Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Monday met his Nepalese counterpart Sewa Lamsal and other senior political leaders of the Himalayan nation and discussed the steady growth of bilateral ties and ways to take it forward. Misri’s two-day visit is the first by the Indian foreign secretary to Nepal after the formation of the new government...
Kathmandu, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Sunday met with Nepal’s top leadership and discussed ways to provide an impetus to various sectors of bilateral cooperation. Misri, who is here on a two-day visit at the invitation of his Nepalese counterpart Sewa Lamsal, paid a courtesy call on President Ramchandra Paudel at the president’s office Sheetalniwas...
Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri’s first visit to Nepal after assuming office last month saw a series of high-level engagements aimed at providing a further impetus to the close bilateral partnership between the two neighbouring nations. On Monday (August 12, 2024), he met his counterpart, Foreign Secretary Sewa Lamsal. Their wide-ranging discussions covered various aspects...
The House of Representatives heard animated remarks on Thursday by lawmakers on Nepal’s plan to implement the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative. Lawmakers from the main opposition aired their views on the issue a day after China’s Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong wrapped up his three-day visit to Kathmandu where he participated in the 16th...
A senior leader of the Communist Party of China warned that Beijing will not tolerate any third-country activities in Nepal targeting China. During a meeting on Thursday with the general secretary of the ruling CPN (Maoist Centre), Dev Gurung, who is currently in Beijing on a 10-day visit, Liu Jianchao, minister of the International Department...
Before wrapping up his 26-hour visit to Kathmandu, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar made a meaningful remark in Kirtipur on Friday while inaugurating the Tribhuvan University’s new library building, which was funded by the government of India. “Under the leadership of Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi, the government of India is committed to continue to...
The seventh edition of the Nepal-India joint commission at foreign minister level is all set to convene in Kathmandu on Thursday. Foreign Minister NP Saud and his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar will co-chair the meeting, where the two sides will discuss over three dozen different agendas and issues of mutual interest and concern. At the...
The government has agreed to accept an Indian proposal to increase the budget for ‘small development projects’ to be implemented by local units from the current Rs50 million to Rs200 million. The Indian side had initially proposed to jack up the budget to Rs240 million, but the Ministry of Finance had scaled it down by...
Almost six months after Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s visit to India, the status of progress and follow-up to the agreements reached during the four-day official trip are dismal, said lawmakers and foreign policy experts. During a roundtable discussion on Friday organised by the Centre for Social Inclusion and Federalism (CESIF), Raj Kishor Yadav, the...
An eight-member team had prepared a joint report five years ago suggesting the blueprint for Nepal-India relations in the changed regional and global contexts. The document has been gathering dust while the panel is disbanded, not least by the death of one eminent person and by other official assignments of some others on either side....