Nepal nominates new ambassadors to India, the US and the UK
The government of Nepal has nominated new ambassadors to India, the United States and the United Kingdom.
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The trend of Nepali citizens getting recruited into the armies of foreign countries like India, the UK, Brunei and Singapore has been going on for a long. In the case of the UK in particular, the youths of Nepali are being used as pawns by this country to fulfil its self-serving strategic interests. This started […]
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Nepal has signed an agreement to send its nurses to the United Kingdom.
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Nepal has appointed Gyan Chandra Acharya as its new ambassador to the United Kingdom.
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KATHMANDU, June 24: The Great Western Railway in the UK has begun operation of railway service after the name of a former British Gurkha soldier decorated with the Victoria Cross (VC).
The railway service after the name of VC laureate Tul Bahadur Pun was operated from Paddington Railway Station in the British capital London amid a ceremony on Wednesday morning.
The event was attended by British actress Joana Lumley. Lumley’s father James Rutherford was working in the same battalion where Tul Bahadur Pun was serving in then Burma (now Myanmar), during World War II. Joana has been championing the British Gurkhas’ cause for long.
Lumley, who lost her father during the line of service in the British Army, said that she shared emotional ties with the VC Pun’s family. On the inaugural event, Lumley had reminisced how she was welcomed in Pun’s family as daughter when she lost her father to a war, shared NRN-UK former president Yog Kumar Fagami.
Present on the occasion were VC Pun’s son Arjun Tilija and her daughter Megh Kumari Pun as well as the representatives from Nepali diaspora in the UK.
The inaugural of railway service marked the day when Pun was decorated with the VC Award, one the prestigious awards conferred by the British Queen in recognition of the gallantry of the soldiers in the British Army. Pun was awarded with the VC medal for his valour in the Second World War when he was only 21 years old.
Fagami viewed that the inaugural of railway service in the name of VC Pun was not an honour to Pun alone but it was a matter of pride for all the Nepalis. It reflected British government’s honour to Nepal.
Pun was born in Myagdi district of Nepal on 23 March 1923. He passed away on 20 April 2011 in Nepal.
Such a glorious event however missed the presence of representatives from Nepal's diplomatic mission in the UK and former Gurkha’s organizations and Nepalis’ organizations.
“If the event could see their presence, it would add an extra edge to the event,” opined Fagami.
LONDON, June 25: The Great Western Railway in the UK has begun operation of railway service after the name of a former British Gurkha soldier decorated with the Victoria Cross (VC).
The railway service after the name of VC laureate Tul Bahadur Pun was operated from Paddington Railway Station in the British capital London amid a ceremony on Wednesday morning.
The event was attended by British actress Joana Lumley. Lumley’s father James Rutherford was working in the same battalion where Tul Bahadur Pun was serving in then Burma (now Myanmar), during the World War II. Joana long has been championing the British Gurkhas’ cause.
Lumley, who lost her father during the line of service in the British Army, said that she shared emotional ties with the VC Pun’s family. On the inaugural event, Lumley had reminisced how she was welcomed in Pun’s family as daughter when she lost her father to a war, shared NRN-UK former president Yog Kumar Fagami.
Present on the occasion were VC Pun’s son Arjun Tilija and her daughter Megh Kumari Pun as well as the representatives from Nepali diaspora in the UK.
The inaugural of railway service marked the day when Pun was decorated with the VC Award, one the prestigious awards conferred by the British Queen in recognition of the gallantry of the soldiers in the British Army. Pun was awarded with the VC medal for his valour in the Second World War when he was only 21 years old.
Fagami viewed that inaugural of railway service in the name of VC Pun was not an honour to Pun alone but it was a matter of pride for all the Nepalis. It reflected British government’s honour to Nepal.
Pun was born in Myagdi district of Nepal on 23 March 1923. He passed away on 20 April 2011 in Nepal.
Such a glorious event however missed the presence of representatives from the Nepal’s diplomatic mission in the UK and former Gurkha’s organizations and Nepalis’ organizations.
“If the event could see their presence, it would add an extra edge to the event,” opined Fagami.
LONDON, May 28: The Government of the United Kingdom has provided medical supplies to Nepal for the prevention, control and treatment of COVID-19, the Embassy of Nepal in London said. The health supplies provided from the UK government to Nepal include face shields and 260 ventilators along with the equipment needed for ventilator. The health supplies have been sent to Nepal in a plane on Thursday afternoon from London.
Likewise, 10 oxygen concentrators have also been sent in the same flight managed by the Non-Resident Nepalis Association, UK, and Embassy of Nepal, London.
It is said the Embassy of Nepal in London is making its efforts to receive medical supplies and vaccines from the UK government after Ambassador of Nepal to the UK Lok Darshan Regmi’s meetings with Secretary of State for Defence and Secretary of State for Foreign to immediately receive vaccines and other bilateral assistance for fight against COVID-19.
Ambassador Regmi said that the results of the meetings, interactions and coordination with different sides will appear soon.
KATHMANDU, May 28: The Ambassador of the UK to Nepal, Nicola Pollitt, handed over the health materials to Minister for Health and Population Hridayesh Tripathi at a brief ceremony held at the Tribhuvan International Airport this morning.
In order to support Nepal in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of the United Kingdom provided medical supplies to Nepal. A charter flight carrying the medical consignment arrived in Kathmandu this morning, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Speaking on the occasion, Minister Tripathi expressed gratitude to the British Government for extending helping hands when Nepal is facing a huge challenge in saving people’s lives from the resurgent second wave of the pandemic.
“This assistance from the UK is in keeping with long history of the close and friendly relationship between Nepal and the UK including at the people’s level,” he stated.
Likewise, Ambassador Pollitt assured the Minister of continued British cooperation to Nepal.
The medical items provided by the UK include 260 units of ventilators, assorted consumables to last around four weeks, and 19,200 eye protectors. The same charter flight also carried oxygen concentrators donated by NepalMedUK, a charity organization based in the UK.
COVID Alliance for Nepal UK, a group of UK-based individuals and organisations, have asked the UK government to help Nepal tackle the second wave of Covid-19 that has recently hit the country.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has requested the British Ambassador to Nepal, Nicola Pollitt, to make efforts for sending Covid-19 vaccines to Nepal from the United Kingdom as far as possible.
