Kathmandu, March 12 - Defence Minister Bidhya Devi Bhandari on Friday accused the main opposition party UCPN-Maoist as not showing readiness for a timely integration of Maoist combatants to conclude the peace process.

Dhangadhi, Mar. 12 - Minister for Information and Communications and government spokesperson Shankar Pokharel Friday said the integration, management and rehabilitation of Maoist combatants would be difficult if the government did not get the actual number and other details of the combatants.

Kathmandu, Mar. 12 - Impunity for human rights violators, threats against the media, arbitrary arrests, and lengthy pretrial detentions were serious problems in Nepal, a US Department of State report received here Friday said. The report on Nepal said Maoist militias engaged in arbitrary and unlawful use of lethal force and abduction.

Kathmandu, Mar. 12 - Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala shifted to his daughter Deputy Prime Minister Sujata Koirala’s residence in Mandhikhatar from his rented residence in Maharajgunj on Friday. Koirala left his Maharajgunj residence after the renovation...

Pashupatinagar, Mar 12: - Constitutional Assembly Chairman Subash Chandra Nemwang Friday said that if the political parties struck a high level consensus, there was no need to wait until the stipulated deadline for the promulgation of the constitution.

Chairman of the Constituent Assembly Subash Chandra Nemwang is now holding doubts as to whether the new constitution will be written by the Constituent Assembly within the stipulated time. Speaking at a function in Ilam the other day, Chairman Nemwang said that if disagreement and non-cooperation among the political parties continued, the...