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 ...

KATHMANDU: Voting began in Nepal on Sunday in its first local elections in two decades, a landmark moment in the country's fraught transition to democracy. Polls opened in three provinces at 7:00 ...

The local elections – the first in Nepal since 1997 – mark an attempt by the government to restore democracy at the local level hit by a decade-long civil war that ended in 2006 and years of ...

Elections are the hallmark of democratic governance. Nepal held a Local Level Election on 13th May. The successful completion of the election is a victory for the country as it takes a further step ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Nepal’s government announced the dates for the forthcoming local elections on Monday, nearly 20 years after polls were last held for municipalities and village councils in the country.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Millions of people in Nepal were voting Wednesday in the second phase of local elections to choose municipal and village councils despite threats from ethnic groups that ...

Kathmandu - Nepal held local-level polls on Sunday ... a new constitution was written and finally adopted in September 2015. The charter mandated that local elections, followed by provincial and then ...