Thousands of people poured into the streets of Damak in eastern Nepal’s Jhapa district on the evening of March 7, running ...

Balen Shah's party won Nepal's historic election, making the rapper-turned-politician the country's next prime minister.

In the opening act of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Duke Orsino famously muses, "If music be the food of love, play on." It is ...

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.

The landslide victory of a young ex-mayor and rapper brings actual hope of change to a country that’s been mired in stasis ...

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.

The 35-year-old rapper-turned-politician is set to become the South Asian nation’s next Prime Minister, after Gen Z protests rocked the political establishment last year ...

The RSP's 2026 campaign is a case study in how a symbol becomes so participatory and instinctive, that citizens start campaigning on behalf of a party they never formally joined. It may look like a ...

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

Once dismissed as a political novice, the former Kathmandu mayor is now on track to become Nepal’s next prime minister.

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 ...