{"id":302522,"date":"2018-09-11T15:30:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302522"},"modified":"2018-09-11T15:30:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:30:37","slug":"cm-nitish-kumar-flags-off-bus-service-between-bihar-and-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cm-nitish-kumar-flags-off-bus-service-between-bihar-and-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"CM Nitish Kumar flags off bus service between Bihar and Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/cm-nitish-kumar-flags-off-bus-service-between-bihar-and-nepal\/nitish-kumar-bus\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302523\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302523 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/nitish-kumar-bus-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/nitish-kumar-bus-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/nitish-kumar-bus-768x464.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/nitish-kumar-bus-1024x619.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/nitish-kumar-bus-696x421.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/nitish-kumar-bus-1068x646.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/nitish-kumar-bus-695x420.jpg 695w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/nitish-kumar-bus.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday flagged off the first bus service between Bihar and Nepal.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kumar said, Bihar and Nepal are now connected and this will strengthen the relations between the two.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister said the service will link Bodhgaya in Bihar to Kathmandu in Nepal. Similarly, Patna in Bihar to Janakpur in Nepal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bus service was commissioned after an agreement between India and Nepal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The buses from Kathmandu to Bodh Gaya will start plying in the second week of September, said Sanjay Agrawal, Secretary in the Transport Department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the reports, the bus service between Bihar and Nepal was due to start in May but was delayed due to lack of official approval from both sides.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday flagged off the first bus service between Bihar and Nepal. Kumar said, Bihar and Nepal are now connected and this will strengthen the relations between the two. Chief Minister said the service will link Bodhgaya in Bihar to Kathmandu in Nepal. Similarly, Patna in Bihar to Janakpur in Nepal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,2014],"tags":[842,4912,4914,4913,4493,552,2684,1381],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302525,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302522\/revisions\/302525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}