Rastriya Swatantra Party election candidate Balendra Shah arrives at a polling station to vote during Nepal's parliamentary election in Kathmandu on March 5, 2026. Reporter In the wake of the Gen Z ...

Shah's party represents a reformist wave reshaping the Himalayan nation's politics since last year’s youth-led uprising.

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

Balendra Shah emerged as a leading figure in the youth-driven protests that shook Nepal last year. The hip-hop star could soon be leading the country as its youngest prime minister after dramatic ...

Once known for protest rap against corruption and inequality, Balen Shah now finds himself leading the very system he once ...

According to official data from the Electoral Commission, as of Sunday morning, the emerging party has already secured 106 out of the 165 directly elected seats and is leading in the counting of ...

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.

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.

Balendra Shah 'Balen', the rapper-turned-politician who won Kathmandu's 2022 mayoral polls as an independent, has become the face of a generational change, symbolising a break from Nepal's traditional ...

The Gen Z youth, through their two-day intensified protests on September 8 and 9 last year, ousted Prime Minister KP Sharma ...

Sedaka, who died last week at 86, wrote and recorded hits in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s – songs like “Calendar Girl” and “Breaking up is Hard to Do.” He was nine years old when he began studying ...