Rastriya Swatantra Party election candidate Balendra Shah arrives at a polling station to vote during Nepal's parliamentary election in Kathmandu on March 5, 2026. Reporter In the wake of the Gen Z ...

UNCOMMON SENSE: Bibeksheel Nepali founder Ujwal Thapa with Ranju Darshana (now Neupane and elected from Kathmandu-1) at a public event in 2018 (left) and with Biraj Bhakta Shrestha, who was electied ...

KATHMANDU, March 12 (Reuters) - Nepal will begin rationing cooking gas amid fears that the Middle East conflict could create a nationwide shortage, ‌an official said on Thursday. Chandika Prasad ...

Kathmandu (Nepal) (AFP) – Draped in garlands, Bhumika Shrestha on Monday became Nepal's first transgender woman lawmaker, marking a proud milestone for the marginalised community in the Himalayan ...

Balendra Shah’s party won a landslide in the election that followed Nepal’s Gen Z revolution. His style is pugnacious. By Hannah BeechBinod Ghimire and Sajal Pradhan Reporting from Kathmandu, Nepal In ...

A 35-year-old rapper turned mayor, Balendra Shah, popularly known as Balen, looks set to become Nepal’s youngest-ever prime minister. His party, Rastriya Swatantra, or RSP, secured a landslide victory ...

No single political party since the 1991 elections has secured a two-thirds majority in the lower house As counting of votes concluded in 163 electoral constituencies out of 165 under the ...

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 ...

A political party led by a rapper-turned-politician has won a sweeping parliamentary majority in Nepal, official results show, capping one of the most dramatic elections in the country’s recent ...

NEW DELHI: The 35-year-old mayor of Kathmandu is set to become Nepal’s youngest elected prime minister, just six months after his predecessor was ousted following Gen Z protests against nepotism, ...

Nepal’s incoming government has signalled it will pursue a more pragmatic foreign policy centred on national interests, as the newly victorious Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) seeks to recalibrate ...

As I have noted in many prior articles, despite the wave of Gen Z protests that have swept through Asia in recent years and carried over to other parts of the globe (from Togo to Madagascar to the ...