Curfews were imposed as Nepal’s Cabinet held an emergency meeting today, forming a ministerial committee assigned to resolve violent protests that have left 14 people dead.

Nepal celebrated the end of a bloody 10-year insurgency by declaring a public holiday today, as the international community hailed the deal under which communist rebels will join an interim government.

Fresh rainfall and fog cover over mountains in eastern Nepal was hampering rescuers today as they searched for a helicopter reported missing with 24 people on board, officials said.

THE newly-recalled Nepalese Parliament called yesterday for a ceasefire with communist rebels and elections for an assembly to rewrite the constitution.