--- description: The protesters have blocked key routes between the South Asian neighbors, leading to a fuel crisis title: Nepal Police Remove Protesters from Indian Border Point image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc490b697c402f65f/69886f25bc6cfccb843da2ef/rtx1tx7a.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Nepal](/tag/nepal/) ## Nepal Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Nepal Police Forcibly Remove Protesters Blocking Indian Border Checkpoint by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 2, 2015 8:46 AM CUT  A man, center, reads a newspaper sitting on top of empty cooking-gas cylinder as he waits in a queue to buy cooking gas along with other customers during the ongoing fuel crises that has been continuing for over a month now in Kathmandu on Oct. 30, 2015 A man, center, reads a newspaper sitting on top of empty cooking-gas cylinder as he waits in a queue to buy cooking gas along with other customers during the ongoing fuel crises that has been continuing for over a month now in Kathmandu on Oct. 30, 2015Navesh Chitrakar—Reuters by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 2, 2015 8:46 AM CUT Police in Nepal [cracked down](http://news.yahoo.com/nepal-police-clear-border-blockade-force-042627402.html "undefined") on protesters blocking the country’s frontier with India on Monday, clearing them from the highway to allow Indian trucks bearing fuel and essential goods to pass after a weeks-long impasse. Protest organizers told the Agence France-Presse news agency that police charged at them with batons early Monday morning and burned down the tents they had used to block a key border checkpoint. The protests, initiated by ethnic minorities in the landlocked Himalayan nation, have claimed at least 40 lives since August and resulted in a [fuel shortage](http://time.com/4053524/nepal-fuel-crisis/ "undefined") that has brought the country to a virtual standstill. Demonstrators mainly represent the nation’s Madhesi and Tharu minorities, who say they have not been adequately represented in the country’s recently adopted [constitution](http://time.com/4037788/nepal-constitution-sushil-koirala-protests-madhesi-tharu/ "undefined"). The protests have also led to a diplomatic standoff between India and Nepal, with the latter accusing its powerful South Asian neighbor of fomenting the unrest and intentionally impeding fuel supplies. Nepal signed a deal with China to replenish fuel reserves late last week; both Beijing and New Delhi have been courting Nepal in recent years with an eye on its considerable hydropower potential. \[[_AFP_](http://news.yahoo.com/nepal-police-clear-border-blockade-force-042627402.html "undefined")\] Read next: [Nepal’s Fuel Crisis Could Turn Deadly as Himalayan Nation Braces for Freezing Winter](http://time.com/4077751/nepal-fuel-crisis-india-winter-constitution/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4096211/nepal-protesters-border-blockade-cleared/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4096211/nepal-protesters-border-blockade-cleared/"},"headline":"Nepal Police Forcibly Remove Protesters Blocking Indian Border Checkpoint","datePublished":"2015-11-02T08:46:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:15:42.202Z","description":"The protesters have blocked key routes between the South Asian neighbors, leading to a fuel crisis","url":"https://time.com/4096211/nepal-protesters-border-blockade-cleared/","keywords":["Nepal","India","police","protests","Fuel","crackdown","South Asia","Constitution","border"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc490b697c402f65f/69886f25bc6cfccb843da2ef/rtx1tx7a.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc490b697c402f65f/69886f25bc6cfccb843da2ef/rtx1tx7a.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A man reads a newspaper as he sits on top of empty gas cylinder as he waits in a queue to buy cooking gas along with other customers during the ongoing fuel crises that has been continuing for over a month now in Kathmandu","caption":"A man reads a newspaper as he sits on top of empty gas cylinder as he waits in a queue to buy cooking gas along with other customers during the ongoing fuel crises that has been continuing for over a month now in Kathmandu","creditText":"Navesh Chitrakar—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/nepal/","name":"Nepal"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4096211/nepal-protesters-border-blockade-cleared/","name":"Nepal Police Forcibly Remove Protesters Blocking Indian Border Checkpoint"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Go Inside the Effort to Rebuild Nepal","description":"Here's how the country's farmers are recovering from an earthquake that, two months ago, claimed thousands of lives","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/FrXmVDKJ/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-19T17:22:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/FrXmVDKJ.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4096211/nepal-protesters-border-blockade-cleared/","duration":"PT5M58S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4096211/nepal-protesters-border-blockade-cleared/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```