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UPDATE: NEPAL NOTE'S MAP RILES INDIAHere's a short update on the banknote kerfuffle between India and Nepal over a map to be published on Nepal's currency. -Editor 
Nepal's decision to print a redesigned 100-rupee note — featuring disputed border territories and produced by a Chinese company — has reignited a longstanding boundary dispute with India. The banknote, bearing regions like Lipulekh, Limpiyadhura, and Kalapani, reflects Nepal's revised map, a move India views as an ‘artificial enlargement' of borders Nepal's decision to redesign its 100-rupee currency note has sparked a fresh wave of tension between Kathmandu and New Delhi, with the primary cause being the inclusion of disputed border territories in the new map. This decision, entailing the involvement of a Chinese printing company, has fuelled political and strategic sensitivities. The Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), the central bank of Nepal, has granted China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation a contract to design, print, and deliver 300 million copies of the redesigned 100-rupee banknote.
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