Kathmandu: Nepal\u2013India border points will be closed for 48 hours before the election to the House of Representatives (HoR) scheduled for March 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The decision was taken at a DIG-level coordination meeting between the Armed Police Force (APF) Nepal and India\u2019s Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), held in Morang, according to APF spokesperson Bishnu Prasad Bhatta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The agenda of the meeting included border security, information sharing, prevention of illegal entry of third-country nationals, control of human trafficking, fake currency circulation, and trans-border transportation of arms and drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both sides discussed the issues relating to the protection of border pillars, the facilitation of passenger movement, joint patrols, disaster rescue exercises, and the operation of mutual sports activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Similarly, the two forces agreed to assess potential risks along the border points, monitor the activities of refugees and migrants, and conduct regular multi-layered checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Measures to ban and control possible infiltration by criminal elements, as well as the distribution and consumption of alcohol products, were also discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking at the meeting, DIG Kumar Neupane said that the border does not serve merely as a demarcation between the two countries but stands as a symbol of friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His Indian counterpart, Saroj Kumar Thakur, pledged to take further measures to strengthen Nepal\u2013India border points in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
APF DIGs Anjani Kumar Pokhrel, Dipendra Shah, Krishna Dhakal, and Manish Thapa, along with Indian DIGs Manjit Singh, Suresha Subramaniam, Rakesh Tikku, and Manish Kumar, attended the meeting. RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kathmandu: Nepal\u2013India border points will be closed for 48 hours before the election to the House of Representatives (HoR) scheduled for March 5. The decision was taken at a DIG-level coordination meeting between the Armed Police Force (APF) Nepal and India\u2019s Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), held in Morang, according to APF spokesperson Bishnu Prasad Bhatta. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":346498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,1120,3,4,5,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-424488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-update","category-election-2026","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424489,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424488\/revisions\/424489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424488"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=424488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}