King Birendra Bikram, Shah of Nepal, gunned down by his own son and heir after what is said to have been a dispute at a family dinner party over the son's choice of bride, will be long remembered as a ...

King Birendra of Nepal, the world's only Hindu king, died Friday in a bizarre blaze of gunfire that also killed the queen, a daughter and his two sons, one of them the killer who died by his own hand.

Twenty years ago on 1 June, 2001, Nepal witnessed an unimaginably shocking tragedy. King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and eight other members of the royal family were killed during regular monthly family ...

Turbinenbräu, a craft brewer of Switzerland, has drawn the ire of the Nepali community for naming one of its products ‘Birendra’ and using the image of the late king, who had ruled Nepal between 1972 ...

For generations of Bengalis, the dawn of Mahalaya is synonymous with waking at 4am to the legendary voice of Birendra Krishna Bhadra leading the radio broadcast Mahishasurmardini, heralding Durga Puja ...

My husband, Birendra Shankar, who has died of cancer aged 82, was the director of the Sanskritik Centre of Indian Arts, London, and artistic director of the annual Sanskritik Festivals of Arts of ...

HIS MAJESTY KING BIRENDRA BIR BIKRAM SHAH DEV OF NEPAL, who has been killed aged 55, was the world's only Hindu king and was considered by his followers to be an incarnation of the god Vishnu.