Anti-corruption promise meets deep structural challenges at home and abroad In a political earthquake that has stunned South Asia, 35-year-old former Kathmandu mayor Balendra Shah — popularly known as ...

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 ...

Nepal aims to quadruple hydropower supplies to neighboring India, helping New Delhi meet its growing electricity needs as the war in the Middle East complicates resource planning. The Himalayan nation ...

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?

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 ...

In the noisy, crowded landscape of Nepali politics, the meteoric rise of Prime Minister-designate Balendra Shah and his party, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), represents a rare political anomaly.

For more than a century, scholars and policymakers have debated whether democracy and communism can coexist. Capitalism and communism clearly can: Modern China provides the most vivid example of ...

Nepal has always been more than a neighbour to India. It has been a shoulder along our northern edge — one where no threat was perceived, whose people mingled freely with ours, whose temples we prayed ...

NEW DELHI: The 35-year-old mayor of Kathmandu is set to become Nepal’s youngest elected prime minister, just six months after his predecessor was ousted following Gen Z protests against nepotism, ...

- Returns and halted migration threaten remittances that make up over a quarter of Nepal’s GDP - Fuel shortages and rising prices are adding pressure on households back home - ‘He had promised us he ...

The 35-year-old reformist came to power following a wave of Gen Z-led protests that sent shockwaves through the country. Shah released a rap song the day ahead of his swearing in. Nepal's ...

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 ...