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Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Dozens of people were injured yesterday in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, as police clashed with Maoist demonstrators protesting the president’s refusal to fire the army chief.
A well-known Slovenian mountaineer who went missing during a solo climb in Nepal's Himalayas has been found dead, his expedition organisers said Saturday.
KATHMANDU, 13 November 2009 (IRIN) - The government's continued failure to investigate and prosecute extrajudicial killings during Nepal's civil war (1996-2006) is ruining lives and devastating victims' families, while creating a culture of impunity, the UN and rights activists say.
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Thousands of supporters of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) blocked traffic and prevented government employees entering offices in Kathmandu to protest the president’s refusal to fire the army chief.
Thousands of Maoist activists blockaded Nepal's government headquarters for the second day running on Friday as authorities in the capital tightened security to prevent further violence.
Tens of thousands of communist demonstrators blocked the government's headquarters in Nepal's capital for a second straight day Friday, crippling the central administration.
Riot police in Nepal's capital Thursday used tear gas and batons to disperse thousands of Maoists who held their biggest anti-government protest since they lost power in May.
Maoist activists on Tuesday blocked all roads in and out of Nepal's capital Kathmandu in the latest stage of a two-week protest against the government.
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Kathmandu Holdings Ltd. , an outdoor equipment retailer in New Zealand and Australia, rose in Sydney as its shares began trading for the first time on the nation’s stock market.
Thousands of Maoist activists took to the streets of Nepal's capital Thursday for one of the biggest anti-government protests since the former rebels lost power in May.
Kathmandu, Nov 12 (PTI) Issues of security cooperation and tackling cross-border crime will figure prominently in talks as Nepalese Home Minister travels to India next week on a three-day visit, during which the two countries are also expected to give final touches to an extradition treaty.
Riot police in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu on Thursday used tear gas and batons to disperse Maoist activists protesting against the government, an AFP reporter witnessed.
Nepal's Maoists pledged Wednesday to bring hundreds of thousands of activists onto the streets of the capital in the latest stage of a two-week protest against the government.
"A rescue team of Swiss Mountain Rescue Station Air Zermatt is on its way to Nepal to try to help Slovenian mountaineer Tomaz Humar. Humar is injured and stranded at about 6,300 meters on Langtang Lirung’s north face since earlier this week."
Kathmandu - Nepal's former rebel Maoists imposed a blockade of the Kathmandu Valley Tuesday as part of an anti-government protest. Maoist cadres sat on highways at several entry points into the valley, effectively cutting off the capital from rest of...
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- A Nepalese federal minister faced charges for allegedly slapping a senior official several times for sending an old car to pick her up from airport.
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