Veteran communist politician Khadga Prasad Oli was sworn in as Nepal’s prime minister Monday, after his predecessor and former coalition partner Pushpa Kamal Dahal lost a vote of confidence last week, Agence France-Presse reported. Oli, head of the Communist Party of Nepal – Unified Marxist Leninist...
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Sixteen years after mass protests led to the downfall of Nepal’s monarchy, Nepalis frustrated with the republic are demanding that the former king be reinstated, the Associated Press reported. Protesters took to the streets of the capital, Kathmandu, to ask that Gyanendra Shah return as king...
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Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Nepal’s capital this week to demand the restoration of the monarchy that was abolished 15 years ago, the Associated Press reported. Supporters of former King Gyanendra waved national flags and chanted slogans demanding the abolition of...
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres recently journeyed to the foot of Mount Everest in Nepal to issue a warning. He and his colleagues want to prevent Earth’s temperature from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius compared with preindustrial times, reported Euronews. In the last 100...
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Tens of thousands of schoolteachers marched in Nepal’s capital of Kathmandu this week to protest an education reform law, leading to the closure of around 29,000 schools attended by millions of students across the country, the Associated Press reported. The protests, which began last week, are...
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Nepali soldiers were recently searching for survivors after an earthquake struck the western region of Doti. At least six people died in the 5.6-magnitude quake, a tragedy but nonetheless relatively good news in a country where nearly 9,000 perished in a 7.8-magnitude tremor in 2015,...
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Nepalese lawmakers approved a half-billion-dollar US government aid program this week, despite intense opposition from China and local politicians, who warned that the funds will undermine the country’s sovereignty, the Wall Street Journal reported. Parliament Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota said that Millennium Challenge Compact received support from...
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