Nepali 8 parties discuss terai issue

Xinhua News Agency;  January 29, 2007 ;     227 words ......to discuss the current impasse of the terai region on Monday afternoon, local media group...and other protesting groups of the terai region. The government had already appealed...country during the meeting. The eastern terai region have been tense the past week due to...

Nepal's Terai region shuts down following protests by Madhesis

The Hindustan Times;  April 20, 2007 ;     297 words ......Kathmandu, April 20 -- Nepal's southern Terai region on Friday witnessed mixed response to...Sunsari-Morang industrial corridor in the Terai region were also shut. However, no effect of...On Thursday, lawmakers from Nepal's Terai region disrupted proceedings in Parliament...

Nepal leaders meet to discuss Eastern Terai disturbance

The Hindustan Times;  January 29, 2007 ;     409 words ......impasse prevailing in the country's Terai region. The meeting is taking place at Prime...and other protesting groups of the Terai region. The government has already appealed...two-week-long unrest in the Eastern Terai region has severely derailed both business...

Koirala directs officials to improve security in Nepal's Terai region

The Hindustan Times;  December 25, 2007 ;     231 words ......peoples and regions of Nepal, such as the Terai region and the Madhesi people who live there...percent of the population lives in the Terai region. The term "Madhesi" encompasses many...and religious groups that inhabit the Terai region. Despite the fact that they represent...

Madheshis threaten secession

The Hindustan Times;  December 17, 2007 ;     219 words ......secede from the country and turn the Terai region into a new nation. Upendra Yadav, convener...Maithili-speaking people of Nepal's Terai region) have historically complained that the...demands, we will be forced to divide the Terai region from Nepal," Yadav said, adding that...

Discontent brewing in Nepal's terai region

The Hindustan Times;  August 17, 2006 ;     496 words ......threatening to take its place in the terai region of Nepal. The seeds of the new uprising...Nepal Sadbhavana Party, a party of the terai region that is now part of the coalition government...important message to the young men of the terai region," says Mahato. "Ten years ago, no ...

Curfew imposed in Nepal's Nepalgunj town

The Hindustan Times;  December 26, 2006 ;     260 words ......the Nepalgunj town of the country's Terai region following communal tension. This is...broke out between Madheshis (people from Terai region) and Pahades (people from Hilly region...life in several districts across the Terai region in southern lowlands of the country...

Nepal seeks India's help in Terai crisis

The Hindustan Times;  November 10, 2007 ;     220 words ......immediate solution to the problems in the Terai region. Over the past year, the Terai region, which borders India's Bihar and Uttar Pradesh...issue. It has always been alleged that the Terai region has been Nepal's "soft-belly", which has...

Breakaway CPN fraction ready to hold conditional dialogue

Xinhua News Agency;  January 7, 2007 ;     243 words ......for talks include announcement of terai region as an independent state, announcement...communities with Indian background living in terai region, in the police, army and local administration in terai region. Similarly, conducting re-census of...

Nepal, India to Set Up Joint Eco-Region

Xinhua News Agency;  April 25, 2001 ;     203 words ...Nepal and India will develop the Terai region adjoining the border areas of the two...an area of 30,000 kilometers in the Terai region and develop them into Terai Arc Landscape...conservation efforts, the release said. The Terai region is the prime habitat of tigers, rhinoceros...

Koirala asks Thakur committee to initiate talks with Terai groups

The Hindustan Times;  February 16, 2007 ;     295 words ......protesting groups in the Nepal's southern Terai region. Koirala's concern came at the Cabinet...during the three-week-long unrest in the Terai region. The Cabinet meeting also discussed...Government and adding constituencies in Terai region on the basis of population, as agreed...

Nepal sets deadline for talks with rebels

The Hindustan Times;  July 14, 2007 ;     123 words ......Prasad Sitaula Saturday said rebel groups active in Nepal's Terai region must come to the negotiating table within two weeks. Sitaula...It has been demanding a separate state in south Nepal's Terai region. Published by HT Syndication with permission from Indo-Asian...

Nepal, India agree to beef up border security

The Hindustan Times;  September 26, 2007 ;     179 words ......beefed up to contain the violence in the southern Nepal's Terai region and to strengthen the security along 1,700 km-plus open and...Both countries, and especially the urban centres in the Terai region, are witnessing increased cross-border criminal activities...

Nepal's Terai calls for mature leadership

The Hindustan Times;  December 31, 2007 ;     787 words ......of a mature leadership, which the Terai region requires. The Madhesi agitation that has destabilised the Terai region is without an organised leadership...Prajatantra Party belonging to the Terai region was a rude shock for the ruling...

Record rainfall in 7 years in Nainital

The Hindustan Times;  September 5, 2007 ;     276 words ......similar situation prevails in the nearby Terai region, where the total precipitation recorded...all recent records in Nainital and the Terai region, according to weather experts. There...the total rainfall received in the Terai region, so far, is 1531 mm. "The rainfall is...