Nepal in damage control-mode following controversial KP Sharma Oli's remarks
News | July 15, 2020 12:13 ISTA statement from Nepal’s foreign ministry said Oli’s remarks were not political and not meant to disrespect Ayodhya and its significance.
A statement from Nepal’s foreign ministry said Oli’s remarks were not political and not meant to disrespect Ayodhya and its significance.
Nepal PM Oli claimed Lord Ram’s birthplace was in Nepal and not in India and, Lord Ram is a Nepali and not an Indian. He further went on to say that India has taken the cultural encroachment by ‘creating a fake Ayodhya’
Stoking a controversy, Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli said real Ayodhya was in Nepal and not India. He also went on to say that Lord Ram was a Nepali and not Indian. "Real Ayodhya lies in Nepal, not in India. Lord Ram is Nepali, not Indian," news agency ANI quoted Nepali media as saying.
In the diplomatic note to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) via the Embassy of Nepal in New Delhi on Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the materials disseminated by a section of the Indian media are “fake, baseless and insensitive as well as abusive to Nepal and Nepali leadership”, according to an aide of the Nepal Prime Minister.
Nepal's embattled Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli on Friday tried to downplay the rift in the ruling communist party, saying debates and differences are "normal" within a political party.
Many houses have been swept away due to heavy flooding in Nepal's Sindhupalchok.
Nepal on Thursday stopped the transmission of all Indian private news channels except Doordarshan, accusing them of airing reports hurting the country's national sentiment.
A crucial meeting of the ruling Nepal Communist Party to decide the political future of beleaguered Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli was once again deferred on Wednesday till Friday to allow more time for the top leaders to reach a power-sharing deal amid the heightened intra-party rift and his anti-India remarks.
The crucial talks between embattled Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli and the ruling Nepal Communist Party's executive chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' on the issue of power-sharing failed on Sunday, but they agreed to meet again on Monday to sort out their differences ahead of the party's powerful Standing Committee meeting.
As calls for his resignation grow louder, Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is expected to address the nation today.
The fear of locusts has grown wider in the country. The swarm of locusts attacked in Nepal's capital Kathmandu.
Nepal's Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli on Sunday claimed that efforts are being made to oust him after his government redrew the country's political map by incorporating three strategically key Indian territories.
Lobsang Sangay, the President of Central Tibetan Administration has warned Nepal to be careful from China's tactic of elite co-optation.
Labourers and team of Bihar Water Resources Department went to Nepal on June 23 to carry out repair work of Gandak dam.
China has occupied a village of Nepal and allegedly removed the boundary pillars to legitimise its annexation, top government sources said on Tuesday. It has also been learnt that China has gradually made inroads into several Nepalese territories with an ulterior aim to seize complete control.
Just days after Nepal's parliament passed country's new map showing Indian regions within Nepali borders, it has come to light that FM channels based in Nepal are airing anti-India speeches in border areas.
Nepal's upper house of Parliament today unanimously voted to amend the Constitution to update the country's new political map, incorporation three Indian areas. On Saturday, the lower house of Parliament had unanimously approved the new political map of the country featuring areas which belong to India. India termed as "untenable" the "artificial enlargement" of territorial claims by Nepal.
The new map includes Indian territory of Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura in Nepal. The MEA said that such a move was not based on historical facts and was not tenable.
Nepal Parliament's lower house on Saturday passed an amendment to include the new map which includes Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura in the Constitution of Nepal.
Nepal's border guarding force on Saturday released the Indian national who was detained for allegedly trying to snatch a weapon from one of their personnel during an altercation which sparked tension on the Indo-Nepal border along Bihar's Sitamarhi district, an official said.
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