2 January – Seven people are killed and eight injured in a bus accident in Palpa.[1]
February
20 February – Hundreds of protestors gather outside the Nepalese parliament in Kathmandu to protest a United States grant from the Millennium Challenge Corporation for infrastructure projects, stating the deal undermines Nepal's sovereignty. Several protesters are injured following clashes with police.[2]
27 February – Federal Parliament of Nepal’s ratifies the $500 million compact between MCC and the Government of Nepal.[3]
23 December – French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who received a life sentence in Nepal for murdering 12 tourists between 1963 and 1976, and suspected of murdering also 18 other people, is released from prison due to his old age and good behaviour in accordance with a Supreme Court order. He was deported to France and barred from Nepal for ten years.[12]
