by Renu Thapa in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 29, 2023Shaindra Thapa hasn’t forgotten the day she heard the news of her husband’s passing in 1990 in a distant foreign land. Her husband, Shankar Thapa, was a British Gurkha soldier, an honourable calling for a Nepali, in the 1990s. Shankar’s death had left Shaindra a widow and their six-month-old son without a father. Deprived of the means of living, Shaindra was solely dependent on her husband’s…
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report in Dhaka Tribune, Aug 5, 2023Discussions are ongoing for holding a series of meetings between the governments of Bangladesh and the United States by September. If everything goes well, Richard Nephew, coordinator of the State Department’s Global Anti-Corruption Division, will visit Dhaka next week, reports Bangla Tribune. As part of the regular meetings between the two countries, there is a possibility of military-to-military dialogue and a Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (Ticfa) meeting…
By Banafsha Binesh in ToloNews, Aug 1, 2023 at 8:47 PMThe Russian special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said that the new Moscow Format meeting on Afghanistan will take place on September 29 in Kazan. Kabulov told TASS that the upcoming meeting will focus on the topic of inclusivity of the current Afghan government, counterterrorism and drug-related crime. “So far, we have seen [no progress on this issue – TASS]. This is why we convene,…
by Nawaz Farhin Antara in Dhaka Tribune, July 24, 2023The BNP has been agitating to fulfil its one-point demand for the resignation of the government through a series of rallies, processions, and marches for several months, and party leaders say they will take to the streets with even more fervour from September. Senior leaders said they would protest with the promise to not leave the streets until their demand is met. Dhaka is the main…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, May 31, 2023The largest party in federal parliament—Nepali Congress—is currently a mess with many of its leaders demanding President Sher Bahadur Deuba call crucial meetings so that they could air their discontent. The Nepali Congress in December 2021 concluded its national convention, which only elected the party’s leadership, but the party is yet to organise a policy convention. Following the convention that elected Deuba as chief, the…