{"id":362289,"date":"2020-07-10T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=362289"},"modified":"2020-07-10T12:48:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T07:18:25","slug":"nepal-stops-highway-construction-in-bihars-sitamarhi-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nepal-stops-highway-construction-in-bihars-sitamarhi-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal stops highway construction in Bihar\u2019s Sitamarhi district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal has stopped the construction of a branch of an Indian national highway along the international border in Bihar\u2019s Sitamarhi district claiming it had encroached on no-man\u2019s land, further straining the ties between the countries.<\/p>\n<p>The neighbouring country\u2019s move enraged those engaged in the road-laying project and also locals on the Indian side, following which security personnel from both countries intervened. Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) personnel pacified the residents and brought the situation under control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNepal officials and its armed police force, which acts as border guards, objected to the construction of a branch of National Highway 104 going up to no-man\u2019s land at the Bhitthamore border on Tuesday. They said a portion of the around 250m offshoot of the national highway was encroaching on no-man\u2019s land,\u201d an SSB officer told <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal has stopped the construction of a branch of an Indian national highway along the international border in Bihar\u2019s Sitamarhi district claiming it had encroached on no-man\u2019s land, further straining the ties between the countries. The neighbouring country\u2019s move enraged those engaged in the road-laying project and also locals on the Indian side, following which security personnel from both countries intervened. Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) personnel pacified the residents and brought the situation under control. \u201cNepal officials and its armed police force, which acts as border guards, objected to the construction of a branch of National Highway 104 going up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,218,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}