Prachanda wins, Maoists surge ahead in Nepal

The Maoists in Nepal, spearheaded by Prachanda, on Saturday surged ahead in the landmark constituent assembly polls, winning 14 seats and leading in 65 of the remaining 240 constituencies.......

Nepal: 200 party leaders arrested

In a major crackdown ahead of the planned anti-King agitation by the pro-democracy alliance on Friday, Nepal's Royal Government onnThursday arrested some 200 political party leaders and cut off......

Two Nepal Communist leaders freed

The Nepal Government on Monday freed two Communist Party leaders from house arrest but extended the detention of former deputy prime minister Ramchandra Poudel by three months.The government......