ON MAY 23rd Madhav Kumar Nepal, the communist son of a Hindu priest, became Nepal's new prime minister. He succeeds Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the country's former Maoist leader—the main protagonist in a ...

Gautam Subedi bagged the title of San Miguel Mr Nepal 2003. He jovially stated, "I will utilise the honour given to me in a good way. I have always been interested in modelling and I will do something ...

After weeks of wrangling among political parties in Nepal, veteran Communist leader and former general secretary of Nepal communist party (United Marxist and Leninist) (CPN UML) Madhav Kumar Nepal was ...

Tens of thousands of Maoists' supporters are converging on Nepal's capital ahead of a May Day rally intended to topple the government of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal. In an interview with VOA ...

As Instagram pages go, UB first-year student Mikaj Karki’s has a certain distinction. There’s a reel of him getting socked in the face with snow in the mandatory Buffalo winter action shot. Others ...

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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), requests your ...

If Madhav Kumar Nepal goes on to lead a new political outfit, formed after a vertical split of the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML), as reported in The Hindu on March 31, it ...

K.P. Sharma Oli re-elected as CPN-UML chair for a third term, securing 1,663 votes against Ishwor Pokharel's 584.

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest South Asia news every morning. Nepal’s ruling coalition was struggling for stability at the weekend. Disputes over the allocation of ...