Nepal

The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has received approval from Indian authorities to sell 39 megawatts (MW) of electricity generated by two hydropower projects through the India Energy Exchange Limited, the Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. The NEA would be able to participate in bids to sell 39MW of power to India, Gokarna Raj Pantha, joint spokesperson for the Ministry, told Xinhua news agency.

Presenting a political document, which will be later placed in the party's general convention, Oli said that India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, who visited Kathmandu ahead of the promulgation of the constitution as a special envoy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had threatened the Nepali political leadership not to ignore India's legitimate concerns and suggestions during the promulgation of the constitution.

As shown by data released by the department on the day, 157 climbers from 15 teams have got permits for Mt. Manaslu, the world's eighth tallest peak at 8,163 metres, while a three-member team was greenlighted for the world's third-highest Mt. Kanchenjunga.

The statement came in response to some protests in Kathmandu against the Indian government and Modi in a backdrop of recent diplomatic friction between Nepal and India. Recently, Nepal and India indulged in two different diplomatic row after Indian helicopter repeatedly breached the Nepali territory and made a flight over western Nepal of Darchula district. According to the media reports.

"In recent days, the number of Covid-19 cases has come down significantly," Kali Prasad Parajuli, chief district officer of the Kathmandu district, told Xinhua news agency on Wednesday.

There were reports that China has encroached some lands in Humla district of Nepal which was earlier dismissed by the former KP Sharma Oli government. Now the government formed the five-member team on Wednesday headed by the Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Home Affairs to study the border dispute with China that will give the exact picture of situation in its northern region.

The presence of Indian SSB in a recent incident in which a Nepali national fell into Mahakali while crossing the river using a cable and went missing is likely to invite another round of a diplomatic row between Kathmandu and New Delhi.

The International Business Times -- an American online publication noted that the chief of BJP's foreign affairs department, Vijay Chauthaiwale's recent visit to Kathmandu and meetings with the top leaders might go unnoticed by the masses, but it is a crucial step in the direction of jump-starting bilateral ties between India and Nepal.

Chauthaiwale, who is on a four-day unofficial visit to Kathmandu, is the highest-ranking Indian leader to arrive here since Deuba assumed office. "Today I was honoured to call on the Prime Minister of Nepal H E @SherBDeuba ji in Kathmandu. I congratulated him for his election as PM and also greeted him on the auspicious occasion of Janai Purinama and Rakshabandhan," he tweeted.

As many as 95 leaders from the party, including 58 from the existing Central Committee, applied to the Election Commission for the establishment of Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (Socialist) to be headed by Madhav Kumar Nepal, with former prime minister Jhala Nath Khanal in the second rank, the Xinhua news agency reported.