Kathmandu  - Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal along with several top Maoist leaders face contempt of court charges over their reaction to a recent court ruling, media reports said Thursday.

A writ was filed at the Nepalese Supreme Court Wednesday against Dahal, Finance Minister Babu Ram Bhattarai and four other top Maoist leaders for their public criticism of the court, the Kathmandu Post newspaper said.

Kathmandu, Apr 6: A shutdown called by 18 different Left wing parties including CPN (Maoist) led b

Kathmandu  - The Nepalese Supreme Court has ordered the government to investigate and make public the whereabouts of hundreds of people missing from the country's communist insurgency, officials said Friday.

The court order came in response to a petition filed by a local human rights organization that said many of the people had been missing for more than a decade.

The court ordered the government to search for 434 people, said Hemanta Rawal, court spokesman.

Kathmandu, Apr 3 : Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood handed over Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) to secretary of the Election Commission (EC) in Nepal.

"The supply of EVMs to Nepal reflected India''s continued commitment to support institutionalisation of multi-party democracy in Nepal," said Sood.

Chief Election Commissioner Bhoj Raj Pokhrel was also present on the occasion, which was held on Thursday.

Kathmandu, Mar 31 : Nepali Congress along with three other political parties presented their respective concept paper at the meeting of the Constitutional Committee here today.

Presenting the concept paper which is basically a draft of a new Constitution at the meeting held in Singha Durbar, Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala stressed the need to adhere to democratic principles and norms while writing the Constitution.

Kathmandu, Mar 27 : Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood urged cooperation from the Nepal Government for maintaining security along the border in view of the upcoming general elections in India.

Sood urged this during the meeting with Prime Minister Prachanda here on Thursday.

Nepalnews quoted PM''s press advisor Om Sharma as saying that Prachanda assured Indian envoy of necessary cooperation for border security.