Pretty much every headline that has heralded Nepal’s new prime minister, Balendra Shah, has referred to him as a ...

Nepal's Balen is the latest in a long line of musicians who've swapped the recording studio for the campaign trail ...

Balendra Shah, an ex-rapper, has made headlines by winning the chief executive position in Nepal, highlighting the country's ...

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

Before he dismantled Nepal’s political elite, Balendra Shah was destroying his opponents in underground rap battles.

The election — the country’s first since last year’s youth-led revolt — was won by the Rastriya Swatantra Party, or RSP, of ...

A three-year-old party won Nepal's general elections by a landslide, authorities said, positioning its candidate Balendra ...

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 ...

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.