NEW DELHI: The 35-year-old mayor of Kathmandu is set to become Nepal’s youngest elected prime minister, just six months after his predecessor was ousted following Gen Z protests against nepotism, ...

Nepal may lose 132,000 existing jobs—about half of them held by women—and incur nearly $1 billion in economic losses over five years following its graduation from the Least Developed Country (LDC) to ...

KATHMANDU – Draped in garlands, Ms Bhumika Shrestha on March 16 became Nepal’s first transgender woman lawmaker, marking a proud milestone for the marginalised community in the Himalayan nation. Nepal ...

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Nepal’s electoral seismic shock has proffered as many questions as answers. It is clear who has been voted out—the established parties—but less clear who has been voted in and what they stand for. In ...

Urban wildlife comes in many guises – and sizes. But could an animal as huge as a rhinoceros stroll the streets? Well, yes, and that animal is the Indian rhino. The second-largest of five extant ...

Nepal’s centrist Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), the party of rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah, won a majority in parliament with 182 seats, Election Commission results showed Thursday (March 12 ...

Nepal's historic election has delivered a seismic result. The four-year-old Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), led by rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah, has achieved a feat many thought impossible ...

UNCOMMON SENSE: Bibeksheel Nepali founder Ujwal Thapa with Ranju Darshana (now Neupane and elected from Kathmandu-1) at a public event in 2018 (left) and with Biraj Bhakta Shrestha, who was electied ...

Before he dismantled Nepal’s political elite, Balendra Shah was destroying his opponents in underground rap battles. More than a decade ago, armed with a microphone and his signature sunglasses, he ...