Nepal government formally requested India to contribute to strengthening the relationship between the two countries by normalising the flow of essential supplies. The cabinet has stated that government has been working to resolve the problem through dialogue and has already provided Rs 1 million to those who died during the Madhes movement and was working to withdraw bogus cases against agitators and had already provided free treatment to injured agitators. According to Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli’s press adviser Pramod Dahal, endorsing a special proposal in the cabinet meeting today, the government requested India to end the ongoing problem at the border in relation to the flow of essential goods, including cooking gas, petroleum products and medicine. British Indians projected the words "Modi not welcome" onto the Houses of Parliament building on Sunday evening (8 November) in a bold show of protest against the Indian Prime Minister's visit to the UK next week. Narendra Modi will be the first Indian Prime Minister to visit the UK in nearly a decade when he lands on 12 November.
Ambassador: Indian Embassy opened in Kathmandu in December, 1947. Shri Surjit Singh Majithia was the first Ambassador of India to Nepal from 1947 to 1949. Till date there have been 22 Ambassadors and Shri Ranjit Rae is the 23rd Ambassador of India to Nepal.Ambassador Rae has served as Ambassador of India to Vietnam and Hungary (also accredited to Bosnia & Herzegovina and Slovenia), First Secretary, Permanent Mission of India, New York (Alternate representative on the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board; Member of the United Nations Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions); Second Secretary/Acting High Commissioner, High Commission of India, Kampala.
