Nepal Border Research Articles

Peptic Ulcer In Indo Nepal Border

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Historical records of the Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in northern India and Pakistan

There are only very few reports of Rhinoceroses from the northern states of India. The Indian Rhinoceros lived along the River Ganges from Delhi in the west until 1650, to Mirzapur, Patna and Rajmahal in the east until 1850. The animal also existed in the foothills of the Himalaya just south of the Nepal border, and incidentally stragglers from Nepal are still sighted there. The Rhinoceros was noted in the hills of Uttar Pradesh, at Pilibhit up to the 1870s, at Kotdwara near Hardwar in 1789, and further west in the 14 th century. The four records from the Indus Valley of Pakistan and across the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan, dating up to the 16 th century, are summarized.

Taking dentistry to the top of the world on a Himalayan trek.

In October 1996 the author, a dental officer, was part of a group of ten people serving in the Royal Navy who walked the Annapurna circuit in conjunction with Five Valleys Travel and Trek Aid. The Annapurna circuit is situated in the north of Nepal bordering the Kingdom of Mustang and the Peoples Republic of China. It is a grueling 20 day trek reaching the dizzy heights of 18,000 feet, passing through some of the most beautiful and immense scenery in the world. The following is a short account of his experiences.

Study of return periods of earthquakes in some Selected Indian and adjoining regions

Recurrence intervals for earthquakes of magnitudes from 5.0 to 8.5 have been worked out using Gumbers extreme value theory and compared with those determined by Gutenberg-Richter’s frequency-magnitude relationship for SIX regions, namely, (A) Hindukush, (B) Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, (C) India-western Nepal border, (0) Nepal-Sikkim border, (E) Northeast India and (F) Andaman and Nicobar Islands. A data sample for the period 1962 to 1976 and another for a longer period have been used for the purpose and limitations of the results obtained are discussed, Gumbel's extreme value theory gives better estimates of the return period of the maximum magnitude earthquakes when data for longer period is taken. The recurrence intervals thus estimated for earthquakes of magnitude 8/6 for the six regions are 22/2, 203/10, 222/11, 160/9, 34/4 and 58/4 years respectively.

Tibet—The Last Frontier

Abstract From 2 to 14 June 1980 the authors participated in an excursion by jeepacross Tibet, following the road from Lhosa via Gyangze, Xigaze, Tingri, and Nyalam to Zham on the Nepal border. The excursion was organized by the Academia Sinica, with direct support by Vice-Chairman and Vice-Premier Deng Xiaoping and Vice-Premier Feng Yi, and relied on the excellent logistic support of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. This report gives an account of impressions, including those of local and regional meteorological and climatological problems.

Tibet—The Last Frontier

From 2 to 14 June 1980 the authors participated in an excursion by jeep across Tibet, following the road from Lhasa via Gyangze, Xigaze, Tingri, and Nyalam to Zham on the Nepal border. The excursion was organized by the Academia Sinica, with direct support by Vice-Chairman and Vice-Premier Deng Xiaoping and Vice-Premier Feng Yi, and relied on the excellent logistic support of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. This report gives an account of impressions, including those of local and regional meteorological and climatological problems.

Effects of speciation on serum proteins in the genus Macaca with special reference to the polymorphic state of transferrin.

THE effects of speciation on the serum proteins of macaque monkeys and other primates are being studied in our laboratory by a combination of starch-gel electrophoretic and immunological techniques1,2. In an initial survey of the sera from 19 cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca irus) and 17 rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) we found that the cynomolgus sera contained a larger proportion of γ-globulin than the rhesus sera and also that all the cynomolgus sera showed only one transferrin whereas 10 of the 17 rhesus sera showed more than one transferrin. At the time, we observed that one of the ten rhesus sera showed three transferrin components and that in the other nine sera, each of which showed two components, the relative positions of the transferrins in starch-gel varied in some cases between the samples. In order further to define the polymorphic state of transferrin in the species Macaca mulatta and the apparent absence of this state in the species Macaca irus, the sera from 40 more rhesus monkeys, newly arrived from India, and from 40 more cynomolgus monkeys, newly arrived from the Philippines, were kindly provided for study by Parke, Davis and Co. The rhesus monkeys in this shipment were captured in an area the size of a township near the Nepal border. It was not possible to trace exactly where in the Philippines the cynomolgus monkeys were captured. We have now detected fourteen transferrin patterns in the rhesus monkeys and still only one pattern in the cynomolgus monkeys. Thirteen of the transferrin patterns were represented in the last shipment. Our work, then, not only independently confirms but also considerably extends the report by Blumberg3 of eight transferrin patterns in rhesus monkeys. Our results are particularly interesting in indicating that while the environment of one species selects for a polymorphic state, the environment of a closely related species selects against this state.

VII. Status, Distribution and Future of the Rhinoceros in Nepal

Status and Distribution.It is difficult to obtain accurate information about the former range and distribution of rhinoceros in Nepal. W. T. Blanford, in The Fauna of British India, Mammalia, Part II (1891), wrote of it as being found in 1850 “… along the base of the Himalayas in Nepal and as far west as Rohilcund” (a district of India near the border of West Nepal). From information obtained in Katmandu it appears that the last rhinoceros in the Morang District of south-eastern Nepal was shot at the turn of the present century, and that the last rhinoceros in the area immediately east of Chitawan was killed in 1927. It would be safe to say that about 100 years ago rhinoceros were found all along the southern border of Nepal. Since 1930 they have been confined to the area covered by this Report.