Tens of thousands of demonstrators are rallying in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, on May Day. The Maoist supporters are demanding the resignation of the country’s coalition government and a new prime minister of their choice.
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Maoists to seek no-trust vote against Nepal PM
April 21st, 2010 |
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After vacillating for almost a year, Nepal’s opposition Maoist party Wednesday decided to seek a no-trust vote against Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal.
“This government will not be able to draft a new constitution (within the deadline of May 28),” Maoist member of parliament and spokesman Dinanath Sharma told the media after the standing committee of [...]
After Nepal government, India conveys concern to Maoists
April 14th, 2010 |
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A day after formally conveying its displeasure to the Nepal government for scrapping a deal with an Indian state-owned company to print Nepali passports, India Wednesday conveyed its concern at the “growing anti-Indian activities” of Nepal’s former Maoist guerrillas to the ex-rebels themselves.
India’s ambassador to Nepal, Rakesh Sood, Wednesday met Maoist chief and former prime [...]
Maoists kill 11 Indian villagers in raid
February 18th, 2010 |
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At least 11 villagers were killed and a dozen abducted by Maoist insurgents in eastern India’s Bihar state on Thursday in a latest attack highlighting poor security in insurgency-hit states. Thursday’s raid comes three days after the rebels killed 24 police in the neighbouring state of West
Maoists kill Trinmool Congress worker in West Bengal
January 27th, 2010 |
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Jhargram (West Bengal), Jan 27 (ANI): Suspected Maoists shot dead a Trinamool Congress worker near Jhargram in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district on Wednesday morning.
According to police, the body of 26-year-old Rishi Dolai was retrieved from the Barokuria ghat on the Kangsabati River.
On Tuesday evening, over 20 Maoists surrounded Dolai’’s house at Manikpara village and [...]
Indian Maoists kill three at football match: police
October 14th, 2009 |
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Suspected Maoist rebels in eastern India opened fire at a prize-giving ceremony after a local football match, killing three people, police said Wednesday. Among those shot dead were two bodyguards for a former member of parliament who was presenting the trophy to the winning team in front of
Nepal PM challenges Maoists to prove majority for forming Govt
October 10th, 2009 |
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Amid Maoists’ agitation aimed at dislodging him from power, Premier Madhav Kumar Nepal has challenged them to form government by proving majority in Parliament instead of pursuing politics of deceit and rejected their charge that his administration was a “puppet” installed with “foreign” support.
Those “who can show a majority in (601-member) Parliament will form [...]