Hybrid Classes
We provide offline, online and recorded lectures in the same amount.
Personalised Mentoring
Every aspirant is unique and the mentoring is customised according to the strengths and weaknesses of the aspirant
Topicwise Mindmaps
In every Lecture. Director Sir will provide conceptual understanding with around 800 Mindmaps.
Quality Content
We provide you the best and Comprehensive content which comes directly or indirectly in UPSC Exam.
Nepal Political crisis The political crisis triggered by Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli’s decision to dissolve Nepal’s Parliament and call fresh elections led to a vertical split in the ruling party, with the rival faction led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ sacking Mr. Oli from its general membership. The Prachanda faction of the Nepal Communist Party had removed Mr. Oli as the party’s chairman earlier. It had issued a notice to him seeking an explanation for his decision to recommend Parliament’s dissolution, to which he did not respond. Following this, the central committee of the Prachanda bloc met on Sunday…
14 July, 2021
Nepal
India – Nepal relations Rail Transportation between India & Nepal got a major boost today with coming into force of authorization to all cargo train operators to utilize the Indian railway network to carry all containers bound for Nepal whether bilateral freight between India and Nepal or third country freight from Indian ports to Nepal. This liberalization will allow market forces to come up in the rail freight segment in Nepal and is likely to increase efficiency and cost- competitiveness, eventually benefiting the Nepalese consumer. These cargo train Operators include public and private container trains Operators, automobile freight train operators,…
10 July, 2021
Nepal
Nepal’s present political crisis Introduction A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of Nepal quite rightly overturned Prime Minister K.P. Oli’s decision to unilaterally dissolve Parliament in December 2020 and which was later approved by President Bidya Devi Bhandari. Reason for dissolution of the Parliament The Court correctly observed that there was the possibility of the formation of a new government in case Mr Oli did not enjoy the confidence of Parliament, and therefore ruled his decision unconstitutional. The ostensible reason for Mr Oli’s decision was inner party intrigue within the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP). The NCP has since…
26 February, 2021
Nepal
Analysis of India – Nepal relations As a unique characteristic, Nepal’s internal political fundamentals continue to shape its foreign policy choices. In the process, what gets lost is the scope of pursuing ‘enlighted self-interest’. In such a scenario, any inbound or outbound delegation is seen from a different prism, and anything discussed or not equally gives ample space to interpretation and misinterpretation. The year 2020 marked China’s unprecedented aggression, with an aim to counter India’s conventional edge in Nepal and South Asia at large. Accordingly, China’s geo-strategic, economic and infrastructural drives were made tempting to a precarious Nepal with its…
20 January, 2021
Nepal
Nepal Foreign Minister to meet Jaishankar today Nepal’s Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali will meet External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday for their first face-to-face meeting since the border row led to a slide in ties. Gyawali, who arrived in New Delhi Thursday afternoon, will co-chair the India-Nepal Joint Commission meeting along with Jaishankar on Friday. This comes against the backdrop of a political crisis in Nepal, where Nepal PM K P Sharma Oli has dissolved the Parliament and is now heading a caretaker government. “The Joint Commission is an important mechanism that provides the opportunity of reviewing at…
15 January, 2021
Nepal
India – Nepal ties during COVID-19 In Nepal, however, officials said the resolution of the dispute remains important for improving overall bilateral ties that plunged to new lows last year. “We have been urging India repeatedly through diplomatic notes to bring the border dispute to the table and the Joint Commission is an opportunity for us to that,” said Rajan Bhattarai, Foreign Affairs Adviser to Mr. Oli, explaining Nepal’s direction for the Joint Commission talks. The 6th Joint Commission meeting has been delayed by more than a year because of the row over the Kalapani issue and the COVID-19 pandemic.…
13 January, 2021
Nepal
Nepal Political Crisis and India’s stand China’s stand By sending a senior delegation of the Communist Party of China to Kathmandu within days of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli’s controversial decision to dissolve Parliament and call for elections, Beijing has sent a worrying message that it is prepared to intervene in Nepal’s politics. The team led by the Vice Minister of the CPC’s International Department, Guo Yezhou, met political leaders and called on President Bidya Devi Bhandari and Mr. Oli, with a stated mission to try and reverse the split in the party and convince Mr. Oli and his rivals…
31 December, 2020
Nepal
Nepal Political crisis India - Nepal issue is the emerging issue in UPSC Mains Examination 2021. It is highly important for UPSC GS Paper II Mains for International Relations. Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli’s recommendation to dissolve Parliament, which has been duly approved by President Bidya Devi Bhandari, has pushed the young democracy into an unprecedented constitutional crisis and political turmoil. Mr. Oli belongs to Nepal Communist Party with a near two thirds majority in Parliament. He took such drastic steps because he came under increasing pressure from his own party to withdraw an ordinance his government issued last…
22 December, 2020
Nepal
What are the India – Nepal relations? As close neighbours, India and Nepal share a unique relationship of friendship and cooperation characterized by open borders and deep-rooted people–to–people contacts of kinship and culture. It shares a border with 5 Indian States - Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. India – Nepal Trade relations The previous trade treaty revised in 1996 can be considered a turning point in the trade relations between the two countries. Since 1996, Nepal’s exports to India have grown more than eleven times and bilateral trade more than seven times; the bilateral trade was 29.8%…
21 December, 2020
Nepal
Nepal-Bharat Maitri Nepal-Bharat Maitri is a development partnership initiated by India as a high-impact community development scheme. This initiative is another milestone in strengthening cultural ties and people-to-people contacts between the two countries. In 2018, Nepal-Bharat Maitri - Pashupati Dharmashala was inaugurated in Kathmandu, Nepal. Recently, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed under Nepal-Bharat Maitri: Development Partnership, for the construction of a sanitation facility at the Pashupatinath Temple, Kathmandu. The facility will be implemented by Kathmandu Metropolitan City and India has pledged to extend financial assistance amounting to Rs. 2.33 crore. This comes amid a raging border row between…
18 June, 2020
Nepal
No longer special: On India-Nepal ties Context # After months of brinkmanship, India and Nepal have brought their relations to the edge of a precipice. # The Oli government’s decision to pass the constitutional amendment ratifying a change in its maps that include Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura, territories that India controls, marks a decidedly new phase in ties. Disputed territory # While the issue is an old one, it resurfaced in 2019 when New Delhi published new political maps to reflect the changes following the decision on August 5 to reorganise the State of Jammu and Kashmir, and Nepal objected…
15 June, 2020
Nepal
Resume dialogue with Nepal now BY: Yashwant Sinha is former Minister of Finance and Minister of External Affairs; Atul K. Thakur is a policy professional and columnist Part of: GS-II- IR (PT-MAINS-PERSONALITY TEST) India should take the lead in ending a deadlock that goes against the interest of bilateral ties with Nepal Background The time of a pandemic is not the time to have a hostile neighbourhood. At this moment, India should ideally lead in creating momentum for deeper regional and sub-regional cooperation in South Asia. Ironically, the recent developments with Nepal have been the opposite of that. India and…
09 June, 2020
Nepal
Lower the temperature, defuse the issue By, Jayant Prasad is a former Indian Ambassador to Nepal Introduction The inauguration of a road from Dharchula to Lipu Lekh (China border) by India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has now been followed by Nepal’s charge claiming that the stretch passes though Nepalese territory. This road follows the traditional pilgrim route for the Kailash-Mansarovar yatra. The conversion of the trekking route to a metalled road is a boon to both pilgrims and traders. Explaining Nepal’s stand The controversy has given Nepal’s Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli an opportunity to hide his government’s incompetence and…
23 May, 2020
Nepal
Sagarmatha Dialogue Syllabus subtopic: Bilateral, Regional and Global Groupings and Agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests. India and its Neighborhood- Relations. Prelims and Mains focus: About the event and its significance News: Nepal has invited the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan, along with several other heads of governments and states, for the Sagarmatha Dialogue (Sagarmatha Sambaad). Background India and Pakistan have been caught up in a cycle of hostility which has prevented Islamabad from hosting the SAARC summit since 2016. The dialogue aims at drawing all the SAARC leaders and providing an opportunity to…
24 January, 2020
Nepal
India, Nepal to hold talks on Kalapani Syllabus subtopic: India and its neighbourhood relations. Prelims and Mains focus: on the Kalapani dispute between India and Nepal; on the Treaty of Sagauli News: Nepal and India will resolve the Kalapani border issue through dialogue, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday. Context: Nepal has raised objections after India released its new political map in November last year following the reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir. Nepal claimed that Limpiyadhura, Lipulek, and Kalapani areas were shown under India’s territory even though they lie within the Nepalese territory. India…
03 January, 2020
Nepal
Kalapani Territory Syllabus subtopic: India and its neighbourhood- relations. News: Nepal government has strongly objected to the inclusion of ‘Kalapani’ under the Indian Territory as per the newly released political map of India. Prelims focus Location of Kalapani. Mains focus: About the dispute, India’s concerns and solutions. Issue In the latest map, India included Kalapani in the Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand. Nepal's government says that Kalapani is an integral part of the country and that talks are still on between New Delhi and Kathmandu over this “unresolved” area. Foreign secretaries of both countries have been assigned the responsibility to resolve the remaining border-related issues between…
09 November, 2019
Nepal
Copyright 2023 CLT TECHNOLOGIES AND EDU-PUBLISHERS PRIVATE LIMITED. All rights reserved.
24 × 7 Support : 8287714422
Whatsapp : 8010068998
Email Us: query@aspireias.com
