{"id":41717,"date":"2026-02-06T23:38:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=41717"},"modified":"2026-02-06T23:38:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:53:37","slug":"nepal-india-border-points-to-remain-closed-before-48-hours-of-hor-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/nepal-india-border-points-to-remain-closed-before-48-hours-of-hor-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal-India border points to remain closed before 48 hours of HoR polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Feb 6: Nepal\u2013India border points will be closed for 48 hours prior to the election to the House of Representatives (HoR) scheduled for March 5.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>Both sides discussed the issues relating to protection of border pillars, facilitation of passenger movement, joint patrol, disaster rescue exercises, and the operation of mutual sports activities.<\/p>\n<p>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. 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<p>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. His Indian counterpart, Saroj Kumar Thakur, pledged to take further measures to strengthen Nepal\u2013India border points in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Feb 6: Nepal\u2013India border points will be closed for 48 hours prior to 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41719,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41717\/revisions\/41719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}