TMC’s Falta Strongman Jahangir Khan Arrested Near Nepal Border
Jahangir Khan was fielded by the TMC in the Falta assembly repoll but he withdrew his candidature on May 19, just two days before polling.
Jahangir Khan was fielded by the TMC in the Falta assembly repoll but he withdrew his candidature on May 19, just two days before polling.
Official sources said some 80 jail escapees who were released by Gen Z priotesters in September this year, fled across the border and tried to find sanctuary in India, some of them under asssumed aliases.
The India–Nepal border at Panitanki, under Naxalbari block in Darjeeling district has been fully reopened after temporary restrictions caused by recent protests in Nepal.
It is learnt that the personnel of the 8th battalion of SSB first arrested the citizen of New Zealand while he was trying to enter the Indian side by furnishing these forged documents.
A case in point is Asale, an area of scenic beauty, replete with an around 300-feet high waterfall, on the India-Nepal border near Mirik in Darjeeling district. The area is situated around 9km away from the Phuguri tea estate and lies near the Kharbani village under the Soureni Gram Panchayat-II in Mirik Sub Division.
Tensions between India and Nepal escalated after Kathmandu, in a surprise move, issued a new political map which included Limpiyadhura, Lipulekh and Kalapani, areas which have been part of the Indian territory.
Around 36 hectares of land in four districts of Nepal, which border China, have been illegally occupied by China, but so far Nepalese government is tight-lipped about it.
Minister for Water Resources, Sanjay Jha said that the Gandak barrage has 36 gates of which 18 are in Nepal and the neighbouring country has put barriers in the area where the flood-fighting material is present.
A man was killed and two others were injured on June 12 after the Armed Police Force (APF) of Nepal fired at them inside Nepalese territory adjoining Bihar’s Sitamarhi district.
In a major setback for India, the parliament of Nepal on Saturday voted in favour of the constitutional amendment bill in a special session to update the country’s map claiming key areas of Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura along the border with India.
