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KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba met his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and inaugurated the Himalayan nation’s only railway link with its southern neighbour on Saturday in a summit meant to deepen relations.

Deuba’s first trip to India since becoming prime minister in July comes a week after a visit by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Nepal.

Nepal, a natural buffer between India and China, traditionally balances its ties with Beijing and New Delhi as both seek to woo it by pouring in aid and investment for infrastructure.

After the meeting, Deuba and Modi jointly flagged off Nepal’s only railway link between Janakpur in Nepal and the border town of Jaynagar in India.

The 35-km (22-mile) railway was reconstructed by India as a grant. It was built by the colonial British Indian government as a narrow-gauge line to transport logs from Nepal.

The two prime ministers also remotely inaugurated an electricity transmission line that will supply hydroelectric power generated in the Solukhumbu area, where Mount Everest is located, to Nepal’s national power grid.

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Both countries agreed to speed up the Pancheswar hydroelectric project on their border in west Nepal, which Modi said would be a “game changer” for the development of the region.

“The friendship between India and Nepal and mutual relationship between our people … cannot be found anywhere in the world,” Modi told a news briefing after the meeting.

“Threads of our civilization, culture and mutual exchanges have been linked since ancient times.”

Analysts said the visit would help further promote the multi-faceted relations between India and Nepal.

“The visit is taking place after four years and will help increase trust and understanding between the two countries,” Dinesh Bhattarai, a Nepali former ambassador to Geneva told Reuters.

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