Markets reopened for business, vehicles returned to the streets and some banks allowed customers to withdraw cash in Nepal today after the former communist rebels ended their debilitating six-day general strike.

The former leader of Nepal’s Maoist insurgency captured a seat today on a new assembly that will chart the Himalayan country’s future, election officials said.

The former leader of Nepal’s bloody Maoist insurgency captured a seat today on a new assembly that will chart the Himalayan country’s future, election officials said.