Author: Himalaya Post

KATHMANDU : Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has held a telephone conversation with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. The talk between the prime ministers of Nepal and India on the occasion of 74th Indian Independence Day. The Prime Minister of Nepal greeted the Government and People of India on the occasion of its 74th Independence Day, and also conveyed congratulations for India’s recent election as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. The leaders expressed mutual solidarity in the context of the efforts being made to minimize the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in both countries. Prime Minister of India Modi offered India’s continued support to Nepal in this regard. Prime Minister Modi thanked the Prime Minister Oli for the telephone call and recalled the civilization and cultural links that India and Nepal share....

KATHMANDU: India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has clarified that the remarks made by its External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s that Lord Buddha was an Indian referred to the shared Buddhist heritage between Nepal and India. “There is no doubt that Gautam Buddha was born in Lumbini, which is in Nepal,” MEA’s Official Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava today said while responding to a media query on the remarks. Earlier today, Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) issued a statement saying said it was a well-established and undeniable fact proven by historical and archaeological evidences that Gautam Buddha was born in Lumbini in Nepal. “It is a well-established and undeniable fact proven by historical and archaeological evidences that Gautam Buddha was born in Lumbini, Nepal. Lumbini, the Birthplace of Buddha and the fountain of Buddhism, is one of the UNESCO world heritage sites,” the MoFA stated in a press statement. It may be noted that Indian Foreign Minister Shankar had during a virtual event on Saturday, claimed that Lord Buddha was an Indian. MoFA recalled that Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi had himself during his visit to Nepal in 2014, had said that “Nepal is the country where apostle of peace in the world, Buddha, was born” while addressing the Legislature Parliament of Nepal....

the new science block building of Mahendra Morang Multiple Campus, Biratnagar was jointly inaugurated by Embassy of India in Kathmandu, District Coordination Committee of Morang and Campus Management Committee through video-conferencing facility. The building has been built with Government of India grant assistance of NR 4.43 cr with DCC Morang as the implementing agency. 2. The project was taken up by the Embassy of India, as a High Impact Community Development Project (HICDPs), earlier known as Small Development Project, under India- Nepal bilateral initiation to support and strengthen grass-root infrastructure development projects across Nepal. Projects under this initiative benefit the communities in the project area, particularly in the areas of education, health, connectivity, drinking water and sanitation, vocational training, medical campus, etc. Since 2003, India has completed 422 HICDPs, covering 77 districts of Nepal with a financial grant of over NRs 798.7 cr 3. Established in 1955, the Campus is one of the largest affiliated campuses of Tribhuvan University in Province-1. The newly built two storied Science Block Building has 17 classrooms, laboratories, stores and separate sanitation facilities for boys and girls on each floor and will benefit nearly 7000 undergraduate and doctoral students and faculty members of the Campus. 4. Of the many who have passed out from the Campus, the most prominent is Hon’ble Bidya Devi Bhandari, President of Nepal. Many others who studied at the campus...