Nepals

Celebrating Pride Month: A Glimpse into Nepal’s Third-Gender Community

Kin Coedel collaborated with the Meti and Hijra women of Nepal to create Between Reverence and Rejection, giving them recognition and exposing the paradox of a culture that venerates mythical femininity but

June 1, 2026

Nepal’s opposition moves to strike down ordinances in National Assembly – Asia News Network

May 15, 2026 kathmandu – Nepal’s opposition has moved to block all eight ordinances proposed by the government, escalating legal and political pressure on the ruling party after sending notices to both

May 15, 2026

Nepal’s Constitutional Council regains full strength after eight months – Asia News Network

April 29, 2026 kathmandu – The long-vacant Constitutional Committee is now full as the main opposition Nepali Congress party on Monday elected Bishma Raj Angdembe as its parliamentary leader. The commission has

April 29, 2026

Democracy in the shadow of supermajority: Nepal’s strong government, weak opposition

KATHMANDU – In the general elections held on March 5, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) bagged a staggering 182 seats in the 275-member House of Representatives. The RSP’s landslide victory is reminiscent

March 31, 2026

Can Nepal’s new government deliver on its ambitious 100-point roadmap?

March 31, 2026 kathmandu – Prime Minister Balendra Shah’s new government unveiled an ambitious 100-point work plan on Saturday, a signal of a break from the slow, plodding pace of past governments.

March 31, 2026

Nepal’s Balendra Shah picked as parliamentary party leader, clearing path for prime ministership

March 27, 2026 kathmandu – The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSP) on Thursday unanimously elected senior leader Balendra Shah as its parliamentary party leader, formally paving the way for his appointment as the

March 27, 2026

Nepal’s Rastriya Swatantra Party to amend charter to make Balendra Shah prime minister

March 16, 2026 kathmandu – The Rastriya Swatantra Party won nearly a two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives elections and will meet on Sunday to discuss government formation. Party chairman Rabi

March 16, 2026

Nepal’s election commission mulls change in voter education strategy

kathmandu – The Electoral Commission (EC) is considering revamping its voter education strategy after preliminary data from the March 5 House of Representatives election revealed a large number of invalid votes. Suman

March 12, 2026

Is leadership of Nepal’s RSP hesitant to confirm Shah as PM?

March 12, 2026 kathmandu – As the counting of votes in the parliamentary election nears completion, putting the People’s Party (RSP) on track to secure a near-two-thirds majority, comments from some party

March 12, 2026

Nepal’s Balen Shah’s rise contributes to the fall of identity politics

March 11, 2026 kathmandu – In 2006, when the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) ended a decade-long insurgency, identity politics became a buzzword and later dominated Nepal’s political discourse during the constitution-making

March 11, 2026

Ex-rapper set to form Nepal’s first majority government in decades

Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah is expected to form Nepal’s first majority-led government in decades after winning a landslide victory in the first polls held since deadly violence last year. As of Monday afternoon,

March 9, 2026

Rapper-turned-politician Balen Shah on course to become Nepal’s new prime minister

March 9, 2026 kathmandu – Jhapa-5 is the most watched constituency in Nepal’s March 5 elections. The race pits Balendra Shah, the popular former mayor of Kathmandu, against former prime minister KP

March 9, 2026

Postponement rumours swirl ahead of Nepal’s March 5 polls

February 26, 2026 kathmandu – As the March 5 election approaches, questions have begun on social media and elsewhere about whether early voting will take place as scheduled. Controversial monarchist Durga Prasain

February 26, 2026

Issues of nature and conservation take a back seat in Nepal’s election campaigns

Lumbini – Infrastructure development dominates speeches and poll manifestos as political parties step up campaigning ahead of the March 5 elections, while issues of nature conservation, ecotourism and climate resilience remain largely

February 25, 2026

First-time voters in Nepal’s poorest districts want results not empty promises

Australian Chamber of Commerce – Junichande rural municipality in Jajarkot district is the poorest among Nepal’s 753 local units, according to government statistics. For Neera Shahi, 24, of the township’s sixth ward,

February 23, 2026

Nepal’s elections come and go but elephants keep coming

February 19, 2026 jehapa – When dusk falls in Bahundangi, locals brace themselves for familiarity. Herds of wild elephants crossed the Meji River from India into settlements, trampling crops, destroying houses and

February 19, 2026

Let down time and again, squatters in Nepal’s Palpa have little enthusiasm to vote

palpa – For Jit Bahadur BK, 62, of Jaisi Chaupari in Tansen Municipality 6, land ownership has been elusive for more than three decades. BK moved to Palpa 32 years ago from

February 13, 2026

Nepal’s upcoming House election explained

kathmandu – Election fever is sweeping the country as the nomination process is completed. While the Electoral Commission has issued warnings against campaigning before February 19, top leaders across party lines have

January 30, 2026

As campaigns go digital, Nepal’s election integrity is at stake

kathmandu – In an effort to control misinformation, disinformation and hate speech on social media during the 2022 national elections, the electoral commission announced plans to coordinate with technology companies such as

January 29, 2026

Snowfall cuts off Nepal’s highland villages, low voter turnout feared

January 29, 2026 Surhit/Taplejung/Pokhara/Gorkha – Heavy snowfall on Saturday disrupted traffic at Hilsa in Sector 5 and Limi in Sector 6 of South Carolina Rural Municipality in Humla district. The villages have

January 29, 2026

Can Nepal’s viral mayor run the country?

January 29, 2026 JHAPA/JANAKPUR/KATHMANDU – It was 11:56 pm on November 1, 2025, and Balendra Shah was sitting in a restaurant in Lalitpur, scrolling through his phone, when he decided to pick

January 29, 2026

Older candidates dominate despite Nepal’s youth-heavy electorate

kathmandu – A total of 3,406 candidates nationwide have submitted nominations for the March 5 House of Representatives elections. Of these, 2,263 belong to a political party and 1,143 are running as

January 26, 2026

Heavyweights enter Nepal’s electoral race, while some sit out

kathmandu – Despite some minor incidents, nominations for the March 5 elections ended largely peacefully across the country on Tuesday. Several prominent candidates from different political parties submitted their nominations to the

January 22, 2026

Nepal’s democratic transformation – Asia News NetworkAsia News Network

Nowhere else in the world are nearly 2 billion people (nearly 40 percent of humanity living under democratically elected governments) so stubbornly committed to a project of self-government. This is a region

January 14, 2026