Former Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and ex-home minister Ramesh Lekhak were arrested on Saturday in connection with a culpable homicide case linked to the alleged suppression of the September ...

Former Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has been arrested over his alleged involvement in last year's deadly Gen Z protests - a day after Balendra Shah took oath as the new premier. Oli was taken ...

Balendra Shah on Friday took oath as Nepal’s youngest Prime Minister. He assumed the office under Article 76(1) of the Constitution as the parliamentary party leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party ...

Nepal’s youngest prime minister Balenra Shah takes oath of office months after a GenZ-led uprising toppled the previous KP Sharma Oli-led government. Balendra "Balen' Shah is a rapper, engineer and ...

Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah-- popularly known as Balen--has taken the oath as Nepal's prime minister after sweeping the first election since deadly anti-corruption protests toppled the ...

Balendra Shah, Nepal’s youngest prime minister, has been sworn in after his party’s landslide election victory following protests led by young people that toppled the government in September. A rapper ...

Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah is leading Nepal's government, taking office with a youth-led mandate for change. But how will the political newcomer deal with Nepal's tricky geopolitics?

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 ...

Nepal is scheduled to hold snap elections on March 5, 2026, to elect members of the House of Representatives—the lower house of parliament —which will culminate in a new administration and a new Prime ...

In recent years, Nepal has been heralded as a global leader in community-based forest conservation. By handing over nearly a third of its nationally owned forest to local villagers in the 1980s, the ...

On the morning of September 6th, a black S.U.V. carrying a provincial minister from Nepal’s ruling party ran over an eleven-year-old girl, Usha Magar Sunuwar, outside her school in the city of ...

The son of Nepal’s richest tycoon said last week’s protesters had valid grievances, days after young demonstrators helped topple the Himalayan nation’s government. “The youth are not seeing the ...