Nepal rebels cut off routes to capital in first-ever blockade
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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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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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Nepal's main opposition party urged  the government on Monday to call a unilateral cease-fire with  Maoist rebels and seek peace talks to end a road blockade that  has cut the capital off from the rest of the country.
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As Nepal&#39;s government Sunday focused on foiling a Maoist blockade of the capital, the rebels struck in a remote district, killing a security personnel and freeing five prisoners.
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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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KATHMANDU, Nepal (CNN) -- Kathmandu has been cut off from the rest of the country in the first day of an indefinite blockade of the Nepalese capital by Maoists rebels.
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The Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, has been hit by bomb blasts on the third day of a blockade called by Maoist rebels. Nepalese business leaders are calling for a cease-fire between the government and the rebels.
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Military helicopters provided air cover to vehicles ferrying crucial supplies to the Nepali capital on Sunday, as a blockade called by Maoist rebels stretched into its fifth day, a senior army officer said.
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Maoist guerrillas have set off a bomb at an empty police post near Kathmandu, police say, and the Nepali capital remains cut off by land for the third day due to a rebel blockade call.
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World News, Kathmandu, Three people were killed, over a dozen vehicles torched and a global march to empower people at the grassroots was disrupted as Maoist insurgents Tuesday enforced a 48-hour shutdown in six regions of Nepal.
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King Gyanendra dismissed Nepal's government Tuesday and declared a state of emergency, closing off his Himalayan nation from the rest of the world as telephone and Internet lines were cut, flights diverted and civil liberties severely curtailed.
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Nepal&#39;s capital, Kathmandu, has been paralyzed by Maoist rebels, who have imposed a virtual blockade of the city.
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Traffic on two major highways linking Kathmandu with the rest of Nepal has come to a virtual halt on the second day of a rebel-imposed blockade.
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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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: Nepalâs Maoist rebels said today they would indefinitely block vehicles travelling on two of the three main highways leading to the capital, raising fears of another serious disruption of supplies to Kathmandu.
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KATHMANDU, NEPAL - Maoist rebels fighting to topple Nepal&#39;s constitutional monarchy have cut off all land routes to Kathmandu, the capital of the Himalayan kingdom.
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Communist rebels in Nepal threatened to attack any vehicle traveling on main roads, creating a virtual blockade around the capital to press their demands that the government release detained guerrillas.