Nepal’s addition to the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) grey list could be a result of its proximity to China and the misuse of Chinese funds, say top intelligence sources. “It could be a move by the West to stop Nepal’s tilt towards China. The West understands that Nepal is becoming a colony of China....
New Delhi: Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday said that India has reached its takeoff point, predicting that the country will emerge as one of the three global superpowers by 2050, alongside the United States and China. Speaking at the NXT 2025 Conclave in New Delhi, Wickremesinghe reflected on his six-decade relationship with...
The ripples of the Trump administration’s decision to freeze USAID under the pretext of misuse and abuse have caused turmoil across the world. As US government officials proclaimed on multiple occasions, “USAID funded an atheism expansion project in Nepal,” narratives colored with religious conversion and secularism are snowballing across Nepal. There is extraordinarily more to...
The recent suspension of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) project, alongside the temporary halt of USAID-funded initiatives in Nepal, has raised concerns about the country’s development trajectory. The Ministry of Finance confirmed that Nepal received an official communication regarding the MCC project delay on 2nd Falgun 2081, despite its initial agreement being signed on 29th...
Management of great power rivalries is a vital part of international relations. The general preferences are the use of effective deterrence, diplomacy, multilateralism, pacific settlement of disputes and stopping wars in support of a rules-based global order, governance of global commons and bringing the weak to justice while making the wrongdoers accountable for their actions....
While the spat between the two leaders has raised doubts about President Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war, concerns are also emerging in Nepal about how the ‘transactional’ foreign policy of the new US administration could impact the country. Some experts argue that Nepal must tread carefully in future agreements, as it is now...
The Trump administration’s decision on January 20 to pause all US foreign assistance funded by or through the State Department and the USAID, along with the recent halt in Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) payments, has sent ripples across the world, with Nepal feeling the impact particularly hard. Initially, only aid from the USAID and State...
It is too early to declare definitively whether it is dawn or dusk on the Sino-Indian borders. But latest signs since last summer narrate a story of the earliest signs of thaw in Nepal’s two giant neighbours, China and India, whose combined population represents 35 per cent of the world’s total. The thrust is on...
Nepal awaits an invitation for its Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to visit India, Nepali Foreign Minister Arzu Deuba Rana said on Saturday, February 22, 2025. Speaking to The Hindu, she expressed her hope that Mr. Oli and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet on the sidelines of the upcoming BIMSTEC summit in Bangkok in...
Of all the outraged comments that have exploded across media following last week’s tragedy of a student suicide and protests by Nepali students at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in Odisha, this one on Facebook, made by an Odia person, stood out for me: “The most pathetic situation is that Nepal has a century...