Normal life resumes in Kathmandu Valley
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With the passage of one week, the effect of the &quot;Kathmandu Valley blockade&quot; imposed by the Nepalese anti-government guerrillas has waned with the government&#39;s move to step up security in order to foil the embargo.
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Thousands of villagers evacuated from a rumbling volcano in eastern Indonesia are allowed to return home.
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Shops and businesses reopen in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, as the authorities lift a days-long curfew,
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Nepalis woke on Wednesday to the promise of peace and an end to a decade of civil war, kidnappings, murders and fear, seven months after mass street protests overturned royal rule.
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Mumbai, Aug 28 - The situation in both Jalna and Poorna towns in Central Maharashtra, that witnessed violence in the aftermath of explosions at places of worship leaving 18 persons injured, was peaceful and under control today, police said.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal  - Kedar Prasad Adhikary wouldn't  dare return to his village in west Nepal, where one evening two  years ago Maoist guerrillas dragged his father from his home  and beheaded him, while his mother cried for mercy.
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Signs of the start of a return to some form of normality emerge across Indonesia's tsunami-hit province of Aceh.
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Nepal celebrated the Hindu festival of Janmashtami Monday as a five-day-old curfew imposed on capital Kathmandu and its neighbouring district was lifted completely.
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An Australian mountaineer who had been believed dead near the summit of Mount Everest has been revived and has come part way down the mountain, reports said Saturday.
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Nepal's ruling alliance said it had positive talks with the Maoists on Wednesday as it tried to persuade the former rebels to rejoin the government and back a historic poll to decide the country's political future.
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Life returns slowly to normal in the battered Iraqi city after a huge US-led operation to wrest control from insurgents.
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Najaf residents began to return to their normal lives Saturday, two days after two Shiite clerics hammered out a truce for the violence-wracked area.
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In Sri Lanka, lives must be restarted, houses rebuilt, families reconstituted and losses weighed against others' misfortune.
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Two top rebel Maoist leaders imprisoned in India for three years have arrived in Nepal's capital Kathmandu to scenes of rejoicing.
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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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Impoverished Nepal&#39;s crucial tourism sector is reaping a major peace dividend with officials reporting a surge in arrivals of nearly 45 percent in the wake of an agreement by Maoist rebels to end a decade of insurgency.
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Maoist rebels cut off Nepal&#39;s capital Kathmandu yesterday in their first blockade of the city since the rebellion to overthrow the constitutional monarchy and set up a communist republic in the world&#39;s only Hindu kingdom began eight years ago.