Oli’s iffy health reignites NCP leadership battle
When it comes to the ‘gentleman’s agreement’ between Oli and Dahal, the second-rung leaders of the ruling...
When it comes to the ‘gentleman’s agreement’ between Oli and Dahal, the second-rung leaders of the ruling...
The Indians are worried. What does the growing Chinese presence in Nepal mean? Does it spell an end to its dominant role here? Growing Chinese influence in South Asia has long been a concern for India. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to...
The government has received information that Shah has intensified his lobbying—both domestic and foreign—in order to launch a movement against the current political system
Biswo Poudel is among the most noted new-generation economists in Nepal. A former senior advisor at the National Planning Commission and currently a professor of economics at Kathmandu University, Poudel has a firm grasp of Nepal’s economic history as...
India and China have always presented Nepal with complicated geopolitical challenges, and there has never been an easy choice for us
How can they even see eye-to-eye, much less sign a pact of everlasting friendship and mutual learning? But even while the recent bonhomie between Nepal’s NCP and China’s CPC seems farfetched, they also have a lot in common The fear is that the NCP...
It may be a coincidence but just when China introduced Xi Jinpingism, Nepal saw the emergence of the powerful NCP. A big a section of the party is enamored with China’s political and development models
Nepal’s former foreign secretary and permanent representative to the United Nations in New York Madhu Raman Acharya is a keen observer of regional geopolitics. Biswas Baral and Kamal Dev Bhattarai sought his views on the ongoing confusion over the American...
Following a 1961 agreement to build a highway linking Kathmandu with Kodari, there was incessant talk in Nepal about how communism would easily travel here India was alarmed; it feared such a road link would pose a threat to its security. Western countries...
Nepali officials have told their Chinese counterparts that a stopover visit after India would not send a positive signal, and it would be preferable if he came to Kathmandu via Tibet or directly from Beijing
The Nepali bureaucrats come up with a hundred reasons why a proposed BRI project won’t fly
As many as 80,000 have been excluded from India’s updated National Register of Citizens and they are worried about being stateless
If the Chinese president comes, will it be an unmistakable sign of exemplary Nepal-China ties? Not necessarily
The Congress had guessed that a coup against a democratic government would not take place on the eve of the visit of a country’s queen where the parliamentary system was born. The prediction turned out to be stupendously wrong
