The MEA’s 2025 budget underscores New Delhi’s strategic and geoeconomic priorities for the year ahead. The Budget focuses on ...

A Hindu pilgrim stood anxiously next to a bus stand in Mustang, Nepal. “I’m going to burn my passport,” he told me. “I’m going to destroy all my documents and cross the border. I came ...

China’s cross-border trade saw further facilitation in 2024 as the country ramped up efforts to develop smart ports and enhance international trade ...

As the rickety bus barely rounded another corner, an audible gasp went through the passengers. A recent blizzard had taken out the road between the high Himalayan villages of Ranipauwa and ...

Over the course of two decades, China has built a public health aid program for the world, turbocharged by the pandemic. As ...

India was pushing back in other ways too, granting neighbours relief from covid-19 and from debt problems linked to Chinese ...

In January, Nepal's tourism enjoyed a surge in Chinese tourists while it suffered a decrease in the number of Indian visitors. Out of nearly 80,000 foreign tourists visiting Nepal in January 2025, ...

Saying that “America’s sovereignty is under attack,” President Donald Trump’s declaration of a false border emergency comes ...

President Trump’s order to halt most foreign aid has intensified humanitarian crises and raised questions about the United ...

It is only fitting that Asia, a continent characterized by its massive size, is home to some of the largest military forces ...

A new government in Nepal has usually been followed by a Nepali prime ministerial visit to New Delhi in response to an Indian invitation. That has long been the tradition in India-Nepal relations.

I was born in Kham, in eastern Tibet, my parents’ first born. A brother and sister followed, and the five of us lived with ...