The China Tourism Day was marked in Kathmandu by organising an event on Tuesday evening. The event was jointly organised by China Cultural Center, China National Tourist Office and China Southern Airlines in Kathmandu that witnessed participation of the business community, travel fraternity from Nepal, Chinese business community, government officials and other stakeholders. China marks...
Blockade to affect Indians alsoDANG, Sept 28: Pushpa Thapa, a local of Koilabas VDC in Dang district, had married her two daughters with Indian nationals. The eldest daughter, Sushma was married to a man in neighboring Indian village of Jaruwa while the middle daughter Srijana married with a man in Lucknow two years ago. Srijana...
About two decades ago, during the democracy movement, the US Ambassador to Nepal, James F Moriarty, said that King Gyanendra Shah might have to cling to a fleeing helicopter if he delayed handing over power to the political parties. The king, however, did not leave the country, even after he handed over power. Today, there...
As the most populous and historically most economically and strategically powerful state in South Asia, India for decades has wielded considerable influence throughout the subcontinent. In some places, like Bhutan, it essentially controlled the country’s foreign policy for decades and still has massive influence. In Nepal, India for years wielded so much power, through its...
Our predicaments have a tendency of revealing our priorities, and an introspection on this issue leads us to confront uncomfortable realities. The entire world had braced itself when Donald Trump emerged victorious in the 2024 US presidential election, and with a popular mandate too. The US, however, had already begun growing wary of neoliberalism during...
It is perhaps difficult for a career diplomat trained to send confidential dispatches to write a book dealing with one’s professional discipline. The exercise becomes more complex regarding major diplomatic assignments involving close and multi-dimensional, yet complicated, strands of Nepal-India relations. An officer of the 1965 batch of the Indian Foreign Service, Krishna V. Rajan,...
Europe’s Day, a recurrence that is supposed to celebrate the ideals behind the European Union Project, is celebrated annually on the 9th of May. Yes, the integration of European nations is a political project founded on principles and values that have been shaped by the blood and destruction of two world wars. But the EU...
Whenever significant political developments unfold in Nepal, politicians are quick to draw connections to India. For instance, in 2021, when the then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli dissolved Nepal’s Parliament, his own colleagues accused him of acting under India’s influence. Senior leaders from major parties, including Pushpa Kamal Dahal, publicly urged India to “stand in...
Nepal has always fascinated me. Whether it is the grandeur of its durbar squares, mysteries of its temples, its natural endowments, its customs and traditions like worshipping of the living goddess, its valiant history or on the flip side, devastating earthquakes and floods, plane hijacking of 1999, palace massacre of 2001, and its topsy-turvy relationship...
When Narendra Modi became Prime Minister in 2014, he declared the basic tenet of his foreign policy to be “Neighbourhood First”. Eleven years on, the policy has resulted in an arc of hostility stretching east, north, and west of India, drawn from Bangladesh to Nepal to Pakistan, with the keystone of the arch wedged at...