Shah is better known to Nepal’s music-lovers by his stage name, Balen. | Credit: Prakash Mathema / AFP / Although he's still only 35, Balendra Shah has already lived many different lives, said Hannah ...

BTS. Alex Isley. Dubstep-infused hyperpop from underscores. NPR Music's Hazel Cills chats with Francesca Harding of member station KCRW in Los Angeles about their favorite albums out Friday, March 20.

Kathmandu, March 16 -- As the vote count of the March 5 House of Representatives elections concludes, Nepal is at what many call a 'turning point' in its political history. The Rastriya Swatantra ...

Nepal, March 15 -- I prefer to use the term prologue to describe the March 5 elections and their results because it heralds a ...

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

The March 5 election was tNepal's first vote since demonstrations against corruption last September led by Gen Z protesters that toppled the government.

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. The ...

The landslide victory of a young ex-mayor and rapper brings actual hope of change to a country that’s been mired in stasis ...

Netflix released the One Piece season 2 soundtrack titled ’Into the Grand Line’ on March 10, 2026. The album features 85 tracks composed by Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli.

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.

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

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