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How Will US Foreign Aid Freeze Affect Nepal?

Seven decades of aid to Nepal made America omnipresent in the Himalayan country. That is now in peril.

10.02.2025 7

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Birat Anupam

Invitation to Visit India Eludes Nepali Prime Minister Oli

Oli’s visit to China may have added to Delhi’s long-standing irritation with the Nepali leader.

29.01.2025 2

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Birat Anupam

Jimmy Carter’s Nepal Connection

The death of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is being mourned far from his home in the Himalayan country of Nepal. It has evoked memories of and...

06.01.2025 10

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Birat Anupam

Nepal Bans Everest Helicopter Sightseeing

Nepal’s UNESCO-listed Sagarmatha National Park, which includes the Everest region, has banned leisure helicopter rides in its vicinities. This ban,...

26.12.2024 3

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Nepal and China Identify 10 Projects for Execution Under BRI

Over seven and a half years after Nepal and China signed the Memorandum of Understanding on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the two countries...

05.12.2024 2

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Birat Anupam

With Start of Trilateral Hydropower Trade, South Asia Begins Historic Cooperation

Regional cooperation received a boost with the inauguration of a project that will see Nepali hydropower supplied to Bangladesh via the Indian...

21.11.2024 4

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Why Has China Halted Centuries-old Sino-Nepal Borderland Marriages?

China has offered no explanation why it halted cross-border marriages between Nepali and Tibetan people living in border villages like Olangchung...

04.11.2024 10

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Nepal’s Blockade-era Foreign Minister Details Closed-door Diplomacy With India 

Kamal Thapa’s new book contains fascinating insights into a difficult period in India-Nepal relations.

04.09.2024 1

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