Message of Indian elections to Nepal: mixing politics with religion does not work
Just across the Nepal border in Bihar, the BJP campaign on a Hindutva platform is in full swing
The four-member Chinese delegation after landing in Kathmandu on Sunday. Photo: RSSThe arrival of a senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP)…
Photo: @KTnepalLoyal readers will remember royal leaders we have covered in these pages over the past two decades. The uneasy transition to…
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIThe country is being battered by a coronavirus surge and hospitals are running out of beds for the seriously sick.…
Nepal’s Communist Party leaders must take note of two events that unfolded in India this week: the roaring welcome to US President Donald Trump…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRINothing unites Nepalis more than a dispute with India. So, when India issued its new official map this month…
Illustration: Diwakar ChettriThe Nepal-China agreements on trade, economy, connectivity and security signed during Chinese President Xi…
Photos: SANDEEP RANA BJP HEADQUARTERPrime Minister Modi is returning to power in India with more confidence will mean that his government will…
Photo: PROJECT SYNDICATE AFPNEW DELHI – What role has social media played in India’s election?Conventional wisdom had it that, in the Indian…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIAs a ceremonial head of state, President Bidya Devi Bhandari’s weeklong visit to China that began on Wednesday is…
Photo: NARENDRA MODI/TWITTERThe best barometer for public opinion in any new city is the local taxi-driver. Opinionated, blunt and…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIArticle 5 of the 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty implicitly forbids arms imports directly from third countries. Opposition…
The Eminent Persons Group (EPG) mandated to review past bilateral treaties between India and Nepal and provide recommendations completed its…
The book Another South Asia! with an assertive exclamation mark in its title requires one to pause, and step back to recall what is South Asia,…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThat the fourth BIMSTEC summit would be declared a “success” was a foregone conclusion because there wasn’t really much…
Diwakar ChettriNow that the leaders of the awkwardly acronymed BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic…
Minister of Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali and Indian Ambassador to Nepal Manjeev Singh Puri sends off India PM Narendra Modi, who was in…
As the Kathmandu intelligentsia debates whether New Delhi has realised its mistake of blockading Nepal or not, there is a growing call for Nepal…
The Indian prime minister’s visit to Nepal sparks hope, dismay and speculationIndian security personnel in Janakpur on Thursday in preparation…
DRESS REHEARSAL: Indian Ambassador Manjeev Singh Puri is briefed on Wednesday by the pilot of an Indian Air Force helicoper that rehearsed a…
PM KP Oli and Indian PM Narenda Modi at a joint press conference after a bilateral meeting at Hyderabad House of New Delhi on Saturday. All…