Nepal Update: Communist parties merge, airport runway power failure and other top news of the last seven days

Listen to the latest weekly update from Nepal, including the merger conference of some Nepali communist parties, runway lighting system failure impacts flights in Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport, and Rashtriya Swatantra Party’s Chairman Rabi Lamichhane appears before the High-Level Inquiry Commission headed by former judge Gauri Bahadur Karki.

Nepali communist leaders participate in the merger announcement ceremony of the ten communist parties, unified under the name “Nepali Communist Party,” in Kathmandu, Nepal, on 5 November 2025. Source: NurPhoto / NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images

हाम्रा थप अडियो प्रस्तुतिहरू पोडकास्टका रूपमा उपलब्ध छन्। यो नि:शुल्क सेवा प्रयोग गर्न तपाईंले आफ्नो नाम दर्ता गर्नु पर्दैन। पोडकास्टमा सामाग्री उपलब्ध हुनासाथ सुन्न यहाँ थिच्नुहोस्।