TIMELINE 2007

Jan 1:

• Freed Kamaiyas from Banke, Bardiya, Kailali, Dang and Kanchanpur districts pitch tents on government land at Teenkune, Kathmandu, demanding compensation the government had promised six years ago while declaring their emancipation.
• The government releases Rs 1.03m for rhino protection.
• Visit Pokhara Year-2007 begins.

Jan 4:
• Dabur Greenhouse project shuts down citing threats, unreasonable demands and disruptive activities of the Maoists in Banepa.

Jan 5:
• 73 police posts (57 in Lumbini zone and 15 in Dhankuta district) reinstated as the peace process gets underway.

Jan 8:
The top leaders of the ruling seven-party alliance and the CPN-Maoist agrees to promulgate the interim statute and form the interim legislature on January 15, formally opening doors for the Maoists to join the political mainstream.

Jan 10:
• The eight parties reach agreement over the sharing of the remaining 48 seats of the 330-member Interim Legislature to be formed on January 15. The NC, UML and Maoists gets 10 seats each for the 48 seats allocated for the civil society, different professional organisations, Dalits, nationalities and ethnic groups. Similarly, the NC-D gets six seats while the Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Anandidevi), Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party, United Left Front, and People's Front Nepal gets three seats each.
• Five Yemenese UN military experts arrive in the capital as a part of the UN assistance in Nepal's arms monitoring process bringing the total number of UN military experts officials dispatched here to 20.
• Nepal Telecom commercially launches PCMCIA cards in the local market making wireless net access via laptops possible.
• UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon presents report on Nepal’s peace process at the Security Council. Report is based on suggestions made by the UN technical assessment mission, which arrived in Nepal in mid-December.

Jan 11:
• Nepal Telecom reduces the tariff rates of Internet service, for business purposes, by as much as 83 percent.

Jan 12:
• A cabinet meeting appoints Dolakh Prasad Gurung and Ayodhi Prasad Yadav as the election commissioners.
• A 14-member Ex-Gurkha team appointed by the government to assist monitoring of arms management sets up their office at the Maoist first division camp in Chulachuli of Ilam district.

Jan 13:
• Eight Nepali laborers who were languishing in a Malaysian prison for a year rescued on the government’s first such attempt to rescue Nepali laborers abroad.

Jan 14:
• The government reinstates 904 of the total 1271 police posts which were displaced during the decade-long insurgency, was able to put in place only 904 such posts as the self-set deadline ended on this particular day.

Jan 15:
• Interim Constitution issued; House of Representatives, the National Assembly—the lower and the upper houses of parliament, dissolved.
• Maoists enter parliament after a decade long armed conflict; first sitting of interim parliament begins; all MPs sworn in.
• India welcomes the promulgation of the interim constitution and the formation of the interim parliament.

Jan 17:
• Subash Chandra Nemwang sworn in as the Speaker of the newly formed Interim Legislature-Parliament.
• Senior Advocate Bishwo Kant Mainali elected President of the Nepal Bar Association.

Jan 18:
• In a path-breaking move, PM Koirala administers the oath of office and secrecy to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Dilip Kumar Paudel at Shingha Durbar. The King used sworn-in the chief justice before that.
• A parliamentary party meeting of the CPN-Maoist elects party spokesperson Krishna Bahadur Mahara as the leader of the party in the interim legislature-parliament, Dev Gurung as the deputy leader of the party and Dinan Nath Sharma and Janadardan Sharma 'Prabhakar' are chosen the party's chief whip and whip, respectively.
• MPRF under the leadership of Upendra Yadav call chakka jam in Janakpur.

Jan 19:
• Chief Justice Dilip Kumar Poudel administers fresh oath of office and secrecy to all other 18 justices of the Supreme Court and the chief judges of the Appellate Courts at the Supreme Court as per the recently promulgated Interim Constitution.
• MPRF-Maoists clash in which a sixteen year-old Ramesh Kumar Mahato is shot dead by a Maoist cadre at Lahan Chowk.

Jan 20:
• An all-party meet organise in Lahan in a bid to restore normalcy in the wake of MPRF-Maoists scuffle in which a sixteen year-old Ramesh Kumar Mahato was shot dead by Maoist cadres at Lahan Chowk.

Jan 21:
• MPRF continues protest
• Pm Koirala calls for an eight-party meeting on Jan 22 to discuss the worsening situation in Lahan, where violence flared up following killing of a teenager on Jan 20.

Jan 22:
• The government decides to set up a Commission to probe unrest, compensation to family of slain teenager.

Jan 23:
• Government officially invites the MPRF for table talks to diffuse the growing tension at Lahan.
• 2 more Lahan clash victims die, death toll reaches 4, Siraha District Administration Office extends curfew in Lahan from 7 am to 7 pm in addition to clamping curfew in Siraha bazaar, the district headquarters of Siraha district, from 8 am to 6 pm.
• Around 400 children of Makure Primary School at Risku VDC-3 fall unconscious after eating prasad during Sarawshwoti Puja at the school

Jan 24:
• 8 hour curfew imposed in Lahan, tensions down a notch
• Major political parties represented in the Interim Legislature fails to reach common understanding over the issues of electoral system and use of ballot paper in the CA polls.
• At an all-party meeting organized by the Election Commission to decide on various issues, political parties could not reach unanimity on which electoral system to follow -- Mixed Member Proportional Representation (MMPR) or Parallel System (PS) -- to elect 204 representatives in the constituent assembly, says an EC official.
• Nepal Telecom plans to distribute an additional 3.5 million mobile phone lines in the country within the next three years, thereby tripling the total teledensity to 16 lines per 100 people.

Jan 25:
• Situation across various parts of the Terai region worsen, local administrations in Siraha, Janakpur, Birgunj and Biratnagar clamp curfews to prevent any untoward incidents in the wake of increasing unrest across the region.
• MPRF welcomes the Prime Minister’s appeal for talks.

Jan 26:
• The district administration offices in eastern Terai districts issued fresh curfew orders in Janakpur, Lahan, Birgunj, Biratnagar and Rautahat
• Chitra Lekha elected deputy speaker
• PM Koirala, Prachanda discuss ways to control Terai unrest; Seven party leaders urge for talks to resolve Terai problems
• Situation in Rautahat out of control, an agitated mob defying the local district administration's curfew order sets ablaze the Chief District Officer's office, CPN-UML General Secretary's residence, the District Development Committee office and the District Office of the Election Commissioner.

Jan 27:
• Violent protests continue across the eastern Terai with another protester killed in police firing in Bara district.

Jan 28:
• Curfews clamped in three towns, another protester killed in police firing in Kalaiya, Bara, the unrest in the terai region enters 11th day. Journalists and media houses attacked in MPRF protests. Seeking out at every nook and cranny in the town, protesters singled out and beat up several local journalists throughout the day and vandalized local media houses later in the afternoon.
• Nepali Congress working committee member and PM Koirala’s sister-in-law, Nona Koirala, 79, dies of liver failure.

Jan 29:
• State-run Indian Oil Corp threatens to cut fuel supplies to landlocked Nepal by 30 per cent if its national oil company fails to pay overdue bills as promised.
• Terai unrest continues, citing government reluctance to resolve the Madhesi issues, Minister for Commerce, Industry and Supplies Hridayesh Tripathi resigns.

Jan 30:
• Police arrests two former royal regime ministers Kamal Thapa and Badri Prasad Mandal on charges of inciting anarchy in the terai. Thapa was arrested from his residence at Bishal Nagar in Kathmandu and Mandal was arrested from Biratnagar at night. Thapa was Home Minister and Mandal was Agriculture Minister in the king’s cabinet.
• Biratnagar protest turns violent, one killed; indefinite curfew clamped

Jan 31:
• PM Koirala addresses the nation and appeals the agitating Madhesi people to come for talks. Hours after the prime minister appealed to the Madhesi people to shun the violent protests in the Terai region, activists from the MPRF kills a policeman in Biratnagar.
• Various ethnical organizations announce a three-day strike in eastern Nepal demanding that the interim constitution clearly mention the terms including federal set-up, right to self-govern, racial autonomy and republic.

February 1:
• Terai agitation continues unabated; curfew in Biratnagar, Chanranigahpur, at least three activists from the agitating MPRF killed and 31 others injured in clashes with police in Inaruwa.
• MPRF welcomes proposal for talks, however, says PM's address not satisfactory.
• NSP-A says PM's statement hasn't addressed Madhesi people's demands, including resignation of Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula for excessive use of force to quell the agitation. PM's address was not as per eight parties' agreement, says Prachanda.
• Amnesty International urges enquiry into Terai killings
• Limbuwaan strike on second day in Eastern hilly region

Feb 2:
• Govt sets up 3-member talks team under Agriculture Minister Mahanta Thakur to address the Terai unrest.
• The Home Ministry distributes citizenship certificates to a total of 3,00,828 people in 69 districts through 520 mobile teams set up to distribute citizenship certificates in various districts across the country since January 15.
• Fuel shortage worsens in Valley; NOC says that its failure to replenish stocks due to the ongoing Terai unrest has compelled NOC to sharply cut down supply.
• OHCHR calls for urgent dialogue between the government and agitating parties to prevent further violence and loss of life in the eastern and central terai.
• Local authority in Bihar issues prohibitory orders, travel advisory at Nepal border area.
• Terai sees no respite, district administration offices in Biratnagar, Inaruwa, Birgunj and Janakpur issue fresh curfew orders.
• Third day of Limbuwaan strike cripples life in north-eastern districts

Feb 3:

• PM Koirala directs talks team headed by Minister Thakur, to begin dialogue at the earliest possible time to resolve the ongoing Terai unrest, now in its 19th day; MPRF sticks to its demand of Home Minister Sitaula’s resignation.
• Nepal dubs PM's address insensitive, says it was inadequate.
• 1 killed, 20 protesters injured in Birgunj; leaders flay Prachanda's comment on military solution to Terai unrest.
• JTMM cadres storm police post in Saptari

Feb 4:
• Police firing leaves 3 dead in Malangawa, 21 injured in Birgunj. The police opened fire at the protesters as they tried to take to the streets defying the curfew order.
• Cadres of the agitating MPRF brutally beat up five journalists who had gone to cover a goodwill rally organized in Biratnagar.
• Indian Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee says India hopes peaceful dialogues would resolve Terai crisis.
• JTMM – Jwala Singh faction kidnaps a woman and 10 others from Rajbiraj.
• Curfew clamped in Sunsari, Biratnagar. Inadequate police personnel forces Birgunj DAO to call off curfew.
• JTMM cadres attack Lagdigariyani police post in Siraha and take away 6 firearms and ammunitions.

Feb 5:
• Vandalism, protests continue across Terai; curfew continued in Biratnagar, Inaruwa, Sarlahi.
• Top leaders of the five political parties - NC, UML, CPN (Maoist), NC (D) and NSP (Anandidevi) agree on a political package to resolve the terai unrest. They agree to ensure representation for the terai region in proportion to its population and decides to ask the government to start working for providing equal opportunities to Madhesi people in all organs of the state.
• 3 killed in clashes between Jwala Singh, Goit led JTMM factions at Arjinahar of Madhuwapur-6 of Saptari.
• MPRF cadres brutally thrash five journalists who went to cover news about a goodwill rally in the Terai.
• A cabinet meeting approves 4,150 vacancies for the Nepal Police and 3,850 vacancies for the APF.

Feb 6:
• UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon picks Ian Martin to head the recently set up UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN).
• Govt talks panel headed by Minister Thakur formally invites the MPRF for talks.
• CPN-UML and Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) conclude that a proportional election system and a federal structure of the state would address the demands of Madhesi groups.
• Maoists seize documents related to the electoral rolls from different places of the Kathmandu Valley protesting against the Election Commission for not incorporating, laborers, students and people living in rented houses.

Feb 7:
• The eight political parties finally signs an agreement guaranteeing the terai region representation in the constituent assembly in proportion to its population.
• PM Koirala addresses the nation following the eight-party meeting in line with the previous day’s agreement.
• At least two protesters are killed while 54 persons, including nine policemen, injured when the two sides clashed near the Singhiya stream bridge in Biratnagar. The clash takes place after MPRF cadres advanced towards Morang prison, defying a curfew.
• The Election Commission completes updating electoral rolls across the country, excluding 58 mountainous VDCs and the troubled areas in the Terai.
• The government initiates the process of recruiting an additional 8,000 personnel into the Nepal Police and the Armed Police Force (APF) to strengthen law and order and to bolster security during the CA polls.

Feb 8:
• Various Madheshi groups welcome PM’s dialogues, MPRF suspends agitation for 10 days.
• 50 families of the Shiva Mandir area of Katahari village of Morang displaced within the last two days following loot and arson of their houses during protests by various Madheshi organizations.
• The government endorses Nepal Rastra Bank's proposal to use Mt Everest in Rs 10 notes in place of the King's image.

Feb 9:
• Ian Martin officially appointed Special Representative of the Secretary General in Nepal and head of the UNMIN.
• The government sends official invitation for dialogue to two splinter Maoist factions active in the terai region -- Jwala Singh and Jaya Krishna Goit led JTMM-- and the National Federation of Indigenous Nationalities.

Feb 10:
• Home Ministry says altogether 24 people including an Indian national died while 67 sustained critical injuries in the recent demonstrations called by the MPRF across eastern and central terai. MPRF vice-president Kishor Kumar Bishwas puts the death toll over 38.

Feb 12:
• PM Koirala issues directives to Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Narendra Bikram Nembang to amend the Interim Constitution and present it before the Council of Ministers by Feb 16.

Feb 13:
• Maoists Supremo Prachanda addresses a mass meeting at Tundikhel, Kathmandu for the first time in 25 years, Says “if conspiracies to disrupt CA polls scheduled for mid-June continue, the parties should declare Nepal a republic in April itself”.
• Jwala Singh agrees to talks, suspends violence, shutdowns

Feb 14:
• RARE SNOWFALL: Kathmandu valley floor sees its first snowfall in 62 years. The last snowfall, of about 5 inches, in Kathmandu Valley occurred in 2000 Bikram Era (Circa 1945 AD).
• The International Committee of Red Cross says over 812 persons still missing due to armed conflict in Nepal.
• Indian army finds a "nexus" between Nepal's Maoists and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the group operating from Kashmir and declared a terrorist outfit by India, Maoists later dismisses the claim.
• The government release former royal cabinet minister Kamal Thapa following a Supreme Court order. The court said Thapa has been held illegally since his arrest on January 30.

Feb 15:
• Police personnel posted at Singha Durbar gate seize weapons from two security guards of Maoist lawmakers Dev Gurung and Lokendra Bista just a month after they joined the Interim Legislature.
• Jwala Singh, chairman of one of the factions of the JTMM says it would make public its talks team once the government declares ceasefire.
• MPRF Chairman Upendra Yadav accuses government of not being serious in creating conducive environment for talks.

Feb 16:
• A small group of people pelts stones at King Gyanendra's convoy when he was returning after paying homage at Pahupatinath temple in the evening.
• A group of never heard 'Nepal Defense Army' (NDA) owns up responsibility for the explosions in Birgunj.

Feb 17:
• Top leaders of three major ruling parties and the Maoists agree to table a bill immediately to amend the Interim Constitution as per the PM’s Feb 9 commitment.
• Chure Bhawar Pradesh Ekta Samaj, a group of hilly-origin people also demands local autonomy.

Feb 19:
• MPRF announces fresh protests after the 10-day deadline set by the Forum for creating an environment for talks ends.
• Ministers and leaders of various political parties strongly criticise King Gyanendra's Democracy Day statement saying it was against the spirit of the people's movement and the Interim Constitution.

Feb 20:
• The eight-party task force formed to settle differences over electoral system, ballot papers and temporary electoral rolls can not make any breakthrough after the parties stuck to their stances.

Feb 21:
• The Interim Parliament unanimously passed a resolution asking the government to take action against King Gyanendra for the latter's controversial statement on Democracy Day.
• Criticizing the government for not providing enough fund for their food, shelter and other essential expenses, about 2,100 Maoist combatants of the Chitwan-based Third Division of the Maoist combatants leave the Shaktikhor camp; UNMIN says it's a breach of the arms agreement reached between the government, the Maoists and the UN.

Feb 22:
• Altogether 6,400 Maoist combatants - 3,400 in Chitwan and 3,000 in Kailali -- deserted their respective cantonment sites. The government, Prachanda appeal to Maoist combatants not to desert the camps
• Life in various terai districts was partially affected on the second day of the three-day general strike called by JTMM-Goit

Feb 23:
• US Ambassador to Nepal James F Moriarty praises Maoist leader Prachanda for his attempt to come into the political mainstream and expresses his eagerness to shake hands with him before leaving Nepal.
• At least nine people injured when activists of the MPRF and Maoists clashed at Bhairahawa Bazaar. The clash occurred after the Maoist cadres intervened in an MPRF mass meeting at the old sugar mills premises at Gallamandi.
• A Bhutanese youth killed in a scuffle between refugees and local forestry officials at Sanischare, local administration clamps curfew in the scuffle-prone area

Feb 24:
• The MPRF snubs the government talk team's offer for talks slated for Feb 25, sticking to its demand for the home minister's resignation as a precondition. Another agitating group, National Federation of Indigenous Nationalities, however, start preparations for holding talks with the government scheduled for Feb 26.
• Clashes between cadres of the MPRF and the CPN-Maoist erupt at Majhgawa area of Marchwar in Rupandehi district, leaving over a dozen persons, including four policemen injured.

Feb 25:
• Maoist Chairman Prachanda says that the weapons registered with the UN were indeed less than the actual numbers as "many of our weapons that we had earlier seized from government security forces were burnt to ashes when Nepali Army soldiers set fire to houses in villages. Many other weapons were swept away while crossing rivers, and others were made dysfunctional due to various reasons."
• The government decides to provide Rs 50 million a month to the Maoists. Similarly the Maoist Cantonment Management Committee decides to set Rs 60 as daily allowance to each Maoist combatant.
• FNJ and MPRF in Morang district sign a five-point-understanding with a view to stop mistreatment of journalists.

Feb 27:
• UNMIN Chief Ian Martin warns that CA elections slated for mid-June will have to be postponed unless some form of consensus is reached "very soon".
• A night coach accident at Dahaki stream in Darechowk VDC-3 in Chitwan leaves 15 persons dead and 31 others injured. Seven of the deceased are Indian nationals.
• The government decides to replace the king's image with that of Mt Everest in Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 denomination notes.
• In yet another clash between Maoists and MPRF activists at Puraini VDC in Banke district, seventh grader Khohade Kori, 14, is killed in the attack by Maoists.

Feb 28:
• Tuesday's clash between Madhesi People's Rights Forum activists and Maoist cadres claimed yet another life in Nepalgunj, Wednesday. Koili Kori, who was injured during Tuesday's scuffle, died while receiving treatment at Bheri Zonal Hospital. Earlier, seventh grader Khohade Kori had also succumbed to injuries sustained in a Maoist assault. Both the deceased hailed from Puraini VDC of Banke.
March 1:
• ‘Madhesi Tigers’ abducts 11 hilly-origin people from Koshi Tappu area in Bhardaha of Saptari district. The armed group numbering around 100 abducted the 11 after taking the entire settlement in Koshi Tappu area under control.

March 2:
• The second round of talks between the government and the Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) ends inclusively.
• Kathmandu Metropolitan Police achieves legal status with the Police (Eleventh Amendment) Regulations 2063 appearing in the Nepal Gazette.
• PM Koirala declines Maoist Chairman Prachanda's proposal to immediately proclaim the country a republic.

March 3:
• Continuous bandas and strikes cause some 90,000 tons of sugarcane to dry up in the fields in eastern Terai.

March 5:
• The government directs authorities to take action against those responsible for the Janaandolan-II crackdown in April last year, as recommended by the High-Level Probe Commission.
• Nepal-India trade treaty renewed automatically for the next five years on March 5 - the last day of the trade treaty signed in 2002.

March 6:
• Dr Sunduk Ruit, known for his pioneering work regarding the cataract surgery, named ‘Asian of the year-2007’ in a programme in New Delhi.
• US indicts that Maoists are involved in smuggling of narcotic drugs.

March 7:
• The US begins the formal process of resettling over 60,000 Bhutanese refugees in the US over the next five years with a proposal to set up an overseas processing entity (OPE).
• Denmark approves a grant of Rs 600 million to support to the ongoing peace process in Nepal.

March 9
• Tensions soar in Nepalgunj following police-MPRF clash, 13-hour curfew clamped
• The Carter Centre deploys a 13-member international election observation mission to observe the CA elections.

March 10
• Donors decide to scale down the project from US $ 464 million to US $ 350 million.
• US Under Secretary of State for Management Henrietta H. Fore says if the Maoists fail to act like a mainstream political party "by renouncing violence," then the US believes they (Maoists) do not deserve membership in a coalition government.
• Following March 9’s clash between locals and the MPRF cadres in Nepalgunj, the Banke District Administration Office extends its curfew orders from 7 am to 7 pm. The local administration had imposed a 13-hour curfew following the killing of Tula Ram Tripathi, a local from Khajura in the district. At least a dozen people were seriously injured in the clash.
• Maoist Chairman Prachanda makes another controversial claim that evidence about the "plot to kill US officials by the royal palace" was being collected and that it would be revealed soon.

Mar 12:
• The Supreme Court postpones hearing on a writ petition relating to the report of the Rayamajhi Commission, date for next hearing could not be finalized.
• District Administration Office in Nepalgunj issues curfew orders for the fourth consecutive day.
• District Administration Office Sunsari issues an indefinite curfew in the aftermath of a clash between students and MPRF cadres.
• The agitating MPRF withdraws its indefinite strike.
March 13:
• Members of the JTMM-Jwala Singh faction abduct three government staffers deployed for the distribution of citizenship certificates, from Chhitaha VDC of Sunsari.

March 14:
• The royal palace press secretariat refutes as totally fabricated, baseless and unfounded the malicious allegations made by the Maoists against the Crown Prince and the Royal Palace. The Maoist had presented a Compact Disc (CD) a day before in the Legislature-Parliament, which it said included evidence that showed the Palace was conspiring against the party, including murdering Maoist leaders.
• Government announces new arrangement of public holidays as well as holidays for festivals in its new Nepalis calendar starting from the year 2061, Baisakha (March 14).
• Former airline pilot Ramesh Chandra Pokharel confesses that he shot dead nine rhinos in Chitwan National Park (CNP) and surrounding forests.

March 15:
• The government decides to promote over four dozen senior security officials of Nepali Army (NA) and Armed Police Force (APF).
• A cabinet meeting decides to cut the number of employees at the Royal Palace by 75 percent. The remaining 25 percent staff would be posted to the palace through the Public Service Commission's recruitment process.
• Denmark and Norway extends a grant of over Rs 3 billion to support a renewable energy program in Nepal for a five-year period beginning 2007.

March 16:
• Accusing the government of not heeding its demands, Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) announces its third round of protest programmess.
• Local consumers of community forest set ablaze 74 houses belonging to free Kamaiyas (free bonded-labors) in the Kamaiya camp at Urma VDC-7, Dharjuna of Kailali.

March 17:
• Representative of the OHCHR-Nepal Lena Sundh says that the UN is ready to mediate, if necessary, to end the ongoing terai violence, through dialogue.

March 19:
• Major business associations including Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) and Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI) announce an indefinite nationwide strike in protest against continued Maoist extortions and the severe beating up of an hotelier.
• YCL cadres capture 25 ropanis of land and four houses of former Army Chief Sachchit Shumsher Rana at Laxmibazaar in the municipality.

March 20:
• Prachanda alleges protests and banda by the business community were part of a "conspiracy of palace elements" for preventing his party from joining the government and eventually foiling the CA elections.

March 21:
• At least 27 Maoists cadres killed as the MPRF and Maoist-aligned Madhesi Mukti Morcha (MRMM) cadres clashed in Gaur, the district headquarters of Rautahat
• Terming the killing of 26 people in Gaur as a criminal and violent incident, Home Ministry asks the local administration to probe the incident and take strong action against persons involved.
• Business bodies call off their protests after getting commitment from the eight political parties that problems facing the business community would be sorted out.
• Maoists mercilessly beat up Lekhnath Bhattarai, president of the Free Students Union at Bhairahawa Multiple Campus.
• Maoists and MPRF leaders blame each other for the Gaur carnage.
• Expressing concerns over the ongoing peace process in Nepal, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Maoists should be completely disarmed.

March 22:
• Maoist Chairman Prachanda urge the government to immediately outlaw the MPRF and arrest its leaders alleging that its activities were intended to sabotage the whole peace process.
• A high profile team comprising Home Minister Sitaula, UML's General Secretary Nepal, Maoist spokesperson Mahara and a United Nations team, visits the site of Gaur carnage.
• UNMIN chief, Ian Martin, accuses the CPN (Maoist) of producing "substantial" numbers of the underaged for registration at the UN-monitored cantonments.

March 23:
• Maoist lawmakers disrupt a regular meeting of the Interim Legislature and put forward 5-point demand for the government to fulfill immediately.
• The MPRF says the Gaur carnage was a "sad and serious accident".
• Indian security officials promises support to Nepali policemen in capturing the culprits Gaur carnage who reportedly fled to India.
• The government sets up a high-level judicial commission headed by a sitting judge, to probe the Gaur carnage. Maoists strongly object the probe commission saying it was formed without consulting the Maoists
• US, UNMIN urge punishment for Gaur guilty.

March 24:
• Police arrest six persons from district headquarters Gaur on suspicion of their being involved in the Gaur killings.
• The local administrations in Siraha and Biratnagar clamp curfew and prohibitory orders ahead of the scheduled mass meeting of the MPRF.

March 25:
• India's Ministry of External Affairs requests Petroleum Ministry not to exert pressure on Nepal for paying off dues the latter owes to India.

March 26:
• The interim parliament passes two bills related to the CA elections.
• The ADB proposes government for the latter's 15 percent equity participation in the 750-megawatt West Seti project. For this, the bank is ready to loan up to US $ 45 million to the government.
• An unknown group calling itself the eastern command of Nepal Defense Army (NDA) hurls a bomb at the regional office of Kantipur Publications in Biratnagar.
• At least 12 members of the MPRF sustained injuries after they clashed with police in Rajbiraj.

March 27:
• MPRF activists provoke the fateful incident in which at least 29 people were killed in Gaur of Rautahat district, says a report prepared by Nepal Bar Association.

March 28:
• Nepal Education Republican Forum (NERF) padlocks the District Education Offices nationwide indefinitely to put pressure on the government to fulfill its demands.
• CPN-Maoist lawmakers disrupt a regular sitting of the Interim Legislature-Parliament demanding that an interim government be formed and the date for the CA polls announced at the earliest.
• An unknown group of some 20 masked men shoot dead Mata Prasad Barma, former chairman of Betahani VDC in Banke district.

March 29:
• The Supreme Court seeks written reply from Publisher and Editor of Himal Khabarpatrika, Kanak Mani Dixit, and Executive Editor, Shiva Gaunle, over publication of a news report about alleged corruption in the apex court.

• Police release six persons, arrested on suspicion of being involved in the Gaur carnage.

• Maoists and MPRF activists clash at Barewa of Rupendehi district.

March 30:
• Election Commission issues a notice to political parties to get registered with it within April 27 starting March 31.

• At least 45 houses belonging to 26 families of Bodhebasain VDC in Saptari district gutted by fire.

March 31:
• On the eve of the 14th summit of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to be held here in New Delhi, some half dozen Indian political parties including the ruling Congress, and other social organizations on urge the External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to take initiatives to help repatriate Bhutanese refugees languishing in eastern Nepal.

April 1:
• CPN-UML agrees to accept Nepali Congress General Secretary Ram Chandra Paudel as the second most senior minister finally ending the disagreements for the formation of the interim government

• The Interim Legislature-Parliament elects Nepali Congress President and Prime Minister of the outgoing SPA government Girija Prasad Koirala as the Prime Minister of the interim government. 21-member interim cabinet was also formed

• PM Girija Prasad Koirala leaves for New Delhi leading the Nepalese delegation to the 14th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit

• Eight parties decide on June 20 as the date for the much awaited elections to the Constituent Assembly.

• Some half dozen Indian political parties including the ruling Congress, and other social organizations urge the External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to take initiatives to help repatriate Bhutanese refugees languishing in eastern Nepal in New Delhi

April 2:
• Urging all concerned parties to submit illegal weapons to the administration, the newly formed interim government decides to heighten security to ensure free and fair Constituent Assembly elections.
• British Minister Gareth Thomas arrives in Kathmandu, announces ???36.5 million boost for peace in Nepal (atten: Rajendra)
• On the eve of the 14th SAARC summit, Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala meets Indian PM Man Mohan Singh in New Delhi
• The meeting of the SAARC foreign ministers agrees to provide free visas to fifty journalists in the region each year
• The third regional meeting of the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) forms a South Asia-level regional commission to monitor media, ensure freedom of expression, and media independence in the region.

April 3
• Nepal and India for the first time agree to move beyond product exchange regime on petroleum trade allowing Nepal to import processed petroleum products from a third country
• Within 48 hours of joining the interim government, Maoist affiliated Young Communist League stages a protest rally demanding the government declare a republic
• CIAA interrogates former Chief of Army Staff Pyar Jung Thapa on charges of misappropriation of funds to quell people’s movement during royal regime.

April 4
• Prime Minister Koirala and his Bhutanese counterpart Khandu Wangchuk discuss ways to find solutions to the Bhutanese Refugee problems in New Delhi.
• Iron Gate dubbed School Leaving Certificate (SLC) exams begin. 178,952 girls and 189,726 boys appear for the exam throughout the country
• Government completes citizenship distribution work through its mobile teams in 56 of the 75 districts
• The 14th SAARC Summit concludes in New Delhi adopting a 30-point declaration, which includes formation of a modality to fight against terrorism in the South Asian region
• Denmark pledges Rs 600 million to assist Nepal in its peace process, 120 million of which would go directly for the CA elections
• Indian paramilitary Shashastra Seema Bal (SSB) enters Nepal during night and misbehaves with the locals of the Bardanga VDC, border area for Eastern Morang

April 5
• Melamchi project staffs suspend all work at the project site in Sindhupalchowk district protesting the brutal manhandling of three project officials by locals.
• MPRF lifts month-long ban on two national daily newspapers Kantipur and Gorakhapatra in Rautahat district

April 6
• Maoist Chairman Prachanda holds discussions with UNMIN chief Ian Martin regarding the second phase of arms registration.
• USAID pledges additional $2 million to support Nepal’s peace process
• Two people injured when a stray bomb explodes in Siraha district
• Nepal Medical Association (NMA)-Sagarmatha chapter stages a rally in Rajbiraj demanding the safe return of Dr Murali Prasad Singh abducted from Rajbiraj
• Cadres of Maoist-affiliated All Nepal Communication and Press Employees Association (ANCEA) padlock the Asia Pacific Communication Associates (APCA) House for dismissing four of their colleagues; police unlocks the offices later night

April 7
• Maoist offshoot Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha (JTMM)-Goit faction owns up abduction of Saptari District Education Officer (DEO) Neemraj Joshi
• Sitashma Chand crowns the tiara of the Dabur Vatika Miss Nepal 2007 while Bandana Sharma and Shweta Shah stand first and second runner up respectively at BICC in Kathmandu
• Surya Bahadur Thapa-led Rastriya Janashakti Party (RJP) decides to drop constitutional monarchy from the party statute

April 8
• Minister for Information and Communication Krishna Bahadur Mahara appointed as the government spokesperson by a meeting of the council of ministers
• Over three dozen homes and cowsheds burn to the ground in a fire at Matehiya village across the Rapti River in Banke district

April 9
• The Maoist ministers in the interim government unveil their code of conduct expressing their commitments not to collect private property
• The government forms a three-member team headed by Peace and Reconstruction Minister Ram Chandra Poudel to begin fresh talks with agitating Madhesi, janjatis, dalits and other marginalized groups

April 10
• CPN-Maoist registers itself at the Election Commission for the CA elections
• The cabinet meeting approves the Second Amendment Bill to the Interim Constitution, registered by the government at the Parliament Secretariat with a new provision for abolition of the monarchy through the House.

Arpil 11
• The agitating Madhesi People’s Rights Forum (MPRF) forms its own investigation committee headed by former Supreme Court Justice Balram Singh Kunwar to probe into the Gaur incident

April 12
• The government launches special economic package 'One Family, One Employment' in Karnali zone, under which unemployed persons of the most remote part of the country are provided a job yielding between Rs 180 to Rs 350 per day

April 13
• Election Commission says it is not possible to hold the elections by the stipulated time of June 20 citing some ‘technical problems’
• At least a dozen people are injured in a scuffle between the locals and Maoist cadres at Betale in Ramechhap district
April 14
• Maoist combatants walk out of their Shaktikhor camp in Chitwan in protest of the delay in CA polls alleging a conspiracy brewing to derail the CA polls

April 15
• The Kathmandu Metropolitan Police (KMP) raids the offices of Maoist-affiliated Young Communist League (YCL) in all three districts in the Valley on the suspicion of possession of illegal arms. However no arms are found. YCL expresses concern over government sanctioned raid-sans-warrant
• Maoist Victims National Struggle Committee (MVNSC) announces a series of protest programs in the capital beginning April 16
• The Nepal Army and the United Nations seek the Maoist's attention towards the repeated instances of Maoist combatants leaving their cantonments in the name of protests stating that such acts were a violation of the tripartite agreement reached between the three sides
April 16
• Government invites MPRF for talks, the agitating side urges the government to create a conducive environment for the talks at the earliest

Arpil 17
• CIAA issues summons to around a dozen ministers of the erstwhile royal government, including the vice chairman of the royal cabinet, Dr Tulsi Giri
• CPN-Maoist proposes a joint Nepal Army (NA)-People's Liberation Army (PLA) security outfit be setup for the protection of Maoist top brass
• Four Nepalis are killed in Afghanistan when a roadside bomb hits a United Nations vehicle in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon condemns the killing.
• Police seize the Nissan SUV, the illegally used car by Maoist Chairman, Prachanda
• Government says mobile distribution teams across the country issue over 2.2 million citizenship cards since the teams were mobilized on January 15

April 18
• The government and the CPN-Maoist reach an accord to bring down the number of cantoned Maoist fighters as well as the cantonments that house some 30,000 PLA combatants
• The proceedings of the interim legislature parliament disrupt after Maoist parliamentarians begin chanting slogans demanding a public apology from the Home Minister over the raids on offices of the Young Communist League (YCL) in valley. The cabinet meeting cannot take place after the Maoist ministers in the government leave the meeting hall
• The CPN-Maoist demands Rs 500 million for its People's Liberation Army (PLA) combatants
• Maoist victims organise a sit-in in front of Prime Minister’s residence at Baluwatar, demanding that rehabilitation for those displaced by the Maoist insurgency
• The U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons pledges a total of $672,610 assistance to three organizations in Nepal working to combat human trafficking

Arpil 19
• The long tradition of foreign diplomats presenting their credentials to the king is broken as the newly appointed Chinese ambassador to Nepal, Zen Xian Ling presents his credentials to Prime Minister Koirala
• The government agrees to approve poet Byakul Maila's song as the new National Anthem of Nepal, six months after the song was recommended by the National Anthem Selection Task Team
• The Madhesi lawmakers chant slogans and disrupt the proceeding of the Interim Legislature-Parliament demanding their 26-point demands to be met

April 20
• UN OHCHR-Nepal holds the government, Maoists and MPRF responsible for the Gaur killings, which left 29 dead
• Maoists threaten the police team that had gone to Dhampus in Kaski to reconstruct the police station which was destroyed during the "People's War" and order to immediately leave the village
• The United States Embassy in Kathmandu holds up a visa for a top Maoist Central Committee member Suresh Ale Magar preparing to go to New York to participate in a United Nations program on transitional justice, among other activities
• The bodies of three brothers Anil Bajracharya, Sunil Bajracharya and Sujan Bajracharya are discovered from a house situated in Khusibu town-planning area at Sorhkhutte in Kathmandu
• The police arrest seven YCL cadres on charges of illegally searching a local's house in the Kapan area
• The government declares Jordan a suitable destination for foreign employment

April 21
• Five villagers including two women are injured in a scuffle with armed robbers in Laxmaniya Bairagiya-1 of Mahottari district

April 22
• The CPN United-- an amalgamation of the three left parties CPN Unity Centre, CPN-Marxist Leninist and CPN-Marxist Leninist Maoist applies to register itself as a political party at the Election Commission
• The police arrest over 48 Maoist victims protesting in front of the ministers' quarters in Pulchowk
• Two officials from the US State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) Lawrence Bartlett and Janice Belz arrive Kathmandu for a six-day visit to Nepal
• Around 700 Maoist combatants are forced to take shelter in nearby houses after a storm blows away around 100 makeshift camps at the 4th division cantonment at Hattikhor in Nawalparasi district

April 23
• CIAA grills Vice-chairman of the erstwhile royal cabinet, Kirti Nidhi Bista and Dr Tulsi Giri
• Madheshi parliamentarians disrupt the proceedings of the interim-legislature parliament as soon as it begin for the second time in less than a week
April 24
• The nation celebrates the historic climax of the April uprising that defanged King Gyanendra's 15-month long autocratic rule and reinstating the House of Representatives
• King Gyanendra offers his prayers at the Dakshin Kali temple in Kathmandu
• The District Police Office (DPO) Rautahat refuses to register murder cases filed by the Maoists against more than 100 cadres of the Madhesi Peoples' Rights Forum (MPRF) for their alleged involvement in the Gaur massacre

April 25
• The government decides to form a panel headed by a judge from the Madhesi community to probe into Madhesi movement
• With a fresh grant commitment of US$ 100 million from the World Bank, Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) mulls the extension of its poverty reduction program in 55 districts from the existing 25 districts

April 26
• A cabinet meeting approves a proposal made by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which was forwarded by the Ministry of Finance, for the government's equity participation of US $ 45 million in the 750 megawatt (MW) West Seti project
• The Australian government shows interest in resettling a sizeable chunk of Bhutanese refugees to Australia
• The Home Ministry appeals all the concerned people and groups not to obstruct transport on the nation's highways while saying that the security forces may adopt any measure to clear such obstructions
• Stating that the killings in Gaur on March 21 were brutal, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) says that the victims of the Gaur incident should be provided with appropriate compensation and those injured must be availed free treatment
• MPRF says it would participate in the upcoming CA elections as a political party
• Nepali Congress General Secretary and Minister for Peace and Reconstruction,
April 27
• 41 parties register themselves for the CA elections ahead the deadline for party registration set by the Election Commission.

April 28
• Indian Ambassador to Nepal Shiv Shankar Mukherjee discusses with Prime Minister Koirala on the escalating instability in the eastern Terai districts and their mitigation
• The South Korean government agrees to extend a grant of US$ 2.5 million to National Information Technology Center (NITC) to establish an integrated data and training center in the country.

April 29
• Prime Minister appoints Giriraj Mani Pokhrel of Jana Morcha Nepal as the Health Minister.
• CPN-Maoist launches its pro-republican drive which it says, would enforced through "street, parliament and government"

April 30
• Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala questions Chief of Army Staff Rookmangad Katawal regarding the latter's supposed meeting with King Gyanendra
• The Ministry of Water Resources issues survey licenses for five projects totaling 885 megawatts (MW) upon recommendation by Department of Electricity Development
• Chairman of the agitating MPRF, Upendra Yadav arrives in New Delhi to garner Indian support for a federal democratic republic, proportional representation and other demands of the Terai movement

May 1
Maoist Chairman Prachanda warns of fresh protests in favour of democratic republic "if the eight parties do not announce Nepal a republic through parliament immediately".
Revenue Investigation Department (RID) issues an arrest warrant against Chandi Raj Dhakal, president of FNCCI after he defies a number of summons issued by RID to record a statement on tax evasion charges
Armed Police Force (APF) squad from Gangapur rescues five police personnel of Suyiya Police Post in Banke, abducted by the Maoists following an attack on the police post on April 31
Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) remains non-operational for two hours due to collapse of some communication equipment in its navigation system. A few domestic flights and an international flight are delayed
The Bihar government asks Nepal to clear its outstanding energy dues to the tune of over Rs 54 crore
A bomb hoax at the TIA leaves the only international airport tensed for some time over rumors that a bomb is placed inside a Doha-Kathmandu flight.
UNMIN chief Ian Martin says that any pre-conditions regarding the second phase of the Maoist arms and army registration and verification would not be acceptable to the UN body.
US country reports on terrorism posted on the US State Department's official website says the United States was the only country to "maintain its designation of the Maoist insurgency as a terrorist organization" at the end of 2006

May 2
• Over two dozen people, including the YCL cadres, are injured during a scuffle with the police at Kushumba in Bardiya district
• Nepal Sadbhawana Party (Anandi Devi) forms a three-member committee to initiate dialogues with all agitating Madhesi groups

May 3
• Various political parties and organisations hand memorandums to Prime Minister Koirala demanding an improvement in the security situation in the country and announcement of fresh date for the Constituent Assembly elections
• Maoist Chairman Prachanda reiterates that his party would be compelled to launch yet another revolt unless the nation was declared republic through constitutional channels
• The government publicize a report showing Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) owes a debt of over 10 billion rupees to the banking sector and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)
• FNCCI President Chandi Raj Dhakal deposits Rs 8.6 million in cash and three plots of land worth Rs 16.9 million as bail
• UNMIN Chief Martin says that despite the deferral of the Constituent Assembly elections, Nepal's ongoing peace process is right on course

May 4
• 13 leading Internet service providers (ISPs) file a joint complaint against Nepal Telecom (NT), charging of discriminating users who have subscribed to Internet service provided by private ISPs
• Former Chief of Army Staff and member of the outlawed Rajparisad, Satchit Shumshere Rana, dies at the age of 74
• Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation forms a four-member committee to investigate chaos at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), caused by stranded passengers on May 1

May 5
• A report says that the royal family, including the royal relatives in the capital, owes Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) over Rs 33 million in unpaid electricity bills for the one-and-half-year period till January 2007, making the royals the country's biggest domestic defaulters in electricity bills
• The government and the agitating Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) hold the first round of discussion over the federation's demands
• 36 Maoists cadres announce to have quit party in Kailali district

May 6
• The CPN-Maoist registers a public interest proposal regarding the immediate declaration of a republic Nepal through the interim parliament
• A date of Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) claims that the tourist arrivals at the TIA experience a staggering growth of 78.8 percent in April as compared to that of 2006
• The Indian intelligence agency Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) uncovers a racket of Nepali passport forgers active in the Indian capital New Delhi

May 7
• Maoists gherao the Singha Durbar to pressurize the government to announce a federal democratic republic set up in the country immediately
• The Nepal Students Union (NSU) stages a protest rally in the capital against the YCL highhandedness.
• YCL activists humiliate and drive out police personnel stationed at Rasuwa's Dadagaun VDC police post
• At least two persons are killed and 15 injured when an unidentified group opens fire at a village in Prastoka VDC in Bara district

May 8
• Speaker Subash Nemwang cancels his Indian visit in light of the present political impasse in the nation
• Human Rights Watch calls on the government and the Maoists to secure the release of child soldiers in the Maoists’ cantonments.
• The US embassy warns its citizens to exercise caution before visiting Nepal citing continued Maoists "violence, extortion and abduction" even after their entry into the interim government.
• Nepal Army Ex-servicemen Council (NAEC) take out a protest rally in the capital demanding the government to implement the apex court verdict issued on the remuneration which they received during their service with the UN Peace Keeping Mission.

May 9
• The parliamentary sitting expected to break the disruption streak of three weeks ends without even starting after the dissenting parliamentarians fail to reach an understanding.
• The proceedings of the Interim Legislature-Parliament are deferred till May 14 after the parliamentary sitting ends without even starting after the dissenting parliamentarians fail to reach an understanding.
• The Supreme Court orders the Army Headquarters to furnish the "original" verdict of the military court on the Maina Sunwar case within seven days.
• A person is injured and a house destroyed in Masuriya VDC-2 of Kailali district when a bomb hidden inside the house goes off.
• The families of Janaandolan-II martyrs submit an eight-point memorandum to PM Koirala demanding declaration of a republic and fixation of a new date for CA elections
• Police seize about 10 tons of red sandalwood from Lalitpur district.

May 10
• UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal directs the lawmakers of his party to help ensure that the parliament sittings proceed smoothly in order to pass important bills.

May 11
• A report released by Nepal Rastra Bank shows that both import and export register negative growth during the first eight months of the fiscal year.
• Chief of Army Staff Rookmangad Katawal calls on PM Koirala to discuss the country's security situation and Nepal Army's modus operandi and responsibilities.
• Maoist Chairman Prachanda expresses his commitment that the YCL will not indulge in any unruly activities in future after his direction.
• A group of unidentified armed assailants capture and shoot dead Navaraj Bista, an engineer at district technical office in Siraha district; abducts two engineers Murali Ranjitkar and Tek Bahadur Lama.
• Indian police arrest three Nepalis with stolen idols, worth 50 million each in the international markets, in New Delhi

May 12
• The Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha-Goit faction cadres shoot dead its breakaway faction JTMM (Jwalasingh) group's Rautahat district president Ajay Yadav in Rautahat.
• The United Nation's Security Council calls on the government and the Maoists to immediately discharge all child soldiers from military service.
• The government registers the Decorations Bill-2007 at the interim legislature- parliament proposing to take away the powers enjoyed by the king to decorate national and international personalities for outstanding contributions in the country and internationally

May 13
• JTMM-Goit releases two abducted engineers -- Murali Ranjitkar and Tek Bahadur Lama.
• Nepal Teachers' Union (NTU) shuts down all community, institutional and higher secondary educational institution across the nation blaming government to have failed in implementing the tripartite agreement reached with the Education Ministry in April.
• The CPN-Maoist registers a public interest proposal seeking an immediate declaration of a republic through the interim legislature-parliament
• Former Chief of Army Staff Pyar Jung Thapa is barred from boarding a flight to Qatar's Doha by authorities at the TIA under directives of the CIAA.
• The Maoists says they have decided to return all lands its cadres seized in the past from the owners, to lead the peace process and political process forward "smoothly"
• An unidentified group of assailants shoot dead a manpower entrepreneur and seriously injured another at Dhado Dhunga area of Dhobighat in Lalitpur district

May 14
• The sitting of the Interim Legislature-Parliament is disrupted for the sixth time in a row after the Madhesi and Rashtriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) parliamentarians gheraoe the rostrum chanting slogans demanding annulment of the proposal of the Election Constituency Delineation Commission (ECDC)
• Home Minister Sitaula claims that the PLA cantonments and their satellite camps would be well managed by mid-June.
• At least 14 people are injured when a bomb goes off at a local market in Chandranigahapur in Rautahat district

May 15
• Israeli Ambassador to Nepal Dan Stav says that the temporary ban put on issuance of fresh labor permits to Nepali workers would be lifted if Nepal opens a diplomatic mission in the country and if the government deals with the problems faced by Nepali workers who have lost their jobs in Israel
• Maoist cadres vandalise Kanchanpur District Administration Office and manhandles the Chief District Officer.
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• Cadres of the agitating Maoist-offshoot JTMM-Jwala Singh faction shoot dead two activists of its breakaway group JTMM –Goit in Rautahat.
• A meeting of the UN-chaired Joint Monitoring Coordination Committee (JMCC) decides to designate the Maoist weapons set aside for the protection of cantonments and the party leadership with a separate insignia to avoid their misuse
• Alleging that the government’s ignorance to their demands, the teachers of private schools organise sit-in protests in front of all the Regional Education Directorates across the country
• The government unveils a new building code in all the municipalities and urbanizing VDCs of the Kathmandu Valley.

May 16
• The meeting of the Interim Legislature-Parliament ends before convening; rescheduled for May 24.
• PM Koirala assures Madhesi lawmakers of a review of the report submitted by the Election Constituencies Delineation Committee (ECDC).
• UNMIN Chief Martin suggests mid-November as a suitable date for the CA elections.
• Kanchanpur district headquarters Mahendranagar remains tense after vandalism of the District Administration Office (DAO) and manhandling of the Chief District Officer (CDO) by Maoist cadres. Protesting against the atrocities committed by the Maoist sister organizations, Home Ministry employees organise a sit-in at the ministry.
• Over a thousand Maoist People's Liberation Army combatants including nursing mothers in Nawalparasi's Jargaha and Hattikhor cantonments are left in a lurch after windstorm batter the camps and blow away the tents.

May 17
• Campus Chief of Mahendra Multiple Campus in Nepalgunj Sitaram Bishta is shot at by an unknown group
• Teachers and student unions shut down all schools nationwide; banda affects nearly 7.8 million students in 36,000 schools
• Maoist victims set ablaze a government vehicle in Kathmandu accusing the government of turning a deaf ear to their demands.
• US Ambassador James F Moriarty remarks that the US is still not confident that the Maoists would ever give up violence and participate in the democratic process of the country

May 18
• Nepali Congress president and PM Koirala discuss congress unification with NC founding member Krishna Prasad Bhattarai.
• The Save the Children's new Child Survival Progress Report Card ranks Nepal fourth among 60 developing countries in reducing child mortality since 1990.
• YCL cadres beat up a medical officer in Saptari district and abduct 12 persons from Rupandehi and Dharan.
• The Maoists vandalise a police-guarded statue of the late King Prithvi Narayan Shah at Gorkha.
• Human rights community of Nepal submit a memorandum to Pakistani ambassador to Nepal to be handed to the president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf expressing its grave concern over the ongoing violence in Pakistan
• JTMM-J threatens to kill Post correspondent in Rautahat, Shiva Puri, and five other local journalists within a week "for writing news reports against JTMM men”.
• Vice President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Liqun Jin writes to Minister for Physical Planning and Work Hisila Yami saying that it would be difficult for the bank to extend a loan to Melamchi project beyond June-end 2007 without the appointment of a contractor for managing the Valley's water supply.

May 19
• The government decides to form a ministerial-level talks committee to resolve the private school teacher's agitation after the latter refuse to sit down to talks with secretary-level parley committee
• Dr Sanduk Ruit is conferred an honorary officer in the Order of Australia, the highest honor the Australian government awarded to foreign nationals.
• An unknown armed group abducts Engineer Harinarayan Thakur and his brother from Madhyapura VDC-9 in Saptari district.

May 20
• The government decides to construct 103 living quarters at four camps of the PLA first division cantonment site.
• The government agrees to provide Rs. 3,000 a month to each of the Maoist combatants, announces beginning of the second phase of the verification process of the PLA soon.

May21
• The government ratifies the decisions regarding the benefits and salary for the cantoned PLA fighters including the decision to provide Rs. 3,000 per month to each of the Maoist combatants
• A group calling itself members of the agitating MPRF torches a vehicle carrying UML Standing Committee member Bharat Mohan Adhikary at Neta Chowk in Biratnagar.
• The 10th General Convention of the Nepali Congress affiliated Nepal Student's Association kicks off at Bharatpur in Chitwan district.
• Six days after expiry of its ninth and final deadline to the government for award of the management contract for Kathmandu Valley's water supply, UK firm Severn Trent Water International (STWI) withdraws its bid.
• An unidentified group abducts 60-year old Bishwanath Prasad Shah, the headmaster of Janasewa Secondary School in Karjanha from his home in Karjanha-4 in Siraha district.

May 22
• The Melamchi project on the verge of collapse with the announcement by its principal donor, the ADB, of inability to extend its funding commitment beyond June 30.
• Record breaking Nepali woman mountaineer, Pemba Doma Sherpa of Namche-1 of Solukhumbu district meets an accidental death while returning after scaling the Mt Lhotse.
• MPRF Chairman Upendra Yadav remarks that the forum can not sit for talks with the government as the latter failed to fulfill the conditions put forward by the MPRF.
• United Nations’ High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres arrives in Nepal on his three-day visit, expresses hope in resettlement of the Bhutanese refugees in Nepal with the progress in the peace process.
• Canada announces to resettle up to 5,000 Bhutanese refugees living in camps in Nepal, over the next three to five years.

May 23
Maoist cadres in Banke district announce not to comply with the circular issued on May 14 by Chairman Prachanda, instructing them to return seized land.
Maoist Chairman Prachanda meets ADB representatives and requests them to review its decision to withdraw from the Melamchi Drinking Water Project.
Indian Ambassador to Nepal Shiv Shanker Mukherjee urges NC-Democratic President Sher Bahadur Deuba to expedite the party unification process days after Deuba says that the prospect for the unification of the two congress factions -- NC and NC-D -- was grim.
Amnesty International concludes that both the government and the Maoists failed to implement their commitments to human rights in 2006.

May 24
• Visiting UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) António Guterres says that India has lately shown "constructive attitudes" toward resolving the 16-year-old Bhutanese refugee imbroglio.
• Minister for Education and Sports Pradip Nepal urges the agitating teachers to sit for dialogue with the government stating that the current deadlock in the education sector was very serious.
• The stalled House session, scheduled to resume on the day, are put off till May 26.

May 25
• The YCL says it would stop recruitment of Gurkha soldiers into the British Armed Forces at the earliest.
• Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) proposes to resume the oil supply if Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) pays Rs 1 billion; the government approves Rs 1 billion in loan to NOC to solve the oil supply problem.
• American Ambassador James F Moriarty says that the US government has selected International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to oversee the resettlement process of Bhutanese refugees to the US.
• YCL cadres stone a UN vehicle carrying US ambassador Moriarty at Damak in Jhapa.
• The government decides to set up a high-level commission to investigate into the loss of life and property during the Madhesi unrest spearheaded by the MPRF.
• The government says royal palace employees can come into the civil service, as proclaimed by the then reinstated parliament on May 18, 2006.
• Armed dacoits kill two villagers and injure three at Bankatti in Banke district.

May 26
• Pro-republican candidate Pradip Paudel is elected as the new president of the Nepal Students’ Union (NSU).
• The parliamentary proceedings end without starting, rescheduled for May 30.
• Police arrest three YCL cadres for stoning a UN vehicle carrying US ambassador Moriarty at Damak in Jhapa on May 25.
• OHCHR-Nepal recommends the government to fully incorporate elements of the internationally-accepted definition of enforced disappearance in the "Disappearance Bill".

May 27
• A Bhutanese refugee is killed and five others are injured when Armed Police Force personnel open fire to control a scuffle between two groups of refugees in Jhapa district.
• Following the Education Ministry's request for talks, the agitating Nepal Republican Education Front (NREF) calls off the strike for the day.
• A Hindu group calling itself Nepal Defense Army (NDA) claims to have placed a bomb at the CPN-Maoist central office in the capital.
• At least 15 persons are injured when Maoists and workers of Nepali Congress (Democratic) clash in Simikot of Humla district. The district administration imposes a dusk to dawn curfew in the district headquarters after the two sides clash till late evening.

May 28
• Another Bhutanese refugee is killed when the police open fire at the agitating refugees who clashed with the Armed Police Force personnel in defiance of the indefinite curfew clamped in Jhapa's Beldangi camp area.
• Indian Ambassador to Nepal Shiva Shanker Mukherjee says that New Delhi was preparing to triple the existing Indian assistance to Nepal for its education, infrastructure and health sector.
• Despite the heightened security at the Indo-Nepal border, Bhutanese refugees from all seven camps in eastern Nepal desert their camps for a "Long March" as a part of their repatriation drive.
• A brawl between students belonging to All Nepal National Free Students Union (ANNFSU) affiliated with the Rastriya Janamorcha (RJM) and YCL cadres leaves 20 injured at Barmeli Tole in Bhairahawa

May 29
• At least nine people including five from a family die in a bomb explosion at Kothari VDC in Palpa
• The representatives of agitating groups of students and teachers and operators of private schools ink a 19-point agreement.
• At least 15 Bhutanese refugees are injured when Indian police open fire at the refugees trying to march towards their homeland via India at Panitanki customs office in India in defiance of a curfew clamped by the authorities there.
• Daya Ram Dahal, a Jhapa-based journalist is arrested by Indian security personnel. The Federation of Nepalese Journalists condemns it.

May 30
• Bhutanese refugees call off their Long March for voluntary repatriation following two-hour long talks with Indian officials at Panitanki after the latter agree to release 14 arrested refugees and hold dialogue with Bhutan.
• The UNHCR says that it is alarmed by the escalation of conflict at the Mechi Bridge on the Indo-Nepal Border between marching refuges and Indian police.

May 31
• After almost a two-month-long hiatus, the meeting of the Interim Legislature-Parliament finally begins after the MPs reached a consensus to let parliament convene.
• Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) pays Rs 1 billion to Indian Oil Corporation (IOC); Indian supplier says it would resume normal supplies immediately.
• The government decides to open an embassy in Israel.
• Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) Siraha engineer Hari Narayan Thakur, abducted by an unidentified group two weeks ago, is released from captivity.
• A fire breaks out at Banaula VDC of Saptari district burning down 65 homes belonging to 17 families, 12 locals are injured while attempting to put out the fire.

June 1
• The 16 Yarchagumba hunters who had gone missing in Kaigaun of Dolpa district are found dead by a rescue team.
• Life across the nation paralysed due to the strike called by the indigenous nationalities headed by the National Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NFIN).

June 2
• The Supreme Court orders the government to form an all-powerful commission to probe the whereabouts of disappeared persons and formulate an anti-disappearance law.
• At least 23 houses are destroyed at night when fire break out in Bodkerira, Khuduriya-8 in Kapilvastu district.
• Visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Barry Lowenkron urges the eight parties to pass the bills related to the CA elections immediately and to improve the law and order situation in the country.

June 3
• The government shuffles the Chief District Officers of 19 districts.

June 4
• One person is killed and three others injured when an unidentified group opens fire at a busy business section of Birgunj.
• The YCL hands over "wanted" former chairman of Nepal Cottage and Small Industries Development Bank (NCSIDB) Sita Ram Prasain to Kathmandu Police through a press meeting. PM Koirala labels YCL a “Young Criminal League”.
• Maoists decline to continue the verification process for the PLA arms and combatants demanding the release of allowance for the combatants first.
• Talks between the government and agitating teacher's organizations and operators of private schools reach consensus.

June 5
• The UML delegation headed by General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal meets Indian Prime Minister Dr Man Mohan Sigh in New Delhi.
• US propose to include textile and clothing under duty-free market access facility for LDCs, but with tighter conditions on origin of raw materials.

June 6
• The government approves second amendment bill on the Interim Constitution.
• Maoist MPs demand apology from PM Koirala over labeling the Maoist youth wing Young Communist League (YCL) a “young criminal league” and furbish an explanation before parliament.
• The YCL cadres beat up district committee member of the UML Tikaram Dhakal in Gulmi district.

June 7
• The UN says that the second phase of the arms verification process would be stalled until the government releases the funds for payment of wages to the combatants as per its promise.
• Minister for Physical Planning and Works Hisila Yami says that the Melamchi project will be implemented in a new way, and ADB, is positive toward this.

June 8
• Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon affirm their commitment to helping Nepal in going through the current transition phase in an orderly and peaceful manner.
• The government says that it would make further arrangements for the safety of the diplomatic corps amidst calls from foreign diplomats for security and safe movement.
• Children orphaned during the decade-long insurgency register their demands at the Prime Minister's residence at Baluwatar.
• The Supreme Court orders the government to form a remuneration and compensation committee as provisioned in the Working Journalists Act, to determine and review salary and compensation for Nepalese journalists from time to time.
• Five Nepalis bag top spots in Saudi Arabia marathon.

June 9
• Cadres of the agitating JTMM-G shoot dead Nahara Secondary School teacher Surya Narayan Yadav for allegedly spying against the outfit in Siraha district.
• Two members of a family are killed and five more injured in a landslide following torrential downpour of the last two days in Tanahu.

June 10
• PM Koirala expresses commitment to take “serious” measures to address the demands of the agitating Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN).

June 11
• The Special Court clears former minister and Nepali Congress (Democratic) Jaya Prakash Prasad Gupta on corruption charges.
• Parliamentarians from various political parties register over a dozen proposals to amend the second interim constitution amendment bill at the Parliament Secretariat.
• India says that the Bhutanese refugees issue is an international problem, a marked departure from what the southern neighbor has maintained on the impasse to date.
• The cadres of the agitating JTMM-J abduct forest officer of the Area Forest Office, Kanchanpur Amrendra Kumar Verma.

June 12
• The United Nations dispatches a five member Electoral Expert Monitoring Team (EEMT) to Nepal to oversee the CA elections process.
• UNMIN Chief Ian Martin urges the government to publicise a concrete timetable and planned programmes in the run up to the CA elections, fixed for November-end by the eight parties.
• An unidentified armed group abducts Principal Rajendra Shah of the Gauipur Secondary school in Siraha district from the classroom

June 13
• The Interim Legislature-Parliament amends the Interim Constitution allowing a two-third parliamentary majority to abolish the monarchy
• Former U.S. president and co-founder of the Carter Center Jimmy Carter arrives Kathmandu on a four-day visit.
• Per capita income in Nepali rupee terms increases by 8.8 percent to Rs 27,209 in the fiscal year 2006/07, a government report claims.
• The United Nations Electoral Expert Monitoring Team (EEMT) begins important high level political consultations.
• PM Koirala discusses the removal of the Nepal Army base camps established at various parts of the country with Chief of Army Staff Rookmangad Katawal.
• An unknown group explodes a bomb at former minister Shrish Shamsher Rana's house at Bishalnagar.
• The ADB writes to the government asking the latter to suggest options to implement Melamchi project.

June 14
• Jimmy Carter meets with PM Koirala to discuss the recent political developments and the peace process.
• Businessmen in Rajbiraj vandalise and torch Maoist belongings in their Tribhuwan Chowk situated party office to protest highhandedness.
• The CPN-Maoist leadership expresses its serious concern over the killings of three party cadres – one in Saptari and two in Rupandehi – in a week time.
• A fire at Kulayan Batteries Industry in Khanar destroys property worth Rs 40 million in Sunsari district
• The Interim Parliament endorses the CA Members Election Bill adopting a semi-proportional electoral system -- 240 seats for first-past-the-post (FPTP) and 240 seats for Parallel System (PS) -- for the elections.

June 15
• UNMIN Chief Ian Martin remarks that the state of lawlessness in the Terai could seriously jeopardize the holding of the CA elections.
• The visiting United Nations Electoral Expert Monitoring Team (EEMT) consults with UML General Secretary Nepal regarding the preparations for the CA elections and other issues.
• An unidentified armed group abducts former Siraha Area no-2 parliamentarian Nathusingh Dunuwar from Sagarmatha Higher Secondary School in Mirchaiya in Siraha district.
• Carter assures the Maoist leadership to take initiatives to help drop CPN-M's name from the US government's list of terrorist outfits.
• Life in Sunsari, Morang and Saptari is affected by separate strikes announced by the MPRF and the Maoists.
• Indian authorities seal three border points in the eastern part of Ilam district on the excuse of a possibility of Bhutanese refugees arriving on Indian territory en route to Bhutan.

June 16
• Carter says that a climate for CA elections is gradually emerging in Nepal and expresses confidence regarding timely polls under the leadership of PM Koirala.
• He also says that the United States must establish lines of communication with Nepal's Maoists regarding the removal of the terrorist tag imposed on them by the US.
• JTMM-J sets abaze the home belonging to former Maoist People's Government head Lal Bahadur Chaudhary at Simara VDC-8 in Bara.

June 17
• PM Koirala says that the monarchy could be allowed to continue in Nepal only if King Gyanendra and Crown Prince Paras give up the throne before the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections to be held by mid-December. He also floats the concept of a ‘baby king’.
• The sitting of the Interim-Legislature Parliament amends the parliamentary regulations.
• The District Administration Office Jhapa clamps a curfew in Birtamod and its surrounding areas after one person is killed when police opens fire to contain agitated crowds protesting over a dispute in the announcement of lottery winners.

June 18
• Indian Ambassador Shiv Shanker Mukherjee says that his government will provide necessary equipment for the Maoist PLA cantonments.
• Maoist Chairman Prachanda flays PM Koirala for making a statement in support of the concept of a baby king. The Maoists also seek ban on the MPRF.
• Local administration issues an indefinite curfew order in Birtamod in order to control the escalating tension.

June 19
• MPRF urges the government to remove the Maoists from the interim government and ban the YCL.
• The second phase of the verification process of Maoist arms and armies begins at the Maoist cantonments in Chulachuli of Ilam district.
• The agitating civil servant's organizations jointly announce fresh protest programmes stating that the government remains indifferent towards their demands.
• A diarrhea epidemic in remote Khin VDC of Kalikot district over the past one month claims the lives of 20 children
• The CIAA suggests PM Koirala to take action against Nepal Rastra Bank Governor Bijay Nath Bhattarai.
• Kamana Prakashan Samuha (P) Ltd decides to halt publication of Nepal Samachar Patra for a few days after a group of hawkers affiliated to Customer's Solution Pvt Ltd, an independent agency, create obstruction in its regular work.

June 20
• At a time when the UNHCR Office in Nepal is providing protection to about 400 refugees and asylum seekers from various countries under its urban refugee program, the government officials say UNHCR has no right to do so.
• Minister for Physical Planning and Works Hisila Yami publicises the ministry's short-term and long-term plans for a massive expansion of existing national infrastructures.
• Police raid the office of YCL and free a senior government official, held hostage by YCL activists for four hours, in Nepalgunj.
• Nine people are injured in multiple blasts at Aadarsha Nagar in Birgunj set off by an Indian criminal gang.
• The JTMM- Goit bombs a police station at Barsayam in Saptari district
• UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appoints senior United Nations political officer, Tamrat Samuel as his Deputy Special Representative for Nepal and deputy head of the UNMIN.

June 21

• The government endorses the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Act, incorporating better tax incentives and flexible labor provisions for entrepreneurs in the zone
• The cabinet meeting endorses a proposal of Ministry of Finance to divest 15 percent equity of state-owned, Nepal Telecom worth Rs 2.25 billion, the biggest-ever divestment proposal in the country's history.

June 22
• The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany agrees to provide a grant assistance of Rs. 1.91 billion to Nepal for the Sector Programme Health and Family Planning and the operation of the Middle-Marsyangdi Hydroelectric Project.
• Following rising differences over the appointment of seniors Maoist leaders in the ranks of the Maoist-wing Madhesi Rastriya Mukti Morcha, the Morcha’s central level committee dissolves and an ad-hoc committee is formed in its place.
• The police arrest self-styled soothsayer “Trishul Baba” with his doomsday predictions about a massive earthquake.

June 23
• YCL issues death threats to the post holders of the Bandarmudhe Victims' Committee who have been raising their voices against the Maoists demanding reparations in Madi blasts.
• Activists of the agitating MPRF vandalise the Maoist liaison office at Nawalparasi district headquarters Parasi.
• The OHCHR in Nepal urges the Maoist leadership to give clear directives to stop the abuses of its youth wing, the YCL.

June 24
• The government announces the CA elections for November 22.
• An employee of Malangawa Municipality Arun Chaudhary is killed and a child severely injured in Malangawa of Sarlahi district when a bomb is exploded by an unidentified group.

June 25
• The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) sets an ambitious plan to upgrade about 300 kilometers of inner city roads by mid-July.
• The police apprehend three persons in possession of Rs 4 million IC from the TIA.
• The World Heritage Committee of the UNESCO removes the Kathmandu Valley from the List of World Heritage in Danger.
• Maoist leader CP Gajurel says that the government’s efforts to hold dialogue with different ‘criminal’ groups active in the Terai region is pointless.
• A report to mark UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture reveals 1,313 cases of torture documented in the country after April 2006.

June 26
• Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) directs Nepal Development Bank (NDB) to remove Uttam Pun from the post of chairman of the bank and to pay a half-a-million rupee fine for failing to comply with its directives.
• The CM jute mill in Morang's Cuttar is closed down indefinitely due to threats and intimidation from the various Maoist organizations.
• Nepali Congress (Democratic) decides to rally in the capital with the dead body of the party's Humla district member Netra Bahadur Shahi whose body was found recently by a riverbank, three-and-half months after Maoists abducted him.
• The United States hails the announcement of a date for the crucial Constituent Assembly elections as an “important” step in Nepal’s ongoing peace process
• Non-resident Nepalis ask the government to ensure their voting rights outside Nepal.

June 27
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sends a list of 14 names to the Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee for the country's ambassadors in different countries.
• The latest government report reveals 6.9 percent more Nepalis leave for overseas jobs in the first eleven months of the current fiscal year despite problems Nepalis faced in joining jobs in South Korea and Israel.
• Eight military commanders of the Jay Krishna JTMM-Goitdecide to split from their mother party to form another breakaway faction under the leadership of 'Bisfot’ Singh
• Kathmandu District Court releases Sita Ram Prasain, accused of extending loan with ill-intention, on bail.

June 28
• Two persons, including a Nepali, are killed in a suicide car bombing in eastern Kabul, the Afghan capital.
• Talks between the government and Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) end inconclusively after two sides fail to come to an agreement on the issue of proportional representation in the CA elections.
• UNHCR Representative in Nepal Abraham Abraham says that the recent Long March, a voluntary repatriation campaign launched by Bhutanese refugees in eastern Nepal, was their natural right.

June 29
• The CIAA files graft cases in the Special Court against NRB governor Bijaya Nath Bhattarai and executive director of the NRB’s Bank Financial Institutions Regulation Department Surendra Man Pradhan for serious financial crimes.
• Maoist Chairman Prachanda proposes to launch of a joint political campaign by all eight parties for the upcoming CA elections across the nation.
• Nepal's celebrated entrepreneur Hulas Chanda Golcha passes away at the age of 74
• Former battalion commander of the CPN-Maoist Laxman Tharu a.k.a. Roshan discloses that the Maoist leadership had instructed him to "hide" their weapons before the UN-monitored peace process began.

July 1:
Parliamentarians underscore the need to give a high priority to agriculture in the next budget for the fiscal year 2o64-65.
The Special Court interrogates the suspended Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) governor Bijaya Nath Bhattarai in connection with the graft charges lodged against him by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA).
Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank Bijaya Nath Bhattarai strongly refutes the allegations against him lodged by Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), terming them ill-intentioned, baseless and a total lie.
The visiting Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohita Bogollagama begins high-level consultations with various political leaders, officials and local entrepreneurs.
Life in both central as well as eastern regions of Terai continues to remain affected due to the ongoing supply entrepreneurs’ strike.
July 2:
Life in both central and eastern regions in Terai continues to remain crippled as efforts made to resolve indefinite strike announced by supply entrepreneurs last week fails to make headway.
The Special Court issues a notice to suspended NRB governor Bijay Nath Bhattarai ordering him to appear before the court within 15 days. Similarly, the Special Court also releases suspended executive director of the NRB Surendra Man Pradhan on Rs 50,000 bail.
Following the automatic suspension of Bhattarai, the government appoints Deputy Governor Krishna Bahadur Manandar as acting governor of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB).

The government decides to extend loans of Rs 1.70 billion on its guarantee to Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) to pay the dues to the Indian supplier.
An unknown group guns down two congress leaders Bechaye Yadav and Gobari Yadav.
In Nawalparasi district during evening.

July 3:
The government of Nepal and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) sign a labour pact that will grant Nepalese laborers in the UAE legal status.
A case is filed in the Supreme Court against former army chief Pyar Jung Thapa along with six other army officers of the Bhairav Nath battalion accusing them of committing crimes against humanity during insurgency.
The transportation services throughout the country resumes to normalcy after the agitating Federation of Truck, Tractor and Transport Entrepreneurs of Nepal (FTTTEN) reach an understanding with the government.
July 4:
Ambassadors to Nepal of the member states of the European Union (EU) decides not to attend the tea reception being organised by the Royal Palace on July 8 to mark King Gyanendra's 61st birthday.
The tourist arrival figure released by the Immigration Office, Tribhuvan International Airport, shows visitor arrivals to Nepal by air increased by 9.6 % with a total of 23502 tourists visiting the country in June 2007.
July 5:
The youth and student wings of the eight parties agree to jointly foil the tea reception and dinner function to be organized to mark the diamond jubilee celebrations of King Gyanendra’s 61st birthday.
Victoria Cross winner Tul Bahadur Pun is awarded a “Guard of Honour” at London’s Heathrow Airport.
The Special Court sends the suspended Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) governor Bijayanath Bhattarai, who faced financial embezzlement charges by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), to judicial custody.
Journalist Prakash Thakuri is kidnapped from Kanchanpur district allegedly by Maoist cadres.
July 6:
The Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee unanimously approves four ad hoc Supreme Court judges Damodar Prasad Sharma, Ram Kumar Prasad Shah, Kalyan Shrestha and Gauri Dhakal, whose names were recently recommended by the Judicial Council to make them permanent.

Nepal and Malaysia finalise a draft of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to ensure the greater safety and welfare for Nepali laborers working in Malaysia.
The Special Court releases suspended Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) governor Bijayanath Bhattarai – who faces financial embezzlement charges by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) -- on Rs 250,000 bail.
The Office of the Controller of Examinations (OCE) publishes the results of the SLC examinations 2063. Over 58 percent of the total examinees pass.
UNDP signs an agreement with the government to implement the US$ 3.85 million Khimti Neighborhood Development Project, a mini-hydro project, in Dolakha and Ramechhap districts.
July 7:
A special ceremony is organised at the Narayanhiti Royal Palace to mark the diamond jubilee celebration of King Gyanendra’s 61st birthday amidst criticism from political parties.

YCL stages a protest rally against King Gyanendra’s birthday celebrations. Dozens of royalists are injured during a clash that ensues between the YCL activists and royalists at various parts of the capital.
At least 11 people including seven children are killed when a tractor carrying wedding attendants plunges into a canal at Hirapur Barrage in Saptari district.
In an effort to discipline co-operatives and their members, National Cooperatives Federation (NCF) introduces a Cooperative Code of Conduct, enforcing it with instant effect.

July 8:

Maoist Chairman Prachanda says that his party won't allow the government to proceed with filling the vacant ambassadorial positions in the Nepali missions abroad unless his party is given four countries.

July 9:
At least 52 Nepali labourers are arrested in Malaysia.
July 10:
UML General Secretary Nepal's political paper is not accepted by a majority of party leaders during the party's 15th Central Committee meeting and is sent for revision.
The Ninth General Convention of the student wing of the Nepali Congress (Democratic)--Nepal Students Union—begins in Nepalgunj.

July 12:

Govt unveils Rs. 168.99 billion budget; no money to King, Royals; Rs 3.5 billion for CA elections (The government announces an annual budget of Rs 168 billion and 995.6 million for the new fiscal year 2007/08.)

July 13:

Taking his cue from PM Koirala, outgoing US Ambassador to Nepal, James F Moriarty suggests the king to abdicate.

UNMIN chief Ian Martin says that the second phase of the verification process of Maoist combatants must not be stopped by “linking it with anything else”. His remark comes after the Maoists’ unilateral decision to stop the verification process citing security reasons.

At least one person dies and 25 are injured in two separate landslides in Baglung and Bajura districts; 17 others are injured after 17 houses are buried under landslide debris in Dhao of Gwalichaur-1

Sushila Koirala, wife of former prime minister and veteran democratic leader late B P Koirala, passes away at the age of 84 following heart ailment.

Though there was no mention of the king and the royal palace in the budget presented on July 12, Finance Minister Dr Ram Sharan Mahat discloses that the government has allocated Rs 125 million for the royal palace.

One more Baglung landslide victim dies at night while undergoing treatment in Pokhara. With the death of Kamal Thapa of Gwalichaur-1, Baglung, the toll reaches 22.

July 14:

Supreme Court employees demand that Chief Justice Dilip Kumar Paudel dissolve the committee formed to probe the CD scandal. The scandal is about a recorded conversation between a court official and a court client bargaining for bribe.

Home Minister Sitaula gives a two-week deadline to all the agitating groups in Terai to begin talks with the government.

July 15:
Angry locals in Sunwal in the district encircle an area police office, demanding stringent actions against the Young Communist League members who allegedly beat up three locals. Similarly protesting against atrocities the YCL, a group of local youths closed down local Tikapur bazaar in Kailali.

The government decides to provide a financial relief of Rs 15,000 each to the nearest kin of the victims of landslides in Baglung, Bajura and Jajarkot districts.

July 16:
Maoist Chief Prachanda proposes the government to deploy the YCL along with the Armed Police Force (APF) to maintain law and order during the CA poll.

Kalyan Gurung is elected as the new president of Nepal Students' Union-Democratic (NSU-D), student wing of Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D), at the ninth convention.

The government decides to beef up security for 26 Maoist leaders, with a special team under a Deputy Superintendent of the Armed Police Force assigned to the task.

UNMIN chief Ian Martin says the Maoists were not willing to discharge combatants, who were disqualified during the verification process.

Nepal Telecom cuts down both outgoing and incoming STD distance charges in accordance with the government's new telecom policy in its GSM and CDMA based mobile services by half to Rs 1 per minute.

An unidentified group murders Nepali Congress cadre Mitralal Koirala of Tharpu VDC in Panchthar district.

July 17:

The JTMM-J warns all government employees of hill origin to leave the Terai in seven days or face "strong physical action."

The Malaysian government says it will deport 30 Nepalis charged with involvement in a scuffle with their employers and police.

The district administration in Rautahat detains nine cadres of MPRF for "public offence".

Nepali girl players defeat neighbor China to enter the final of the ACC Women's Cricket Tournament at Johar Bahru, Malaysia.

Concluding that the 'Tulasa scandal' is the handiwork of criminals out to defame the judiciary, the Supreme Court Bar Association suggests the government to form a high-level commission to investigate the affair that has dogged Chief Justice Dilip Kumar Paudel.

Over two dozen people, mostly police personnel, are injured in a clash that erupts between police and garbage collectors at Teku Transfer Station of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC).

July 18:

Breaking the long-held tradition, Kumari (Living Goddess) of Bhaktapur returns home after a 40-day trip of the United States.

The Interim Parliament passes the much-awaited Right to Information Bill, that would ensure people's access to information and documents of public importance, and transparency in governance.

A banda JTMM-J partially affects normal life across the country's eastern districts.

JTMM-J murdered Ramhari Pokharel, VDC secretary of Govindapur VDC in Siraha.

July 19:

The British Government announces an average increase of 19 percent in the pension drawn by British Gurkha ex-servicemen.

The CPN-Maoist agrees resumption of the stalled verification of People's Liberation Army (PLA) combatants by the UNMIN.

Civil servants hold nationwide protest against the killing of a VDC secretary in Siraha.
Minister Poudel says that the 15-day deadline set by the Home Minister on July 14 for talks with Terai groups is not the official position of the eight-party government.
July 20:

A meeting of the High-level Inter-party Coordination Committee (HLPCC) reaches a consensus on forming a unanimous voice regarding violence in the terai.

The royal family and royal relatives continue to default on payment of bills to Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), although NEA has regularly dispatched cumulative bills during nearly two-and-a-half years of non-payment to the palace and other residences of the royals in the capital and outside.

A day after the announcement of 19 percent hike in Gurkha servicemen's pension, Joint British Gurkha Ex-servicemen's Association charges the British government of trying to fool the Gurkhas, and not actually reviewing the pension scheme.

July 21:
• Lawmakers ask the leaders of the eight-party alliance to go to Terai and immediately initiate dialogue process with the agitators immediately to address the Madhes turmoil.
• Home Minister Sitaula clarifies that he never gave a 15-day ultimatum to agitating groups in Terai.
• Nepali Congress-Democratic President Deuba says that the government must use force, if required, to quell the ongoing agitation in the Terai region in a bid to maintain law and order in the country.
• The Nepal Army decides to increase the allowance of the Nepal Army personnel serving in the UN Peace Keeping Mission by $25, making the allowance US $800 (approx Rs 52,000).
• Police foil the attack of JTMM-J cadres on Prabhu Sah of Pataura VDC, a CPN-Maoist lawmaker in the interim parliament in Rautahat district.

July 22
• Five Maoist ministers reject security by the army personnel from Nepal Army’s Bhairab Nath Battalion provided by the government for the security of their residential quarters at Pulchowk.
• PM Koirala says that the violation of press freedom in any form is not acceptable at any cost.
• ICCMT, an Irish/Scottish consulting firm that has been handling the management of troubled Nepal Bank Limited (NBL) for the last five years, unilaterally terminates the management contract, citing inadequate cooperation from the central bank.

July 23
• Nepal and South Korea sign the Employment Permit System (EPS), a Memorandum of Understanding, which enables Nepali people to explore jobs in Korea in a more effective way, in Seoul.
• More than two dozen villages are inundated displacing hundreds of families due to floods in Ratu and Bigahi Rivers in Mahottari district.
• The Joint Struggle Committee of Indigenous Nationalities gives the government an ultimatum of August 9 to address their demands.
• At least four persons are killed and 21 others injured in a bus accident in Biratnagar.

July 24
• Heavy monsoon rainfall renders hundreds of people homeless in eastern Terai and disrupts transport services in parts of the western hills.
• China pledges a subsidised loan of Rs eight billion to help Nepal jump start its productivity.
• The interim parliament directs the government to publicise the report of the high-level commission formed to probe excesses committed during the April uprising at the earliest.
• The agitating civil servants stall work at government offices across the country demanding security at their workplaces and to immediately promulgate the Civil Service Act.

July 25
• The Election Commission alerts the government of the inadequate security that is making it difficult to prepare for the CA elections in some districts.
• UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says that the ongoing peace process in Nepal appears on track to deliver peace and stability, but the national political scene has become more complex and challenging in recent months.

July 26
• Torrential downpours and flashfloods render hundreds of people homeless in Banke, Bardiya, Kailali, Udayapur, and some other districts in Terai, triggering a huge humanitarian crisis in the country.
• The JTMM-G says that it is ready to hold dialogue with the government under the supervision of the United Nations. The government rejects the proposal.

• Chure Bhawar Pradesh Ekata Samaj (CBPES) calls off its three-day nationwide general strike after the government agrees to its three key demands.
• Minister for Peace and Reconstruction Poudel says that the government has not been able to make the whereabouts of the people missing during the decade-long armed conflict public citing lack of factual records.

July 27
• The Special Court orders an examination into the authenticity of documents submitted by the suspended Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) Bijaya Nath Bhattarai in connection with the graft charges lodged against him by the CIAA.
• The government announces to provide an immediate relief package to the flood victims across the country.

July 28
• MPs blame Indian government for the floods in Terai as it has built several structures.
• The World Bank threatens to suspend all assistance related to the financial sector reform project, as well as the proposed budgetary support, if the government doesn't restore the ICCMT management team at Nepal Bank Limited (NBL) by the end of August.
• 17 more people die in floods and landslides in districts including Gulmi, Dang, Siraha, Sindhuli as it continue to wreak havoc across the country.
• The third round of talks between the government and the Madhesi People’s Rights Forum (MPRF) held at Godawari Resort in Lalitpur district end inconclusively.

July 29
• The government announces to release Rs 50 million as immediate relief to the victims of monsoon-propelled havoc across the country.
• 12 people die in the last three days due to an outbreak of diarrhoea in Marmaparikanda and Kalagaon of Salyan district, reports say.
• Chief District Officer (CDO) of Dolakha district thrashed by the YCL cadres.
• At least 200 Peoples’ Liberation Army (PLA) combatants cantoned at second division cantonment in Shaktikhor, Chitwan, fall sick after they were compelled to drink polluted river water.
• An armed group shoots dead two civilians and abducts five persons including a VDC secretary in Bara, Saptari and Rautahat districts.

July 30
• All employees under the Home Ministry halt their work in protest of the brazen attack on the Chief District Officer (CDO) of Dolakha district by the YCL.
• The death toll of the dead due to the floods and landslides triggered by incessant rainfall across the country reaches 77.
• The government decides to set up security rings around the government offices across the country following increasing attacks on civil servants at different parts of the country.

July 31:
• Five more die due to floods have been reported in Morang, Sunsari and Chitwan districts, taking the death toll to 82.
• The government revokes passports of 34 businessmen who willfully defaulted on bank loans, including King Gyanendra's brother-in-law Mohan Bahadur Shahi and former prime minister's son, Arun Chand.
• Mahabir Pun,52, wins the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership for "his innovative application of wireless computer technology in Nepal, bringing progress to remote mountain areas by connecting his village to the global village."
Aug 1:
Cabinet finalises the tune composed by veteran musician and lyricist Amber Gurung for the new National Anthem penned by Byakul Maila.
The death toll following devastating monsoon across the country climbed to 91, with seven more deaths reported due to floods.
Concluding that the election to the Constituent Assembly slated for November 22 will not be possible without adopting a proportional electoral system and declaring the country a republic, Maoist chairman Prachanda proposes a fresh “people’s revolt” as an alternative.
Aug 2:

52 medical personnel resigned en-masse from the Medical College Teaching Hospital in Kohalpur in Banke district citing lack of security, affecting emergency and OPD services.

Minister for Forest and Soil Conservation Matrika Yadav, one of the five Maoists ministers in the coalition government, resigns from his post

Biratnagar sees the highest rainfall -- a record 223.5 mm -- in a day in the last 15 years.

Aug 3:
The parliament passes a bill amending Civil Service Act 1993, thus ending the one-year long legal vacuum in the bureaucracy. The amended Act has guaranteed time-bound promotion, reservation, and trade union rights, besides making the secretarial appointment process relatively more transparent.
The government publicise the new National Anthem of Nepal amidst a special function in parliament.

The government tables the 1184-page long Rayamajhi Commission report in parliament recommending action against over 200 people. (The Rayamajhi Commission -- formed under the chairmanship of former Supreme Court Justice Krishna Jung Rayamajhi to probe into the atrocities committed by the erstwhile royal regime during the April uprising last year – had submitted its report to the government on November 20 last year.)

The fifth plenum of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) begins at Balaju Industrial District in the capital.

Aug 4:
Reports states that a faction of Maoist activists turning against their top leaders Prachanda and Dr Baburam Bhattarai, charging them with “betraying the revolution” by compromising with “regressive and feudal” people.

Aug 5:
Some 900 government officials vacate their offices at in Lahan, Janakpur and Birgunj in the Terai and many of them have moved to Kathmandu, as a sense of insecurity hits the bureaucracy.

An unidentified group shoots at a businessman and a worker at Adarshnagar in Birgunj sub-metropolis. The same group has denoted five socket bombs at Mahavirsthan close to a police post.
Aug 6:
Demanding immediate appointment of rectors and other key officials in the universities, teachers at the affiliated campuses across the country announce pen-down.
The newly appointed US ambassador to Nepal Nancy J Powell arrives in Kathmandu.

Aug 7:
Normal life across 16 districts in eastern Nepal crippled on the first day of three-day transport strike jointly called by Federal Limbuwaan State Council (FLSC) and Khumbuwaan National Front (KNF) to press for their major demands such as autonomy with rights to self determinism and proportionate electoral system.

The agitating indigenous nationalities withdraw all their protest programmes after signing a 20-point agreement with the government. The agreement, inter alias, guarantees at least one seat to a person of each scheduled ethnic group in a mixed electoral system for the CA elections.

Aug 8:

The interim parliament passes a bill on the welfare and rights of working journalists.
The Fifth Plenum of the CPN-Maoist concludes in Kathmandu, deciding not to quit the eight-party government and to persuade the coalition partners to declare a republic ahead of the Constituent Assembly elections slated for November 22.
Citing "unfavorable working environment", management of Himalaya Broadcasting Company stops the broadcast of HBC FM 94.
Aug 9:
Maoist renegades loot two 303 rifles and a pistol from a poorly-guarded police post at Fikuri VDC in northern part of Nuwakot district.

The Interim Legislature-Parliament passes the annual budget for the fiscal year 2064/65 with a majority.

Aug 10:
PM Koirala accepts the resignation tendered by Minister for Forest and Soil Conservation Matrika Yadav.
Nearly 25 journalists severely beaten up by Maoist supporters at Gorkhapatra Corporation as the former were picketing at the gate demanding reinstatement of 49 journalists fired by the Maoist-led Gorkhapatra management.
Aug 11:
The Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) resumes its international flights after nine days.
Two Chure-Bhawar Pradesh Ekta Samaj (CBPES) activist injured when police open fire at demonstrators in a bid to clear the East-West highway.
Aug 12:
After disrupting distribution of two national dailies published from the capital, the Maoist-affiliated trade union workers obstructed the printing of Sunday edition of The Himalayan Times and Annapurna Post. The Maoist intervention in Nepal’s free press sparks widespread criticism from all quarters.
Manager of HBC FM 94, Birendra Dahal, launches a fast-unto-death to protest the intervention in Nepal’s free media.
The agitating civil servants announce fresh nationwide protest programmes, saying the government remains apathetic to their demands.
Interim parliament passes NRN bill. Non-Resident Nepali Association however said that some of the points in passed bill could not embrace the complete spirit of the NRN.

Police involved in rescue operations in Baitadi and Darchula confirm that nine persons had died in heavy landslides in the two districts.

Demanding rights to unload garbage at Teku Transfer Station, private garbage collectors stage a demonstration by parking their garbage-loaded vehicles in front of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) office at Sundhara.
The Indian police arrest hundreds of Nepalis and tortured them accusing them of robbing diamond worth Indian Rs 20 million from a local Hribiraj Gems Company in Surat on August 11.
Aug 13:

The employees of the local bodies start nationwide indefinite strike, bringing all work to a complete halt.

The first round of talks between the government and the Federal Limbuwan State Council (FLSC) and Khumbuwan National Front ends inconclusively.

Aug 14:
At least 430 Nepalese soldiers based in Mirebalais, in Haiti's Central Region, awarded with United Nations peacekeeping medals for their outstanding performance there.

Maoist lawmakers boycott meeting of the interim parliament, citing the government’s failure to disclose the whereabouts of those “disappeared” by the state during the ten years of armed conflict.

Students affiliated to the pro-Nepali Congress Nepal Students Union shuts down educational institutions across the country to protest against the attack on students of Thapathali Engineering Campus by the All Nepal National Independent Students’ Union – Revolutionary (ANNISU-R), the Maoist student front.
46 YCL and ANNISU-R students are arrested from the capital for trying to disturb law and order situation.

The Narayanhiti Royal Palace administration asks the Ministry of General Administration in writing to release salaries and allowances for its staff for four months.

After four hours of negotiations, talks between the government and Federal Democratic National Forum (FDNF) ends inconclusively in Dhulikhel.

Aug 15:
At least 500 houses get waterlogged in some villages in Bardiya district as the Karnali River overflow due to overnight downpours.

YCL tries to torch a vehicle driven by UML lawmaker Som Prasad Pandey at New Baneshwor for defying their chakka jam in Kathmandu. The sudden chakka jam called by the Maoist-aligned All Nepal Independent Student’s Union-Revolutionary (ANNISU-R) resulted in a traffic snarl-up in the capital affecting the general public. ANNISU-R called for a banda for three hours demanding the immediate release of 46 Maoists who were arrested from the capital.

In a major restructuring of the party’s organisation, CPN-M dissolves all the six wartime ‘commands’ and establishes five central bureaus.
The Patan Appellate Court issues a stay order asking the Maoist-aligned trade union workers not to disrupt work at The Himalayan Times and Annapurna Post dailies.

Aug 16:
Around 500 Nepalis, who were swindled by fraudulent employment brokers, are left jobless at a dozen camps in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Police detain over 35 journalists protesting against the recent Maoist intervention in the press from the south gate of Singha Durbar.
The government decides to allow all foreign airlines, operating to Nepal to add up to four flights a week for four months in anticipation of an air-seat crunch during the upcoming tourism season.
Aug 17:
The Interim Legislature-Parliament passes the CA Elections Court Bill.
Floods triggered by incessant and heavy rainfall have made a comeback in mid-Terai affecting life across the region. Over 1000 families have been rendered homeless and a dozen houses have been waterlogged in Saptari district due to floods over the last three days.
Aug 18:
Talks between the government and Joint Dalit Struggle Committee (JDSC) wrapped up after over three hours with an agreement to sit the next time with selective and managed dialogue teams.
Aug 19:
PM Koirala appoints Sashi Shrestha Minister for State for Health and Population. Shrestha represents the People's Front Nepal.

The Election Commission publicizes the programme for the CA elections.

The CPN-Maoist announces that it will launch indefinite nationwide protest programmes if what it calls “22 pre-requisites for the Constituent Assembly elections” are not met immediately.
Aug 20:
Demanding at least two seats for the Badi community in the Constituent Assembly and farm lands for alternative means of livelihood, the Badi community launch a series of protest programs in the capital.
At least 25 persons are killed when a passenger bus heading to Tamghas, Gulmi from Butwal veered off the Palpa-Tamghas road.
The government constitutes a five-member committee led by Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula to nationalise the property of late King Birendra and King Gyanendra, which he inherited by the virtue of being a monarch.
A Supreme Court panel discovers 11 court officials guilty in the infamous 'CD scandal' and recommends punishment against them for eroding public faith in the judiciary.
Aug 21:
Five people including two children die following an outbreak of diarrhoea in Kalikot district over the last two days.
The government decides to publicize the report prepared by a commission headed by Madhav Prasad Ojha to investigate the excesses of the then Royal Commission for Corruption Control.
Aug 22:

Police round up 13 women of Badi community when they stage a demonstration in front of the Singha Durbar.

Aug 23:
The interim parliament ratifies the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 169 related to the socio-economic, political, cultural and religious rights of indigenous and tribal people.

The Madhesi Tigers activists set three motorbikes ablaze in Nawalparasi district and vandalise a bus in Morang district for defying the banda called by them.

Human Rights Watch expresses concern over Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) draft bill citing that the bill’s provisions on issues like amnesty and the commission’s independence from the government do not meet international legal standards.

The Ministry for Local Development reshuffles the agitating VDC secretaries.

France announce to provide financial assistance worth Euro 30,000 through Nepal Red Cross Society to help flood victims.
The government committee formed to nationalize the King’s property sealed the registration, transfer and mortgage of all property owned by the King and the royal family. The committee also decides to nationalize the Narayanhiti Royal Palace, Lamjung Durbar, Gorkha Durbar and Hanumandhoka Durbar. The meeting also decided to nationalize 1500 bighas of land owned by the royals.
An unidentified group abducts Jagat Thapa, a former chairman of Nepal Bar Association Morang chapter, from Biratnagar.
Aug 24:
The budget session of the Interim Legislature-Parliament concludes.
Maoist Chairman Prachanda proposes to postpone the CA elections to Baisakh (mid-April to mid-May). Stating that there was no point making a rush for the November 22 polls, the Maoist Chairman says that it would make no difference if the polls are held in mid-April or in mid-May.
Six persons, including four members of a single family, are killed in a landslide in Neta VDC of Gulmi district.
Aug 25:
JTMM-J cadres kill one Nepali Congress activist at a village in Parsa district.
Five persons including four of a family die and around a dozen more go missing in landslides in a village in Pyuthan district.
The five-day Terai bandh called by the Madhesi Mukti Tigers (MMT) affects normal life in various districts of the region enters fourth consecutive day. The MMT cadres vandalise three passenger buses and a truck in Sunsari for defying the bandh.
Aug 26:
Two school students die and three more go missing after a boat capsize on Syapru Lake at Sanfikot village in Rukum district.
Manager of HBC FM 94, Birendra Dahal, who was on a fast-unto-death for the past 14 days to protest the intervention in Nepal’s free media, breaks his fast.
The ministerial-level committee formed to nationalize royal property recommends the nationalization of five more palaces and eight jungles owned by the king.
Another splinter group from the JTMM-G surfaces. Issuing a press statement, the group announces a 21-member central committee led by one Prithvi Raj Singh.

Life across five districts including Dang in western Nepal is affected due to an indefinite banda called by Samuktya Tharu Rastriya Mukti Morcha.

Aug 27:
The Election Constituency Delineation Commission (ECDC) submits its reviewed report to Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala at the latter's official residence in Baluwatar, after a month-long wait. The ECDC had carried out a review of 47 constituencies in its report.
A report says that the YCL cadres have captured the vacant customs office at Rasuwagadi for the last three days and has started collecting "revenue".
Police round up more than four dozen protesters of the Badi Community and Dalit Civil Society activists as the latter were trying to stage a sit-in in front of the southern gate of Singha Durbar.
The CPN-Maoist Monday finalises and submits the names of four ambassadorial nominees to PM Koirala.
Aug 29:
Beating Afghanistan by 48 runs in the ACC U-19 Elite Cup finals played at Kinrara Oval in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Nepal wins the cup for the fourth time.
Aug 30:
MPRF calls off all its protest programmes following a 22-point agreement with the government; the government agreed to form a commission to restructure the state along federal lines while MPRF accepted the mixed electoral system.
The government finalizes the names for 21 vacant posts of ambassadors, including four proposed by CPN-Maoist and forwards them to the Parliamentary Hearing Committee for approval.
A meeting of Constitutional Council decides to recommend the name of the Supreme Court Justice Kedar Giri to succeed Chief Justice Dilip Kumar Poudel.
Jamuna Singh, 45, the JTMM-J Bara district commander, shot dead by the police when his group opens fire on dozens JTMM-J cadres in Hardiya VDC-2.
Aug 31:
At least five people die after consuming illicit liquor and half a dozen are seriously ill in Dhanusha district.
The first meeting of the transport ministers of the SAARC region held in the Indian capital of New Delhi Friday recommends nine pilot regional and sub-regional projects to connect South Asia by road, railway, water and air corridors. They include two projects which will connect Nepal to India and Bangladesh.
Six people including five children die in landslides triggered by torrential rainfalls in Gulmi, Argakhanchi and Banke districts, reports say.
Over three hundred families are displaced in Holiya VDC in Banke after the Rapti river burst its banks and floods farms and villages at night

Sep 1:
• The Tribhuvan University (TU) administration appoints the new rector and registrar two key positions which had been lying vacant for a long time
• The MPRF denounces the Maoist reaction to the 22-point agreement between them and the government.
• Parliament beings the confirmation hearings process for chief justice-nominee Kedar Prasad Giri.
• The YCL cadres try to snatch weapons from the Armed Police Force team which had reached Syuna village in Kalikot district to make arrangements to set up a polling centre for the CA elections.
• Chure Bhawar Pradesh Ekta Samaj states that it would never accept the concept of Chure Bhawar Pradesh as a part of "Madhesi Autonomous Province"
• The Maoist-affiliated All Nepal Women’s Association-Revolutionary cadres vandalise the district office of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) in Dhankuta before setting ablaze the official documents and the party flag.

Sep 2:
• A series of bomb explosions rock three busy market places in Kathmandu killing two persons and injuring more than 25 persons; A group called the Terai Army claims it conducted the blasts.
• The death toll due to consumption of illicit liquor reaches 20 with additional four deaths in Dhanusha district.
• The Nepal Medical Association (NMA) announces three-day protest strike, accusing the government of being indifferent to its 13-point demands, including security at the workplace.
• The MPRF dissidents claim its chairman Upendra Yadav has been relieved from all his responsibilities.
• Election Commission decides to allow 43 non-government organizations to monitor the upcoming CA polls.
• At least 61 houses are swept away at night by the swollen Tinau River following torrential downpour in Rupandehi district

Sep 3:
More than six persons are detained from different parts of the capital in connection to the serial blasts there.
Special parliamentary teams start monitoring the security situation in all five regions of the country in the run up to the CA elections.
The YCL submits a memorandum to Home Minister Sitaula, demanding immediate release of 43 of their colleagues currently detained under Public Offense Act.
CPN-Maoist says that they want to include their People's Liberation Army for CA polls security.

Sep 4:
• A critically injured girl in serial blast in the capital succumbs to injuries.
• PM Koirala, in the capacity of the officiating head of the state, visits Krishna Mandir in Lalitpur on the occasion of Krishna Janmasthami.
• Five people die in landslides triggered by heavy rainfalls in Palpa and Kalikot districts.
• CPN-Maoist decides to reactivate its 'kangaroo courts' across the country
• Home Minister Sitaula assures that the country’s overall security situation will improve as the date for the Constituent Assembly polls comes closer.
• PLA deputy commanders submit a memorandum demanding the release of basic fund allocated for the combatants living in various cantonment sites by the state.
• The CPN-UML forms a committee led by party standing committee member Amrit Kumar Bohara to select the candidates for the CA elections.

Sep 5:
• Ending a long suspense, the Nepali Congress (NC) Central Working Committee endorses a proposal for a federal democratic republic in the country.
• 12 persons die and around 20 go missing after a boat capsizes in the Rapti River at Kachanapur village in Banke district.
• The Nepal Rastra Bank releases new coins of two rupees denomination without the King's name and any royal symbols.
• Kathmandu Metropolitan City admits failure to collect the ever piling heaps of garbage from the city's streets mainly due to the strike of private sector garbage collectors and the very bad condition of the road to Sisdol landfill site
• Nepal Medical Association (NMA) calls off all its protest programmes after the government agrees to accept all its demands

Sep 6:
Around one thousand families in Nawalparasi are displaced by the worst floods in a decade in the Narayani River.
The European Commission (EC) allocates € 2 million euros in response to the damages caused by this year's monsoon in Nepal.
The Election Commissioner designates election officers for 240 constituencies for the Constituent Assembly elections.
Doctors perform angioplasty on Crown Prince Paras shortly after he is rushed to the Norvic - Escorts International Hospital at Thapathali after he complains of chest pains
Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Rajendra Mahato urges all the agitating groups in the Terai to declare ceasefire and to come forward for the dialogue with the government.
Maoist leader Dr Baburam Bhattarai claims that his party has found "evidence" to show that the royal palace was behind the serial bomb blasts in the capital.
Parliamentary Special Hearing Committee constitutes a 9-member task force committee to investigate the complaints filed against Supreme Court chief justice-designate Kedar Prasad Giri.
Central committee of the MPRF announces to have expelled the Forum's former Vice-Chairman Kishor Kumar Biswas and three other leaders from the party

Sep 7:
• The Communist Party of Bhutan (Maoist) urges the UNHCR, the United States and Nepal not to start the process of third country resettlement of the Bhutanese refugees languishing in Nepal.
• Nepal Sadbhavana Party (NSP) leaders meet PM Koirala to ask him to replace the party’s leader Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Rajendra Mahato in the government.

Sep 8:
• Ministry of Finance rejects a commerce ministry proposal seeking release of Rs 2 billion to Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) for covering losses and ensuring normal oil supplies till the CA elections in November.
• Five people die after a microbus carrying a marriage convoy from Dhankuta to Kathmandu is swept away by the raging Dhansar River along the East-West highway at Rautahat at night
• At least six persons are killed in floods and landslides in Kaski and Nawalparasi districts

Sep 9:
• At least 15 persons -- 12 supporters of a little known Dalit Janjati Party (DJP) and three policemen -- are injured when the two sides clash at Nawalpur of Sarlahi district.

Sep 10:
• A parliamentary panel starts probing complaints filed against the names of the people recommended to the posts of National Human Rights Commission office bearers and the ambassadors.
• The government forms an 11-member high-level monitoring committee under the chairmanship of Birendra Mishra to monitor the implementation of all the agreements reached between then Seven-Party Alliance (SPA) and the CPN-Maoist.
• RPP Chairman Pashupati Shumsher Rana says that the party would unify with the breakaway Rastriya Janasakti Paty before the CA elections.
• The ADB decides to extend its loan commitment to the Melamchi project for three more months after the existing commitment expires on September 30.

Sep 11:
• The Parliamentary Special Hearing Committee fails to endorse the name of the senior most justice of the Supreme Court Kedar Prasad Giri as the new Chief Justice.
• The Election Commission starts the training programme for the main trainers as part of its campaign to educate the election officers, employees and the electorates for the CA elections.

Sep 12:
• The parliamentary Hearing Special Committee endorses the names proposed for the office bearers of the National Human Rights Commission officials.
• The JTMM-Goit renews its threat that it would not let the government hold the Constituent Assembly elections in the Terai.
• Helen Shah, King Mahendra's youngest brother Basundhara Shah's wife, passes away while undergoing treatment at her Chhauni residence.
• 1 dies, hundreds of villagers are displaced in Rajbiraj and dozens of villages in the surrounding areas that are waterlogged due to incessant rainfalls.
• Lawmaker of the Interim parliament Ajaya Pratap Shah, representing Rastriya Prajatantra Party, passes away.
• The first round of formal negotiations between the government and the United Tharu National Front- Nepal (UTNF-N) ends inconclusively.

Sep 13:
• The government and the agitating Chure Bhawar Ekta Samaj reach a nine-point agreement and the latter withdraws all its protest programmes and express commitment for the CA elections.
• Maoists postpone their much talked-about round-table conference scheduled to begin in capital on the day due to poor response.

Sep 14:
• The Parliamentary Special Hearing Committee endorses 20 names proposed for the ambassadors except ambassador-designate for India, Sailaja Acharya.
• A massive peace rally is organized in Saptari district demanding that the educational sector should be declared a zone of peace.
• The ongoing general convention of a faction of Nepal Sadbhavana Party-Ananda Devi led by Minister Rajendra Mahato passes a no-confidence motion against party chairperson Anandi Devi Singh.
• PLA combatants stage protests outside the main cantonment at Jhyaltung Danda of Arunk Khol and satellite camps at Kawasoti and Jargha in Nawalparasi district, demanding better conditions; UNMIN expresses concern.

Sept 15:
Cadres of the JTMM-Goit set ablaze a jeep belonging to Maoist leader Matrika Yadav at Maina Gadari village in Saptari district.

Six persons, including a woman, returning from a Teej festival were injured when Maoist combatants thrashed locals at Jhyaltung Danda in Arunkhola in Nawalparasi.

Sept 16:
Violence break out in Kapilvastu district after Chairman of an anti-Maoist group and Madheshi Loktantrik Mukti Morcha (MLMM), Mohid Khan was murdered. Some casualties reported.

Sep 17: The interim parliament endorses a draft report to amend the Parliamentary Regulation Bill-2006 presented by parliamentarian

Sep 18:
The CPN-Maoist quits the government citing the “failure to lead the government according to eight-party consensus” and “lack of credible environment for CA polls on November 22”; Warns to thwart the elections if the “pre-requisites”, including declaration of a republic, are not fulfilled.

Violence in Kapilvastu and neighboring Rupandehi districts saw no sign of receding, with three more killed.

Normal life in large parts of nine districts in eastern Nepal severely affected as the indefinite general strike called by the Limbuwan Rajya Parishad.

The JTMM-J cadres abduct a VDC secretary in Siraha district for failing to “pay taxes to the Terai government”.

Sep 19:

The death toll in the Kapilvastu riots mount to 20 as 15 more bodies are recovered in the district.
After almost 14 months, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) gets all its office bearers including chairman—Kedar Nath Upadhayay.
Activists of the JTMM-G abduct five people from two VDCs in Rautahat . The abducted include a VDC secretary and a UML activist.

Sep 20:
The government forms a high-level judicial committee to probe the unprecedented violence in Kapilvastu district and the surrounding areas and announces immediate relief to the victims.
Police recover nine more bodies from Devinagar of Bishanpura VDC in Kapilvastu. Indefinite curfew at Lamhi and Tulsipur of Dang district due to the spillover effect of the riots in Kapilvastu.
Sep 21:
Curfew in Lamahi bazaar and Tulsipur of Dang district extended.At least 31 persons have been confirmed dead and hundreds have been displaced and scores are out of touch in the riots in Kapilvastu.

Indian Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev arrives in the capital to supervise a Yoga Camp at Tundikhel from Sept 22 to 27.

Sept 22:
Urging locals to exercise restraint and maintain communal harmony, the Dang district administration prolonged curfew in a bid to avert any untoward incident.
Normal life in Siraha district affected due to a two-day general strike called by the JTMM-G. The general strike is called to protest the Kapilivastu violence.

Sep 23:

Cantoned Maoist combatants walk out of their second division in Sindhuli district and picket the District Administration Office in Dudhauli, demanding construction of better infrastructures inside the camp, release of monthly allowance as decided by the cabinet, inter alias.

Sep 24:
The CPN-Maoist and the CPN-MLM unite to become the second largest party in the interim parliament.
Life across Kapilvastu districts limp back to normalcy. The local administration gradually relaxed curfew imposed to pacify the violent situation.
Sep 25:
After more than five years of separation and protracted negotiations, the Nepali Congress (NC) and the breakaway NC-Democratic formally unify.
CPN-UML gives final shape to the party's draft manifesto for the CA polls.
Sept 26:
The Nepali Congress takes formal decision to opt for a federal democratic republic. Party’s founding leader Krishna Prasad Bhattarai dissociate himself with the party, citing the party’s decision to opt for a republic.
The Maoist-affiliated All Nepal Communication, Printing and Publication Workers' Union disrupt the collection and publication of advertisements in the Kantipur Publications.
Sep 27:
Nepal Rastra Bank begins to circulate the new currency notes of 500 denominations without the King’s name or any royal symbols.

Giving its final verdict on the controversial Constituent Assembly (CA) Member Election Act-2007, the Supreme Court Thursday ruled that the individuals implicated by the Rayamajhi Commission report can contest the CA elections slated for November 22.
Sept 28:
The Patan Appellate Court issue an interim stay order not to hinder printing, distribution and collection of advertisements of Kantipur Publications’ Kantipur and The Kathmandu Post. The trade union workers halt printing of capital editions of two national dailies – Kantipur and The Kathmandu Post.
At least seven persons die and 13 others injured when a passenger bus bound for Chapagaun from Bhattedanda met with an accident in Lalitpur.
Normal life across Parsa district paralysed due to a one day general strike called by the MPRF led by Bhagya Natha Gupta.
Canada, Denmark and Norway decide to provide assistance for the CA elections.

Normal life in Sarlahi and Mahottari crippled due to a banda called by the CPN-Maoist to protest the killing of one of CPN-M activists identified as Grihendra Yadav.
The Election Commission reject to recognise the Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Rajendra Mahato-led Nepal Sadbhava Party- Ananda Devi faction as the main party and gave the faction time until 4 pm Sept 29 to register as a group or a party. Minister Mahato resigns from his post, citing serious difference over the decision of the EC’s decision.

Sep 29:
The interim parliament passes a proclamation that said women too would have right to citizenship.
The victims of the Kapilvastu violence launch indefinite general strike in the district to protest the government’s apathy.
Sept 30:
The pro-Maoist Shaichhik Ganatantrik Manch forces closure of schools across the country, charging the government with not implementing the agreements reached in the past.
Police publicise detailed investigation report of the serial bomb blasts that rocked Kathmandu on September 2, which left three innocent civilians dead and over two dozens other injured.
The Maoist-aligned trade union workers gather at Kantipur Publications’ premises and attempted to burn tires. The union workers also barred Managing Director of the Kantipur Publications, Kailash Sirohiya and its Director Binod Raj Gyawali from entering the publications.
The Election Commission postpones the nominations deadline by five days for filing the nominations for CA elections acting on the request of the seven parties.

Oct 1: Maoist trade union leader Shalik Ram Jammerkattel warns to shut down Kantipur TV too. PM says, he will compromise when it comes to press freedom.

The king visits Kumari Ghar at Hanumandhoka premises to see Kumari, the Living Goddess, without prior government knowledge.

Oct 2: YCL men seize all copies of Kantipur, Post in Pokhara.

PM Koirala orders chief of the Nepali Army Rookmangud Katawal to pull out half of the NA personnel at Narayanhiti royal palace, irked by the King’s move to visit Kumari.

Oct 3: Journalists led by Federation of Nepalese Journalists stage a protest demonstration against Maoist threats and attacks on Kantipur Publications, in Kathmandu, considering it as a threat to democracy.

Maoists block printing of Kantipur, Post in Chitwan; RSF deplores attack on Kantipur

Oct 4: Bara-based reporter Birendra Sah abducted and killed by Maoists cadres.
Oct 5: Kantipur, Maoist unionists reach accord, newspapers starts functioning smoothly.
SC upholds the September 28 interim decision of the Election Commission to consider NSP-A led by Anandi Devi Singh is the legitimate one, "for the time being".

Oct 6: Morang District Administration Office imposed an indefinite curfew in the city since 10 pm Friday, after sporadic clashes ensued between police and members of the agitating MPRF led by Kishor Kumar Biswas.

Oct 7: Curfew relaxed for two hours in Biratnagar, life limps back to normalcy.
Oct 8: Former PM Krishna Prasad Bhattarai urges parties to stand united against ‘threat to national sovereignty’
India’s main opposition BJP opposes parliament through interim parliament in Nepal; Prachanda irked by the remark.
JTMM-G cadres murder a VDC secretary of Bara district.
Oct 10: Nepal Rastra Bank declares Nepal Development Bank (NDB) as a troubled bank and decided to intervene into its operation to protect depositors' interest and salvage it.
Oct 11: The special session of the interim parliament begins. Maoists say they called for the special House session to proclaim a republic since it was convinced that monarchy can not be voted out by a constituent assembly.
The cabinet finally appointed 28 secretaries, ending a long-time vacuum of leadership in the bureaucracy. All 16 acting secretaries have been confirmed as full secretary while 12 joint secretaries have been promoted to the top bureaucratic post.

Oct 14: Minister for Peace and Reconstruction Ram Chandra Poudel reveals that government has cut the ration for absentee Maoist combatants in cantonments; decides to deny monthly allowance to those disqualified during the UN verification.
Oct 15 - The third global conference of non-resident Nepalis (NRNs) kicks off in Kathmandu with participants requesting the government to start a national dialogue on allowing them dual citizenship.
Oct 16: Special House session adjourned for 12 days as the seven-party leaders ask for more time as they failed to make headway on a Maoist proposal for a republic and a change in the electoral system.
EC says that the postponement of the CA poll has caused an over Rs 1.5 billion loss to the government.
Oct 17: NRN conference ends with focus on prosperous Nepal.
"NepaLinux" developed by "Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya", a Nepali-localised Debian and Morphix distribution based on GNU/Linux, announced co-winners of APC Chris Nicol FOSS Prize 2007 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Oct 18: PM Koirala takes Fulpati salute, as part of the ongoing drive to clip royal wings.
Indian police nabs notorious Black Spider gang’s mastermind, Shandip Pathak alias Milan Lama, Nepal's most wanted kidnapper, in the Indian capital.

Oct 24 After letting the price of petroleum products linger for about a year, the government raises the prices in a range of 6 to 22 percent.
The United Nations unveils the UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) of US$ 360 million for Nepal to support the country's development needs in the aftermath of the conflict.
Oct 26: Personnel of the Seema Suraksha Bal (SSB), the Indian paramilitary force deployed along the Nepal-India border, shot dead Nepali citizen Ram Dulare Chamar of Gulariya Municipality Ward No. 4 in the no man's land area.
Oct 28: The government releases Rs 1 million each to the families of 48 persons killed during the movement of MPRF, Chure Bhawar Ekata Samaj (CBES) and other agitating groups in the terai.

SSB hands over the body of Ram Dulare Chamar to his family.
Oct 29: An armed group of unidentified persons shot dead Prabhu Yadav, a junior officer of Project Section of Saptari District Development Committee, at Topa Bazaar.
Oct 30: Civil servants at local bodies across the country stopped working protesting the murder of Prabhu Yadav, a junior officer of Project Section of Saptari District Development Committee.
Oct 31: Maoist Chairman Prachanda finally admits the hands of its cadres in the abduction of journalist Birendra Sah.
Nepal becomes the world’s largest producer and exporter of large cardamom, surpassing India and Bhutan - the two other producers.

Nov 1: Nepal slips nine places to the 114th position this year in the World Economic Forum's list of the world's most competitive nations.

A government source reveals that the government has started to extend financial support of around Rs 50,000 on an average to each family displaced by the decade-long conflict to go back home.
Nov 3: On her last day of Nepal visit, US Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration Ellen Sauerbrey dismisses speculations that there were political motives behind the resettlement of Bhutanese or Tibetan refugees in America.
An unidentified group abducts a member of Nepali Congress Mahasamiti and former chairman of Sonmati Majhaura VDC of Siraha district, Bechan Yadav, in Lahan.
Nov 4: The special session of the interim parliament concludes passing the amendment proposal on the proclamation of a republic tabled by the CPN-UML and endorsing the Maoist proposal for a fully proportional representation (PR) system for the CA elections.
An indefinite curfew clamped in Lahan and surrounding areas to contain the possible flare up of violence following the confirmation of the murder of NC leader Bechan Yadav.
Nov 5: Curfew relaxed in Lahan.

Nepal Sadbhavana Party Anandi-Devi led by Rajendra Mahato says it was setting up Madhes bahini and a joint front with the agitation groups including armed outfits in the Terai to launch the decisive movement in the region by mid-December.

Nov 6: UNMIN states it is willing to pledge more active support, especially in three areas—implementation of peace process and agreements, assisting discussion on the security sector reform, and greater advisory support to promoting public security if desired by the government and parties.

The process for third country resettlement of Bhutanese refugees in camps in eastern Nepal began with the mass information campaign in all the camps to assist refugees to make an informed decision by providing them with accurate information, according to the UNHCR.

Nov 7: 415 civil servants of Saptari district submit a joint-resignation stating that the government remained apathetic towards their demands and security.

NHRC says there has been no remarkable achievement in human rights situation in the country even after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Accord.

A judicial commission formed to investigate into the Terai agitation tabled its much-awaited report to the government. The report hints at the weakness of the police administration in some cases during the agitations.

Nov 8: The government introduces an ordinance to check illegal arms possession with provisions of additional fine and jail-term for offenders in the interim parliament.

Lawmakers, cutting across the party lines, condemn emergency rule in Pakistan.

Body of journalist Birendra Sah, who was murdered by the Maoist cadres was recovered from a jungle in Bara district.

Nov 9: An unidentified armed group abducted a meter reader of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) from its branch at Kanchanpur of Saptari district.

Nov 12: Maoist Chairman Prachanda says a republican order is more important than the CA elections. The Maoists warn of an agitation and change in government leadership if the motions are not endorsed by the winter House session.

NEA staff abducted from Saptari gets released.

An unidentified armed group abducts NC activist Daud Miya, 55, from Fulbaria VDC of Saptari district.

Nov 13: The World Bank pledges Nepal a grant assistance of Rs 16 billion for poverty reduction and rural infrastructure expansion.

Nov 14: The government pledges Rs 1 million to late Birendra Sah’s family.

A government report states Nepal's trade with the seven other South Asian countries including Afghanistan grew by 8.2 percent and touched Rs 161.22 billion in 2006/07.

Police arrest six people accused of involvement in the disappearance of 11 tons of red sandalwood from the District Forest Office storehouse in Lalitpur. (Dozens of tons of rare and precious timber were seized in different parts of the country in different times this year while they were being smuggled to Tibet from India via Nepal.)

Nepal becomes the 13th leading country of origin for international students in the United States with an increase of Nepali students in US by 27.9 percent, according to the Embassy of the United States.

Nov 15: The Supreme Court settles the long-standing controversy surrounding the 10 percent service charge being levied in hotels by allowing hotels to collect the charge.

Data show that altogether 104 national level and localized bandas have taken place since the April Uprising in 2006. Of these nine were Nepal bandas, seven Valley bandas, 30 terai bandas and 58 localized ones.

Nov 16: Chure Bhawar Pradesh Ekta Samaj says it is constituting a peace force similar to the Rakshya Bahini formed by the dissident faction of Nepal Sadbhavana Party-Anandidevi. CBPES also states that it was expanding its base across the country to “protect nationalism”.

Nov 18: YCL cadres abduct six persons including doctors and directors of Biratnagar-based Nobel Medical College and tortured them brutally for 14 hours at an unidentified location near Kamidanda in Kavre district. (The Maoist leadership apologise. NMA is still demanding action against the perpetrators.)
Data compiled by the police shows that a staggering number of people commit suicide in Nepal, and the number is rising. According to police records, every day on average seven people committed suicide across the country during last fiscal year.

Nov 19: Altogether 106 VDC secretaries resigned en masse in Rautahat and Sarlahi districts resign en masse citing the government’s inability to provide security.

The Haryana state police in India arrests 18 members of the Maoist affiliated Jan Adhikar Surakshya Samiti (JASS), including its chief T. P. Pathak for pressing for implementation of motions passed by interim parliament in Nepal.

Nov 20: 91 VDC secretaries resign en masse in Bara district, citing the government’s inability to guarantee security to civil servants in Terai.

The Indian police release members of Jan Adhikar Surakshya Samiti (JASS); say they were arrested for being Maoists.

Figures compiled by the Makwanpur branch of Himrights, a human rights NGO with a regional office in Hetuda, show that a total of 82 persons were killed by separate groups in the 10 districts of the eastern and central terai over a five-month period.

Nov 21: Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Nepal for a four-day visit on to assess the peace process in the country.
The Seema Shasastra Bal, the Indian paramilitary troops deployed at the Nepal-India border, severely thrash five Nepali nationals at Mohammadpur, merely six kilometers east of the Bardiya district headquarters, Guleriya.
Nov 22: Representatives of the civil society and various other organisations take out a massive rally in the capital to press the government to fix a new ‘unchangeable’ date for the CA elections at the earliest.
The Peace and Reconstruction Ministry, in a press statement states that the government will immediately implement agreements it signed with ethnic and regional groups in the past and asks government agencies concerned to make necessary preparations.

Nov 25: Maoist Chairman admits wrongs of their youth front YCL, and says that they would turn holy from now onwards.
Nov 26: National Planning Commission approves draft of the three-year interim plan.
Secretaries of all the 76 VDCs in Mahottari district resign en mass due to demands for money and life threats issued by various groups.
Nov 27: Amidst growing insecurity in courts across the country in recent days, the judiciary proposes to the government that it have its own security, including marshals, so that it can arrange its security itself.
Nov 28: Despite internal instability, Nepalis' longevity, education status and standard of living has improved over the past one year, says a global report of UNDP.
Nov 29: The Winter Session of the Interim Legislature-Parliament resumes.
Dec 2: VDC secretaries announce a nationwide agitation saying that the government failed to maintain law and order in the country amidst mounting extortion threats, violence and abduction.
International Organization for Migration (IOM) starts interviewing Bhutanese refugees in Jhapa district for the third country resettlement program
Dec 3: After a prolonged slump, tourist arrivals bounce back with vengeance in 2007, breaking all past records, according to Immigration Department and Nepal Tourism Board.
Dec 4: Maoist Chairman Prachanda stresses the need to forge an alliance of royalists, parliamentary parties and his own party, sparking criticism from the coalition partners.
The much-hyped Madhesh Rakshya Bahini (Madhesh security brigade), the newly formed youth wing of the breakaway faction of Nepal Sadbhawana Party (NSP) led by Rajendra Mahato, makes its first ever public appearance at Birgunj.
Home Minister Sitaula claims that only 19,000 out of 31000 People’s Liberation Army men cantoned at various camps would clear the verification process being carried out by UNMIN.
Dec 5: The visiting European Union troika suggests the major political parties to find an agreement so that the Constituent Assembly elections could be conducted at the earliest. They also urge the parties to wait it the polls for a republic.
Dec 6: Maoist cadres thrash Swiss tourist, Steve Jeannereet, for not paying donation to the party at Birethathi in Pokhkara.
World Bank approves its largest ever support package to Nepal with US$253 million in grants designed to improve access to basic and primary education, enhance irrigation, expand rural roads, and improve living conditions, livelihoods, and empowerment among the rural poor.
Dec 7: FNJ central committee meet ends flaying the government for not doing much to protest journalists. It also condemns Maoists for attacking media persons.
Dec 9: Chief of Army Staff General Rookmangud Katawal leaves for India Sunday on a formal invitation by Indian counterpart Deepak Kapoor. He was conferred with the title of the honorary chief of army staff of the Indian army by President Pratibha Patil, signaling resumption of military ties between two neighbours.
Dec 10: Four influential Madhesi leaders of the major parties, including senior NC leader and Minister for Science and Technology Mahanta Thakur resign from their posts and parties to set up a new party in the Terai.
Dec 11: Nepal signs Implementing Agreement with South Korea, a technical agreement on Nepali workers under the Employment Permits System (EPS).
The Rastriya Prajatantra Party removes monarchy from its statute. However, the decision taken by the party’s national convention was not free from controversy with some party leaders and convention representatives opposed the decision.
Dec 13: The Kuwaiti interior ministry has slapped a ban on recruitment of domestic workers from Nepal as the latter were facing intractable problems owing to the non-existence of a Nepali embassy in Kuwait.
Hinting at the latest move by some of the influential Madhesi leaders Maoist Supremo says a conspiracy was being hatched to deprive the Madhesi people of their rights by ‘opening new shops’.
Dec 15: The top leaders of the Seven Party-Alliance (SPA) agree to hold the CA elections by the end of the current Nepali year i.e. mid-April, 2008. But the deadlock over the major political issues persists.

MPRF and Nepal Sadbhawana Party-Mahato held a mass demonstration at Gaur in Rautahat district demanding withdrawal of the names of their activists filed by the Maoists for their alleged involvement in the Gaur massacre earlier this year. Security is beefed up and the rights organisations monitor the rally, which passes away peacefully.
Dec 16: A bill seeking the third amendment to the interim constitution tabled in the interim parliament.
UML General Secretary Nepal reveals that the parties have decided to give the third and a last chance to Koirala to hold the CA elections.
The Maoists hold a peaceful condolence meeting at Gaur to press the government to initiate action against those involved in the Gaur massacre.
The Special Task Force led by the Armed Police Force arrest 19 persons with arms from Morang and Sarlahi districts. Ten of those arrested belong to Madhesi Mukti Tigers. 96 people have been arrested as this date since the APF action started two weeks back.
Dec 17: Nepal Army clarifies that none of its senior officials has held discussions with the Maoist leaders on the integration of their People’s Liberation Army with the national army, and charges that repeated statements of the Maoist leaders could have been issued only to demoralise the army and to create division within its fold.
Dec 18: NEA decides to increase power cuts in all parts of the country from Lamahi in the west to Lahan in the east from the existing four hours a week to six hours a week effective from this day.
Noted industrialist Mahesh Murarka gets abduct by an unidentified armed group from Baneshwar.
Dec 19: MPRF-NSP calls off general strike in Rautahat for Ed-Al-Adha after 18 days.
Nepal-India Joint Level Technical Committee on Boundary prepares an official and scientific map of the Nepal-India border, except for the disputed areas of Susta and Kalapani.
Dec 21: In a landmark verdict the Supreme Court orders that Nepali sexual minorities should be allowed to enjoy all fundamental rights with their "own identity".
Singing legend Koili Devi Mathema, 77, renowned for her enthralling and enchanting voice passes away at her home in Kathmandu.
Dec 22: The top leaders of three major factions of the SPA finalise the draft of a 20-point agreement readied by their taskforce.
UNMIN informs that it has completed the second stage of registration and verification of Maoist combatants, in accordance with the Agreement on Monitoring of the Management of Arms and Armies.

Businessman Mahesh Murarka returns home, five days after being kidnapped by unidentified criminals.

Dec 23: The SPA finally seals a historic 22-point agreement; ‘federal democratic republic’ to be incorporated in the interim constitution; mixed electoral system for 601-member CA; Maoists decide to rejoin the government.

Dec 24: Government withdraws the initial motion seeking a third amendment to the interim constitution; new motion tabled in line with the 23-point agreement. RPP and RJP lawmakers disapprove the agreement.

India becomes the first foreign nation to welcome the pact.

Dec 25: At least 16 people die and dozens go missing after a suspension bridge collapse in Surkhet district.

Dec 26: Government hikes the price of petrol for the second time in less than two months. Petrol costs Rs 80 in the capital and more than Rs 82 — up from 73.5 rupees.

The Election Commission registers the Rajendra Mahato-led Nepal Sadbhawana Party and gives it an election system-- Arrow.

UML General Secretary Nepal says that the top SPA leaders have reached an understanding to ensure that they get elected in the CA elections.
China also welcomes the SPA agreement.

Dec 27: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hails the 23-point SPA agreement.

UNMIN declares that only 19,602, including 3,846 female combatants as eligible personnel of the Maoist People's Liberation Army out of 31,318 combatants registered in the first stage of verification.

Dec 28: Interim parliament declares the country a ‘federal democratic republic’, which is be endorsed by the first sitting of the elected CA. Maoist chairman Prachanda claims that the monarchy has been legitimately ended in the country.

Dec 29: Maoist Chairman Prachanda submits the list of their ministerial candidates, including five ministers and two state ministers.

Dec 30: Maoists rejoin the government; PM Koirala expands the cabinet to include five Maoist ministers and promote to state ministers as the cabinet ministers.

The Samyukta Madhesi Morcha, which groups the MPRF led by Upendra Yadav and the Sadbhavana Party led by Rajendra Mahato warns of decisive Terai agitation if the government does not fulfill their demands, including enforcement of the past 23-point accord with the MPRF, by January 19 (2008).

In an interview given to The Kathmandu Post, influential Madhesi leader Mahanta Thakur hints that they would allow the CA elections in the Terai only after the Madhesi agendas are addressed.

Dec 31: Maoist ministers sworn-in at the state hall of the Singha Durbar by PM Koirala.