Kathmandu: Newly-elected President Bidhya Devi Bhandari was sworn in on Thursday as the first female president of Nepal.
Bhandari was administered the oaths of office and secrecy by Chief Justice Kalyan Shrestha at the presidential palace, Xinhua news agency reported.
Bhandari was elected to the post on Wednesday after she clinched an over-whelming victory in the presidential poll defeating Nepali Congress candidate Kul Bahadur Gurung.
Last week, 15-year-old, Farhad Jabar, shot dead a 58-year-old police worker while reportedly shouting religious slogans before dying in a gun-battle with police.
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Kasturi Munirathinam's right arm was chopped off, allegedly by her employer, when she tried to escape from their house
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The police in East Hartford town, of Connecticut state, suspect a person of Indian-origin to be behind a variation of an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scam