KATHMANDU - Nearly four months after the royal coup in Nepal, the Indian press this week unveiled secret links between India's intelligence services and Nepal's Maoist rebels. But curiously, the revelations have failed to kick up a raging controversy in Nepal. On...

KATHMANDU - It is perhaps too much to say that Lady Luck had never smiled on Gagan Kumar Thapa, a 28-year-old charismatic Nepali student leader at the forefront of Nepal's pro-democracy protests. But luck indeed never seemed to favor him. Charged with sedition for...