{"id":3831,"date":"2026-09-18T16:41:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/?p=3831"},"modified":"2026-09-18T16:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:41:05","slug":"govt-recommends-ambassadors-for-13-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/?p=3831","title":{"rendered":"Govt recommends ambassadors for 13 countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KATHMANDU:<\/strong> The government has recommended 13 ambassadorial nominees, with experts, academics and professionals proposed\u00a0for diplomatic missions\u00a0in countries including\u00a0India, China, the\u00a0US, Japan and\u00a0the UK.<\/p>\n<p>A Cabinet meeting held on Friday under the leadership of Prime Minister Balendra Shah (Balen) recommended ambassadors for the 13 countries. Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal said the government had recommended qualified individuals from diverse professional backgrounds for the ambassadorial posts.<\/p>\n<p>The government will now send the nominees to the parliamentary hearing process. Following the completion of the hearing, the government will seek approval from the respective countries. Once approval is received, the President will appoint the nominees as ambassadors to the respective countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Proposed Ambassadors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Nischalnath Pandey\u00a0\u2014 India<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kalyanraj Sharma\u00a0\u2014 China<\/p>\n<p>Chiranjung Thapa\u00a0\u2014 United States<\/p>\n<p>Former Army Chief Gaurav Shumsher Rana\u00a0\u2014 United Kingdom<\/p>\n<p>Jigyan Kumar Thapa\u00a0\u2014 Japan<\/p>\n<p>Suresh Kumar Karna\u00a0\u2014 Israel<\/p>\n<p>Prapti Sherchan\u00a0\u2014 Spain<\/p>\n<p>Sharu Joshi\u00a0\u2014 Germany<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Padmakshi Rana\u00a0\u2014 Oman<\/p>\n<p>Chudamani Kharel\u00a0\u2014 Malaysia<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Dr. Sangam Shrestha\u00a0\u2014 South Korea<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Manchal Jha\u00a0\u2014 Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>Giri Bahadur Sunar\u00a0\u2014 Saudi Arabia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU: The government has recommended 13 ambassadorial nominees, with experts, academics and professionals proposed\u00a0for diplomatic missions\u00a0in countries including\u00a0India, China, the\u00a0US, Japan and\u00a0the UK. A Cabinet meeting held on Friday under the leadership of Prime Minister Balendra Shah (Balen) recommended ambassadors for the 13 countries. Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal said the government had recommended qualified individuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","override":[{"template":"2","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"no-crop","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"jnews_post_split":{"post_split":[{"template":"1","tag":"h2","numbering":"asc","mode":"normal","first":"0","enable_toc":"0","toc_type":"normal"}]},"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3833,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions\/3833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}