Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The South Asia Institute (SAI) is an interdisciplinary center of the Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Germany, for research and teaching on South Asia. In German, it is known as the Südasien-Institut. The regional focus of the research and teaching at SAI are the countries Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan ...
Nepal is a landlocked country where transportation is difficult due to the mountainous terrain. Modern transportation in Nepal has just started in the 20th century. Railways were the first type of transport introduced in Nepal by the Nepal Railway Company. The first railway line began in 1927 with the length of 48 kilometres (30 mi) between ...
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a democratic global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896.In 2017 the ITF had 677 member organizations in 149 countries, representing a combined membership of 19.7 million transport workers [1] in all industrial transport sectors: civil aviation, dockers, inland navigation, seafarers, road transport ...
Transport in India consists of transport by land, water and air. Road transport is the primary mode of transport for most Indian citizens, and India's road transport systems are among the most heavily used in the world. The Golden Quadrilateral connects the four major metro cities of India, viz., Delhi (north), Kolkata (east), Chennai (south ...
France–Nepal relations are diplomatic relations between France and Nepal. [1] France–Nepal relations were officially established on 20 April 1949. [2][3] Prime Minister Jung Bahadur Rana in Paris, 1850. Nowadays there are tens of thousands of Nepali citizens that have immigrated to and reside in France, mostly in the Paris Ile-de-France ...
The foundation of relations between India and Nepal was laid with the Indo-Nepalese friendship Treaty in 1950. In the 1950s, the Rana rulers of the Kingdom of Nepal welcomed close relations with the newly independent India, fearing a China-backed communist overthrow of their autocratic regime after the success of Communist revolution in China and establishment of CCP government on October 1, 1949.
Airport access is via a short ferry ride or tunnel. 508,574 passengers used the airport in 2008, making it the busiest one-airline served airport in the world. In 2009 it surpassed Thunder Bay International Airport to become the 3rd busiest air facility in Ontario (after Toronto-Pearson and Ottawa International) serving 770,000 passengers, and ...
The project area is situated 27 km (17 mi) north of Nepal-India border as the crow flies. [7] The nearest border-customs to India by the road, lies approximately 53 km (33 mi) at Birgunj-Raxaul line, from where Nepal Oil Corporation imports the jet fuel. [8] The project area lies on a densely forested area, about 90 per cent.