By Anil Giri in Kathmandu Post, November 4, 2020At a time when the ruling communist party is in a deep crisis, internal discord and dispute also plagues the primary opposition, Nepali Congress. The party, already grappling with feuds between various factions, is now witnessing a new wave of discord with senior leader Ramchandra Poudel submitting a 16-point memorandum to President Sher Bahadur Deuba, and the establishment expressing unwillingness to budge on some of issues raised…
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Report in Rising Nepal, 04 Nov, 2020The Jhapa police have increased patrolling at the border with neighbouring India to stop smuggling of goods during festivals. The police confiscated goods and clothes worth approximately Rs 1.4 million supplied to Nepal from India by evading taxes, said Superintendent of Police Krishna Prasad Koirala, adding that the confiscated goods have been handed to the Mechi custom office. Likewise, the police arrested two persons with firecrackers worth Rs 700,000…
Report in The Himalayan Times, November 03, 2020Spokesperson for the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Narayan Kaji Shrestha has confirmed that Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli did tell party Co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal that he could not withstand the challenge posed to him within the party and would rather split the party on friendly terms. Shrestha said Dahal told him and some other leaders of the party that Oli was intent on splitting the party…
(The writer specialises in political communication)India might not do anything beyond its legitimate core interests as an emerging power when it comes to dealing with its current arch-rival China. Trying to ruffle the feathers too obviously risks ruins that its current allies across the far seas in distant lands might not really regret. As things stand for at least the foreseeable future, its vulnerabilities heavily outweigh the undertakings that Beijing could consider as direct threats…
By RAM KUMAR KAMAT in Himalayan Times, November 02, 2020General Secretary of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Bishnu Prasad Paudel, who is also the finance minister in KP Sharma Oli’s Cabinet, today stated that party unity was under threat.Paudel, who is a close aide of Oli, wrote on Twitter, “A serious crisis faces the NCP’s unity at this hour and I urge all leaders, cadres and members of our party to protect the unity…
By Purushottam Khatri in Rising Nepal, 01 Nov, 2020Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukunda Naravane is arriving in Kathmandu on a three-day official visit to Nepal on November 4. Naravane is visiting Nepal at the invitation of Chief of the Army Staff (CoAS) General Purnachandra Thapa. The visit is taking place in the wake of border disputes between the two neighbours after India published its new political map including Nepali territory on November 2, 2019.…
By Bhusan Yadav in Kathmandu Post, October 29, 2020On Thursday, Mukesh Chaurasiya, a 42-year-old man from Bindabasini Rural Municipality, was killed in a clash that took place in an oath-taking ceremony of Nepal Communist Party Bindabasini Rural Municipality Committee in Parsa district. Chaurasiya, who sustained serious injuries on his head, died while undergoing treatment at Birgunj based-LS Neuro Hospital on Friday morning. The clash ensued when a group of individuals staged a protest at Parsauni…
By Anish Tiwari in Kathmandu Post, October 29, 2020Tatopani border point, a major customs point along the Nepal-China border, has come into operation from Wednesday. An isolation area has also been established in the border area amid fear of Covid-19 pandemic. According to Lal Bahadur Khatri, chief at Tatopani Dry Port and Customs Office, movement along the border point has resumed in accordance with the new border modality between the two countries. “The border was…
By Krishana Prasain in Kathmandu Post, October 29, 2020 at 21:54Nepali traders are sourcing onions from China as India continues to bar exports of the staple vegetable, but there is no respite for consumers as they still have to pay five times more than usual for the product, whether imported legally from the north or smuggled in from the south. On Thursday, wholesalers at the Kalimati Fruits and Vegetable Market were charging Rs130 per kg…
Report in Rising Nepal, 26 Oct, 2020The officers of the Armed Police Force from the Border Outpost at Olangchungola, a Himalayan region at Ward 7 of Phaktangung Gaunpalika in Taplejung district, have started patrolling along Tipatala Bhanjyang, an area along the Nepal-China border.With the latest patrolling along the border on Wednesday, the officers have been patrolling the area by making a schedule.“There is movements of people alonge the border area following which patrolling is a…