Former King Gyanendra Shah is greeted on his 71st birthday. Narayan Maharjan/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Gyanendra Shah, former king of Nepal, will celebrate his 77th birthday on July 7 ...

Thousands of supporters of Nepal’s former king rallied in the capital Kathmandu on Thursday, calling for the restoration of the constitutional monarchy that was abolished 17 years ago, amid rising ...

KATHMANDU, NepalKATHMANDU, Nepal — Hundreds of protesters demanding the restoration of the monarchy in Nepal clashed with riot police on Tuesday in Kathmandu. Supporters of the former King Gyanendra, ...

In Nepal, the monarchy is over after 240 years. Lawmakers there voted to turn the small Hindu Himalayan nation into a republic. That decision was made by Nepal's new constituent assembly, which is ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Tens of thousands of protesters demanding the abolished monarchy be restored and the former king be made the head of state of the Himalayan nation demonstrated in Nepal Thursday.

On November 23, thousands of demonstrators gathered in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, calling for the restoration of the monarchy and the country’s prior position as an officially Hindu state (currently, ...

Gyanendra Shah, former king of Nepal, will celebrate his 77th birthday on July 7, 2024. Twenty years ago, his birthday would have been a Nepalese national holiday. Indeed, when I first traveled to ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Riot police used batons and tear gas to halt tens of thousands of supporters of Nepal’s former king who attempted to march to the center of the capital on Thursday to demand the ...

A special Nepalese assembly voted Wednesday to formally abolish the country's 239-year-old monarchy and turn Nepal into a republic. King Gyanendra has remained unpopular since he seized absolute power ...

(The Conversation) — Many in Nepal are protesting to bring back the Hindu monarchy, which was dissolved in 2008. A scholar of South Asian religions explains what’s behind these protests. (The ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Riot police used batons and tear gas to halt tens of thousands of supporters of Nepal’s former king who attempted to march to the center of the capital Thursday to demand the ...