India and Nepal are at loggerheads again over territory
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily News Colombo, December 3 – India and Nepal share culture and religion and have an open border stretching across five Indian States Uttar Pradesh (551 km), Uttarakhand (275 km), Bihar (726 km), West Bengal (100 km) and Sikkim (99 km). The two countries...
Similarities and differences in the three recent uprisings in South Asia
By P.M.Amza/DailyFT Colombo, September 20 – South Asia is living through an era of popular uprisings that has reshaped the political vocabulary of the region. In Colombo, Dhaka and Kathmandu, ordinary citizens—many of them strikingly young—have turned public squares into stages for democratic confrontation. These...
A chronicle of Nepal’s government collapses
By Dr. Sujit Kumar Datta/The Daily Times of Bangladesh Dhaka, September 17 – The country of Nepal has sublime valleys with an incredible landscape and culture. However, even under this mountainous monument, it is robbing such political confusion. Since the historic abolition of the 2008-mentioned...
Three ministers inducted into post-revolutionary Nepal cabinet
They are Rameshore Khanal as finance minister, Kulman Ghising as minister for energy, water resources and irrigation, and Om Prakash Aryal as minister for home affairs.
Nepal is unlikely to mirror chaotic post-revolutionary Bangladesh
The underlying factor is the difference in the personality of the Nepalese Prime Minister Sushila Karki and the Bangladesh Chief Advisor Dr.Muhammad Yunus.
South Asian popular uprisings topple three governments in three years
By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham Colombo, September 14 – In South Asia, popular uprisings have toppled three governments in three years. First, Sri Lanka’s “Aragalaya” people’s uprising in mid-2022 brought the Gotabaya Rajapaksa regime to an end. Second, in August 2024, the Bangladesh Uprising overthrew the government...
Nepalese Prime Minister Oli’s ouster follows a recent pattern
In the recent past, suddenly erupting popular movements have ousted strong and well-entrenched South Asian leaders like Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Sheikh Hasina.
Nepal’s Prime Minister Oli ousted by popular movement for free speech
Nepal has seen 13 changes in the Prime Ministership in 17 years.
Emerging trends in drug trafficking in the South Asian region –a Sri Lankan perspective
A paper by Pathfinder Foundation of Colombo
China-built airport in Nepal was littered with corruption, inquiry finds
A Nepali investigation blamed lawmakers and officials for looking the other way. The $216 million airport receives only one international flight a week
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