Buses defy blockade of Nepal&#39;s capital
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Kathmandu  A heavily guarded convoy of six buses snaked its way out of Nepal&#39;s capital Thursday, the first vehicles to defy rebels who blockaded Kathmandu this week with threats alone and without setting up a single roadblock.
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Hundreds of people queued up outside petrol stations in Nepal's capital on Friday fearing fuel shortages as a rebel ban on vehicles entering the city entered a second day.
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Nepal's Maoist rebels have  temporarily suspended a crippling economic blockade of the  capital from Wednesday, saying the move was in response to  popular appeals.
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In Nepal, fresh violence has erupted in the capital, Kathmandu, on the fourth day of a blockade imposed by Maoist rebels. The rebels are not backing down, even though the government has agreed to one of their key demands.
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NAGDHUNGA, Nepal  - Nepal's capital was cut off  from the rest of the country Wednesday and the supply of food  and goods disrupted as Maoist rebels enforced a blockade of the  city of 1.5 million people with threats to attack vehicles.
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Military helicopters provided air  cover to vehicles ferrying crucial supplies to the Nepali  capital on Sunday, a senior army officer said, as a blockade  called by Maoist rebels stretched into its fifth day.
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KATHMANDU: Hundreds of people queued up outside petrol stations in Nepalâs capital on Friday fearing fuel shortages after Maoist rebels called for a ban on vehicles entering the city.
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Hundreds of soldiers patrolled the streets of Kathmandu today after the government lifted a curfew imposed after deadly anti-Muslim riots erupted last week in Nepalâs capital.
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KATHMANDU: The Maoist blockade, which entered its sixth day on Monday, has effectively closed all roads linking the hill-ringed capital city of Kathmandu with the rest of Nepal.
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Nepal's royalist government renewed its appeal for peace talks with Maoist rebels as a blockade called by the guerrillas reduced traffic in and out of the capital to a trickle, officials said.
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Nepal&#39;s capital has been largely cut off from the rest of the country after Maoist rebels imposed a blockade of the city. The rebels say the blockade will remain in place until the government meets their demands.
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Essential supplies were being ferried into Kathmandu yesterday under the protection of military helicopters, after Maoist rebels cut off Nepal&#39;s capital from the rest of the Himalayan kingdom for the fifth day.
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KATHMANDU : Maoist rebels cut off routes to Nepal&#39;s capital Kathmandu in their first blockade of the city since they launched their insurgency to overthrow the constitutional monarchy eight years ago.
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KATMANDU, Nepal, Sept. 1 -- Thousands of demonstrators stormed the main mosque in Katmandu on Wednesday and charged through the streets of the capital chanting &quot;Down with Islam&quot; in protest of the killing of 12 Nepalese hostages in Iraq.
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The Nepalese capital Kathmandu is under a curfew, which the government imposed after the city erupted in violent protests against the killing of 12 Nepalese workers in Iraq.
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The streets of Nepal&#39;s capital were crowded and shops opened early on Monday after authorities lifted a curfew imposed last week after mobs protesting against the killing of 12 Nepalis in Iraq ransacked a mosque.
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Nepal ordered more troops and  helicopters to patrol highways and break an indefinite Maoist  blockade across the nation, a government minister said on  Sunday, in the first test of nerves since King Gyanendra took  power.