Nepal Government and politics Description The politics of Nepal functions within the framework of a parliamentary republic with a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister and his/her cabinet, while legislative power is vested in the Parliament.  Wikipedia Capital :  Kathmandu President :  Bidhya Devi Bhandari Prime minister :  KP Sharma Oli Speaker :  Krishna Bahadur Mahara Government :  Republic, Federation, Parliamentary system, Parliamentary republic, Federal republic I have to admit it. When the latest deadline approached for the new constitution last month, May 27, I was bracing for the worst. I walked to the old city and could count the white people on one hand. I worried about my neighbors here and the fate of this adorable, little country. One judge, said to be corrupt, was assassinated during the first few days after the deadl...

As you can imagine, being a child in Nepal can be very difficult. So much so that statistics tell us that many children in Nepal still do not live to see their fifth birthday. Here are some statistics regarding Nepal from the UNICEF web site: More than 50,000 children die in Nepal each year, with malnutrition as the underlying cause for more than 60 per cent of these deaths. Half of the children in Nepal are underweight and three-fourths of the pregnant women are anaemic. The detection of a few cases of wild polio virus in 2005, following five years without any case, indicates the challenge for cross-border transmission along the border with India. Fifteen per cent of Nepal’s wells are contaminated by arsenic. Despite Nepal's high overall coverage of accessibility to drinking water, access to improved water for deprived, disadvantaged communities and conflict-affected rural and fringe urban areas remains low. Two-thirds of Nepal...