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Nepal: UN and DFID to support COVID-19 disaster preparedness

KATHMANDU – The United Nations in Nepal and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) have strengthened their partnership to enhance the UN’s approach to emergency preparedness and scale-up response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal, “The COVID-19 pandemic is having far reaching impacts globally including in Nepal, which is already vulnerable to natural […]

Nepal: EU provides €1.65 mln. to support South Asia flood victims

Kathmandu/New Delhi/Dhaka: In response to severe flooding that have affected South Asia—most notably Bangladesh, India and Nepal—the European Union is providing €1.65 million in humanitarian aid funding. The support comes on top of the €1.8 million announced earlier this year to support families affected by a series of disasters, including Cyclone Amphan that ravaged India […]

Bangladesh’s tight slap on India’s face!

N.P. Upadhyaya, Kathmandu: Bangladesh, a new country in South Asia was born in 1971. This Muslim majority nation is in the world news for a variety of hair raising political drama. This South Asian nation has of late largely drawn the attention of the international media as some events of high political import have recently taken […]

Failed in neighborhood and now Iran dumps India!

N.P. Upadhyaya, Kathmandu: The July 1st undisclosed meet of the Pakistani High Commissioner Imran Ahmad Siddiqui and Bangladesh Foreign Minister A. K. Abdul Momen in Dhaka set the ball rolling. This meet was a clear signal that the two estranged countries of the troubled South Asian region have decided henceforth to look at the regional […]

India: The most ungrateful nation!

N. P. Upadhyaya, Kathmandu: If the Indian nation born 1947 is still breathing then it is all due to the real and unconditional sacrifices made by the Gorkha soldiers born in Nepal who have “unfortunately” been serving to protect such an ungrateful nation and its equally unappreciative population which on regular intervals pounces upon the land […]