It is interesting to note the timing of the fresh bomb attack by Chand Maoist group has come at a time when Narendra Modi has been given the mandate to rule India for five years and that the Nepali nationals of
Birganj (a town in Nepal that borders Raxaul, India in the South who took Modi's victory as their own and appeared more excited than the Indians who voted Modi to power.
Farmers Mokbular Rahman, Mahbubur Rahman and Noman Ali of Birampur, Hakimpur and
Birganj upazilas in Dinajpur expressed happiness over smooth litchi formation after excellent blossoming to get bumper production this season.
A mother and her three minor daughters died from hornet-bite in village Arazi Laskora under Shibrampur union in
Birganj of Dinajpur district, police and hospital sources said yesterday.
While a small link between Raxaul in Bihar and
Birganj in Nepal is operational, railway officials said four new routes could be explored between the two countries.
Next, the four month long Madhesi blockade of the
Birganj border with India, a key oil import route, intensified Nepal's energy shortfall and caused crippling power outages that again stalled progress on key infrastructure projects.
Relief was also being sent through the dry port in
Birganj in Nepal.
I had gone to Raxaul on the India-Nepal border, mainly to visit
Birganj to buy a SLR camera.
Talking to reporters in
Birganj in the Terai plains near the Indo-Nepalese border, Nepal said, "We are really concerned about this racket and if anyone uses our land to supply fake currency into India, we will take proper action."
In this context, the cover of the book also shows the Indian-looking Tarai town of
Birganj rather than the stereotypical exotic picture of some Hindu or Buddhist temple against a Himalayan background.
Yet, from 1964 onwards, these "normal mobile camps" were converted into permanent training centres, located in Kathmandu, Palpa, Pokhara, Dharan, and
Birganj (see Joshi 2003: 91ff).
On Friday, King Gyanendra proposed building a railway line from
Birganj, a commercial center in southern Nepal, to Tatopani near the border with the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, the official said.