Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations said that the integration and rehabilitation of former Maoist combatants was the “most immediate challenge” ahead for Nepal.

A small airplane crashed and caught fire as the pilot tried to land at a tiny fog-shrouded airport near Mount Everest, killing 18 people.

Hindu and Buddhist priests chanted sacred hymns and showered flowers and grains of rice over a 3-year-old girl who was appointed a living goddess in Nepal.

Sunil Babu Pant takes every opportunity to convince his fellow parliamentarians that homosexuals are like any other people.

A junior year in Nepal leads to a flavorful awakening.

The abduction and sale of children in purported adoptions are rife in Nepal, a United Nations study released on Friday said.

The election of the Maoist leader, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, opens the way to the establishment of a democratic government in Nepal.

The Maoists said they would not form Nepal?s first post-royal government after the defeat of Ramraja Prasad Singh, their candidate for president, on Monday.

The Constituent Assembly elected Nepal?s first president, rejecting a candidate backed by former Maoist rebels. The assembly elected Dr. Ram Baran Yadav, a physician from southern Nepal.

The world?s last Hindu king, Gyanendra of Nepal, turned in his scepter and bird-of-paradise plumed crown, and he announced that he would live as a commoner.