Vice-Chairperson of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN-UML) Bidhya Devi Bhandari waves after voting at the Parliament in Kathmandu, Nepal, Oct. 28, 2015. Nepal's CPN (UML)'s Vice President Bidhya Devi Bhandari has been elected as the first female president of Nepal on Wednesday, the first time in the history of the patriarchy-backed Himalayan nation to grace the title of head of state to any woman. (Xinhua/Pratap Thapa)
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Nepal parliament elects first female president
KATHMANDU, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Nepal's parliament on Wednesday elected Bidhya Devi Bhandari, Vice Chairperson of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), as the country's first female president.
Bhandari, 54, has been the second president of the Himalayan country after it became the federal democratic republic in 2008 ending a 240-year Monarchy. Full story
