Mumbai : Long before he was campaigning across Nepal, Balendra Shah (popularly called Balen) was a battle rapper, trading insults and one-liners with rival MCs. In battle rap, the rules are simple: ...

Analysts describe Shah’s party’s decisive win as a redefinition Nepalese politics apart from a change in leadership. Trending Photos Kathmandu: Nepal witnessed a political transition as Balen Shah and ...

Nepal’s political establishment has been shaken by a stunning election result. Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah, widely known as Balen, has secured a landslide victory after youth-led protests ...

Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) wins 125 of 165 seats in Nepal's parliamentary elections, enabling a majority government formation. RSP chief Rabi Lamichhane aims to strengthen Nepal-India ties through ...

Nobody told her to do this. Multiply this actual family scene by hundreds of thousands of households across Nepal and you find the reason for the RSP tsunami. Children ringing bells at parents over ...

Amidst the euphoria in Nepal about the RSP’s landslide victory, the party’s future government, possibly led by Balendra Shah will plunge headlong into an energy and economic c ...

Leading up to the Polls, the consensus among political analysts suggested another hung Parliament. The complex mixed electoral system of Nepal, which combines first-past-the-post seats with a ...

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

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 ...

Voters in Nepal have handed a landslide victory to the recently formed Rastriya Swatantra (RSP), or National Independent ...

In Nepal, 35-year-old former rapper Balendra Shah is set to become the country’s next prime minister after his party secured a landslide victory in parliamentary elections. It’s the first election ...

A Nepali political party led by an ex-rapper is set for a landslide victory in the country’s first parliamentary election ...