Nepal’s BRI Drive: What Lies Ahead?
Although, the Himalayan state deserves better treatment from India, shifting the core focus to Beijing would not work for the country keeping its long-term socio-economic objectives in mind ...
NEIGHBOURHOOD STUDIES
Neighborhood Studies looks at the range of cross-cutting issues such as political developments, economic activities, cross-border activities and foreign affairs related issues and security surfacing in its immediate neighbors – India and China – in addition to its extended neighbors such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Maldives. The study focuses to explore and identify emerging priorities in the neighborhood and generate evidence and analysis.
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Revisiting EU’s Regional Strategy in South Asia
The European Union’s presence in South Asia needs to go beyond the traditional trade and development aid assistance model to factor-in the evolving political and strategic realities of South Asia ...
‘Borders between Brothers’ - India, Nepal and the China Factor
The smaller countries are caught up in the reverberations of a more assertive China and India. In terms of China's regional role, the assertiveness is visible in several ways ...
Sino-Indian Relations: An ‘Ancient’ Solution for the ‘Modern’ Problem
If the two countries could get over their political whims and decide to collaborate at a stauncher level through Track Two diplomacy initiatives, the world could witness lesser number of conflicts. Maybe a cultural ‘act east’ policy is the silent solution. ...
COVID-19 and the Social Disparity in India
In comparison to men, women are suffering more and are bound to perform the work related to cooking, cleaning and childcare, along with the issue of domestic violence and sexual abuse ...
India-China Tensions during COVID-19
The refusal of both India and China, of the meditation offer of President Trump, signifies that both the countries have many bilateral avenues to discuss and settle their differences and also gives lots of hope that both the countries will not go for military confrontation, rather resolve it through talks ...
Portrayal of the India-Nepal Relation
The Nepali government, political parties and nationalist cannot think of going against India. However, it is the duty of every citizen of all countries to protect their national sovereignty, territorial integrity, independence, national pride and national interest ...
Six Decades of Nepal-Israel Unique Partnership
Nepal and Israel have huge potential for future cooperation. Exchange of Israeli technological sophistication and Nepal’s rich human resource should continue in future for the benefit of both the countries and they should jointly explore other possible areas of cooperation ...
Power Sector Reforms, Energy Efficiency and Low Emissions: India’s Pivot to Fulfilling its Paris Climate Commitments
India is moving fast toward clean energy regime by working on a mixed energy use other than managing its biofuel focusing on renewable energy and civil nuclear energy in collaboration with US, Russia, France and Japan in its efforts to comply with Paris Climate Treaty provisions and to honour other multilateral and bi-lateral regimes and arrangements ...
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India-China in Middle East: Energy Supplies and Asian Security
Given the resource endowment and their growing population, both India and China are likely to face evident challenges in pursuit of their energy security goals in near future with medium to long term consequences in the region ...