Nepal heads to first elections since mass protests
Polls predict that a new coalition government will be formed as no single party is expected to gain the majority required in the parliament on its own.
Nepal may be used as a playground of foreign forces, warns Madhav Kumar Nepal
Madhav Kumar Nepal, the former Prime Minister of Nepal, explains the politics around US interests in the region in the light of the controversial Millennium Challenge Corporation.
Madhav Kumar Nepal on threat of extreme right in Nepal
Madhav Kumar talks about the ongoing political instability in the country, the threat posed by the rising influence of the far right, and the path ahead for the left to defend Nepal’s socialist and secular values enshrined in the constitution.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ becomes Nepal’s prime minister for third time
Dahal, of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), will be prime minister for two-and-a-half years after which he will be succeeded by his erstwhile rival K.P. Oli of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist)
Talks for government formation on after election results declared in Nepal
These were the second elections to be held under the present constitution in Nepal that came into effect in 2015. Voting took place in a single phase this time for the federal and provincial polls
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