Nepal Fuel Crisis

Nepal's Deputy Prime Minister today said the government would maintain national "dignity and sovereignty" even as the country faces an acute fuel shortage amid the continuing political crisis following the promulgation of the new Constitution.

Hit by fuel-crisis with no supplies from India for over a two months, Nepal turns to China for help, diplomatic circles in India may be worried, but on the ground, in Bihar's border town of Raxaul, truckers like Jaylal Yadav say there's no other choice.

Nepal signed a deal with China today to import petroleum products, its embassy in Beijing said, as the Himalayan nation tries to boost supplies to deal with a deepening fuel crisis.

Nepali officials left for China today to negotiate a fuel deal and ease crippling shortages after protests over a new constitution blocked imports from its sole supplier India, a minister said.

After months in makeshift shelters, earthquake victim Bhim Bahadur Gurung is desperate to start rebuilding his house ahead of Nepal's biting winter, but a fuel blockade has left him unable to obtain vital construction supplies.

For over 50 days now, 44-year-old Ayub Miyan has not managed to open his petrol pump in Nepal's Birgunj town, about 5 kilometres from the Indian border.

Over 4,000 trucks from India are stranded at the border with Nepal which is grappling with a deepening fuel crisis as protests over the country's new Constitution have strangled essential supplies. India has rejected as "totally false" allegations that it has imposed a blockade, saying it is the responsibility of the Nepal government to facilitate ...

Nepal's Deputy Prime Minister today said the government would maintain national "dignity and sovereignty" even as the country faces an acute fuel shortage amid the continuing political crisis following the promulgation of the new Constitution.

Hit by fuel-crisis with no supplies from India for over a two months, Nepal turns to China for help, diplomatic circles in India may be worried, but on the ground, in Bihar's border town of Raxaul, truckers like Jaylal Yadav say there's no other choice.

Nepal signed a deal with China today to import petroleum products, its embassy in Beijing said, as the Himalayan nation tries to boost supplies to deal with a deepening fuel crisis.

Nepali officials left for China today to negotiate a fuel deal and ease crippling shortages after protests over a new constitution blocked imports from its sole supplier India, a minister said.

After months in makeshift shelters, earthquake victim Bhim Bahadur Gurung is desperate to start rebuilding his house ahead of Nepal's biting winter, but a fuel blockade has left him unable to obtain vital construction supplies.

For over 50 days now, 44-year-old Ayub Miyan has not managed to open his petrol pump in Nepal's Birgunj town, about 5 kilometres from the Indian border.

Over 4,000 trucks from India are stranded at the border with Nepal which is grappling with a deepening fuel crisis as protests over the country's new Constitution have strangled essential supplies. India has rejected as "totally false" allegations that it has imposed a blockade, saying it is the responsibility of the Nepal government to facilitate ...