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Globalization is faceless but its impact on small states like Nepal is tangible

Professor Dev Raj Dahal Kathmandu, Nepal In the phase of globalization, small states seek to create normative standards to measure the shortfall of great powers’ geopolitical maneuvers, fight for justice in the international system and apply their tricks of the trade to acquire space for independent maneuver. Defining Nepal’s foreign policy as one of nonalignment, […]

Nepal: Indian tirade and the Pakistani rebuttal

N. P. Upadhyaya (Aryal) Kathmandu: In its recently released report, the Human Rights Watch (has) noted that violence continued in the Kashmir Valley three years after the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution. Minority Hindus and Sikh community in the Muslim majority Kashmir valley came under attack”. The atrocities committed by the ruling Indian […]

Nepal: Beijing and Washington can’t match Delhi’s diplomacy

N. P. Upadhyaya (Aryal) -In yet another “first” the Indian envoy in Nepal met the new foreign minister of Nepal- Kathmandu: The tricky Indian media alias Godi Media created hullabaloo at the time of the election of the new Prime minister of Nepal a fortnight ago. The dis-information laboratory par excellence that India is, the […]

Nepal: Shrish Rana’s demise is a great loss to the Nation

-Dr. Upendra Gautam Hydro power/Development expert, Nepal   # Dr Upendra Gautam is the secretary general of the China Study Center Nepal. Gautam is known as a senior scholar and hydropower/development expert. Coincidently, Dr Gautam was a college mate of senior journalist, political analyst and former minister the late Shrish Shumsher Rana, who was associated with […]

Nepal: In Time of Pandemic, Scrap Open Border

M. R. Josse Former Editor-in-Chief The Rising Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal It is high time that the open Nepal-India border is scrapped and replaced by a controlled international one. While countless Nepalese citizens have, for donkey’s years, been clamoring for implementing precisely such a move, the powers that be have cravenly been dragging their feet in […]