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Madan Kumar Bhattarai

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Bhattarai is a former foreign secretary. He also served as the foreign affairs advisor to President Bidya Devi Bhandari during her first stint.

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OPINION

Friendly Response to Scholastic Comments on My Review of Nep...

After reading the learned comments by a legal expert of eminence on a wide-ranging area of international law, Professor Dr. Surya Prasad Subedi, to our rather cursory and humble observations made on June 21 to his inaugural address for Professor Yadunath Khanal Lecture delivered on June 7, 2022 in t...
Jul 03, 2022
OPINION

A Review of Scholar's Perspective on Nepal's Foreign Policy

In a country where the top guns in politics have frequently made fake promises of making Nepal another Switzerland or Singapore, Professor Surya Prasad Subedi's addition of Austria and the Netherlands as Nepal's likely transformation spots and even Kathmandu taking the place of London as the center...
Jun 21, 2022
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Glimpses of the 50s, 60s and 90s

Yog Prasad Upadhyay’s My Life &Time: An Autobiography came out on February 26, his 94th birthday. Upadhyay is a person of several envious strands though known more as a political figure during at least three periods of recent political history of Nepal. These include 1951 democratic political moveme...
Aug 13, 2020
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Xi's visit: an important milestone in the annals of bilatera...

Chinese President Xi Jinping is paying a state visit to Nepal today and tomorrow. The visit of the Chinese head of the state to Nepal is taking place after a gap of 23 years. Jiang Zemin (who celebrated his 93rd birthday two months ago) was the last Chinese president to visit Kathmandu. President Ji...
Oct 12, 2019