Kathmandu, Aug. 19 -- Senior home ministry officials from Nepal and India will meet in Dehradun, India, on Thursday and Friday for talks on border management and a range of bilateral security concerns, amid heightened attention to security along the two countries' open and porous border.

The 14th meeting of the India-Nepal Joint Working Group on Border Management comes in the wake of recent unrest and communal violence in Nepal's Tarai-Madhesh region, which shares a long border with India.

Although Nepal's security agencies have found no credible evidence of direct or indirect links between the unrest and individuals or groups operating from India, border security and other cross-border concerns are expected to feature prominently in th...