KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Thousands of supporters of Nepal’s former royal family held a rally Wednesday demanding the restoration of monarchy in the Himalayan nation. They gathered around the statue of ...

When Army chief Gen Ashok Raj Sigdel addressed the nation Tuesday, there was a portrait of Prithvi Narayan Shah, the monarch who unified Nepal, in the background. To many in Nepal, which burst into ...

Artist: Shreejan Rajbhandari. From the private collection of the Museum of Nepali Arts. Contrary to popular belief, Nepal as a nation with different boundaries was founded way before the unification ...

In the 1760s, Prithvi Narayan Shah raised one rupee from each household and travelled down to Banaras to buy weapons for his military conquests. While there, he saw that the Hinduism practiced even in ...

Prithvi Narayan Shah, the 18th century founder of modern Nepal, famously described his fortified kingdom in the Himalayas as a yam between the two boulders of India and China. That perception never ...

Nepal’s first King, Prithvi Narayan Shah, is supposed to have remarked that Nepal was like a yam squeezed between two giant boulders – referring to India and China, of course. The implication was that ...

Nepal is situated in a geostrategic location between two big and powerful states. Historically, Nepal’s foreign policy has focussed on maintaining a balanced relationship with its neighbours. Modern ...