by Anil Giri inThe Kathmandu Post, Sept 3, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal will not be short of agenda during his upcoming China trip. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is busy preparing the agenda for the upcoming China visit of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, with inputs from various other ministries. According to one secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office, as many as 100 proposals have been gathered so far. They will be processed by…
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by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 2, 2023This Saturday, the ruling CPN (Maoist Centre) is launching its Mission-84 campaign targeting the next parliamentary and provincial elections to be held after four years in 2084 BS. The party on Saturday will launch the special campaign, whose slogan is Janata Sanga Maobadi [Maoists with the public]. The ruling party is all set to kick off the campaign purportedly to bolster its connection with the voters…
report in Nepalnews.com, Sept 1, 2023 at 19:32 hrsA high level delegation of CPN UML led by General Secretary Shankar Pokhrel is leaving for China for a goodwill visit tomorrow, Saturday. The delegation is in a 12-day visit at the invitation of Chinese Communist Party, according to a press release issued by secretary of central publicity department of UML, Gagan Bista. The team consists of party standing committee member and chief of foreign affairs department,…
by Anish Tiwari in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 2, 2023The Nepal-China border point at Tatopani re-opened with fanfare on Friday after remaining shut for eight years and five months as it was knocked down by a massive earthquake. Located 115 km northeast of Kathmandu, Tatopani is one of the oldest trade routes linking the two countries. The formal re-opening of the border saw 200 locals of Sindhupalchok district crossing over to China from Nepal. On…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 2, 2023Four days after China released its new “standard map”, the government of Nepal said on Friday that it is firm on the political and administrative map passed by Parliament in 2020. Issuing a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said: “Nepal stands firm and clear on its political and administrative map unanimously approved by the Parliament of Nepal in 2020”. In response to the media queries regarding the…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandeu Post, Sept 2, 2023At a time public frustration is growing, thousands of youths are leaving the country every day and market anomalies are causing people great hardship, Pushpa Kamal Dahal is boasting of his achievements since becoming prime minister eight months ago. He claims his third stint as the head of government is clearly different from his previous two terms. Dahal has been repeating a list of his…
by Krishana Prasain in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 1, 2023Nepal’s request to India for rice export quotas remains unaddressed while it has allocated export quotas of non-basmati rice to Bhutan, Mauritius and Singapore. On Wednesday, India issued a notification through the Directorate General of Foreign Trade permitting the export of 79,000 tonnes to Bhutan, 14,000 tonnes to Mauritius and 50,000 tonnes to Singapore. India imposed a ban on the export of non-basmati rice on July…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 1, 2023Calls are growing from different quarters urging the government to request China for a map revision, after a new map released by the northern neighbour on Monday did not show the Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura areas inside Nepal. Nepal’s new map issued in May 2020 had included the three areas, which are currently under Indian control. Nepal government had issued the new map after India a…
by Krishana Prasain in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 31, 2023Beijing has agreed to allow passenger movement between China and Nepal through the Tatopani border point from Friday. Nepali and Chinese officials met in Lhasa, Tibet on Tuesday and decided to remove the travel restrictions that had been in place since 2015 when an earthquake destroyed the infrastructure at the border. Cargo movement resumed last May. Tatopani lies some 115 km northeast of Kathmandu on the…
by Deepak Pariyar in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 31, 2023Entrepreneurs in Pokhara have urged Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal to request China to conduct regular flights to the newly built international airport in Pokhara from different Chinese cities. They have also urged the prime minister to make an effort for the opening of the Korala pass that connects Mustang and Tibet. Nepal’s Prime Minister Dahal is scheduled for an official visit to Beijing on September…
by DR Pant in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 30, 2023Prabin Mahara still remembers the last thing his wife Ganga told him before she went missing some five years ago. “She told me to not leave our daughter alone until she gets back,” Prabin recalls. “But she never came back.” Mahara, who is 29 and lives at Gauriganga Municipality’s ward 3 in Kailali, says his wife’s disappearance left him and their daughter, now eight years old,…