Bidhya Devi Bhandari, who is largely credited with ensuring that a third of politicians in Nepal are now women, was deputy leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist), and ...

In what is being heralded as a milestone, members of Nepal's parliament elected Bidhya Devi Bhandari as their country's first female president. The election, which took place Wednesday ...

Bidhya Devi Bhandari, the 54-year-old deputy leader of Nepal’s Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist-Leninist, had lobbied actively for the new constitution to require that either the ...

ANI Feeds October 8, 2022 4:05 PM IST Nepal's President Bidhya Devi Bhandari has been admitted to Tribhuwan University Hospital after her health deteriorated. Bhandari, the first woman President ...

It will be Bidhya Devi Bhandari's first foreign visit since assuming the office of the head of the state last October. (File photo) Kathmandu: Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari will be visiting ...

Kathmandu, May 9: With due focus on implementing the new Constitution, carrying out post-earthquake reconstruction and holding local elections, Nepal’s President Bidhya Devi Bhandari presented ...

Nepal's President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on Tuesday called the next house session on January 9, 2023 on the recommendation of the newly formed cabinet. CPN-Maoist Centre chairman and new Nepal Prime ...

Bidhya Devi Bhandari, Nepal’s first female president who was elected earlier this week, has been a welcome exception in this deeply patriarchal South Asian nation, where politics has largely ...

Bidhya Devi Bhandari, a women's rights activist, has been elected the first female president of Nepal. She is the second person to serve in the mostly ceremonial role since Nepal abolished the ...

In her first overseas trip after assuming charge, Nepal's first woman President Bidhya Devi Bhandari will visit India next month during which a range of important issues are likely to be ...

Ms Bhandari (centre) was elected president on Wednesday night by Nepal's parliament Nepal's parliament has elected women's rights campaigner Bidhya Devi Bhandari as its first female president ...