Unusual blockade ends in Nepal
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Maoists lift a week-long chokehold of the capital.
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Essential supplies were being ferried into Kathmandu yesterday under the protection of military helicopters, after Maoist rebels cut off Nepal&#39;s capital from the rest of the Himalayan kingdom for the fifth day.
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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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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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Katmandu, Nepal, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A Maoist rebel blockade of the two major highways leading into Nepal&#39;s capital is affecting the flow of food and supplies, the BBC said Wednesday.
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KATHMANDU : Maoist rebels have staged their first ever blockade of the capital cutting supplies to Kathmandu, a city of some 1.5 million people.
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Maoist rebels in Nepal impose restrictions on two key highways linking the capital to the rest of the country.
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Maoists in Nepal on Tuesday lifted the weeklong economic blockade that had virtually paralysed Kathmandu. A joint statement issued by the six organisations affiliated to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist
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Clashes in Nepal are reported to have killed at least 34 rebels, troops and civilians over the last day. Twenty-two guerrillas and two soldiers were killed in the latest gun battle on Thursday in the western district of Arghakhanchi, the army said.
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Nepal has put its security forces on high alert as Maoist guerrillas threaten to blockade the capital, Kathmandu -- beginning Wednesday.
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Maoist rebels yesterday cut off routes into the Nepalese 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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A blockade by Maoist rebels of the Nepalese capital, being enforced through psychological fear rather than physical force, entered a second day yesterday, leading to price rises and a heavy deployment of troops.
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Buses, cars and trucks rolled in and out of Kathmandu yesterday after Maoist rebels lifted an unprecedented road blockade that had cut off the capital for a week.
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Fuel supplies to the Nepalese capital almost run out because of road blockade in the south, officials say.
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Nepal&#39;s Maoist rebels have temporarily called off a crippling economic blockade of the capital effective on Wednesday, saying the move was in response to popular appeals.
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Maoist rebels in Nepal say they are suspending a blockade of the capital, Kathmandu that has been in effect for a week.
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Nepal&#39;s embattled government has offered to meet a demand by Maoist rebels to end their blockade of the capital after the guerrillas set off two bombs in and around Kathmandu.