Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has announced that the Karnali Corridor will be developed as a trade route connecting Nepal with both China and India. Speaking at the inauguration of a bailey bridge over the Chuwakhola River in Kharpunath Rural Municipality, Humla, on Sunday, the Prime Minister emphasized that the corridor holds strategic importance not...
India has surpassed Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy. It is also the fastest-growing major economy globally and the only South Asian nation projected to maintain over six percent annual growth. Earlier this month, the IMF’s World Economic Outlook confirmed that India remains the world’s fastest-growing economy, with its GDP now standing at $4.3trn....
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), an American bilateral foreign aid agency, has been mired in controversy in Nepal since the get-go. It signed a $500 million compact with Nepal in September 2017. Proposed projects aimed to maintain road quality, increase the availability and reliability of electricity, and facilitate cross-border electricity trade between Nepal and India,...
In the aftermath of the devastating flash flood in Rasuwa district, which borders China, Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Dipak Khadka, emphasized the urgent need for stronger coordination with the Chinese government to mitigate future disaster impacts.”Many rivers originate in China and flow into Nepal. Coordination and collaboration with our northern neighbor is...
Kathmandu, July 11: Chief of Army Staff Ashok Raj Sigdel has said that Nepal-China relations, founded on the principles of Panchasheel, are incomparable. He added that the ties between the Nepali Army and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are equally cordial. During his address to a reception held the Chinese Embassy on Friday to...
KATHMANDU, July 12: The Consulate General of Nepal in China’s Chengdu organized “Trade and Investment Promotion Dialogue’ in Chengdu on Thursday. The event saw the presence of Li Huaiqiang, Deputy Director General of Sichuan Foreign Affairs Office, Wu Ge, Deputy Director General from Sichuan Provincial Department of Commerce, representatives from SASAC Sichuan, CCPIT Sichuan, and...
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Top leaders of the Nepali Congress and the Communist Party of Nepal (UML) sat down last Tuesday to assess the country’s situation. Among others, they discussed the repercussions of former President Bidhya Devi Bhandari’s return to party politics. According to a newspaper report, NC leader Sher Bahadur Deuba told Prime Minister KP Oli that her return...
चिनियाँ दस्ताबेजले देशलाई अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय सहायता गतिविधिमा त्यति महत्व दिएको पाइँदैनअमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रम्पले अमेरिकी अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय विकास एजेन्सी ‘युएसएआइडी’ कटौती गर्न थालेदेखि नै धेरै टिप्पणीकारले चीनलाई नयाँ अवसर खुलेको बताउन थालेका थिए । बेइजिङले वासिंटनले छोडेको ‘रिक्तता भर्ने’ तिनको तर्क छ । उसो त अमेरिकी विश्लेषकमाझ पनि चीनले अमेरिकी विदेशी सहायतालाई प्रतिस्थापन गर्ने डर वर्षौंदेखि चिन्ताको विषय थियो ।...
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