Overview
- Health officials raised the toll to at least 72 dead and more than 2,100 injured in last week’s violence that torched key state buildings.
- Sushila Karki ordered recognition of those killed as martyrs, pledged 1 million Nepali rupees to each family, and directed free treatment for the injured.
- The president dissolved the lower house and set parliamentary elections for March 5, 2026, as Karki vowed to hand over power within six months.
- Police said 3,723 escaped inmates have been re‑arrested while about 10,320 remain at large, and the prime minister’s office shifted to the Home Ministry building after arson.
- Karki named initial ministers — Kulman Ghising, Rameshwor Khanal and Om Prakash Aryal — and appointed Sabita Bhandari as attorney general, while promising probes into organised arson and vandalism.