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Hindu-Muslim Divide: India heading to Civil War?

“It leaves you aghast when you hear things like the ones spoken at the conclave in Haridwar. What these people are calling for is a full-scale civil war. 200 million of us aren’t going to be wiped out so easily. We are going to fight back. 200 million of us call this our motherland. We […]

Nepal as a battleground in the era of ‘Great Power Competition’

Rajan Karki Nepal-USA relation was founded in 1947 which later developed into the establishment of embassy of USA in 1959. Since then, the volume of US assistance to Nepal has reached more than 8 hundred billion US dollars. Over the last couple of years, the US Aid has dispensed 40 million dollars assistance or even […]

Nepal: Strategic Perspective on Climate Change

-Dr. Upendra Gautam, Kathmandu, Nepal Though Climate Change (CC) has moved to the center stage of public affairs, there is no effective policy of CC. Publications like “The Climate Change Risk Atlas” 2010 ranked Nepal as the fourth most vulnerable country in the world after Somalia, Haiti and Afghanistan. Why is this country so vulnerable […]

Solidifying National Integrity – 4

Professor Durga D Poudel, USA   Unifying Asta-Ja Framework: I have been writing about Asta-Ja Framework for the past 14 years after I published a groundbreaking article on Asta-Ja in 2008 “Management of Eight ‘Ja’ for Economic Development in Nepal” in Journal of Comparative International Management, 11(1): 1-13. Following this publication of this article, we […]

Islamabad OIC special meet: Recognition to Taliban!

N. P. Upadhyaya Kathmandu: A South Asian country which is also a distinguished member of the Organization of the Islamic Countries (OIC), has been generously sheltering approximately 4 million Afghan refugees since early 1980s is Pakistan-Nepal’s neighbor in South Asia. Let’s presume that the sudden collapse of the Ashraf Ghani government on August 15, 2021, […]