A lot of people know Hisila Yami only as the wife of former Maoist ideologue and ex-prime minister Baburam Bhattarai. Her critics, of which she has many, have portrayed her as being Bhattarai’s ...

Nepal, Feb. 19 -- It was three decades ago last week that the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) launched the 'People's War' with armed action in four different parts of the country. The main source of ...

"I was forced to wear the crown as an uncomprehending child [aged 3]," King Gyanendra Shah said in 2008 as he was about to abdicate the throne after protests and a Maoist insurgency rocked Nepal. "I ...

In 2008, Prachanda visited China before India, breaking a tradition of new Nepali leaders making New Delhi their first foreign port of call. Nepal has long been mired in political instability and ...

In Nepal, a protest movement in early September 2025 escalated into a spontaneous insurrection in response to police violence, culminating with the burning of the parliament and an array of government ...

India’s Home Minister Amit Shah has said that the country will be free of armed rebels of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) by March 31, 2026. With the deadline looming on the horizon, ...

FORMER COMRADE ARAB would like to apologise. He is wearing a pink floral shirt and sitting under fluorescent lights at a centre for rehabilitated Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh, a state in central ...