A report into the Nepal royal family massacre is expected to be completed without one key witness. A panel investigating the deaths of most of Nepal's royal family, including the king and queen, has ...

Nepal's former king has expressed sorrow over last month's violent demonstrations by pro-monarchy supporters while lending tacit support to their participants in his first public statement on the ...

While the former authoritarian monarch remains controversial, the movement in his favor reflects the frustration of some Nepalis given the instability that has prevailed since the country became a ...

Nepal's monarchy was abolished in 2008 as part ... and much of the immediate royal family were killed in the infamous palace massacre. In 2005, he dismissed the government and imposed direct ...

As someone who grew up in Nepal's post-monarchical noughties but now feels an odd sense of royal nostalgia for a time I never ...

Authorities in Nepal have over 100 people as the government investigates the deadly violence that occurred during a protest march organised by the supporters of the former king Gyanendra Shah, seeking ...

KATMANDU, Nepal -- Nepal has held a Hindu traditional ... Official state mourning for the royal family ended on Sunday, but the elephant ceremony is traditionally carried out 11 days after the ...

He killed nine members of his family, including his father, mother, brother and sister, before shooting himself in the head. It would become known as the Nepalese royal massacre. Dipendra's ...

Kathmandu (AFP) – Nearly two decades since Nepal became a secular republic, a surge of pro-monarchy protests have swept the Himalayan nation, fuelled by economic despair and disillusionment with ...

The 2001 Nepalese royal massacre resulted in the ... leaving nearly the entire royal family, including King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, dead. Gyanendra Shah, the king no one expected, took ...

Nearly two decades after Nepal transitioned to a secular republic ... killed in a palace massacre that wiped out most of the royal family. His coronation took place as the Maoist insurgency ...