Commentary

Indian action on Kashmir ‘unacceptable’: Senator Bernie Sanders

N.P. Upadhyaya Kathmandu: The US heavy weight has better late than never spoken on “Kashmir occupation” carried out by the Indian Union on August 5, 2019. After his comments made on India’s Kashmir aggression last month perhaps nothing remains to be spoken by other world leaders on Kashmir. He weighs high even if several world […]

Existential Threat to Nepal?

N.P. Upadhyaya, Kathmandu: Nepali Congress parliamentarian Pradip Giri spoke of the chances that if India so desired can gulp Nepal a la Sikkim or at best make Nepal another Bhutan. Some even claim that he was told to speak so but we are not sure whatever he said was his own “brain” or an injected […]

Beijing yet to correct Lipulek blunder, Chinese envoy meets Nepal

The UML senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal is the single Nepal’s political personality, among the crowd, who has maintained “balanced” policy while dealing with Nepal’s immediate neighbors-both South and North. True to Nepal’s balanced policy, Mr. Nepal talks high of India while being in Indian Territory and has very high regards for the Northern neighbor, […]

Nepal: India may float Hindu King card against China

Nepal’s former King Gyanendra Shah has conceivably set the ball rolling. Indications to this effect have begun trickling in the political talks here and there, beyond the borders as well, in the recent days and weeks. Hardly had it been a fortnight or so wherein the King had advised the various splinters of the party […]

Diplomatic win of Nepal PM Oli in India

As the old saying goes, experience is the best teacher and that more one is subjected to delicate and susceptible tests over time, he or she is bound to bag successes more so if such tests belong to the domain of diplomacy then the one concerned subjected to such tests as stated earlier masters the […]