Former PM KP Sharma Oli, who once gifted Kathmandu Mayor Balendra Shah a tabla, congratulated him on his recent electoral victory. Their relationship, initially cordial, soured significantly, culminating in a bitter election contest where Shah defeated Oli by a wide margin,

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

A name that is increasingly echoing through Nepal's political corridors is Balen Shah, the rapper-turned-politician who has risen rapidly in the country's political landscape and is now being seen as a potential future Prime Minister.

IT IS AN arduous trip from Kathmandu, which sits in an expansive valley in the lap of the Himalayas, to Jhapa, a district in the south-eastern lowlands of Nepal. Even on a good day the 430km distance takes well over ten hours to cover by car. On a bad day ...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi held high-level telephonic discussions on Monday with the leadership of Nepal’s Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), congratulating Chairman Rabi Lamichhane and senior leader Balendra Shah on their decisive victory in the nation’s general elections.

KATHMANDU, March 7 (Reuters) - The campaign that swept aside Nepal's established political heavyweights and brought 35-year-old rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah to the cusp of power emerged out of the top floors of a six-story building in west Kathmandu.

Exclusive interview with Nepal's outgoing Minister for Forest and Environment, Mr. Madhav Chaulagain, on the dramatic political changes following the Gen Z protests and September 2025 riots that ousted KP Sharma Oli.