In what appears as a signal of further putting off the election date, the opposition CPN-Maoist, the breakaway faction of the UCPN-Maoist, on Friday rejected a dialogue offer by the country's four major parties to resolve the outstanding issues.A central committee meeting of the party held at Gongbu of Kathmandu endorsed a one-point agenda saying that they would not participate in any meeting with the major parties until their demand is met."As everybody knows, our demand has been that the incumbent non- political government be substituted with an all-party political governme

Nepal's chief justice was sworn in Thursday as head of an interim government tasked with steering the country towards elections by June after a cross-party deal broke a 10-month political deadlock. The leaders of four major parties reached agreement late Wednesday to appoint Khilraj Regmi to lead an interim administration to oversee what would be only the second national polls since the end of the country's civil war in 2006. The election in theory should be held by June 21, but analysts are sceptical the vote will go ahead within the scheduled timeframe.

Nepal's Supreme Court Chief Justice Khilraj Regmi was sworn in as head of government on Thursday after political parties finally inked a deal to end a 10-month deadlock. The leaders of four major parties reached a deal late Wednesday to appoint Regmi as head of an interim administration which should oversee what would be only the second national polls since Maoist rebels overthrew the monarchy. The election in theory should be held by June 21 but analysts remain sceptical the vote will go ahead within the scheduled timeframe, despite the apparent breakthrough.

The makers of a film depicting torture by Nepal's army accused the government of censorship on Friday after they had to cancel the movie's release because of delays in getting approvals. The film "Badhshala", meaning "Slaughterhouse" in Nepalese, is based on the infamous saga of torture and disappearances carried out by a Kathmandu-based battalion during the country's 1996-2006 civil war.