diplomatic-relations

Reaction to Wang Yi’s Nepal visit in Chinese media

A day after Chinese State Councilor and Foreign minister Wang Yi’s visit to Nepal was announced, my Chinese professor cited a Nepali...

“India-Nepal ties must move beyond 1950 treaty”

Till he was recalled last month by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nilambar Acharya was Nepal’s ambassador to India since 2019. Acharya...

From Nalapani to Kalapani

Nepali Times reporter Alisha Sijapati spent a month earlier this year retracing the Gorkhali expansion beyond the Mahakali River more than 200...

Where Nepal’s banner once waved

Nepali Times reporter Alisha Sijapati spent a month earlier this year retracing the Gorkha expansion beyond the Mahakali River more than 200...

The double burden of climate and Covid

British ambassador to Nepal Nicola Pollitt arrived in Nepal 15 months ago, and much of her time here has been overshadowed by...

Nepal in political and geopolitical jam

Politically and geopolitically, it is a bit chaotic in Nepal these days. This is the result of an internal power struggle among...

Spat with India may hurt Nepali workers

As relations between India and Nepal sour, and made worse by Prime Minister K P Oli’s remark about Ayodhya this week, there...

K P Oli rams it home

Why Prime Minister K P Oli decided to use the birth anniversary of Nepali poet Bhanubhakta Acharya on Monday to get embroiled...

Russia-Nepal cooperation poised for growth: Ambassador

New Russian Ambassador to Nepal, Aleksei A Novikov, spoke to Nepali Times about the prospect of high-level visits by Russian leaders to...

Nepal now has to balance not just India and China, but also the West

Article 5 of the 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty implicitly forbids arms imports directly from third countries. Opposition to this provision has become the...