Nepal’s debt, domestic as well as international, has tripled in the last five years as the government borrowed heavily to fund the infrastructure and development requirements generated especially after the 2015 earthquake causing heavy damage to its infrastructure

Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Monday summoned the House of Representatives on March 7, the first since the country’s Supreme Court nullified the earlier decision of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s government to dissolve the house

An increasing number of women activists in Nepal have reported online hate, abuse and even rape threats for raising their voice against widespread cases of rape and violence against women in the country

The Nepal government has issued a provision for Qatari employers who wish to hire Nepali workers where they would have to commit to paying a certain charge as a service fee to local recruiting agencies in Nepal

The Nepal government should immediately withdraw an ordinance that undermines the independence of constitutional human rights bodies and rescind recent appointments that were made without consultation or parliamentary approval, Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists, and Amnesty International said on Monday

Nepal police have arrested two people for their alleged involvement in trafficking a woman and her daughter to Turkey last year where they were sold for 2000 lira

The Nepali Congress Party chief Sher Bahadur Deuba - a former prime minister - has emerged as the kingmaker in Nepal politics as both factions of the Communist Party try to woo him and may eventually even turn out to be the king amidst twists and turns in the country's political scenario

A Chinese firm, China Overseas Engineering Co, won a bid to construct a water diversion tunnel at Sunkoshi river in Nepal with an estimated cost of $85 million

Nepal has sought another five million of Covishield vaccine from the Serum Institute of India, The Nepal government had earlier also signed a contract for the delivery of two million doses of Covishield, of which one million doses has already been delivered

Nepal has been one of the swiftest countries to procure coronavirus vaccines for its citizens, faster than it is able to give them the jabs

Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli will not resign from the post and has decided to face the house of representatives following the Supreme Court decision overturning his December 20 move of dissolving the House

Police in Nepal detained six persons, including women rights activist Sharada Chand, while they were staging a protest demanding justice for a rape victim when Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli was there to lay the foundation stone of an industrial estate on Tuesday

In what came as a big blow to Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, the country’s apex court on Tuesday nullified last year's December 20 decision of the government to dissolve the House of Representatives

It has been almost three months since the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) saw a split between the factions, each led by Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and his rival Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, and the country’s Election Commission is yet to legalize a formal split in the party

Between 2006 and 2016, Nepal had spent billions of rupees schemes to tackle the problem of anemia in the country, but these programs have very little or no impact to address the issue