Nepali traders suspect geopolitics after the Indian government recently ordered its customs to sample every single batch of Nepali tea destined for India.
At present, the major market for Nepali CTC tea or black tea is India. Nepal exports around 90 percent of its orthodox tea and 50 percent of its CTC tea to India at low price tags.
On July 27, 1986, 13 Gorkhaland activists were killed in a police firing when a rally was being brought out to burn copies of Article VII of the Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship, 1950
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held wide-ranging talks with his visiting Nepali counterpart Pushpakamal Dahal 'Prachanda' focused on promoting | BLiTZ