Nepal's rapper-turned-mayor Balendra Shah won a dramatic parliamentary contest on Saturday, defeating veteran leader KP Sharma Oli in the former prime minister's own constituency after staking his ...

Nepal elections 2026: Updates to this live blog have closed. Nepal election LIVE: Amid the RSP and Balendra Shah victory, the Nepal Election Commission continues to count the votes of the general ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Balendra Shah, a rapper-turned-politician and the prime ministerial candidate for the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), rings a bell ...

A 35-year-old former mayor who first came to prominence as a rapper will become Nepal’s next and youngest-ever prime minister after his supporters triggered an electoral landslide and vanquished the ...

Rapper-turned-PM Balendra Shah arrests ex-prime minister Khadga Prasad Oli over deaths during Nepal’s protest crackdown. Balen Shah just made history by becoming the first rapper-turned-politician to ...

Supporters of Rastriya Swatantra Party celebrate the victory of Ranju Darshana, a candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah was sworn in as prime minister of Nepal on Friday, tasked with restoring political stability and creating jobs in the poor Himalayan nation ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — A political party created just four years ago and led by an ex-rapper has swept Nepal’s parliamentary poll, results published by the electoral commission on Thursday showed.

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Preliminary and partial results released Saturday showed a new political party led by an ex-rapper is in front in Nepal's parliamentary election, the country's first since last year ...