Nepal elects first woman president, Vidya Devi Bhandari

54 year old Bhandari, the Vice-president of CPN-UML and widow of late general secretary of the party Madan Bhandari, elected as first woman president , weeks after it adopted a new landmark Constitution that declared the country a secular state.The president is the ceremonial head in Nepal while the prime minister is the nation's leader.The Constitution of Nepal, which came into effect on September 20, 2015, replacing the Interim Constitution of 2007. The Constitution was drafted by the Second Constituent Assembly following the failure of the First Constituent Assembly to produce a constitution in its mandated period.