Fourteen years after Nepal’s Maoist party formed its own Army and waged a decade-long war on the government, the republic’s ruling parties have now begun to recruit their own private armies, triggerin

Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the revolutionary who as Prachanda had led a 10-year war demanding a people’s Constitution in Nepal, skipped a key constitution committee meeting on Monday because he had decided t

Amid Maoists’ demand for a national consensus government, a top party in Nepal’s ruling coalition has claimed the former rebels have a hidden agenda of imposing totalitarian rule and said it cannot agree on a power-sharing deal unless completion of the peace process and drafting of a democratic Constitution are ensured.

A year after a militant Hindu group came into prominence by engineering a bomb attack on a church in Kathmandu valley that killed three women, another such group is on the rise, seeking to restore Hinduism as Nepal’s state religion, claims a prominent doctor who was a kidnap victim.

Nepal’s Opposition Maoists on Friday accused the Prime Minister of breaking a pledge to resign, sparking a new row between the three main parties less than a week after they agreed to share power.

Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will not step down immediately as there are other issues which needs to be sorted out, his party CPN-UML said on Wednesday, even as Maoists warned of a fresh

Nepal’s main Opposition Maoist party on Monday issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the embattled Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal to quit, warning that the failure to implement the deal that paved the way

Nepal’s Maoists have made public a draft Constitution for the country which entails a head-of-state directly elected by the people with all the executive powers vested in the President.

Though the nascent Republic of Nepal managed to stave off an unprecedented constitutional crisis by a hair’s breadth on Friday midnight, public anger and confusion still remained, turning the celebration of Republic Day on Saturday into a travesty.

Faced with an unparalleled constitutional crisis from midnight, Nepal’s embattled PM Madhav Kumar Nepal on Friday fell prey to an email hoax that said he was ready to quit within 48 hours if the Oppos