AFP - Nepal plans to seize lands owned by King Gyanendra and other royal family members and distribute them to the poor as it moves toward treating the monarch like a "normal citizen," a minister said.

AFP - A senior United Nations official urged Nepal's new government and rebel Maoists to work to build trust after the two sides failed to reach agreement on disarmament.

A landslide in a remote mountainous village in northern in Rasuwa district of Nepal killed at least 10 people and injured several more on early Thursday. The landslide hit the village around 2 am (Local time) when people were asleep in their homes at Dhurmu village, about 80 kilometers (50 miles)...

The leader of a high-level United Nations delegation visiting Nepal exploring the idea of possible UN assistance to that country's peace process on Tuesday said he was hopeful that the Nepalese government and the nation's Communist party could reach an agreement on arms management in the coming...

The United Nations (UN) World Food Program (WFP) has started airlifting food grains to the drought-hit districts of western Nepal. The WFP says on Tuesday that it began emergency helicopter operations to help feed 250,000 drought-affected people in the far west of the mountainous nation....

AFP - Nepal's government has amended a law to allow girls to ascend the throne, breaking with centuries of tradition that only a male could be the royal heir, a minister said.

Three months after the re-establishment of democracy in Nepal, Maoists in the Himalayan country are now actively campaigning for a Republican form of government. According to a report in Nepal News, the rebels have intensified their efforts in this direction. The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist...

AFP - India and Pakistan boosted their stalled peace process with "positive" informal talks on the sidelines of a regional forum.

AFP - Nepal's new government has promised to continue its "one China" policy and said it will not allow any anti-Chinese activities in the Himalayan nation, a minister said.

AP - Communist rebels and the government have extended a cease-fire for another three months to allow talks aimed at ending Nepal's decade-long conflict to continue, a rebel spokesman said Friday.

AFP - A United Nations team met Maoist leaders in Kathmandu to discuss Nepal's fledgling peace process as the rebels confirmed the renewal of a three-month ceasefire.

Maoist rebels in Nepal have extended their ceasefire, which was due to expire for an indefinite period to facilitate the ongoing peace talks with the government. The three-month ceasefire, announced by the Maoists on April 27, will be extended, rebel spokesman Krishna Bahadur Mahara said....

Nepal's government on Monday eliminted the Military Secretariat, cutting the King's last links to the army. The Napalese Cabinet also set up a Security Coordination Office (SCO) at the Defense Ministry to oversee palace security....

At least 23 passengers were killed and several others were injured in a passenger bus accident in the Chanaute area of Sindhupalchok district in Nepal on Sunday morning.

The death toll reached 31 in a landslide in western Nepal triggered by incessant downpour which is obstructing rescue operations. Thirty people were buried under mud when a landslide swept away an entire settlement in the Kaski district. Two foreign tourists are missing....

AP - A landslide triggered by monsoon rains swept through a village in northwest Nepal before dawn Saturday, killing at least 17 people as they slept, officials said.

AFP - Concern is mounting over the health of Nepal's 85-year-old premier, hospitalised with pneumonia, and some politicians and analysts say he should name a temporary stand-in or even quit.

AFP - A Nepal Supreme Court appeal by "Bikini Killer" Charles Sobhraj may be delayed due to the court's heavy caseload, officials said.

AFP - Nepal's ailing and elderly prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala has been admitted to hospital with pneumonia, his doctor said in the early hours.

AFP - The United States was undermining the peace process by threatening to cut 12 million dollars in aid funding if Nepal's rebels joined an interim government without first giving up arms, Maoist leader Prachanda said.