With Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, aka Prachanda, now firmly in the saddle in Nepal after winning the trust vote for his coalition government, there is concern in New Delhi over the health of India-Nepal relations over the next few years.
The death of two Russian nationals in quick succession and in suspicious circumstances in Odisha’s Rayagada district recently merits a thorough investigation. Although the Russian embassy in New Delhi has said that Indian police had found “no criminal element” in the deaths, the possibility of foul play cannot be ruled out, especially since one of them, Pavel Antov, was a
Although political uncertainty over government formation in Nepal has ended for now with the swearing-in of a government led by Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Centre (CPN-MC) chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the damage done by Dahal’s opportunism to Nepal’s democracy will be felt for some time to come. Dahal was part of the Nepali Congress-led coalition government and the alliance
The country’s success in reducing its Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR), as recorded by data released last week, is good news on the health front. According to the special bulletin issued by the Registrar General of India, the MMR dropped from 130 per lakh live births in 2014-16 to 97 per lakh live births in 2018-20. The MMR is the number of mothers who die from complications
Nepali voters have delivered a fractured verdict in the recent general elections. No party has won a majority or even a convincing lead. The Nepali Congress has emerged as the single largest party, with 89 seats in the 275-member parliament. The opposition Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) has won 77 seats and the CPN-Maoist Centre (CPN-MC) 32 seats.