Redraw the boundary

November 10, 2019 03:00 am

Indian officials often complain, in conversations with Nepali media, that despite doing so much for Nepal, Nepalis still hold anti-India sentiments. At times, they tend to suggest that Nepal has been an ungrateful neighbor. No doubt, with India, Nepal has had historical cultural, social and people-to-people ties.

KATHMANDU, Jan 25: The age-old Nepal-India relations should be further deepened and strengthened as per the need of the new developments.

Modi should receive EPG report ASAP

December 16, 2018 00:27 am

It has been almost five months since the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) of India has been trying to meet the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to present EPG’s final report. EPGs of both Nepal and India agreed on a single joint report during its ninth meeting on  June 30, 2018, in Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, Dec 12: Amid concerns that the government is rendering two transitional justice mechanisms defunct by constituting a political mechanism that would supersede them, Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali said that no such decision has been made yet.

Time to replace

November 25, 2018 00:30 am

Replacing 1950 treaty with new pragmatic agreement will best serve interests of both Nepal and India and strengthen their bonds

Follow the recommendations

November 14, 2018 01:00 am

If the recommendations of EPGs are ignored, it might raise fresh resentment against India in Nepal

KATHMANDU, Sept 11: Prolonged delay on the part of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in receiving the joint report prepared by the Eminent Persons Group (EPG), formed earlier to recommend measures to improve Nepal-India relations, has raised serious doubts in Kathmandu about New Delhi's commitment to implementing the EPG's recommendations.

KATHMANDU, Aug 15: The eminent persons' group (EPG) formed to study entire gamut of Nepal-India relations and make recommendations to the government has said the joint team has prepared the report within the mandated period and was waiting for the date of appointment from respective heads of governments to submit the report.

KATHMANDU, July 1: A day after the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) concluded its common report on the 1950 treaty, Bhagat Singh Koshyari, coordinator of the Indian side met with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Ishwor Pokhrel at the latter’s house in Dhapasi.

KATHMANDU, July 30: The Nepal-India Eminent Persons Group has agreed to update all the treaties and agreements reached in the past between Nepal and India in line with the present reality of the two countries.

KATHMANDU, June 30: As their last meeting kicked off in Kathmandu on Thursday, members of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) from Nepal and India have focused on settling contentious issues to come up with a consensus report.

9th EPG meeting begins

June 29, 2018 12:47 pm

KATHMANDU, June 29: The ninth meeting of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) is being held in Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU: The eighth meeting of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) on Nepal-India relations begins in New Delhi, India from today.

KATHMANDU, Feb 25: The report to be presented by the Nepal-India Eminent Persons Groups (EPG) will be positive for both the countries.

KATHMANDU, Jan 10: The sixth meeting of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) on Nepal-India Relations, which was formed to review the whole gamut of bilateral issues and recommend ways to improve relations between Nepal and India, is taking place in New Delhi, India, on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, Jan 9: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has lauded the work carried out so far by the Nepal-India Eminent Persons Group or EPG while pledging necessary support to it at the political level.

5th EPG meeting begins from today

October 7, 2017 14:16 pm

KATHMANDU, Oct 7: The fifth meeting of the Nepal-India Eminent Persons Group (EPG) began in Kathmandu today.

The EPG muddle

October 5, 2017 00:30 am

It is becoming increasingly clear that substantive issues related to the 1950 treaty can be settled only through extensive political engagement

KATHMANDU, April 6: The third meeting of the Eminent Persons Group on Nepal-India Relations (EPG-NIR) agreed to hold its next meeting in India in late May.

KATHMANDU, April 6: The Eminent Persons Group (EPG) on Nepal-India relations has agreed to make a common voice on amendment, rewriting and review of the Nepal-India Treaty on Peace and Friendship-1950.

KATHMANDU, April 6: Nepal and India have reached an understanding to revise the provisions deemed ‘unequal’ for a sovereign country in the 1950 Nepal-India Peace and Friendship Treaty.

EPG agrees to revise 1950 Treaty

April 5, 2017 18:39 pm

KATHMANDU, April 5: The third meeting of the Members of the Eminent Persons Group on Nepal India Relations (EPG-NIR) from Nepal and India has decided to revise the 1950 Peace and Friendship Treaty.

KATHMANDU, Oct 3: A Nepali team left here on Monday for New Delhi to take part in a meeting of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) on Nepal-India relations scheduled to begin from tomorrow.

KATHMANDU, July 6: The first meeting of the Eminent Persons' Group (EPG) from Nepal and India concluded in Kathmandu on Tuesday starting a formal discussion on the 'Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1950' between the two countries.

KATHMANDU, July 5: As the first meeting of the Eminent Persons' Group (EPG) from Nepal and India began in Kathmandu on Monday, the much talked-about Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1950 was entered as part of its agenda.

KATHMANDU, June 26: The first meeting of the Eminent Persons Group on Nepal-India Relations (EPG-NIR) is to be held in Kathmandu on coming July 4 and 5.