provincial-and-parliamentary-elections

The past is foretold in Nepal poll results

Ten days after Nepal held parliamentary and provincial polls, the last of the election results are trickling in.With ballots in 161 out...

Shristi Karki

Relocating Kathmandu

There is no question that Kathmandu has now become unliveable, and we need to think about moving. There is a proposal to...

The Ass

Vox Populi

For elections to reflect the national mood, they need to be free and fair. Candidates should not win based on caste, ethnic...

Depending on independents

KP Oli of the opposition UML was on the campaign trail in Syangja last week where he directly urged security officials to...

Shristi Karki

Battle of ballots

“For too long we have been taken for a ride by politicians. It is time we took politicians for a ride.”Campaigners on...

Shristi Karki

House of cards

Right after Tihar, Nepalis will be preparing for yet another festival – federal and provincial elections. Five years after the 2017 polls,...

Sonia Awale

Nepal's parties forge new pre-poll alliances

The once extreme left Maoists are allies of the centre-right Nepali Congress. The Unified Marxist-Leninists (UML) has suddenly found friends in the...

Shristi Karki

Swing votes

Federalism might have handed power back to the Nepali people, making way for crucial changes in local-level leadership and driving grassroots development....

Shristi Karki

President’s precedent

President Bidya Devi Bhandari failed to authenticate an amendment bill to Nepal’s Citizenship Act by deadline on Tuesday 20 September, rendering it...

Shristi Karki

The power to have a say in her-story

Nepal’s provincial and federal elections are due on 20 November, but the political parties seem reluctant to allow their women colleagues to...

Shristi Karki