Indian Nepal Trade

A meeting of the India-Nepal Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) on Trade and Transit was held today, during which both sides reviewed the progress made on wide-ranging bilateral agenda including review of treaties of trade and transit, stated the Indian embassy.

China will allow Nepal the use of four of its ports, the Nepalese government said on Friday, as the landlocked Himalayan nation seeks to end India's monopoly over its trading routes by increasing connections with Beijing.

Nepal's new Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli is likely to visit India soon, the Indian envoy in Nepal said on Tuesday, a day after the visit of Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Thapa to New Delhi to discus hiccups in ties following the Madhesi-led blockade of main trading points.

India's envoy in Kathmandu today called on Nepal's new Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Thapa and discussed ways to ease supply of essential goods to the land-locked country amid strained ties over the blockade of border trade points due to protests by Madhesis over the new Constitution.

With Nepal's supplies being squeezed due to the restricted movement of goods through the Indian border after protests over the new Constitution, China today said that it is expediting efforts to re-open its borders with Nepal which has been closed since the massive earthquake in the Himalayan nation.

Prime Minister Sushil Koirala today requested India not to delay the opening of the trading points to ease the supply of essential goods into Nepal, amid road blockade on the border by Madhesi protesters over the country's new Constitution.

For the last three days on India's side of its border with Nepal, in Bihar, loudspeakers have been booming with warnings.

A meeting of the India-Nepal Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) on Trade and Transit was held today, during which both sides reviewed the progress made on wide-ranging bilateral agenda including review of treaties of trade and transit, stated the Indian embassy.

China will allow Nepal the use of four of its ports, the Nepalese government said on Friday, as the landlocked Himalayan nation seeks to end India's monopoly over its trading routes by increasing connections with Beijing.

Nepal's new Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli is likely to visit India soon, the Indian envoy in Nepal said on Tuesday, a day after the visit of Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Thapa to New Delhi to discus hiccups in ties following the Madhesi-led blockade of main trading points.

India's envoy in Kathmandu today called on Nepal's new Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Thapa and discussed ways to ease supply of essential goods to the land-locked country amid strained ties over the blockade of border trade points due to protests by Madhesis over the new Constitution.

With Nepal's supplies being squeezed due to the restricted movement of goods through the Indian border after protests over the new Constitution, China today said that it is expediting efforts to re-open its borders with Nepal which has been closed since the massive earthquake in the Himalayan nation.

Prime Minister Sushil Koirala today requested India not to delay the opening of the trading points to ease the supply of essential goods into Nepal, amid road blockade on the border by Madhesi protesters over the country's new Constitution.

For the last three days on India's side of its border with Nepal, in Bihar, loudspeakers have been booming with warnings.