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Strategic Importance of Nepal

Yuba Raj Adhikari Nepal Council of World Affairs ( NCWA) Kathmandu, Nepal Abstract: The fate of any country depends on its geopolitical situation and its role in world politics. At any given time, a small and less powerful country’s independence can be threatened by geopolitical uncertainties and big power politics. Big powers are interested in […]

Nepal Embassy celebrates Mt. Everest Day in Islamabad, Pakistan

Kathmandu: The Embassy of Nepal in Islamabad organized today a programme to celebrate the Mt. Everest Day at the Embassy in Islamabad. Listen to this article: The programme was organized to commemorate the first ascent to the Mt. Everest by Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953. As the luck would have […]

Implementing the Treaty of Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and the future of Nuclear Disarmament-Part 2

-Dr. Niranjan Man Singh Basnyat Nepal’s former Ambassador to Malaysia -Continued from the first part…. Past Efforts for Global Nuclear Disarmament:  The United Nations, an inter-governmental organisation established at the dawn of nuclear era, in its first ever resolution adopted by its General Assembly, which met in London in 1946, was on the subject of […]

Implementing the Treaty of Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and the future of Nuclear Disarmament-Part 1

A five minutes read. –Dr. Niranjan Man Singh Basnyat Nepal’s former Ambassador to Malaysia Background: First of all, let me begin by giving a glimpse of how dangerous and devastating would be the use of nuclear weapon to human beings and natural environment, which has been well-described in the quoted text below: “A 20-megaton nuclear […]

Nepali Prime Minister Deuba set to visit US in July

Ace Collymore,  Foreign Policy Analyst, Canada Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is set to visit Washington in mid-July, marking 75 years of diplomatic relations between the US and Kathmandu. This is the first official visit by a Nepali Prime Minister to Washington in at least two decades. While Nepali Prime Ministers have regularly visited […]