Sushila Karki Retired as Nepal's First Woman Prime Minister.

Exam-focused facts from the 28 March 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

Sushila Karki served as Nepal's interim Prime Minister after the 2025 anti-corruption protests that toppled the government.
She assumed office at the request of the Gen Z protest movement and left after guiding the nation to elections.
During her tenure, a commission she established recommended prosecuting her predecessor KP Sharma Oli for the protest violence.
Balendra Shah, a 35-year-old rapper, succeeded her as Prime Minister following the March 5 vote.
Karki had earlier served as Chief Justice of Nepal from 2016 to 2017 and was the country's first female chief justice.
In 2012, she was part of the Supreme Court bench that jailed a serving government minister for corruption, a first in Nepal.