Today is Nepali Constitution Day (Sambidhaan Diwas). This is treated as the National Day of Nepal and celebrates the adoption of the current Constitution on this day in 2015. In most countries, National Day takes place on their Independence Day. Through all its history of border expansion and contraction, Nepal has never been colonized and ruled by foreigners, which means Nepal doesn’t celebrate an Independence Day.
This was the first full-fledged constitution to be drafted by democratically elected representatives after the South Asian country became a federal democratic republic in 2008 following the overthrow of the 240-year monarchy. The process to enact a new Constitution has been a drawn-out one, with several efforts to produce a new Constitution drafted since 2008.
The 2015 Constitution restructured Nepal into a federal republic, dividing the nation into seven provinces. It also completed the transition of Nepal from constitutional monarchy to republicanism and from a unitary system to federalism.
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Today is the birthday, in 1935, of Nick Massi from American rock and pop band The Four Seasons who had the 1960s hits ‘Sherry’, ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’, ‘Walk Like a Man’, and the 1976 UK & US No.1 single ‘December 1963, (Oh What A Night’). They are one of the best-selling musical groups of all time, having sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide. Massi died on 24th December 2000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG1JnZ-eOHg
