In an interview, former Nepal PM Baburam Bhattarai calls for high-level political dialogue between Kathmandu and Delhi, adding that the border issue needs to be resolved.
Hou Yanqi, Chinese Ambassador to Nepal, has met senior leaders of Nepal’s ruling party, asking them to find a way out. India, meanwhile, says these are ‘internal matters for Nepal’.
The ground reality in the wake of KP Oli's dissolution of the Nepal Parliament has three important aspects that India must carefully assess before considering its options.
Rift in Nepal Communist Party further deepened following PM Oli’s decision to dissolve lower house of Parliament and announce fresh elections after losing majority support in his party.
There was hope that a stable NCP government under PM Oli would kickstart Nepal’s journey to economic growth. But the party spending more time infighting than tackling a pandemic.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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