The Jhapa-5 victory marks a moment when Nepal’s political centre of gravity shifted from cadre-based party machinery to a youth-backed reform movement centred on former Kathmandu mayor Balendra Shah.

Mamata is now a government civil servant, and has three sisters and a younger brother. All are doing well in their professions: one is a doctor at the Army Hospital, another has an MSc in Microbiology ...

Nepal has delivered a clear, decisive mandate to the RSP in this election, breaking many previous records. Not even Pushpa Kamal Dahal got such a victory during the first Constituent Assembly election ...

Ardern mentions multiple times not thinking of herself as politician material because she has a thin skin, and she talks ...

Despite these challenges, the 5 March election offers a unique opportunity. Nepal’s democracy, often complicated, has once ...

This is the 88th episode of Diaspora Diaries, a Nepali Times series in collaboration with Migration Lab providing a platform ...

Sarhali-4 has 121,012 voters, and the Yadav is banking on the 27,000-strong Yadav vote bank. Sarlahi-4 voter Avishek Sah told ...

It took the September GenZ firestorm and public anger against non-performing actors for a 35-year-old structural engineer and rapper Balendra (Balen) Shah to oust Nepal’s four-time prime minister and ...

I have mixed feelings about missing the election. They say we have to choose a good leader, but they all make lofty, empty ...

Nepal Oil Corporation has launched a new aviation fuel refilling service at Bharatpur Airport in Chitwan to accommodate the ...

RSP hits the magic 138 to form a government entirely on its own. Balendra Shah wins Jhapa-5, and becomes the new prime ...

News in the foreign media of the election from Nepal was eclipsed this week by the war in West Asia. Nepali Times brings this ...