India spy chief visited Nepal last week. Questions remain if Delhi has handed its Nepal policy to the spooks

Goel came as Indian prime minister’s envoy, say leaders close to Oli, but analysts say envoys’ visits are announced beforehand and that it was not the case with his trip to Kathmandu last week.

It has been a week since Samant Goel, chief of India’s top spy agency Research and Analysis Wing, came for a whirlwind visit to Kathmandu. But its reverberations continue.