Nepalese PM KP Oli To Arrive In India Today On A 6-day Visit
On his maiden foreign trip after assuming
charge, Nepal Prime Minister KP Oli will arrive in Delhi on a six-day visit
today during which he will hold talks with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi
on a range of key issues including matters relating to the newly adopted
constitution of the Himalayan nation.
It will be the first bilateral visit by a
Nepalese Prime Minister after the trip by the then premier Baburam Bhattarai in
October 2011. Mr Oli's predecessor Sushil Koirala had attended Modi's
swearing-in ceremony in May 2014. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas
Swarup said a range of issues, including matters relating to citizenship to
Indian-origin people, will figure in the talks between the two sides.
It is expected that India will ask Nepal to
complete the "unfinished task" of making the new Nepalese
Constitution more inclusive to address the concerns of the Indian-origin
Madhesi community.
Mr Oli will be accompanied by a high-level
delegation comprising Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Thapa, Finance Minister
Bishnu Prasad Paudel and Home Minister Shakti Bahadur Basnet among others. The
Chief Executive of the National Reconstruction Authority of Nepal and 13 MPs
from various political parties will also accompany Oli.
The Nepalese Prime Minister will stay at
the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Mr Oli will hold extensive talks with PM
Modi on Saturday on bilateral ties following which both sides are expected to
sign a number of agreements.
Two MoUs - one on the USD 1 billion line of
credit that India has already committed to Nepal during Prime Minister Narendra
Modi's visit and another on USD 1 billion that India had pledged during
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's trip to Kathmandu for the country's
post-earthquake reconstruction - are likely to be signed during Mr Oli's visit.
Asked about essential supplies from India
to Nepal, hit by a prolonged blockade by the Madhesi community, Mr Swarup said
it has almost been normalised. He said yesterday 1608 trucks had gone to Nepal
from India.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj,
Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will be among
those who will meet the Nepalese Prime Minister. Mr Oli will also call on
President Pranab Mukherjee and Vice President Hamid Ansari.
He will visit Dehradun on Sunday to inspect
the Tehri hydel power project and will return to Delhi in the evening. On
Monday, he will address the Indian Council for World Affairs and attend a
business meeting.
He will leave for Bhuj in Gujarat on
Tuesday to have a first-hand experience of the earthquake reconstruction work
there. Nepal was struck by a devastating quake in April last year and is
currently in the process of carring out reconstruction work.
The same day he will leave for Mumbai from
Gujarat and will meet Maharashtra Governor. He will leave for Nepal from Mumbai
on February 24.
3,524 songs, 650 films, 1 world record: Meet lyricist Sameer Anjaan
Lyricist Sameer Anjaan has entered the
Guinness Book of World Records for penning the most number of songs in
Bollywood: 3,524 for 650 films in a 33-year-long career. Apparently, there was
no such category as the ‘most number of songs ever’ in the Guinness Book, but
it was created to accommodate a new record.
Son of veteran lyricist Anjaan (Lalji
Pandey), Sameer started his career as a lyricist in 1983 with Bekhabar. Later,
films such as Dil and Aashiqui established him as the undisputed champion of
romantic songs. He has three Filmfare awards in his list of accolades.
