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Nepal's first president is sworn in

Updated on Jul 24, 2008 07:48 pm IST

Amid political limbo over government formation, Indian-origin Madhesi leader Ram Baran Yadav was sworn-in as the first President of Nepal, three days after his victory in a historic poll for the coveted post. Ram Baran Yadav took his oath in Nepal's new constitutional assembly, which had voted on May 28 to sack unpopular king Gyanendra.

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