Nepal officials take control of palace

Nepalese officials took control of the main royal palace in Katmandu on Thursday, a day after deposed King Gyanendra left to begin life as a civilian.

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Soldiers Open Fire on Crowd at Army Base

Soldiers opened fire Wednesday on a crowd of thousands of villagers angry about the death of a local woman at an army base in southwestern Nepal, killing six and wounding at least 11, officials said.

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Protest in Nepal Turns Violent; 3 Wounded

Thousands of pro-democracy activists went on a rampage Saturday in southern Nepal, burning government offices and charging at police before officers opened fire, wounding at least three people, a government official said.

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NEPAL'S Maoists, surprise victors of a general election in May, are now claiming their spoils. On Thursday June 26th Girija Prasad Koirala, the leader of the main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) party, resigned as the country's interim prime minister.

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A 240 year-old dynasty ends peacefully in Nepal. Former King Gyanendra left the palace on Wednesday saying he accepted the Constiuent Assembly's decison that he step down. The monarchy is over and the palace at Kathmandu will become a museum.

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The outgoing King of Nepal is refusing to hand over the royal crown and sceptre.

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Nepal's former king is refusing to hand over his crown to the government two weeks after the country was declared a republic.

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King Gyanendra's brief reign started in the worst possible way and went downhill from there.

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The collapse of a royal dynasty is a rare event. The last was in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini, a Shia cleric who had been exiled for more than 14 years, overthrew the Pahlavis in Iran.

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King Gyanendra, 60, faces being kicked out of his red‑walled palace in central Kathmandu and reduced to the state of a commoner

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THE princess whose forbidden love brought the Nepali royal family to its knees has returned to the Himalayan kingdom to canvass villagers in elections this week that will seal the fate of its king.

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King Gyanendra's days are numbered as Nepal prepares for April constituent assembly elections that will almost certainly abolish the monarchy

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Parliament in Nepal has voted to abolish the monarchy, as part of a peace deal with former Maoist rebels. The Maoists left the government in September, vowing not to return unless the monarchy was scrapped. They ended a decade-long insurgency last year.

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Even as Nepal prepares for a crucial session of the interim legislature on Monday, people at large remain frustrated and skeptical about their country's stability as a budding democracy.

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What does "nationalized" mean, anyway? Probably just that now the palaces will suck and fall apart. ...... Nepal's ministerial committee set up to nationalise the royal properties has decided to bring seven royal palaces under the Government ownership.

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When 20 armed soldiers stormed into Radio Sagarmatha on 12 February 2005, Mohan Bista, the station's chief, knew there was going to be trouble.

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News From Nepal: (No) Business As Usual

Whew....after a nauseating taxi ride down the Himalayan foothills into sweltering Delhi, then a 2-hour delay at the airport, I'm back in Nepal, and it's business as usual. Or perhaps, no business as usual.

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...and, here's an example of the kind of stuff that happens when strikes are called - and occasionally "violated" (ie, if one decides to move about freely).

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Yeah, well he better keep on-a prayin'. And I will pray for the poor five sacrificed animals.

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Only problem with this article is the statement, "they have been involved in plots ever since the 2000 massacre." Actually, the Nepali royal family has been implicated in plots for the entire 247 years of its existence. Like most royal families....

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Quite a change of tune for Koirala. Wonder if the king will move to india, or the property he bought in Mauritius last year?

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Surprise, surprise....squabbling in the land-locked insurgency-wracked mountain sometimes-kingdom. Two of Nepal's biggest communist parties are at loggerheads over the fate of King Gyanendra, raising fresh doubts about the intentions of the seven-party government.

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Nepal's King Gyanendra has come under attack from a stone-throwing crowd as he travelled in a motorcade. The monarch, who was on his way to a pilgrimage site in Kathmandu to attend a Hindu festival, escaped unhurt.

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Nepal's royal palace has denied a report that embattled King Gyanendra was planning to abdicate and leave the country after being stripped of most of his powers.

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Just what Nepal needs - another freakin state holiday! The nation is shut down about five days each month already for various religious festivities.

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True, the current king and the incumbent are both really rotten eggs...but are they reason enough to do away with 265 years of tradition?

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Fearful of their properties and businesses being confiscated after the Maoists come to power, members of Nepal's royal family, businessmen and former army officials loyal to King Gyanendra have started transferring their capital out of the country, a report said.

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KATHMANDU (AFP) - Nepal's King Gyanendra has little or no chance of making a comeback following a decision by the government and Maoist rebels to suspend the monarchy, analysts and officials say.

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