The Guinness World Records (GWR) on Sunday certified a Septuagenarian from Dang district in western Nepal as the “world’s shortest person ever documented.”

Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 72, of Rimkholi in Purandhara VDC was also declared the world’s shortest living man after he was measured by a Guinness team in the Kathmandu-based CIWEC clinic.

The certification brings the title back to Nepal barely eight months after Baglung district’s Khagendra Thapa Magar (26.4 inches) lost it to Junrey Balawing (23.5 inches) of the Philippines.

Doctors from the clinic and Guinness officials measured Dangi to confirm his height (21.5 inches). GWR editor-in-chief Craig Glenday handed over two certificates to Dangi—one

   Tourist arrivals in March surged 37.2 percent year on year to reach 63,799 persons, said the Immigration Office, Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA). Similarly, inbound during the period January-March rose 27 percent to 148,546 against the same period in 2011.

All the tourist generating regions have shown positive growth in the third month of 2012. Arrivals from the South Asian region registered an overall positive growth of 61.4 percent. India, which constitutes the major source market for Nepal, recorded a robust growth

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Mahadevbesi, Nepal [Sharing Korea]

A Historical Background of Indian Aggression in Nepal

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 Nepal is sandwiched between two emerging superpowers India and China. The specific geopolitical character of Nepal and age old social, religious and cultural relation, the open border, passage to the sea through India only and the special treaty of security could not let Nepal escape from the dominance of India in political and economic front. Hence, during the past years from 1950, Nepal’s political issues never drew the attention of international community other than India. Even our northern neighbour China did not bother to give its attention in Nepal’s political development in the period. India enjoyed the sole monopoly in engaging itself in every political development of Nepal. Whenever India felt that Nepal is trying to escape from its security umbrella, it punished Nepal by imposing economic blockade and other sort of restrictions on it. The glaring example of which is the Indian economic blockade of 1989 when Nepal bought some arms from China without consulting India.

Nepal and India are very close neighbours having unique ties governed by religious, cultural and economic inter dependence as well as open border stretched to 1,751 KM. The issue of open border is as old as the historical relation of these two countries. Although no formal agreements before 1950 maintained that the border between the two countries should remain open, both countries never introduced any provision of travel permits for the people of either country moving across the border.