In 2022, Balen Shah delivered one of the biggest political upsets in Nepal's recent history. Running as an independent candidate, the structural engineer-turned-rapper defeated nominees from the ...

Last year, discontent over corruption sparked a violent agitation that collapsed the government and threw Nepal into ...

Balen – as he is popularly known – was a nobody until 2013, when he almost overnight became a rap sensation. Nearly a decade ...

Balendra Shah, aka Balen, is a 35-year-old rapper and mayor of Kathmandu now hoping to take his brand of populism to the highest office in Nepal.

British rapper Ghetts has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing a 20-year-old Nepali student in a hit-and-run in London last year ...

LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) - British rapper Ghetts was jailed for 12 years on Tuesday for killing a Nepali student in a ...

Among the candidates vying to become Nepal’s next prime minister in a crucial election Thursday, few have generated the buzz ...

Supporters of 35-year-old rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah screamed out lyrics to an AI-generated campaign song which ...

On March 5, at least 60 percent of around 19 million eligible voters are expected to cast their ballots. Of the voters, 52 ...

The election on March 5 will see nearly 19 million voters exercise their franchise to fill all 275 seats in the House of Representatives ...

The rapper-turned-politician - better known as Balen - dominating Nepal's electoral race was surrounded by supporters in the country's east last week, ahead of a March 5 election that could be pivotal ...