Kathmandu, July 21 -- Fourteen months after leading the government, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is all set to embark on an official visit to India on September 16 at the invitation of his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi. But a formal announcement of the visit is yet to be made.

Officials at the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Nepali Embassy in New Delhi confirmed to the Post that an invitation from India had been received and concurrence given for the much-awaited visit, which Oli had been seeking for the past one year. Oli's India visit coincides with Modi's birthday on September 17.

In a recent interview with journalist Vijay Kumar Panday, Oli stated that he would visit India "soon" and that most pr...