LOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE Muhammad Habib Zahir, a retired Lt Colonel of the Pakistan Army working for the country’ military intelligence agency ISI in Nepal has disappeared from Lumbini near the border with India. His son says Zahir landed in Kathmandu from Oman to meet ‘some prospective employers’ and took a flight to Lumbini on a local…
Read moreThe first ever Nepal-China joint military drill ‘Sagarmatha Friendship-2017’ started at Nepal Army’s Para Training School Maharajgunj in Kathmandu. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s squad is participating in the 10-day military exercise that focuses on counter terrorism and disaster response, the Nepal Army said in a statement. “We hope such joint military exercise would help Nepal and Chinese…
Read moreNepal and China will hold their first ever joint military exercise on April 16-25 focused on counter-terrorism and distaster response, Nepal Army announced on Thursday. In a recent visit to Nepal, Chinese defence minister Chang Wanquan had announced 300 million Yuan military aid to Nepal Army for its UN peacekeepers, mainly logistics. “In a bid…
Read moreNepal’s agitating Madhesi parties decided to boycott next month’s local elections and hold fresh protests, saying the content of the new Constitution amendment bill tabled in Parliament was different from what was agreed with the government. The United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) leaders, in a meeting held in Kathmandu, claimed that the new proposal has…
Read moreThe Indo-Bangladesh ties will undergo “another transformation” if a pact on Teesta water sharing is inked, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said but is anxious over West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s reaction to such an agreement. Stressing that common water resources must act as a uniting force, she pitched for a comprehensive solution to…
Read moreCyber security firm Kaspersky Lab said it had obtained digital evidence that bolsters suspicions by some researchers that North Korea was involved in last year’s $81 millions cyber heist of the Bangladesh Central Bank’s account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Russian-based Kaspersky released a 58-page report on Lazarus, a group linked to the…
Read moreOfficials at the Ministry of External Affairs have pulled up their socks to host the leaders of Southeast Asian countries at India’s next Republic Day parade. Prime Minister Narendra Modi reportedly intends to have all 10 heads of state of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as chief guests when India enters her sixty-ninth year…
Read morePrime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at Pakistan saying it breeds, inspires and encourages terrorism. “There is one thought in South Asia which breeds, inspires and encourages terrorism. The thought whose priority is not humanity, but extremism and terrorism,” Modi said, without naming Pakistan. He was speaking at the ceremony where families of martyrs of…
Read moreBIBHU SHARMA / SAJINA RAI Nepal-Bangladesh bilateral relation saw a promising prospect, when, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina offered Nepal in using Saidpur Airport, Chittagong and Mongla Port amidst the flaring tension between Nepal and India, which reached its apex during November 2015. Not only the policy makers of Nepal, even the public opinion, rendered this…
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