LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: The Centre has decided to hike its financial aid for the financial year beginning April this year to Nepal to Rs 650 crore, a 73% increase from the previous year allocation, while expressing concern over increasing Chinese presence in some of the neighbourhood countries. Read more at: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/indias-aid-to-nepal-up-73-to-check-chinas-infra-push/articleshow/63392505.cms
Nepal Foreign Relations
Nepal Seeks India Nod for More Inbound Flights
Nepal hopes to get approval from India for an inbound flight route from the west, according to a senior civil aviation official of the country, which has two airports under construction and another being planned. To read further, please click on the link below: http://zeenews.india.com/world/nepal-seeks-india-nod-for-inbound-flights-from-west-official-2079992.html
Communists Win Nepal’s 1st Election Under the New Constitution
After centuries of absolute monarchy followed by decades of chaos, Nepal is taking to democracy in a big way. Since May its people have voted into office 753 newly created local councils, seven new provincial assemblies and a 275-member national parliament. To read this Economist article, please click on the
India Needs to Reach Out to Nepal to Counter Chinese influence
Nepal’s Left alliance, comprising two Communist parties, the CPN-Unified Marxist Leninist (UML) and CPN-Maoist Centre, has won the country’s first legislative election under the new constitution. The election marks the Himalayan nation’s transition to democracy, bringing to an end the long period of volatility since the abolition of the monarchy
Remembering Not to Forget Toni Hagen
As he looks down at another nearly lost half-decade of development in Nepal, Toni Hagen must be shaking his head, To read further click on the link below: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40917407
Nepal Proposes Rail and Road Links to China
Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Ramesh Lekhak proposed to the Chinese Transport Minister to link Nepal’s border with road and railway connectivity. That was followed by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s assurance to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal that the Chinese government is ready to initiate construction work on the cross-border railway link between the