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 ...

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 ...

Nepal’s anti-graft watchdog said the state-owned Chinese firm and Nepali officials colluded to inflate the costs of an international airport in Pokhara. By Binod Ghimire and Daisuke Wakabayashi ...

A month after September’s GenZ movement in Nepal, nurses working in private hospitals took to the streets demanding better work conditions, and salaries equal to what government nurses are paid. The ...

Landslides, a lightning strike and floodings triggered by severe rainfall killed at least 44 people in Nepal on Sunday, with five others reported missing, authorities said. Those killed included at ...

Kunda Dixit, one of Nepal’s top journalists, talks about the stunning turn of events in the South Asian nation and how its society reached the boiling point. People celebrate and take pictures after ...

The next time someone tells you the youth aren’t engaged enough in politics, just point them to Nepal. According to multiple reports, the youth of the South Asian nation managed to oust the existing ...

Former structural engineer backed by Gen Z for interim role Balendra Shah, also a former rapper, has supported protesters Protests that killed 19 prompted PM’s resignation Shah called former PM a ...

As the sun was setting, hundreds of North Texans — many clad in black — gathered with candles and posters in their hands and solidarity in their hearts. The vigil was hosted at the Nepali Cultural and ...

Kathmandu — Nepal's Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli announced his resignation on Tuesday as the country was rocked by a second day of violent unrest that began as protests against a since-repealed ban on ...

Demonstrators in Kathmandu attacked the homes of political leaders they held responsible for the deaths of at least 19 protesters in clashes with security forces a day earlier. Photo: Amit ...