Even after the UML-Maoist alliance won a near two-third majority in Parliament-Province elections three months ago, not many were sure this…
Om Astha Rai
SELFRULE: Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj arrives at Kathmandu airport on Thursday afternoon even as the UML and Maoists were…
Q&A: An enumerator interviewing a respondent in Ilam last week for the Himalmedia Public Opinion Survey 2018. A decade after Nepal was declared…
LOCKING HORNS: Two bulls face off in Taruka village of Nuwakot, some 60 km east of Kathmandu. Local farmers make their bulls fight for a prize…
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Bhanu Bhattarai The louder the clarification, the deeper the speculation. This appears to describe Maoist Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s statement…
The bargaining for power in the merged communist parties and the wrangling in the provinces is a sign of things to come, and what lies in store for Nepali politics in the new year
Kunda Dixit
Two weeks after the final phase of elections, the NC, voted out by the people, clings to power, while the Left Alliance is struggling to form the new government.
Thanks to the new Constitution, women who were under-represented in the First Past the Post results will get seats in federal and provincial assemblies via Proportional Representation quotas.
Nepalis turned out in large numbers to vote in the final phase of the final elections Thursday that marked the end of a post-war transition that…
By successfully holding the first phase of parliamentary and provincial elections early this week, and gearing up for the last phase next week,…
In a month or so, when the new Parliament and seven state assemblies come into being, Nepal will join a list of countries ruled by federal…
THE REPUBLIC OF MEN: UML candidate for parliamentary polls in Kaski constituency 1, Khagraj Adhikari (second from eft), during his election…
Man Bahadur Gurung, a UML candidate for the Province 4 assembly, campaigning on Wednesday in Sikles of Kaski District. As Nepal braces for its…
Nepal’s electoral politics was thrown off-kilter by the surprise alliance between the Maoist-Centre and the UML. The aftershocks are still being…
Winter-like weather has come early to Kathmandu Valley this year, and with it the temperature inversion layer that traps pollution. Already in…
Forging electoral alliances in Nepal is getting to be far more difficult than solving a Rubik’s Cube. While most people are immersed in…
Who would have thought that Nepal’s two largest communist parties, poles apart ideologically and sniping constantly, would unite? Especially…
The main political actors have not changed: they are still mostly conservative, ‘higher’ caste men
After years of polarisation between hills and plains, the parties appear to have realised the benefits of integration
Julia Thomas
A bullet killed her son. Now she is turning to the ballot for justice, not just for herself but for everyone in the community. On a calm…
Jiyalal Sah
As the waters of last month’s devastating floods recede, bodies of the missing are starting to appear. Guddu Kumar Singh, 12, was washed away on…
Santa Gaha Magar
In diplomacy, some things are better left unspoken, and that is exactly what India’s PM Narendra Modi did at a joint press meet with visiting…
If the earthquake in April 2015 brought together four major parties to fast-track the Constitution, this week’s devastating floods have given…
Crusading physician Govinda KC’s fast enters its 19th day on Friday. Even as his health deteriorates, Parliament shows no sign giving in to his…
