Nepal Maoist Politburo resumes meeting

September 28th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has said his visit to the United States and participation in the United Nations General Assembly has been successful. Speaking to reporters at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) on arrival today, Madhav Kumar Nepal said his 23-member delegation was able to generate support and solidarity from the international community for peace and stability here.

September 17th, 2009 KATHMANDU - A fresh dispute over the Nepal national flag has erupted between the UCPN (Maoist) and the other parties. The parties are divided on whether to retain the current flag or design a new one that should contain stars equal in numbers to the number of federal units after the restructuring of the state.

September 16th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Reacting to Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao's two-day visit to Nepal, the opposition Maoist party Wednesday claimed her "unofficial agenda" was to assess a new prime minister for the Himalayan republic. "The present government of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has failed," said Chandra Prakash Gajurel, Maoist lawmaker and politburo member of the former guerrilla party.

September 6th, 2009 KATHMANDU - A Special Committee has been tasked with the responsibility of supervising, integrating and rehabilitating Maoist combatants and to bring them under its command. Its technical committee has been told to prepare a report on how this can be done.

August 17th, 2009 KATHMANDU - The Unified CPN (Maoist) has told Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal not to sign any agreements including the Pancheshwar multi-purpose hydro-electric project during his visit to India from August 18. During an all-party meeting called by Madhav Kumar Nepal in Singhadurbar on Sunday, Maoist leaders told Nepal not to sign any agreements with India without the consensus of the parties and asked him to focus on bilateral cooperation.

August 13th, 2009 LONDON - Nepal's former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda has left for Belarus after telling supporters in London his Maoist party in Nepal is certain to usher in "world revolution". "The twenty-first century will be the century of world revolution," Prachanda told a large gathering of supporters at a meeting in south-east London.

May 23rd, 2009 KATHMANDU - As Nepal Saturday looked forward to an end to a political crisis that has gripped the nation for three weeks with the fall of the Maoist government, fresh violence erupted in Kathmandu Valley with an explosion in a church killing at least one person and injuring nearly a dozen. The blast occurred at the Assumption Church in Dhobighat in Lalipur district, run by the Nepal Catholic Society.

May 11th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav on Sunday wrote a letter to the country's parliament to start the procedure for the formation of a majority government. Any party or coalition will now have to show a majority in the House to form the government.

May 9th, 2009 KATHMANDU - The Unified CPN (Maoist) politburo meeting at the Training Centre in Ravi Bhawan in the capital has been put-off till Sunday. A meeting was held for about three hours today during which the latest political situation in Nepal was discussed.

May 8th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav has discussed with Constituent Assembly Chairman Subash Chandra Nemwang the procedure for appointing a new Prime Minister if the political parties do not come up with a consensus government by the Saturday deadline. With Maoists firm on their demand for an apology from President Yadav for his move to retain Chief of Army Staff General Rookmangud Katawal, the possibility of a consensus government is dim.

May 8th, 2009 KATHMANDU - The central committee meeting of the CPN-UML began here today to name the leader of proposed ruling coalition. The meeting has been called at a time when the Nepali Congress and a few fringe parties have said that they are ready to back the UML to form a new government.

May 7th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Maoist cadres on Thursday continued demonstrations against President Ram Baran Yadav's decision to reject the dismissal of the Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) Rookmangud Katawal. The Maoist-affiliated All Nepal Women Association (Revolutionary) staged demonstrations in the capital.

May 5th, 2009 KATHMANDU - As the rift between Nepal's Maoists and the other political parties deepened following the resignation of Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked the parties to honour the peace pacts ahead of a UN Security Council meeting. The UN chief said that he was saddened by developments leading to Prachanda's resignation.

April 6th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Traffic has come to a standstill here today as cadres affiliated to the Young Communist League (YCL) and other Maoist affiliated organisations called an impromptu shutdown protesting against the suspicious death of their fellow cadre. Maoist cadres are obstructing traffic by staging demonstrations and burning tires at various places in Kathmandu since early morning.

February 15th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Three months after he had accompanied Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to Nepal, India's Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon is arriving in Kathmandu Tuesday on a two-day visit. The Indian envoy is scheduled to hold talks with Nepal's Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav and opposition leader and former premier Girija Prasad Koirala.