Conservationists are satellite tracking red pandas in the mountains of Nepal to find out more about the factors that are driving them towards extinction, a media report said.
Officials said the locals had a confrontation with the APF over accessing an area near the international border and later, a scuffle took place between the two sides resulting in the firing.
Nepal last month released the revised political and administrative map of the country laying claim over the strategically key areas. India has been maintaining that these three areas belonged to it.
PM Oli claimed that India built a Kali temple, created "an artificial Kali river" and "encroached the Nepalese territory through deploying the Army" at Kalapani. The river defines the border between the two countries.
His claim comes in midst of a raging boundary row between the two countries with India sternly asking Nepal not to resort to any "artificial enlargement" of territorial claims after the Kathmandu released a new political map laying claim over Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura.
Indian nationals especially migrant workers, who were stranded in Nepal amid lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19, returned to India through India-Nepal border in Panitanki of Darjeeling district on June 6.
The Nepal government has extended the nationwide lockdown until June 14 amid a surge in the number of COVID-19 cases and decided to deploy the Army in the worst-hit areas.
Nepal has put its new map showing the Indian territories of Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura on hold, after a constitutional amendment pushed by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli failed to garner enough support
Nepal Prime Minister KP Oli on May 25 said the people from India are coming into the country without "prospering checking" which has contributed to the further spread of coronavirus in the Himalayan country.
Nepal on Monday registered its highest single-day spike in the coronavirus cases with 72 new infections, taking the total COVID-19 tally to 675 in the country, health officials said.
An earthquake of magnitude 3.4 occurred around Anantalingeshwor of Bhaktapur district in Nepal at around 08:14 am today.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Tuesday asserted that Lipulekh, Kalapani, and Limpiyadhura belong to Nepal and vowed to "reclaim" them from India through political and diplomatic efforts, as his Cabinet endorsed a new political map showing the three
Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli has said the coronavirus coming from India is “more lethal” than those from China and Italy and blamed the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the Himalayan nation on those sneaking into the country from India.
Just as the Nepal government released a revised political and administrative map on Wednesday, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that artificial enlargement of territorial claims will not be accepted by India.
India and Nepal are at a row after the Indian side issued a new political map incorporating Kalapani and Lipulekh on its side of the border in October last year.
They [Nepal] may have raised the issue (of Lipulekh road construction) at the behest of someone else, Indian Army Chief General MM Naravane has reckoned, in a veiled attack on China
Nepal on Tuesday confirmed 57 new cases of COVID-19, highest single-day rise taking the number of positive cases 191, Health and Population Ministry confirmed. modern nursing, on International Nurses Day on May 12.
A day after Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the new route to Kailash Mansarovar, Kathmandu has called upon India to refrain from carrying out activity "inside the territory of Nepal.”
Nepal administration on Sunday announced to extend the nationwide lockdown by 10 days i.e. till May 7 in a bid to curd the coronavirus spread in the country.
It's been a month since Kathmandu Durbar Square fell silent under the spell of lockdown imposed by Nepal Government to avert further spread of COVID-19.
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