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…
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report in The Morning, June 11, 2023President Ranil Wickremesinghe is scheduled to visit India next month on his first official tour since assuming office as President, it is learnt. A highly-placed Government source told The Sunday Morning that the President was expected to visit India between 20 and 30 July. It is also learnt that 21 July has been tentatively set for the meeting between Wickremesinghe and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Wickremesinghe is also…
report in The Morning, June 11, 2023President Ranil Wickremesinghe is scheduled to visit India next month on his first official tour since assuming office as President, it is learnt. A highly-placed Government source told The Sunday Morning that the President was expected to visit India between 20 and 30 July. It is also learnt that 21 July has been tentatively set for the meeting between Wickremesinghe and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Wickremesinghe is also…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, June 6, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and the opposition party leader KP Sharma Oli on Monday had a face off in Parliament on Dahal’s recently concluded India state visit, its achievements, issues related to the boundary dispute with India, the idea of a land swap, besides the Citizenship Bill that was authenticated by President Ramchandra Paudel last week. Before Dahal and Oli sparred, the opposition lawmakers from the CPN-UML…
Post Report in The Kathmandu Post, June 4, 2023 Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has claimed that his India visit has restored trust with Indian leadership at the political level. He said his India visit was largely successful, citing the signing of several agreements and understandings reached between the two sides. Prime Minister Dahal and Nepali delegation returned home on Saturday after completing the four-day official visit to the southern neighbour. “There have been some…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, June 1, 2023Securing India’s approval to sell Nepal’s electricity to Bangladesh is on the agenda of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s discussions in New Delhi where he reached on an official visit on Wednesday. As India’s permission for its territory and its transmission infrastructure to be used for selling Nepal’s power to Bangladesh is important, the two countries want to involve India in the development of a…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, May 31, 2023With an agenda packed with meetings and interactions, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is heading for India on Wednesday afternoon on a four-day official visit at the invitation of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. Besides his set template of meetings and engagements, Dahal now has a new issue to deal with—a mural depicting ancient India in the newly inaugurated Indian parliament building. Leader of the main…
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 Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, May 25, 2023A report by the Eminent Persons Group on Nepal-India Relations, which has almost lost its relevance after having been shelved for about five years, is being discussed again with Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal all set to embark on a four-day India visit. Nepal and India had formed an eight-member panel of eminent persons in 2016 to review bilateral relations in their entirety and suggest the…
by Anil Giri in Kathmandu Post, May 20, 2023Five months after assuming office in December last year, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is all set to begin his maiden visit to India. He starts his sojourn on May 31. Senior government officials confirmed to the Post that Dahal will undertake a four-day official visit to the southern neighbour at the invitation of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. Dahal is expected to call on Indian President…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, May 19, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has made it clear there will be no compromise on national interests—Nepal’s unity, integrity and sovereignty—during his upcoming state visit to India. Responding to questions by CPN-UML lawmaker Raghuji Pant and Nepali Congress lawmaker Dilendra Badu during the question-answer session in the House of Representatives, Dahal said he wanted to reassure Parliament that there would be no compromise on issues related to the…