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KP Sharma Oli

Deuba as PM

South Asia must now fervently hope that a scintilla of normalcy will return to Nepal. Hopefully once more, the putrid parties and politics of the Kathmandu court are over.

Crisis staved off

The justices, in their unanimous decision, said that it would be appropriate to start the process from where the mistake was made. While Mr Deuba has been sworn in, the challenges he faces are formidable.

Rump in Nepal

The Supreme Court's order has reduced the cabinet to five members including himself, and the Ministers for Finance, Education, Physical Infrastructure and Transport and Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.

Overwhelming crisis

The political kerfuffle escalates as Nepal is battling a deadly second wave of the pandemic and is reporting 8,207 new infections on an average each day.

Nepal’s travails

But with Oli engineering the defection of the vice-chair and persuading another powerful member to sit on the fence, the balance has shifted.