The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Friday released an additional $800,000 in relief funds for recent flood victims in Sunsari and Saptari districts.

Chitra Padmanabhan

South Asia's endangered Great One-horned Rhinoceros is being driven out of its natural habitat in search of food into the hands of illegal poachers, experts said on Thursday.

The government has proposed to earmark around Rs 6 billion for the Ministry

Students at Bheri Technical Institute (BTI) in Nepalgunj have successfully developed and test-drove on Wednesday a vehicle named 'Niful' that runs on solar power and batteries.

BY RASHME SEHGAL
NEW DELHI

The Indian and Nepal governments have given the green signal to the construction of two mega dam projects to help rein in the tumultuous Kosi river. These two dams, called the Saptakosi and Sumkosi projects, will together provide 4,000 MW of electricity and will be constructed at a cost of Rs 40,000 crores.

Ramaswamy R. Iyer

There is in Nepal a deep ambivalence about India, which many in India tend to misinterpret as anti-Indianism.

India-Nepal relations have been badly mismanaged on both sides. The time has come to make a break with the past and explore new beginnings. In his article in the issue of 15 September of The Hindu, Prof. S. D. Muni has already covered the larger aspects of strategic and security concerns. This article will focus on water relations, though some reference to the larger context cannot be avoided.

Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI: With the visiting Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) signalling a desire to expedite work on the outstanding water projects between India and Nepal, the two sides on Tuesday agreed to set up a three-tier joint water management mechanism.

There will be a ministerial-level Joint Rivers Commission, under which there will be a Secretary-level joint committee and then project-level technical committees for each project.

Nepal and India decided on Tuesday to establish a number of mechanisms, including a minister-level Joint River Committee, to avert floods like the one caused by Koshi River, in future.

The water in his ground floor house has already covered his chairs and dining table. So Vikash Ranjan Sinha, a grocery shop owner in Madhepura, moved up to the first floor with his octogenarian parents, wife and three children, including an infant.