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Nepal's Balen is the latest in a long line of musicians who've swapped the recording studio for the campaign trail ...

Balen Shah's party won Nepal's historic election, making the rapper-turned-politician the country's next prime minister.

Kathmandu, March 14 -- minute multilingual poetry-musical titled 'Apwoh Misa: Marching On' will be staged at Shilpee Theatre ...

The election — the country’s first since last year’s youth-led revolt — was won by the Rastriya Swatantra Party of rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah.

Balendra Shah, known as Balen, wins Nepal's parliamentary elections at age 35, defeating former prime minister K. P. Sharma Oli in a youth-led political upheaval.

The 35-year-old rapper-turned-politician is set to become the South Asian nation’s next Prime Minister, after Gen Z protests rocked the political establishment last year ...

Thursday's general election was the first since violent youth-led protests toppled the government in September.

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

Balendra Shah emerged as a leading figure in the youth-driven protests that shook Nepal last year. The hip-hop star could soon be leading the country as its youngest prime minister after dramatic ...

Once dismissed as a political novice, the former Kathmandu mayor is now on track to become Nepal’s next prime minister.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Nepali political party led by an ex-rapper is set for a landslide victory in the country’s first parliamentary election since Gen Z protests ousted the old leadership that ...