In his congratulatory message to Maldives’ President-elect Mohamed Muizzu, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated on social media that ‘India remains committed to strengthening the time-tested… bilateral relationship and enhancing our overall cooperation in the Indian Ocean Region’. The...
A witness of politics around the world and its carnival poses a pertinent question of why politics has failed or has not. Ben Ansell in a thought-provoking book entitled Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World...
Politicising a bilateral issue with Mauritius after the now-muted ‘India Out’ campaign will have consequences in the long term for MaldivesAt a time when the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is at the centre of an ever-evolving post-Cold War geostrategic...
World politics is getting polarized with America and the West in one camp and authoritarian giants like Russia and China in the opposite camp. Meanwhile, India, Turkey, South America, African continental powers and other developed countries are middling either...
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The series of protests that political parties and public servants have threatened over the coming days, weeks and months has the potential of making Sri Lanka into a virtually ungoverned nation into an ungovernable country. In turn, this can...
New coalition government has outlined its policy priorities and programs in 21 point content based issues comprising headings of preamble, citizenship and Nepali identity, policy related and structural reforms, democracy, good governance and quality civic service, sustainable economic development...
Newly appointed Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal instructed 30 points of direction to the senior bureaucrats of the permanent government. Governance, public service delivery, and people's living situation-related issues were covered in the directive policy in Singhadurbar,...
Nepal witnessed two important electoral events in 2022 – local elections on May 13 and provincial and federal elections on November 20. The results of both elections are disturbing given the political equation developing in the country among mainstream...
Nepal is undergoing a republican democratic experiment with a harsh political, economic and social legacy. Liberal and democratic aspirations had intensified before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Liberal democracy, thus, began three decades after...
