Nepal, India Should be Serious on Barrage Issue: Kathmandu, July 27: A day after a row escalated between Nepal and India on the adverse effects in west Nepal by a barrage constructed unilaterally downstream in India across the Rapti River, Foreign Minister Chakra Prasad Bastola said Thursday the two countries should be serious on such issues. " Technically, I agree that it can be examined and I only feel that we have to be serious about such incidents.We should not bring in subjective issues," Bastola said in reply to a question " Indian Embassy has dismissed a Parliamentary Committee's report that 33 villages in Banke district have been inundated." Bastola said this an exclusive interview with The Rising Nepal. " I have been raising the issue with the Indian Ambassador. We do not have the same information on facts," he said in reply to another question on how far downstream India constructed the dam from the border. Foreign Minister Bastola reacted angrily Wednesday to a statement by the Indian Embassy that it had neither violated international law nor inundated land in Nepal by constructing the dam. India also came in for criticism in Parliament for statement issued through a press release ahead of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala's visit to India from August 1. Bastola said he was " dismayed" and wondered " why such a statement came from the Indian government on the eve of the Prime Minister's visit to India.The matter is a serious one." " It is Nepal that is in difficulty, but India insists Nepal has not been affected in any way. Nepal is not prepared to accept that," he said. " We have been sincerely convincing our neighbours that we will not allow anyone to use our soil against them," Bastola told The Rising Nepal in reply to a question "how Nepal is no threat for it." News Report Nepalnews