Report in The Himalayan Times, December 08, 2020 at 12:45 pmPeople in the district are facing hardship as the Nepal-India border continues to be sealed off for about nine months now. Economic, social and cultural activities have been affected in the border areas here as people are not allowed to cross the border. People living in areas near the border have started expressing anger at the halt in cross-border movement as this has affected daily…
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report The Himalayan Times, Dec 8, 2020KATHMANDU, DEC 7: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli today called an all-party meeting to ‘discuss contemporary political issues’, a day after the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Standing Committee floated the idea of an all-party meeting to discuss protests in major cities by royalists. Oli was not present in yesterday’s Standing Committee meeting of his party. The Prime Minister’s Press Adviser, Surya Thapa, said the PM had called a…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 8, 2020 .One month short of 14 years ago, Nepal’s Madhes region was burning. Protests flared up across the Tarai plains and continued for three weeks. Upendra Yadav’s Madhesi Janadhikar Forum was at the forefront of the demonstrations that challenged Nepal’s established forces and shook the foundation of the Nepali state. The protests, in which dozens of people were killed, ensured federalism. Various other Madhes-based parties are…
report in Rising Nepal, Dec 8, 2020Kathmandu, Dec 7: An agreement has been reached to finalize amendments to the Nepal-India transit treaty and the rail service agreement between the two countries. The proposal by Nepal for amendments and endorsement was taken positively by the Indian side, and will soon be finalized, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies has said. An agreement to this end was reached in a meeting held today through video conferencing…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 7, 2020The crisis in the ruling Nepal Communist Party has further deepened with chair KP Sharma Oli clearly sliding into minority while his opponent Pushpa Kamal Dahal managed to get the upper hand. The party held its Standing Committee meeting on Sunday despite Oli’s dissension. Oli, also the prime minister, did not attend the meeting. Dahal presided over the meeting and took the opportunity to chide…
by Parmeshwar Devkota in The Rising Nepal, 06 Dec, 2020Legendary Chinese philosopher Mencius has described the importance of family and friends in these words: ‘Between the father and the son, there should be affection. Between sovereign and minister, there should be righteousness. Between old and young, there should be proper order. And between friends, there should be good faith’.Irrespective of their size, population and economy, the People’s Republic of China and Nepal have been good…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 5, 2020Despite Tuesday’s appeal by the Kathmandu District Administration to the public not to organise gatherings, rallies and demonstrations, pro-monarchy, pro-Hindu campaigners marched on the Kathmandu streets on Saturday, demanding reinstatement of the monarchy and Nepal as a Hindu state and scrapping of federalism. This is the second such rally in Nepal’s federal capital in a week. Earlier on Monday, a similar rally was organised in Kathmandu. Pro-monarchy, pro-Hindu…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 02, 2020.With the resumptions of high-level visits between Nepal and India, the two countries are now planning to resume several trade, transit and connectivity talks stalled due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the frosty relations over the boundary dispute. Nepali officials said that starting December, more than half a dozen bilateral talks concerning trade and transit, commerce, infrastructure, water resources and boundary working groups, are on the…
When the country was fighting tooth and nail against king Gyanendra’s direct rule, KP Oli, then a senior leader of the erstwhile Communist Party of Nepal (UML) had said that abolishing the monarchy was as far-fetched a dream as attempting to reach America in a bullock cart. But it did not take long for Nepal to adopt republicanism. When the movement for the structuring of Nepal into a federal republic was gaining momentum, Oli was…
by Ananda Gautam & Dipendra Shakya in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 1, 2020Residents of several settlements in the northern parts of Sankhuwasabha and Taplejung districts are having a tough time managing essential commodities and finding markets for their products due to the protracted closure of the Nepal-China border amid coronavirus threat. Villagers living near the Nepal-China border are dependent on Tibet for daily essential commodities, as the area is yet to be connected with the…
by Ali Asif Shawon in Dhaka tribune, Nov 30, 2020 at 09:35 pmPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi are likely to have a virtual meeting on December 17. According to sources at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, the chances of the virtual meeting between the two prime ministers taking place on December 17 are as much as 90%. “The meeting is expected to be…