All Indian TV Channels blocked

Students lined the city’s ring road to demand a lifting of the blockade by members of the Madhesi community, who have been protesting about Nepal’s new constitution.

KATHMANDU, Nepal-Protesters here vented their frustration with India’s ongoing trade blockade of Nepal, which has created a nationwide fuel and medicine shortage and slowed the country’s economy to a standstill.

As relations between Nepal and India plummet, cable operators in the Himalayan country have blocked all Indian channels “indefinitely”.

“We are deeply concerned that four Nepalis were injured in a shooting by Indian police officials inside Nepal’s territory”, Pokharel told AFP.

“We are already struggling with shortages, we don’t need a strike to add to our woes”. Our intense desire is that these problems should be resolved.

Nepal and India do not have a new version of the extradition treaty or mechanism for mutual legal assistance.

During the meeting today “both the sides agreed to resolve the issues relating to the Madhesi parties through bilateral and trilateral dialogue”, said Oli’s press advisor Pramod Dahal. If the potential conflicts are not resolved, it may have consequences. There is a section which is encouraging anti-India sentiment as it helps them in some way. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) clarified that India has not imposed any blockade on supplies to Nepal and referred the crisis in the neighbouring country as “political” in nature. Nepal has handed over Sikhs, LTTE and Islamic extremists to India, while the latter has handed over Maoists facing trial in Nepal before 2006, and other criminals wanted in Nepal.

On Sunday 13 Indian border security officers crossed into Nepal chasing smugglers in the southeastern district of Jhapa, prompting reports in India that the officers had been detained.