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 ...

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

Veteran playback singer Kumar Sanu says the enduring love for the iconic 1990 song Jab Koi Baat Bigad Jaye from the film \"Jurm\" continues to warm his .

Balendra Shah, Nepal’s prime minister and former rapper, rose to power after youth protests and a landslide election victory.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Nepali political party led by an ex-rapper is set for a landslide victory in the country’s first parliamentary election since Gen Z protests ousted the old leadership that ...

Last year, the people of New York elected a new mayor in democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, an ex-rapper who once sent Stereogum his music. Mamdani is not the only rapper to become a governmental ...

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

Who is Balendra Shah? The 35-year-old rap star set to be Nepal’s youngest PM - Balendra Shah emerged as a leading figure in the youth-driven protests that shook Nepal last year. The hip-hop star could ...

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 ...

Five months on, the musician who cut his political teeth in 2022 when ​he became the mayor of the capital Kathmandu, is poised to become Nepal’s next prime minister following the country’s first ...

Balen Shah, a former rap sensation and current Mayor of Kathmandu, is running to become Nepal's next Prime Minister following ...