Two transgender candidates are contesting Nepal's local by-elections for the first time, hoping to push for political representation among sexual and gender minorities in the Himalayan nation.

KATHMANDU (AFP) - Voting began in Nepal on Sunday (May 14) in its first local elections in two decades, a landmark moment in the country's fraught transition to democracy. Polls opened in three ...

They are tall and tacky – and mighty popular among the TikTok crowd. As Nepal heads into local level elections scheduled for May 13, the ubiquitous “view towers” (up in the mountains ...

Three years have passed since Nepal's 2022 local level elections. With three annual budgets already presented and only two ...

Crucial local posts have been occupied by government-appointed bureaucrats. Voting took place Wednesday in three of Nepal's seven provinces. Three other provinces held elections last month ...

End of a vacuum “The local areas have been without elected representatives for many years now. This election will end that vacuum,” he said. Pathak said the elections will help Nepal ...

Kathmandu, May 16: The counting of votes for the local elections in Nepal is underway. The main contest is between the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) or CPN-UML and Nepali ...

KATHMANDU (AFP) - Nepal will hold its first local elections in two decades in May, the government has announced, a key moment in the country's fraught transition to democracy. The impoverished ...

Nepal will hold local elections in May 2017 for the first time in 20 years. These are critical for decentralising power away from the ossified political class of Kathmandu, the nation’s capital.

READ MORE: Nepal’s ethnic Madhesis fight for dignity ... The charter mandated that local elections, followed by provincial and then national elections, be held by January 2018 – the final ...

In a democracy, people can exercise their sovereign rights through election," Prachanda said in a statement. "On the one hand, the local polls have stood as a linkage to direct Nepal's peace ...