Kathmandu - The Nepalese government has held first informal talks with armed rebel groups operating in southern Nepal in a bid to end years of violence in the area, a media report said Thursday.

The meeting is the first reported between the Maoist-led government and the armed rebels groups since a new government was formed in August.

The meeting took place in a border town in India between the local development minister, Ramchandra Jha, and representatives of a few of the armed groups based in southern Nepal, Kantipur newspaper reported.

Kathmandu  - At least six people were killed and dozens more injured in a bus-tractor accident in eastern Nepal, police said Thursday.

Police said the bus crashed into a tractor in Sunsari district, about 400 kilometres east of the Nepalese capital, late Wednesday night.

Among those killed where the people travelling on the tractor. More than 30 people were injured and some were in serious condition.

The cause of the accident was not immediately known. However, police suspected speeding by the bus was the main cause of the accident.

Kathmandu  - Nepal's exports of ready-made clothes have suffered considerably because of the financial crisis in the United States, officials said Wednesday.

The United States is Nepal's main buyer for ready-made clothing, importing as much as 85 per cent of Nepal's garment exports.

"The export of ready-made clothing to the United States fell by 47 per cent until October 2008," the Garment Industries Association said. "The fall in exports was aggravated by financial crisis in the United States."

Kathmandu - The rise in global temperatures and climate change caused by greenhouse gases are posing risks for Nepal's Himalayan glaciers and glacial lakes, official media reported Wednesday.

Global warming has affected northern Nepal considerably, causing the melting of glaciers, the state-owned Gorkhapatra newspaper said, quoting government officials.

Kathmandu - A Nepalese teenager dubbed the "Buddha boy" has resurfaced in southern Nepal, a year after he disappeared from his meditation place, police said Tuesday.

Ram Bahadur Bomjam, 18, captured the imagination of Nepalese in 2005 when he reportedly meditated in a jungle for several months without food, water or sleep.

He quietly left the site in a jungle in southern Nepal last year, after thousands of people had made their way to get a glimpse of him.

Kathmandu, Nov 10 : The Nepal Constituent Assembly regulations have been finalised after the much-disputed issue of whip was settled earlier by the four major parties who agreed to let the rules remain silent on that issue.

According to Nepalnews, the regulations were finalised on Sunday evening by the committee headed by Narayan Man Bijukchhe in presence of Constituent Assembly chairman Subas Nemwang.

The Constituent Assembly regulations stated that the process and provision on impeachment against the President and the Vice President would be as per the constitution.