They gathered around the statue of King Prithvi Narayan Shah, who started the Shah dynasty in the 18th century. The last Shah king — Gyanendra — was forced to step down and the monarchy ...

People circumambulate the statue of Prithvi Narayan Shah at Singha Darbar during a rally held to mark Prithvi Jayanti on 12 January. Photo: NABN POUDEL/RSS We all knew that the populist surge in India ...

KATHMANDU, JANUARY 11. President Ramchandra Paudel has said that the Divyopadesh (precepts) of Prithvi Narayan Shah, the leader of the Nepal unification campaign, are a guidance for economy ...

KATHMANDU: When Prithvi Narayan Shah, the forefather of Nepal’s current King Gyanendra, finally conquered Kathmandu in 1768, he did so on the day of the most important festival of the year ...

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 ...

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