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Kathmandu - Nepal's government Wednesday accused the Maoist former rebels of breaching the peace agreement that ended the decade-long insurgency in the Himalayan nation. It also expressed displeasure over the role of the United Nations Mission in Nep...
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,...
Wildlife Guards Have Been on Two-Week Search For Missing Pachyderm in Country's Southern Jungles
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...
Wildlife officials are frantically hunting for a wild elephant which they believe is responsible for the deaths of 11 people in Nepal.
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.
Nepal's cabinet met at the base of Everest on Friday to highlight the impact of climate change on the Himalayas and adopted a 10-point Everest Declaration.
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