by Krishana Prasain in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 3, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal flew to Dubai on Wednesday to attend the 28th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 28) and spoke on climate finance Nepal seeks from the international community. In his speech at the summit, Dahal said, “Nepal is fully committed to the Paris Agreement. We are committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emission by…
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By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 28, 2023Bangladesh has proposed a mechanism between Nepal, India and Bangladesh at the highest bureaucratic level to enhance trilateral cooperation in the energy sector. Currently, Nepal has bilateral mechanisms for energy cooperation with both India and Bangladesh; while India and Bangladesh also have similar mechanisms that work to smoothen out wrinkles in cooperation in the energy sector at bilateral level. Nepal’s two mechanisms with India are…
Reuters in Dawn, September 28th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Just a day after Russia claimed to have made its first Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) delivery to Pakistan, the government distanced itself from the import, triggering a controversy over the shipment amid an energy crisis. The energy ministry on Wednesday said Islamabad was ascertaining the facts after Russia’s embassy tweeted that Moscow had made its first LPG delivery to Pakistan. However, the ministry made it clear that the government…
Editorial in Pakistan Today,.August 29th, 2023There was some sound and fury on the caretaker premier’s part on the issue of electricity bills. And, as almost always is the case, it signified nothing at all. Reverse these high prices, said PM Kakar on the much higher than usual bills. But it was more akin of a deranged monarch from the past, ordering the sun to rise from the west. If the rates and bills could have…
by Dimuthu Attanayake in SCMP, Aug 2, 2023Sri Lanka and India have cemented their long-standing ties with a rush of energy and maritime deals amid a push by New Delhi for more strategic influence in the region to counter China’s rising clout – even as analysts warn Colombo against becoming overreliant on its larger neighbour. Both South Asian nations agreed to boost maritime, air, energy and power cooperation, among other areas, during Sri Lankan President…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, June 13, 2023Senior Nepali and Indian officials are set to sign the final agreement on a long-term energy deal next week. During the recent India visit of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the sides had agreed in principle that India would import 10,000 megawatts of electricity from Nepal in the next 10 years. An initial agreement was signed between Nepal and India at the energy secretary-level on June…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, May 26, 2023As Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal prepares to travel to India for his first foreign state visit in his third term in office, the two sides have entered the final stage of negotiations, discussing draft agreements to be signed and announced during the visit as well as the text of the joint communiqué that would conclude his visit. The two sides will formally announce on Saturday…
By Charumini de Silva in Daily FT, March 1, 2023The Government has taken a ‘revolutionary decision’ to explore a very expensive, yet high power output and reliable – nuclear power with support from Russia to address the energy crisis in Sri Lanka. “This will be a historic decision and a milestone in Sri Lanka’s history to address the power crisis via nuclear energy,” Cabinet Co-Spokesman and Minister Bandula Gunawardena said at the post-Cabinet meeting media…
ISLAMABAD: Secretariat of the all-important China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which is considered a game changer for Pakistan and also otherwise tops the list of government’s priorities, is facing severe shortage of human resource and expertise. Not only that there is no project director for CPEC for the last several months but it is also short of experts and specialists needed to provide required secretariat support. Presently, the CPEC project wing in the Planning Commission…