Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVESNepal’s elections have traditionally been driven by vote-bank politics. Voters cast their ballots depending on…
Illustration: SWORUP NHASIJUWith Nepalis distracted by slow vote-counting, the government sneaked in another petrol price hike to Rs170 per…
A rapper who is an independent mayoral candidate represents a Nepal-wide disenchantment with traditional politicians
Flags of rival parties UML and Nepali Congress as seen from my family home in Syangja. All photos: SHRISTI KARKIEarlier this year, I visited my…
Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVENepalis across the country vote on Friday the 13th for municipal and ward councils, but its outcome may decide the…
A mayor candidate in Bajura district's Budhiganga municipality asks an elderly for a vote during a home visit ahead of elections on 13 May.…
Stone quarry in Lalitpur's Tikabhairav. All photos: SAGAR BUDHATHOKIKonjyosom Rural Municpality is just 30km south of the Ring Road, but it…
Three days after the Nepali Congress (NC) Central Working Committee announced it would leave it up to its local committees to decide on…
Gita Adhikari giving sewing machines to women from the Muslim community.Gita Adhikari, the deputy mayor of Damak, quit her job as assistant…
Illustration: SWORUP NHASIJUIn the five years since transitioning into the federal system, Nepal’s local governments have garnered much more…
Photo: PRADEEP RAJ ONTAAs per Nepal’s Local Election Act 2017, voting for all 753 local governments must be held by 19 March. But the governing…
May 2017 was a milestone in Nepal’s transition from a unitary system to a federal state, but a year since locally elected representatives took…
In the three decades after 1960 when political parties were banned, there were Village Panchayats. After the democratic changes in 1990, they…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZq9PMPzTrg&feature=youtu.beIt has been one year since Nepal wrapped up all three rounds of local elections.…
Photo: KUNDA DIXITAt a recent breakfast meeting in a hotel he owns, Dhawal Shumsher Rana peels a hard-boiled egg while his mobile rings…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAKathmandu Valley has 11 mayors, and the public's perception of most of them one year after they were elected is not very…
When Nepali Times decided last month to profile a dozen model mayors, we had no idea how difficult the job was going to be. There were not that…
