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Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Maoists interrupted strikes that are choking industrial output in the Himalayan nation after the party’s leader met with the prime minister in an effort to end a standoff over the integration of former rebels into the army.
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Nepal's government must arrest an army major expelled from a U.N. peacekeeping force and accused of torturing a girl to death, Amnesty International said.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- India said it will resume military cooperation with Nepal and train Nepalese security personnel after cutting security ties when former King Gyanendra took power and dissolved the multi-party government in February 2005.
The United Nations urged Nepal's government and opposition Maoists to exercise restraint after deadly clashes between police and landless settlers in the west of the country.
Kathmandu - A day-long general strike shut down much of Nepal Sunday, called by Maoists in response to the deaths of four supporters in clashes with police two days earlier. Demonstrators took to the streets of the capital and other towns nationwide,...
Nepal's opposition Maoists on Sunday called a nationwide general strike to protest against the deaths of party activists in a clash with police, further raising tensions in the Himalayan nation.
(RTTNews) - According to media reports, Rail India Technical and Economic Services or RITES Saturday said that it would begin the feasibility study of a 1,200 kilometer Mechi-Mahakali and 200 kilometer Kathmandu-Pokhara rail links in western Nepal from next week.
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Nepal's Communist party called a crippling nationwide strike Sunday to protest police action against squatters on government land, officials said.
Kathmandu - At least five people, including a police officer, were killed after violent clashes erupted between police and Maoist supporters in western Nepal, media reports said Saturday. The clashes erupted Friday after police tried to evict thousan...
KATHMANDU, 4 December 2009 (IRIN) - A deadlock in Nepal's peace process is threatening development and stability in the country, say aid workers and analysts.
Kathmandu - Nepal's cabinet held a meeting at the base camp of Mount Everest Friday and called on rich nations to take more responsibility for the effects of global warming and climate change. The meeting, considered the highest in the world, was cal...
Photos and story by Lars Howlett Hunkered down at 16,000 feet above sea level, in the modest village of Lobuche, trekkers on the KarmaQuest expedition to Nepal were quick to bed but slow to sleep. By 7 p.m., almost all were zipped up in their sleeping bags, with only one or two remaining members still huddling in the common room around the faint warmth of a stove burning yak dung.
Kathmandu - Nepal's cabinet held a meeting at the base camp of Mount Everest Friday to highlight the effects of climate change on the Himalayas ahead of the upcoming global climate summit in Copenhagen. Twenty-four ministers, including Prime Minister...
The United States is deeply concerned about the stalled peace process in Nepal, three years after the end of a decade-long civil war, a US embassy statement said Saturday.
Kathmandu - Nepalese ministers met at the base camp of Mount Everest Friday ahead of the schedule cabinet meeting to highlight impact of global warming on the Himalayan Mountains, news reports said. Government-owned Nepal television said 24 ministers...
Hundreds of protesters torched vehicles and vandalized shops in western Nepal on Saturday after three people died in clashes between police and illegal forest settlers, a human rights group said, amid heightened political tensions in the Himalayan nation.
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