P. Saud for the India-Nepal Joint Commission meeting. Set up in 1987, the Joint Commission, which is the highest-level political mechanism between […]Read More
KATHMANDU: Politics is the art of the possible. In Nepal, Kedar Karki a rebel candidate of the ruling Nepali Congress (NC) was elected chief minister of eastern Koshi province last month with the backing of opposition party lawmakers, stunning the official candidate Indra Bahadur Angbo of the Maoist Centre. Supporting the rebel was Shekhar Koirala, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Recent pro-monarchy rallies in Nepal give the impression that 15 years after the two-century old institution was abolished by the constituent assembly, there are now moves to bring it back. But that maybe reading too much, rather one has to wait and watch how this movement pans out, says Prithvi Shrestha, senior journalist […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Recent rallies by pro-monarchy groups in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu are less about nostalgia for those days when the king ruled. Rather they reflect popular sentiment that the country must return to its Hindu roots, says Prithvi Shrestha, senior journalist with The Kathmandu Post. In an interview on The Gist, Shrestha also makes the […]Read More
KATHMANDU: Some of Nepal’s major news outlets portray India in a more negative light compared to China, says a report by a Kathmandu-based think tank. The Centre for Social Inclusion and Federalism warns that journalistic bias combined with nationalism and lack of information is contributing to this negative portrayal of India. The report titled ‘Geopolitics and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Chinese nationals using Nepalese documents to enter India is part of a much bigger strategic threat from China’s growing presence in the tiny Himalayan nation, says Dr Srikanth Kondapalli, Dean of the School of International Studies and a Professor of China studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Military exercises between the PLA and the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Santosh Sharma Poudel, co-founder of the Nepal Institute for Policy Research and faculty at the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, explains why the ancient Nepal-India relationship is fraying at the edges, and argues that China offers hope to the common Nepali despite the lack of a common language or […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The India Nepal relationship, problematic even at the best of times, has witnessed significant transformation in certain key areas. The four-day visit of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal from May 31 was a case in point. His delegation included apart from the foreign minister, ministers of finance, energy, water resources and irrigation, physical […]Read More
KATHMANDU: As India recently handed over the Final Location Survey of the proposed cross-border Raxaul-Kathmandu railway, China has also stepped up its effort to connect the railway with Kathmandu. Many analysts consider the proposed railway connecting Indian town-Raxaul and Nepal’s capital city and China’s efforts to connect Nepal with Kerung-Kathmandu Railway as the two rivals’ […]Read More
On June 11, Nepal Press ran an article explaining how several Nepalese had joined the Russian military following President Vladimir Putin’s May 16, 2023 approval of a bill allowing foreigners who have served in the Russian army for one year to obtain Russian citizenship. Birat Anupam, the senior journalist who wrote the article, tracked down […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “We will establish such contacts that our borders do not become barriers. Today, the Nepal Prime minister and I have taken many important decisions to make our partnership a super hit. We will continue to strive to take the India-Nepal relationship to Himalayan heights and in this spirit we will resolve all issues […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Four days in India with the meet & greet, talks and exchange of documents loaded into one power-packed day tomorrow (June 1): Nepal’s Prime Minister Prachanda seems to want to leave a good impression with his host and the audience back home during his first official visit abroad after taking over the top […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Nepal elects a new president on Thursday and it appeared the current incumbent Bidya Devi Bhandari would be re-elected given that Prime Minister Prachanda was backed by K P Sharma Oli, Communist leader and her strong backer. But Prachanda has done a U-turn, indicating his backing of Nepali Congress leader Ram Chandra Paudel. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Nepal’s new government may not last even though it has brought together the communist flock under one tent. In this conversation on The Gist, Maj. Gen. Binoj Basnyat, a retired Nepal Army officer currently strategic analyst with Thailand’s Rangsit University, believes that it may not be long before Prime Minister Prachanda finds the […]Read More
Does India have any allies left in Nepal? That’s the million-dollar question which Indian diplomats with long experience of our Himalayan neighbour, are asking themselves. The Nepali Congress (NC), which India has invested heavily in, stands isolated on the political margins even after emerging as the single largest party post elections. Worse still, the buzz […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The counting of votes is still underway in Nepal after elections on Sunday, but the trends are clear: incumbent Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s party the Nepali Congress is leading or has won in 70 seats. He is expected to return as prime minister but does that mean all’s well? In this chat […]Read More
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