Nepal General Election 2026 LIVE updates: Nepal is voting today. This is the first general election in the Himalayan nation ...

How Balen Shah Is Rewriting Nepal’s Political Playbook in the 2026 Election. Kathmandu, 5 March : Nepal went to the polls on March 5, 2026, in what ...

Key contenders include a Marxist former prime minister seeking a return to power, a rapper-turned-mayor appealing to younger voters, and the newly elected leader of the influential Nepali Congress ...

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 ...

British rapper Ghetts has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing a 20-year-old Nepali student in a London hit-and-run last year. Ghetts, whose real name is Justin Clarke-Samuel, was ...

In Nepal’s first election since the Gen Z protest, Balen Shah —the rapper‑turned‑Mayor of Kathmandu— is aiming to be the ...

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

Among the candidates vying to become Nepal's next prime minister in a crucial election Thursday, few have generated the buzz of a Millennial former rapper who has shaken up the Himalayan country's ...

Nepal, a country that has swung between monarchy and democracy before settling, for now, as a federal republic, is once again ...

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.

Nepali politicians have called on people to ensure a successful voting day on Thursday in the nation's first general election since deadly youth-led protests toppled the government last September.