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

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 ...

Nepal’s election commission says a four-year-old party led by an ex-rapper has swept the first election since a youth-led revolt.

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 ...

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

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Nepali political party led by an ex-rapper is set for a landslide victory in the country’s first ...

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

In 2023, the RSP contested by-elections and Lamichhane was re-elected from Chitwan2. Nepal is all set for the March 5 general election to its 275‑seat House of Representatives. It is the country's ...

Balendra Shah, former mayor of Kathmandu and prime ministerial candidate of the Rastriya Swatantra Party, casts his vote during parliamentary elections. (EPA Images pic) Nearly six months after a wave ...

The small Himalayan nation of Nepal is heading to polls this week, almost six months after a violent Gen Z-led protest brought the government to its knees and forced prime minister KP Sharma Oli to ...

KATHMANDU – Nepal votes in a general election on March 5, its first since deadly youth-led anti-graft protests toppled the government of then-Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli in September. Here is a ...