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For 240 years Nepal has been under the rule of the Shah Dynasty, revered as incarnations of the Hindu God Vishnu. In 2001, the then deranged Crown Prince killed most of the Royal Family in a shooting, including his father (King Birendra), and then...

King Gyanendra's fate is being discussed furiously behind closed doors as the Maoists demand that monarchy be dissolved immediately in Nepal. In fact, he is the reason why the constituent assembly elections were postponed from the scheduled date of...

Nepal, yet to recover from the bloody Maoist insurgency that had gripped the Himalayan kingdom since 1996, killing thousands of people and countless unaccounted for, is heading for a fresh round of potential instability. The peace accord signed by the...

India has often been caught napping on Nepal. The royal coup in 2005 by king Gyanendra had surprised India; while Pakistan and China had known beforehand of it. The announcement of postponement of the November elections in Nepal has left India...

With military rule in Pakistan and Burma, political upheavals in Bangladesh, LTTE rebels causing panic in Sri Lanka, terrorism in India, never ending (as it seems) terrorism in Afghanistan, majority of the Asian nations are struggling against...

Nepal was scheduled to conduct crucial constituent assembly elections on June 20 but the government of Nepal has postponed the date. Further, the eight parties meeting failed to sit for formal talks to decide the further date on Sunday. Earlier,..

In a historic event Nepali parliament passing an undisputed amendment by 278 votes to five turned Nepal from a unitary state into a federal nation just after when monarchy was wiped out from the Himalayan nation few months ago. The development took.

The Monarchy is being erased from every corner of Nepal it seems. The King's image has already been removed from bank notes. Now, the Nepalese government has taken another important decision regarding the Royal properties. The government wants...

The bleeding civil war may have came to close a while ago, the peace process in Nepal is far from over, for today thousands of Maoists rebels after throwing the arms and being a part of the historic peace initiative are doomed to lead a poor and...

The golden old days have gone for Monarch in Nepal. The king has been lost the power and now losing the love of his own people. It has been completed one year of his ouster from the power and the king is facing the heat. On the day of...