Events from the year 2004 in Nepal.

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

Gyanendra Gyanendra Shah ( ne, ज्ञानेन्द्र शाह, born 7 July 1947) is a former monarch who was the last King of Nepal, reigning from 2001 to 2008. As a child, he was briefly king from 1950 to 1951, when his grandfather, Tribhuva ...

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

: Surya Bahadur Thapa (until 3 June), Sher Bahadur Deuba (starting 3 June) * Chief Justice: Kedar Nath Upadhyaya (until 21 January),

Govinda Bahadur Shrestha Govinda Bahadur Shrestha (1939 - November 12, 2016) was the Chief Justice of Nepal The Chief Justice of Nepal ( ne, प्रधान न्यायाधीश) is the head of the Judiciary, judicial branch of Nepal and the chief justice, ch ...

(starting 22 January)

Events

*March 3 - Maoists attack a

telecommunications tower Radio masts and towers are typically tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. There are two main types: guyed and self-supporting structures. They are among the tallest human-made ...

guarded by security forces in Bhojpur District in eastern

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

, killing 39 government troops while losing 10 of their cadres overnight in one of the fiercest gunbattles between the two sides. *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

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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. *March 29 - Maoist leader Mohan Baidya is arrested in

Siliguri Siliguri, ) is a major tier-II city in West Bengal. It forms twin cities, "Twin Cities" with the neighboring district capital of Jalpaiguri. The city spans areas of the Darjeeling district, Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts in the Indian sta ...

, India. *April 1 - In the largest such incident in the country, armed Maoists abduct approximately 1,000 villagers from seven villages in a single district of Western

*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, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

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. *August 31-September 6 - Riots ensue over the

Nepal hostage crisis The Nepal hostage crisis began on 19 August 2004 when an Iraqi Sunni insurgent group, Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna kidnapped and murdered twelve Nepalis. Events Moonlight Consultancy Private Limited, company based in Nepal, recruited twelve Nepalis t ...

, when 12 Nepalis were taken as hostages in Iraq. *September 8 - Qatar Airways resumes flights to

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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.

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