Feb 23, 2012
Nepal and India have agreed to expedite the setting up of the Pancheshwor Development Authority (PDA) at the earliest. Both the countries agreed to this effect at the first meeting of the ministerial-level Joint Commission on Water Resources (JMCWR) in New Delhi on...
Feb 23, 2012
KATHMANDU, FEB 14 – Minister for Energy Post Bahadur Bogati will lead the Nepali team in the secretary level bilateral talks between Nepal and India on water resources commencing from Wednesday. The Cabinet meeting on Tuesday decided to send a 20-member team for...
Jun 23, 2011
Existing water treaties are in India’s favour, which troubles Nepal and prevents the much needed development of hydro-projects there. Water is currently a source of some tension between India and Nepal but could become the greatest asset to the relationship if a...
Jun 23, 2011
The Bihar government has sent an SOS to the Centre to immediately talk to Nepal to allow digging of an 11.6-km pilot channel of the Kosi River downstream from the Birpur Barrage on the other side of the border. As the Kosi is flowing dangerously close to the eastern...
Jun 23, 2011
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday asked the Centre to take up with Nepal the issue of protecting and strengthening of the Kosi embankment to prevent floods in Bihar, adding that the Himalayan nation is not doing enough on that front. “The Centre should...
Jun 23, 2011
Union Water Resources Minister Salman Khurshid will soon visit Nepal to take up the issue of rivers which originate in the Himalayan nation but then flood their banks across the border in Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh. Addressing the Ganga Flood Control Board here...
