Nepal's former crown prince has spoken about the 2001 royal massacre in which his cousin is said to have killed nine family members before killing himself. The former heir to the throne, Paras Shah, said his cousin Prince Dipendra was angry at a failed arms deal.

Nepal's Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Saturday afternoon left for a week-long visit to Norway and Finland. The PM left for Norway at 5 pm by a special flight leading a 19-member government delegation. He is scheduled to come back home on April 4.

Nepal, a major market for Hindi films, has now come up with tougher regulations for foreign films, close on the heels of banning Bollywood comedy "Chandni Chowk to China" for wrongly saying India was the birthplace of the Buddha.

A police officer was killed after an armed group attacked a police station in a remote village in western Nepal, officials said Saturday. The attackers stormed a police station at Syawlebhan village in Pyuthan district, about 350 kilometres west of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu early Saturday morning.

Nepal Police arrested Rishi Dhamala, president of Reporters' Club, for his close links with a terrorist outfit engaged in serial blasts across Nepal. Police on Tuesday evening picked up Dhamala for his closed links with Ranvir Sena, which vows to transform Nepal as a Hindu Kingdom. The arrest was confirmed on Wednesday afternoon.

A week after Nepal's Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda expressed concern at the growing anarchy in the country and the culture of shutdowns to register protests, a trade union affiliated to his own party called an indefinite closure of the Manipal Teaching Hospital in Nepal.

Over 30 domestic and international rights organisations, including Unicef and Save the Children alliance, have flayed an ongoing protest in Nepal's southern Terai plains during which the organisers reportedly paraded a group of naked young boys.

Nepal is definitely at the crossroads. It is still not certain whether Nepal will see the establishment of a durable peace or a protracted conflict. The chances of going either way is almost fifty-fifty. And with this uncertainty we welcome the international New Year.

Is China making efforts to gain influence in Nepal's Army by taking advantage of Maoists being in power? Worries in this regard have been triggered following a flurry of visits by senior Chinese military officials to Kathmandu during the last few months.

What commitments Maoists have or have not fulfilled towards 2006 Comprehensive Peace Accord despite the political pressures so far will determine the future of Nepal, if conscientious democratic forces from every corner – politics, media, elites, civil society and intellectuals fail to scrutinize the ground reality and lead the nation as per the aspiration of people for a new democratic Nepal.

Enraged at the growing power crisis in Nepal and alleged unfair state laws, Nepal's private television stations Thursday declared 'emergency'.

A dispute at a Hindu temple in Nepal that has required riot police to keep the peace is not about religion or tradition, but simply a matter of money, officials and pilgrims at the site have told AFP.

As protests escalated, Nepal's Maoist government was forced late Wednesday to temporarily revoke its sacking of the Indian priests who have officiated at the temple for generations.

The officially atheist Maoists won elections last year and dismissed Nepal's Hindu monarchy, with Prachanda, the Maoist leader and new prime minister, replacing the king as patron of Pashupati, the country's holiest Hindu temple.

Local priests and their supporters claim that the temple's trust -- now controlled by the secular Maoists -- decided to remove the Indian priests without consultation or proper legal permission.

The ousted king, who had been the patron of the temple in the past, and his wife, former queen Komal, the president of the trust managing the shrine, said that religion, tradition and religious rites were a way of life in Nepal and should be accepted by all.

As political parties are fighting over the issue of integration of Maoist’s People’s Liberation Army soldiers with the Nepal Army, a high-level delegation of Chinese Army is planning a five-day visit to the Himalayan nation.

The geographical and ethnic diversities call out for a people-oriented constitutional monarchy in Nepal. No foreigner who came here as advisor or diplomat ever recognized this fact of Nepal's two next-door neighbours.

Nepal’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Upendra Yadav has declared that the head of various foreign missions stationed in Nepal must seek permission from the ministry of foreign affairs prior to meeting the ministers in the cabinet and the leaders of the political parties.

Warning to obstruct parliamentary proceedings, the Nepali Congress on Sunday handed over a memorandum to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda" asking the Maoist-led government to implement past agreements.

Nepal’s Maoist-led government, which aspires to transform the impoverished Himalayan nation into a developed country, is under tremendous political pressure.

Nepal’s Vice President Parmananda Jha who preferred to see the nation burning by taking oath of the office in Indian language “Hindi” over his own mother tongue Maithali or the national language Nepali, has once again drawn the attention of the media by making some comments over several issues of contention.

As the anxiety continues to grow among the Indian mandarins and their stooges located both in Kathmandu and New-Delhi over the issue of increasing bon-homie between the Chinese establishment and the Nepali leadership more so, after the fall of Monarchy in Nepal, a Minister belonging to the Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum flew to Nanjing Province of China.