Addressing corruption & unemployment is top expectation from Nepal’s new leader Sushila Karki. According to Nepal Labour Migration Report, unemployment rate is above 20% among youth.
Trump’s USD 100,000 H-1B thunderclap & its impact on India keep getting global media attention. ‘Could accelerate shift by multinationals to expand operations in India’.
While he didn’t name India in Facebook post, he spoke of 2015 blockade, his moves ‘to reduce Nepal’s dependence on single neighbour’ & ‘conspirators & false narrative’ in GenZ protests.
Bandi speaks to ThePrint on youth protests in Nepal, Karki’s appointment as PM on basis of ‘wisdom, necessity & momentum of street’ & ‘need for accountability not revenge’.
In an exclusive interview, he talks about what lies ahead for his country. 'Can't go back to monarchy,' he says. ‘Gyanendra & monarchy don’t even have 2–3% support in Nepal’.
In a region where militaries have often usurped civilian power—Pakistan, Myanmar, even Bangladesh—Nepal’s army has maintained a reputation for professional restraint.
Nepal's protests and subsequent overthrow of govt was mostly Gen Z's doing. While older generations were happy to sit it out, they too think it was a movement whose time had come.
The newly formed organisation, Sangam, meaning ‘confluence’, symbolises coming together of the East and West through five determined teenagers in aftermath of Gen Z uprising in Nepal.
According to his nephew Bharat, Sajan Rai ‘didn’t know what Gen Z was but when they said there would be a movement to make Nepal free from corruption, we joined with enthusiasm’.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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