Nepal

Menon, who was scheduled to meet four ministers Sunday before departing for New Delhi, managed to hold talks with only Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala as the foreign ministry, relocated to the former royal palace recently, was away from the ministerial hub which lay under Maoist siege.

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Poudel's election ends over six decades of dominance by the Koirala family, regarded as the Gandhi dynasty of the Himalayan republic.

Girija Prasad Koirala, the strong man of Nepali politics, five-time prime minister and the architect of the peace negotiations that led to the end of the Maoist ...