Capture of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and his sons by William Hodson in 1857, by Robert Montgomery Martin, c. 1860.: The East India Company had a long lasting impact on the Indian Subcontinent. Although dissolved following the Rebellion of 1857,...
Strengthening Nepal-India Cooperation, Modi's Visits created a strong positive vibe in Nepal-India bilateral relationship. Modi’s fifth visit was not only furthering to strengthen political, economic and cultural relations, but his first after the 2014 assumption of office was a...
On 18 March, Nepal’s Prime Minister Mr. Sher Bahadur Deuba made a special address during the 74th Anniversary function of the Nepal Council of World Affairs (NCWA). NCWA is an organization that is contemporaneous with the Indian Council of...
The ‘stray incident’ (?) involving rioting and arson outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Mirihana house should be an eye-opener for all stake-holders, starting and ending with the Nation. The situation can worsen with the sporadic protests across the nation that...
Independent of the strong rebuttals by the ministry of external affairs, which rightly distinguished party politics from governmental policy in theoretical terms, the avoidable controversy over Prophet Mohammed, triggered by two Bharatiya Janata Party spokespersons, has the potential to...
The Supreme Court is likely to hear a petition on the boundaries for political parties to name names for the National List MPs, going by media reports. If upheld, the petition may lead to ruling SLPP’s Finance Minister Basil...
After two issues in a row surfaced, the once receding ‘India Out’ campaign has started gaining new traction in Maldives, to the embarrassment of President Mohamed Solih, the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), and others in the country who...
In his address to the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has expressed his readiness to engage all domestic stake-holders, international partners and the UN for post-war reconciliation, which is already a decade old....
Nepal's bilateral relations with the United States were forged in 1947 during the petering out of the Rana oligarchy in the post-War World. The U. was one of the four countries besides Britain, India, and France to tie up...
Irony but true. It takes only a week or even less to make a strong government with a two-thirds majority in Parliament, look weak, unsteady and unstable. It takes even less time to sow seeds of confusion, if not...
