Kathmandu: Nepalese college students shouted anti-India slogans as they took part in a protest in front of the Indian Embassy, in Kathmandu, Nepal, on November 30, 2015. Thousands of school students and activist of Nepal Workers Peasants Party attended mass meeting to protest of border blockade by India which were blocked more than two months ago.
Over three million children under the age of five in Nepal are at the risk of death or disease this winter due to a severe shortage of fuel, food, medicines and vaccines, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said.
Over the past 10 weeks, vital imports of essential commodities were restricted at Nepal's southern border due to unrest over the country's new constitution, Xinhua reported.
The government's regional medical stores have already run out of vaccines against tuberculosis, while stocks of other vaccines and antibiotics are critically low, Monday's report said.
Meanwhile, accusing India of imposing a blockade against land-locked Nepal, two Leftist parliamentarians here on Tuesday demanded that New Delhi's envoy to Kathmandu be sent packing from the Himalayan nation.
Lawmakers Prem Suwal and Anuradha Thapa Magar of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party (NWPP) raised slogans against Indian ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rae, holding him responsible for the almost three-month-old blockade along the India-Nepal border.
"Who is India to interfere in Nepal's constitution? No one can disintegrate the nation! Send the Indian ambassador back to India," were some of the slogans that the protesting lawmakers chanted.
They also demanded action against Indian police who, they claimed, opened fire at four Nepali nationals last week.
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