Madhav Kumar Nepal resigned as prime minister of Nepal on Wednesday after just over a year in office, in response to pressure from opposition Maoists and detractors within his own party.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on Nepal’s political parties to step up their efforts to form a consensus government in the wake of this week’s resignation of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal.

Nepal's political leaders were locked in talks Friday to try to form a new government amid mounting international concern about the country's faltering peace process.

The Nepali government should redouble its efforts to investigate a 2005 extrajudicial killing after one of the suspects named by the authorities investigating the case, Agni Sapkota, was denied a visa to visit the US by its...

Nepal's parliament will elect a new prime minister on July 21, a top official said on Tuesday, amid a political standoff which has pitched Maoist former rebels against other leading political parties.

The wrangling in Nepal over forming an interim coalition to replace the government that quit on June 30 has projected some of the country's politicians as small-minded, and seemingly unwilling to take the country out of its...

The United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) is becoming controversial each day. It is being accused of being biased toward the Maoists by not only Prime Minister and Defense Minister, but also by Nepali Congress (NC) leaders,...

Briefing at UN Headquarters, New York

The United Nations human rights representative in Nepal today underscored the importance of respecting the professional freedoms of lawyers and human rights defenders in a meeting with Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal, known as...