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News Analysis
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Registration and voting regulations are making it difficult for many Nepalis to get to the polls
Features
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Despite the outsized impact that migrant workers have on Nepal, they are still unable to vote in elections as Nepal has no provisions for absentee voting.
Features
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The chronic in-fighting between Oli and Dahal has reached a point where a party split looks imminent
The Wire
News
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Seventeen years after emancipation, many ex-kamaiyas prepare to vote in local elections for the first time
Perspectives
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Candidates for the local level elections are advertising more and more on social media, especially Facebook, presenting the Election Commission with new problems it must account for.
Features
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Mass protests demanding a return to monarchy and a Hindu state show the public’s simmering discontentment with a left-led government
Features
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Election results reveal gender and Pahad-Terai imbalances in Dalit representation
News
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The Supreme Court steps in to put a stop to the NCP’s latest attempt to hoist also-rans to positions of power