By Sharachchandra Bhandary in Rising Nepal, 24 Nov, 2020The citizens of both Nepal and India expect the relations between the two countries will revert to cordiality with the impending visit of the External Affairs Secretary of India to Nepal on Thursday. The ties between the two South Asian neighbours have somewhat soured after Nepal issued a new political and administrative map by incorporating its territories including Limpiyadhura, Lipulek and Kalapani in it as per the…
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by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Pos, Nov 23, 2020.As if one-upmanship in the ruling Nepal Communist Party was not enough, the game seems to be getting murkier having gone to another level now with the opposition Nepali Congress coming into play. Amid rising conflict between Nepal Communist Party (NCP) chairs KP Sharma Oli, also the prime minister, and Pushpa Kamal Dahal, which has raised the spectre of a party split, some new political developments…
By Anil Giri in Kathmandu Post, November 21, 2020Two days after India’s top diplomat completes his visit to Nepal, China’s defence minister is scheduled to come calling. Although, officially, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is tight-lipped, two senior officials at the Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the Post that China’s State Councilor and Defence Minister Wei Fenghe is scheduled to arrive in Kathmandu on November 29 for a day-long visit.…
Report in The Himalayan Times, Nov 21, 2020Authorities in Nepal are preventing police and prosecutors from pursuing conflict-era cases of human rights violations, undermining the rule of law and efforts for security sector reforms, Human Rights Watch and Advocacy Forum said in a report released today. During the 10-year armed conflict between government forces and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) that ended in 2006, thousands of people were forcibly disappeared, tortured, raped, or killed.…
Report in The Himalayan Times, Nov 21, 2020General Secretary of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Bishnu Prasad Paudel, who is close to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, today met party Co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal and urged him to withdraw his proposal that he had presented in the Secretariat meeting last week. This combo image shows Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal (left) and Finance Minister and the party’s General Secretary Bishnu Prasad…
Report in Kathmandu Post, November 20, 2020India has agreed to help Nepali railway personnel enhance their capacity and provide training in Nepal and India as the country prepares to resume passenger railway service on the Kurtha-Jayanagar section of cross-border railway. After the railway was upgraded into broad gauge from the earlier narrow gauge line, the government prepared to operate railway services after a hiatus of seven years. The railway service on narrow gauge was halted…
Report in The Himalayan Time, Nov 19, 2020Cadres and leaders of Nepali Congress and Janata Samajwabi Party gave continuity to the sit-in in front of Gaur Customs Office in Rauathat today ( NOVEMBER 18) as well. Civil Society, accompanied by NC and JSP have been agitating in front of the customs office demanding that the border point between Nepal and India be opened since last week. This particular Nepal-India border point has remained closed for…
report on Prothom Alo, Nov 18, 2020The Indian High Commission in Bangladesh has made a special edition of wristwatch in honour of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of Mujib Year, the birth centenary of Bangabandhu, reports state-run news agency BSS. Bangabandhu’s portrait and signature have been inscribed on the dials of the watches, said a press release today, Tuesday. Road transport and bridges minister and ruling Awami League general…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Nov14, 2020The general convention of the Nepali Congress is likely to be pushed back after its central working committee on Friday decided to extend the deadline for distributing active memberships to mid-December. The ongoing row within the party between party president Sher Bahadur Deuba and senior leader Ram Chandra Poudel has mainly been focussed on holding the 14th general convention, which will elect a new leadership, as early…
by JIBA RAJ POKHAREL in The Himalayan Times, Nov13, 2020The restoration of an ornamental Hindu king and Hindu kingdom thus resonates now as it did then in the Nepali political arena. Many temples in India are opened by Hindu kings, and they have been deprived of this historic as well as religious privilege after the annulment of the kingship in Nepal Dashain, the national festival of Nepal, has been celebrated with pomp and pleasure since…
report in The Himalayan Times, Nov 13, 2020 at 12:00 pmThe Nepal-India border has been closed since the coronavirus crisis started. If, however, the applications filed with the police are anything to go by, 70 women, 28 of them below 18 years of age, went missing during the same period this year. Of the 70, as many as 16 were found. Nepalgunj had witnessed a huge number of people intending to head to India even…