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KATHMANDU, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The CPN-Maoist's decision not to register at the Election Commission (EC) will likely derail the government's plan to hold Constituent Assembly (CA) elections in November, according to political analysts here. The CPN-Maoist, along with 32 fringe parties, refused to register at the EC, a constitutional body mandated to hold national and local elections, saying that any election under the incumbent government and circumstances is meaningless. To take part in the election, only the parties registered in the EC will be eligible. A total of 139 political parties have registered with the EC. The deadline for...

NAGANDA DHIKUR POKHARI, Nepal (Reuters) - He was an average, unremarkable student, well behaved and polite to his elders in his small village in the mountains of western Nepal. Now, four decades later, his first teacher suggests his former pupil should learn to play better with others -- and stop destroying the country. The elusive "Prachanda" - loosely, "awesome" or "majestically terrible" -- who leads Nepal's Maoist revolutionaries learned to read and write at the age of nine in the harsh Kaski area below the Himalayas here in western Nepal. "He was just a normal child for his age --...