by Kunal Purohit in SCMP, June 19, 2023Nepal’s former king Gyanendra Shah made a rare public appearance earlier this year in the Himalayan nation’s Jhapa district to launch a movement to change the country’s secular constitution and reinstate its identity as a Hindu kingdom. Thousands of Nepalis gathered at the February event to back the cause, with several marches occurring across the country since. Last month, just days before Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal,…
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By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, June 19, 2023With the northern neighbour fully relaxing its Covid restrictions, the frequency of bilateral engagements between Nepal and China has grown over the past few months. China has resumed all kinds of visits, junkets and trips while it is also sending politicians of various ranks to Kathmandu to assess the ground situation as the Communist Party of China (CPC) wants to renew its ties with the CPN-UML,…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, June 14, 2023China has once again sought Nepal’s support for its newly announced Global Security Initiative (GSI) and Global Civilization Initiative (GCI). The GCI, according to the Chinese government, is “an enrichment of the civilisational values deriving from the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind, and represents both the latest achievements of world civilizations and the crystallization of China’s wisdom for the world.” Chinese President…
By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, June 13, 2023The government’s attempts to recover an additional tax of around Rs57 billion from Ncell may face obstruction with an international tribunal indicating that Nepal should refrain from recovering more taxes from the 2016 Ncell buyout by Malaysian firm Axiata. On June 9, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an international investment dispute resolution body established by the World Bank, issued a verdict…
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…
According to police cyber bureau, 110 cases of sexual abuse against children were reported in the past 11 months.Nepal not doing enough to tackle online child abuseby Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, June 9, 2023Seven months ago, a woman in her mid-twenties sexually abused her nine-year-old sister. She also took pictures, made abusive videos by stripping the sister naked and sent it to her boyfriend, via Gmail. In the same week, while she was…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, June 03, 2023The writer is a reporter covering national politics for The Kathmandu Post.A President, the custodian of the constitution, becoming embroiled in controversies, and the general public, legal fraternity, and intelligentsia reiterating the proverb “jun jogi aaye pani kanai chireko” (effectively, ‘they are all the same’) to voice their displeasure has become the norm in Nepal, a republic. “We have seen three presidents so far. All of…
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 18, 2023The latest report of the US Department of State has said right-wing religious groups associated with India’s ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) have been providing funds to influential politicians of all parties in Nepal so that they speak in favour of Hindu statehood. In its International Religious Freedom Report-2022, the State Department, quoting civil society sources, stated that some politicians associated with the Rastriya Prajatantra Party…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, May 18, 2023The latest report of the US Department of State has said right-wing religious groups associated with India’s ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) have been providing funds to influential politicians of all parties in Nepal so that they speak in favour of Hindu statehood. In its International Religious Freedom Report-2022, the State Department, quoting civil society sources, stated that some politicians associated with the Rastriya Prajatantra Party…
By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, May 17, 2023Nepal and Bangladesh have agreed to make efforts to start trading of power from the upcoming wet season (June-November) with the export of 40–50MW electricity from Nepal, according to a member of the Nepali delegation to the bilateral talks held in Patuakhali, Bangladesh. During the fifth meeting of the secretary-level Joint Steering Committee on energy cooperation between Nepal and Bangladesh on Tuesday, the two sides…