After going through Zhou Shengping's book "Mend or End: Nepal in the Eyes of a Chinese Journalist", the reader arrives at the conclusion that Zhou loves Nepal. His love for the Himalaya…

Dirty games in Sino-Nepal relations Let me begin by uttering a common reality. Sino-Nepal relation is many centuries older to the origin of the US as a state and India as an integrated nation. Onc…

The frivolity with which successive governments of Nepal have been handling diplomatic matters is worrying. Take the arbitrary recall of ambassadors. The incumbent government has repeated the mist…

Within the past two decades, Nepal’s Tarai region has been experiencing severe cold during the winter (December to February). Vulnerable communities often become victims of the cold waves. &nbs…

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba-led government has completed its 100 days this week. Never even in his wild dreams must Deuba have had envisioned leading a government before next elections after th…

During dreadful panchayat days I did encounter many people harking back on old rana days. As a youngster, I remember some elders praising ranacracy for maintaining strict discipline and control in th…

How is propaganda engineered? Over the past few weeks, China-Taiwan tension has been the central issue of debate in media, mainly Western and Indian media. People across the globe fear a new war,…

The Pandora Papers, published on Sunday, by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ) has exposed dozens of world leaders and hundreds of public officials using offshore tax hav…

The reason why the Afghan Government failed to resist Taliban is simple: The government depended heavily on foreign money while Taliban survived and thrived on internally generated funds. This money …

(Translation)            Bolstering Confidence and Jointly Overcoming Difficulties To Build a Better World   Statement by H.E. …

There is a saying in Nepali which a non-Nepali may find difficult to comprehend. This goes by baandar ko haat maa nariwal or a literal translation will read like this: “A coconut in the hands o…

The history of modern Nepal, which came into existence in 1769, is full of struggle for independent national existence. Nestled in the Himalayas and known as “a yam between two boulders”,…

It's been seven years since the Constitution of Nepal-2015 was promulgated from the Constituent Assembly (CA) of Nepal. The CA was supposed to proceed as per the constitutional norms set by the I…