KATHMANDU, March 29 (Reuters) - Nepal's government is investigating deadly violence that occurred during a rally by the supporters of the former king seeking the restoration of constitutional ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Former King Gyanendra Shah of Nepal waves upon his arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu ...

An estimated 10,000 supporters of Gyanendra Shah blocked the main entrance to Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport as he arrived from a tour of western Nepal. Thousands of supporters gathered ...

Thousands of people welcomed former king Gyanendra to Kathmandu amid a rise in calls to reinstate Hindu monarchy in Nepal. The Himalayan kingdom is seeing bike rallies and surge in online posts ...

Nepal’s former king, King Gyanendra Shah, was welcomed by thousands of his supporters in capital Kathmandu on Sunday, amidst calls for the reinstatement of monarchy and Hinduism as a state religion.

The Nepal Army was called out and curfew imposed in parts of Kathmandu Friday after two persons, including a TV cameraman, died and over a dozen were injured in clashes between supporters of the ...

A monarch who lost his throne 19 years ago has turned into a rallying point for citizens angry and frustrated with the system, the constitution, and the leaders of the democratic republic of Nepal. On ...

In a major blow to Nepal’s development efforts, as many as 34 USAID projects worth Rs46.12 billion ($329,429,516) have been permanently terminated, according to multiple media reports coming from the ...

Thousands of Nepalis have rallied in Kathmandu, demanding the reinstatement of former king Gyanendra Shah and the restoration of Hinduism as the state religion. Frustration with political ...

Thousands of supporters greeted Nepal’s former king in capital Kathmandu on Sunday and demanded his abolished monarchy be reinstated and Hinduism brought back as a state religion. An estimated ...

Nearly seventeen years ago - on May 28, 2008, to be exact - Nepal abolished a 239-year-old Hindu monarchy, with Gyanendra Shah as king, and brought the curtain down on a decade-long civil war that ...