In 2008, in a major development in Nepal’s politics, the Parliament voted to end Nepal’s 240-year-old Hindu monarchy.

Nearly seventeen years ago - on May 28, 2008, to be exact - Nepal abolished a 239-year-old Hindu monarchy. On Sunday, over 10 ...

With an average annual income of $315 per capita, Nepal is the second poorest country in Asia after Afghanistan and one of ...

Support for the restoration of the monarchy has grown amid dissatisfaction over political instability. Read more at ...

Thousands of supporters attend pro-monarchy rally at airport as ex-king returns to the capital from the country’s west.

Nepal’s deposed king got a royal welcome in Kathmandu on Sunday with thousands of supporters turning up outside Tribhuvan International Airport. Gyanendra Shah, 77, was greeted by a large crowd that ...

THE country's former king Gyanendra Shah has been welcomed back to Kathmandu by thousands of supporters who have been staging ...

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s former king Gyanendra Shah was ... the monarchy as part of a peace deal that ended a decade-long civil war in which more than 16,000 people were killed. However, support ...

KATHMANDU: Nepal's former king Gyanendra Shah was welcomed ... monarchy as part of a peace deal that ended a decade-long civil war in which more than 16,000 people were killed.