Events

• March 3 - Maoists attack a telecommunications tower
  Radio masts and towers
  Radio masts and towers are, typically, tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. They are among the tallest man-made structures...
  
   guarded by security forces in Bhojpur District in eastern Nepal
  Nepal
  Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
  
  , killing 39 government troops while losing 10 of their cadres overnight in one of the fiercest gunbattles between the two sides.
• March 11 - Maoist guerrillas gun down a leader of Andhra Pradesh
  Andhra Pradesh
  Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...
  
  's ruling Telugu Desam Party
  Telugu Desam Party
  Telugu Desam Party or TDP is a regional political party in India's Andhra Pradesh state. It was founded by former Telugu film star N. T...
  
   (TDP), sending shock waves in the party rank and file.
• March 18 - Maoist guerrillas gun down another TDP leader ahead of the general election.
• March 21 - At least 500 Maoist rebels, 11 soldiers and 7 policemen are killed and 200 injured in one of the bloodiest gunfights with security forces in Myagdi District in western Nepal, 450 km west of Kathmandu where the rebels attacked a district headquarters, freed some prisoners from a jail and looted a bank, according to the Nepalese army. However, Nepal's Maoist rebels denied these claims.
• April 1 - In the largest such incident in the country, armed Maoists abduct
  Kidnapping
  In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away or transportation of a person against that person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment, a confinement without legal authority...
  
   approximately 1,000 villagers from seven villages in a single district of Western Nepal
  Nepal
  Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
  
  
• April 3 - Maoists explode a powerful bomb at the house of the home minister of Nepal damaging the house and injuring security guards.
• April 4 - Maoists reportedly set ablaze nine India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
  n vehicles and opened fire on three Indians a few hours after the rebels bombed the house of home minister of Nepal, Mr. Kamal Thapa.
• September 8 - Qatar Airways
  Qatar Airways
  Qatar Airways Company Q.C.S.C. , operating as Qatar Airways, is the flag carrier of Qatar. Headquartered in the Qatar Airways Tower in Doha, it operates a hub-and-spoke network, linking over 100 international destinations from its base in Doha, using a fleet of over 100 aircraft...
  
   resumes flights to Kathmandu after shutting down operations after an attack on its office in the capital the previous week.
• September 8 - Spice Cell Nepal granted license to operate the first private sector mobile phone service in Nepal.