India's policy towards Nepal remains unchanged, assures envoy after meeting top new ministersIndia has assured Nepal of its unchanged policy towards the country, following the recent political developments, reports the Nepalese medi...
08 Mar, 2024, 04.01 PM IST
Nepal's Home Minister orders crackdown following interference by Chinese envoyChinese Ambassador to Kathmandu Chen Song's recent lobbying efforts to protect his country's nationals guilty of violation of local laws ha...
18 Feb, 2024, 07.15 AM IST
BRI in Nepal remains non-starter despite optimism among section of Nepalese leadershipNepal and China signed a memorandum of understanding on BRI in 2017. Nearly seven years since, not a single project under the initiative ha...
29 Jan, 2024, 09.21 PM IST
Nepal & China to sign implementation plan of Beijing-backed BRI projects: Nepal's Deputy PMDeputy Prime Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha announced that Nepal and China will soon sign the implementation plan of the Belt and Road Init...
28 Jan, 2024, 10.49 PM IST
Poor nations' leaders unleash anger and despair at UN summitCentral African Republic's president told the UN Least Developed Countries meeting in Doha that his resource-rich but impoverished nation w...
05 Mar, 2023, 08.47 PM IST
Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra undertakes back to back visits to Nepal & BangladeshIn Dhaka, Kwatra will seek to focus on furthering partnership in water, trade and investment, power and energy, defence and connectivity se...
14 Feb, 2023, 09.39 PM IST
Nepal's new govt seeks to balance its ties with India, China in growth pursuitPushpa Kamal Dahal, who still goes by his nom de guerre Prachanda, surprisingly became prime minister on Sunday after leaving his previous ...
26 Dec, 2022, 01.55 PM IST
Prachanda, Chief of Nepal's CPN-MC, proposes to drop 'Maoist Centre' from party nameThis has created a situation where Prime Minister Oli suddenly sees his position strengthened in the party, as he has a clear majority in t...
15 Mar, 2021, 02.24 PM IST
Political crisis deepens in Nepal as no end in sight to Oli-Prachanda fightOli's plan is to isolate Prachanda by trying to get support from five out of nine Secretariat members of NCP. But Prachanda has presented a...
16 Nov, 2020, 07.42 PM IST
Nepalese PM KP Sharma Oli faces heat from party colleaguesGautam, vice chair of Nepal Communist Party, was promised the PM’s chair, when last April Oli assured Gautam that he would step down and ma...
30 Jun, 2020, 08.01 AM IST
Nepalese leaders deliberate on fuel import from ChinaUnified CPN-Maoist Vice-Chairman Narayan Kaji Shrestha yesterday met China's Ambassador to Nepal Wu Chuntai and discussed with him the curr...
24 Oct, 2015, 03.03 PM IST
Maoist party leader Prachanda's leadership in Nepal at stake?Senior Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai has demanded a change in the leadership during a high level meeting yesterday, according to party so...
19 Jan, 2014, 08.32 PM IST
- Prachanda re-elected as Maoist president of ruling UCPN-Maoist party
Prachanda, the powerful Maoist leader who became prime minister after toppling the 239-year-old monarchy in Nepal, was today re-elected as ...
08 Feb, 2013, 10.04 PM IST
- Nepal Maoists to change ideology, give up anti-India stance
The Maoists took up arms in 1996 to fulfill their 40-point demands. Their demands included scrapping of the Nepal-India Treaty of 1950 and ...
01 Feb, 2013, 06.35 PM IST
- Trade between South Asian countries crosses $2 billion
The trade within the South Asian region has crossed USD 2 billion following the implementation of South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA), Secr...
08 Dec, 2012, 08.06 PM IST
- Indian envoy meets Maoist chief Prachanda; bilateral investment promotion agreement issue also raised
A day after senior Nepal Minister raised objections to a key bilateral investment promotion agreement, India's top envoy here met Maoist ch...
24 Jul, 2012, 09.11 PM IST
- BIMSTEC ministers meet in Nepal on poverty alleviation issues
A day-long ministerial meeting of BIMSTEC nations, including India, startedtoday to finalise and adopt regional strategy for reducing pover...
16 Jan, 2012, 02.24 PM IST