Critics allege that it is not just caste discrimination leading many Dalits in Nepal to turn away from Hindu beliefs and become Christians
Worshippers at a Christian church in Thakaldanda, Nepal. The country has one of the fastest growing Christian populations in the world. All photographs: (...)
Local women patrol the Nepal-Indian border to apprehend people taking girls out of the country
A dusty junction in Birgunj, Nepal. Photograph: Gavin Kelleher
Just before dawn in the bustling city of Birgunj, an elegant middle-aged woman clocks on to start her border patrol shift.
Maya (...)
Far from being a revolutionary force, the new communist party seems intent on carrying forward the hallowed tradition of the ruling parties in Nepal misusing state treasury to enrich and expand their patronage networks.
Kathmandu: The all-powerful communist government of K.P. Sharma Oli has (...)
It is crucial for secularists in Nepal to define what they mean by secularism, and to actively defend and promote it. Some forces in Nepal, supported by the Modi government in India, want Nepal to become a “Hindu state.”
Four years ago, a question put to Sushma Swaraj suggested that both India (...)
Both Prime Minister Oli and CPN-Maoist Centre leader Prachanda need each other’s help to maintain the strength of the government and the unified party.
Kathmandu: In October 2017, Nepal’s two main communist forces— the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxists Leninists (UML) the Communist Party (...)
A significant proportion of the population in Nepal migrates abroad every year to work Remittances contribute approximately 30% of the country’s GDP. Disgracefully, the state has neglected the issues of foreign labour migration and ignored the concerns, rights, and welfare of migrant workers and (...)
The merger has given the anti-India voice in the country a strong platform.
The long-awaited unification of Nepal’s two big communist parties, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), has concluded. The two parties have signed a (...)
Communists have won a land slide victory in the elections for House of Representatives of Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal held in two phases on 26th November and 7th December 2017. In the parliament of 275, the elections were held for 165 seats under the first past the post system (FPTP) (...)
The incumbent, the Nepali Congress, was wracked by corruption scandals, infighting, and the lack of any vision for the country.
You might as well imagine a large red flag fluttering from the summit of Mount Everest. That’s what the outcome of the parliamentary and provincial elections in Nepal (...)
Recent elections in Nepal may further entrench divisions that have stalled democratic progress for a decade.
Between May and September of this year, Nepal held its first local elections in twenty years . Soon, they will elect a new parliament and form new provincial councils, which were (...)
Nepal’s power tussle is overshadowing pressing national issues.
Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Oli has stepped down as a key coalition partner, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Center) led by Prachanda, withdrew support for the government. Nepal’s parties are bracing to form a new government, (...)
Things haven’t gone as planned since the fall of the monarchy in Nepal. The Left should embrace the struggle for a federal constitution.
Less than quarter of a century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Nepal joined the modest list of nations where a revolution from the Left had seen success. (...)
Indian participants at film festival in Kathmandu blame New Delhi’s ’unconscionable support’ of blockade for humanitarian crisis in Nepal.
A group of filmmakers participating in the Film Southasia festival in Kathmandu have called upon the Indian government to end its “unconscionable support” for (...)
Network appeals to Indian government to ensure that Nepalese people get adequate supplies as political unrest enters third month.
Right to Food Campaign (India), an informal network of individuals and organisations working to ensure the right to food in the country, on Wednesday expressed (...)
New Delhi, 4 October.
More than 100 prominent persons from different sections of the society have expressed their anguish on the interference by India in Nepal’s internal affairs. They have welcomed the promulgation of the Constitution on 20 September. Mentioning the displeasure shown by the (...)
After a decade long insurgency with thousands killed, the Nepalese Maoist movement entered a new political phase of contesting the formal political process and promising peace and development. They entered government through a strong election showing for the 2008 Constituent Assembly, charged (...)
Despite all the ideological weaknesses, the Left remains a mass force that is not seen in any other country of the region. The masses seem to have tried the Maoists and have now shifted to the UML.
I was present as an International Observer to the November 19 general elections in Nepal, (...)
Kathmandu: 16th November 2013
I am here in Kathmandu, Nepal as an election observer. National Election Observation Committee has invited some 20 international observers, and I am one of them. NEOC established in 1991, is a coalition of human rights groups, civil society organizations and (...)
Govt declares elections on Nov 19; passes election ordinance
The government has announced the Constituent Assembly elections on November 19. A marathon cabinet meeting Thursday evening fixed the election date.
The government also endorsed the draft of the election ordinance, deciding to (...)
Sixteen years after Nepal’s Maoists presented a memorandum with 40 points to the then government before launching their ‘People’s War’, a splinter radical Maoist party has decided to present a list of 70 demands to the Maoist-led government.
The Mohan Vaidya ‘Kiran’-led Communist Party of (...)
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