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Indian embassy Camp for relief work in Nepal shifted

New Delhi: The Foreign ministery on Monday released a statement that the Indian embassy camp office in Nepal’s Biratnagar that was hit by a minor explosion in April will be relocated.

The relief camp office located in Biratnagar, 380 kilometers from the capital Katmandu was opened in 2008 for relief work after the massive floods broke and swept the region along the Koshi river in Bihar and near the border with Nepal.

MEA Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said that “The purpose for which this camp office was opened has been fulfilled. India had already decided to wind up the camp office and relocate the personnel.”

“This decision was conveyed by Prime Minister Modi to his Nepalese counterpart during his visit to Nepal last week. The PM of Nepal thanked the PM for informing him about this decision,” Mr. Kumar said.

According to media reports, the temporary office in Biratnagar was mainly used for issuing passes to vehicles going to India after a 17-km-long stretch of the East-West Highway was damaged due to floodwater.

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One of the Seven Wonders of the World, the 17th-century mausoleum flanks a garbage-strewn river and is often enveloped by dust and smog from belching smokestacks and vehicles in Agra.

“If the Indian scientists and the (conservationists) can’t do the things, they should be able to contact foreign experts or conservationists, those who can come and they will be readily happy to help,” said lawyer MC Mehta, who has been fighting to save the Taj Mahal from pollution for three decades.

Tiny insects from the drying Yamuna River into which the city pours its sewage crawl into the Taj Mahal, their excrement further staining the marble, an environmental lawyer recently told the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court has repeatedly slammed the government for not doing enough to stop the white-marble from turning yellow and green as the 17th century mausoleum weathers filthy air in the world’s eighth-most polluted city.

The change in colour has not come out of the blue. Environmentalists and historians have long warned about the risk of soot and fumes from factories and tanneries dulling the ivory monument.

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