Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (वीरेन्द्र वीर विक्रम शाह) (28 December 1945 – 1 June 2001) was a King of Nepal. The son of King Mahendra, whom he ...

Prince Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev was born at ... Eventually, after large-scale civil disobedience, King Mahendra announced that elections for a representative assembly would take place in ...

“King Birendra hated war and violence, and knowing that the Maoist insurgency was on the rise, he was keen on finding a peaceful solution. He was actually working on a peace plan when the massacre ...

King Mahendra went on to institute the Panchayat ... A mass movement in 1990 finally persuaded the late King Birendra, the present monarch's elder brother, to lift the ban on political parties ...

Nepal’s King Mahendra is a poet, tiger hunter and consummate wheeler-dealer. As monarch of a mile-high, land locked nation, one of whose principal exports is the steely little Gurkha soldier ...

Gyanendra's late father, King Mahendra, established a rubber-stamp ... suddenly assumed the crown in 2001 after his brother, King Birendra, was gunned down in a palace massacre apparently ...

On succeeding Mahendra as king in 1972, the advice Birendra received from court astrologers was that the most auspicious occasion for his coronation would be on February 4, 1975, at 0837 hours ...

King Mahendra passed the throne to his eldest son, Birendra. But in June 2001, King Birendra was murdered in the palace, allegedly by his own son, along with his wife and children and half a dozen ...

After they returned, his father, King Mahendra, took the throne in 1955 and he determined Birendra, his eldest son, would be the first member of Nepal's royal family to be educated in the West.