Nepal Protestors

Several people were injured when protestors clashed with Nepal police as thousands of activists held demonstration outside the parliament in Kathmandu in support of a veteran medical activist, fasting for nearly a month, demanding reforms in the country's medical sector.

Protestors torched homes and clashed with police in western Nepal today, a day after an 18-month-old boy and seven police died in violent demonstrations against a new constitution.

Nepalese police arrested over a dozen demonstrators today for trying to enforce a nationwide Maoist-led strike to protest the ruling coalition's plan to push through a new constitution without opposition agreement.

Protesters and police clashed in Kathmandu today at a demonstration by some 30,000 people led by the Maoist opposition to demand that political parties reach a consensus on a new constitution, in the biggest street march in Nepal in years.

Opposition parties staged general strike to shut down Nepal today as opposition politicians threw chairs and attacked the parliamentary speaker in a bid to block the government from pushing through a draft of a new constitution.

Several people were injured when protestors clashed with Nepal police as thousands of activists held demonstration outside the parliament in Kathmandu in support of a veteran medical activist, fasting for nearly a month, demanding reforms in the country's medical sector.

Protestors torched homes and clashed with police in western Nepal today, a day after an 18-month-old boy and seven police died in violent demonstrations against a new constitution.

Nepalese police arrested over a dozen demonstrators today for trying to enforce a nationwide Maoist-led strike to protest the ruling coalition's plan to push through a new constitution without opposition agreement.

Protesters and police clashed in Kathmandu today at a demonstration by some 30,000 people led by the Maoist opposition to demand that political parties reach a consensus on a new constitution, in the biggest street march in Nepal in years.

Opposition parties staged general strike to shut down Nepal today as opposition politicians threw chairs and attacked the parliamentary speaker in a bid to block the government from pushing through a draft of a new constitution.