Nepal's first female envoy Binda Shah passes away

By A Staff Reporter,Kathmandu, Jan. 3: The first female ambassador of Nepal, Binda S. Shah died at the age of 92 at her home in Kalimati, Kathmandu, on Thursday.

Known by the name 'Bindeshwari Shah', she served as the first woman envoy of Nepal to India for about three years from April 1, 1988. 

Since she was appointed as the ambassador by the King during the Panchayat regime, Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala recalled her after the restoration of democracy in 1990. 

She was born in 1933 in Kurseong, India. Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Arzu Rana Deuba, reached the residence of late Shah to pay her a tribute. She expressed her condolences upon the demise of Shah.