Nepal Democracy

Nepal will hold a general election on November 26, the government said on Monday, hoping to conclude a turbulent journey to democracy a decade after a civil war and the abolition of its 239-year-old monarchy.

Millions of Nepalese today voted in the country's first local-level polls in two decades as the Himalayan nation took a crucial step towards cementing democracy amid political turmoil.

Nepal is set to hold its first local-level polls in two decades today that are crucial for cementing democracy amid political turmoil in the country. Altogether 4.9 million voters are eligible to cast their votes in the first phase of elections.

Refusing to be drawn into a controversy over Lord Buddha's birthplace, Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi today said he was the "prince of the Indian sub-continent".

Motorcycle-riding assailants shot and killed a Supreme Court judge under investigation for allegedly taking bribes as he headed to work in the Nepalese capital on Thursday, police said.

Nepal's prime minister called for new elections in November after the term of the Constituent Assembly expired at midnight on Sunday without political leaders completing the task of writing a new constitution. Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai said the Constituent Assembly had failed to achieve its goal.

Nepal's leaders held urgent talks on Sunday to avoid a political crisis, with just hours remaining before a midnight deadline to agree a new post-war constitution or face the dissolution of parliament.

Madhav Nepal, top CPN-UML leader of Indian origin, has emerged as the choice to form a coalition.

Nepal will hold a general election on November 26, the government said on Monday, hoping to conclude a turbulent journey to democracy a decade after a civil war and the abolition of its 239-year-old monarchy.

Millions of Nepalese today voted in the country's first local-level polls in two decades as the Himalayan nation took a crucial step towards cementing democracy amid political turmoil.

Nepal is set to hold its first local-level polls in two decades today that are crucial for cementing democracy amid political turmoil in the country. Altogether 4.9 million voters are eligible to cast their votes in the first phase of elections.

Refusing to be drawn into a controversy over Lord Buddha's birthplace, Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi today said he was the "prince of the Indian sub-continent".

Motorcycle-riding assailants shot and killed a Supreme Court judge under investigation for allegedly taking bribes as he headed to work in the Nepalese capital on Thursday, police said.

Nepal's prime minister called for new elections in November after the term of the Constituent Assembly expired at midnight on Sunday without political leaders completing the task of writing a new constitution. Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai said the Constituent Assembly had failed to achieve its goal.

Nepal's leaders held urgent talks on Sunday to avoid a political crisis, with just hours remaining before a midnight deadline to agree a new post-war constitution or face the dissolution of parliament.

Madhav Nepal, top CPN-UML leader of Indian origin, has emerged as the choice to form a coalition.