Nepal averted a political and constitutional crisis Saturday morning with the tenure of the constituent assembly and parliament extended an hour after it expired.
Maoists in Nepal have threatened an indefinite general strike starting Sunday in a bid to force the country's prime minister to resign.
Nepal's prime minister said Monday he will resign to save what he called the country's "infant democracy."
The body of a journalist who was hacked to death in southeastern Nepal was cremated Tuesday as businesses and public transportation in the town of Janakpur remained shut for a second day to protest the killing.
A Nepalese journalist who reported on women's rights and wrote several articles criticizing the dowry system was hacked to death in her room, a media rights group said Monday.
While China and India woo Nepal for lucrative contracts, the former monarchy's new leader tries to make a new name for himself -- and his nation
A man who led a decade-long bloody insurgency was sworn in Monday as Nepal's new prime minister.
An explosion detonated Sunday evening at the home of Nepal's first-ever vice president, who ignited a wave of protests last month after taking the oath of office in the Hindi language.
The leader of Nepal's former communist rebels was named as the country's new prime minister Friday.
Nepal's first-ever President Ram Baran Yadav took the oath of office Wednesday, two days after his election.
The U.S. still labels the party a terrorist group, but the election is likely to make its leader the ex-monarchy's new President
There are calls of fraud in Nepal's election of a constitutional assembly. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
Polls opened in Nepal Thursday in an election marred by an outburst of bloodshed that has left eight people dead and stoked fears of more violence on voting day.
Nepal's government and Maoist rebels have signed a peace accord, ending 10 years of fighting and beginning what is hoped to be an era of peaceful politics in the Himalayan kingdom.
The Nepalese government and Maoist rebels reached an agreement shortly after midnight Wednesday that would allow the rebels to join an interim parliament and government by the end of November, a key government negotiator said.
Nepalese politicians have returned to Parliament for the first time in four years following weeks of bloody protests and political turmoil that eventually forced the king to hand power back to elected officials.
After three weeks of protests and political turmoil, Nepal now has a new prime minister, and the Himalayan nation's parliament is set to reconvene Friday for the first time in four years.
Nepal's communist rebels have declared a three-month cease-fire one day before parliament is set to reconvene after weeks of bloody protests.
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