Nepal’s new Rastriya Swatantra Party is heading for a landslide win in the country’s first parliamentary election since youth protests toppled the old leadership last year ...

The election — the country's first since last year's youth-led revolt — was won by the Rastriya Swatantra Party of rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah.

Balendra Shah’s party won a landslide in the election that followed Nepal’s Gen Z revolution. His style is pugnacious.

Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah’s party gained leads in early counting in Nepal’s general election, far outpacing his other rivals, including the country’s former ​prime minister who was forced ...

Before he dismantled Nepal’s political elite, Balendra Shah was destroying his opponents in underground rap battles. More than a decade ago, armed with a microphone and his signature sunglasses, he ...

Preliminary and partial results show that a new political party led by an ex-rapper is leading Nepal’s parliamentary election ...

A youth-led uprising brought Nepal’s government down last year. Now, a 35-year-old politician demanding change is set to become prime minister.

The March 5 election was tNepal's first vote since demonstrations against corruption last September led by Gen Z protesters that toppled the government.

Balendra Shah, known as Balen, wins Nepal's parliamentary elections at age 35, defeating former prime minister K. P. Sharma Oli in a youth-led political upheaval.

It is rare for the three big competing powers — India, China and the United States — to converge on their Nepal policy. Yet following the September 2025 Gen Z uprising that led to the ouster of the ...

Nepali candidates launched campaigning on Monday (February 16, 2026) for next month's parliamentary elections, the first since deadly anti-corruption protests toppled the previous government in 2025.

Nepal’s Lumbini has long anchored the Buddhist pilgrimage map as the Buddha’s birthplace. Nearby, however, stand the fortified ruins of Tilaurakot – believed to be the ancient capital where Siddhartha ...