K. P. Sharma Oli

New Prime Minister Shah will oversee ​his ministry

Nepali Prime Minister Balendra Shah on Thursday sacked Deepak Kumar Sah, Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security, on disciplinary charges upon recommendation from his party

The government has outlined structural changes at all levels of education, from prohibiting political influence in institutions to relaxing admissions requirements and lowering exam pressure

Former PM Oli remanded in judicial custody for 5 days as protests continue across Nepal

President Ram Chandra Paudel appointed Shah as PM of Nepal on Friday

Nepal's youngest prime minister took the oath of office Friday after his party won a landslide victory in elections earlier this month and following a youth-led uprising that toppled the previous government in September

The report is proposing prison sentences of up to 10 years for K.P. Sharma Oli and other top government officials

Shah, popular as 'Balen,' who was projected by the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) as the prime ministerial candidate during the campaign ahead of the March 5 general election, will also be the first person from the Madhes region to hold the top executive post in the country

Anti-corruption promise meets deep structural challenges at home and abroad

Nepal's rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah grinned and flashed a V-for-victory sign on March 7 as Election Commission officials confirmed he had beaten veteran leader KP Sharma Oli in their parliamentary constituency

Nepal has once again displayed democratic vibrancy with a generational change sweeping its politics in the recently concluded polls

Balendra Shah's RSP party is set for a landslide election win after Gen Z-led protests toppled the previous government

Celebrations erupted across Kathmandu after Balendra Shah’s Rastriya Swatantra Party claimed a sweeping lead in the Nepal General Election 2026

A total of 76 people were killed during the two day protest — 22 youths on September 8 while 54 others on the next day

After Nepal’s historic youth-led uprising last September killed 77 people and forced then prime minister KP Sharma Oli to resign, a 35-year-old rapper-turned-politician posted a typically terse message to millions of followers on ‌social media

Nepal’s young people overthrew their government last year

Security forces patrolled streets and guarded polling stations across the Himalayan nation of about 30 million people as voters lined up to cast their ballots

Nepal took to the polls on Thursday in the first general election since a Gen Z-led uprising in September last year forced then-prime minister KP Sharma Oli to resign

Nepal on Thursday held its first election since a youth-led uprising against corruption toppled the government last year

Nepal is gearing up for elections on March 5 to elect its new government, after six months under an interim government

Shah is now taking on the four-time ‌prime minister on the latter's home turf, the Jhapa district from ​where 74-year-old Oli has won six times during his long political career

From communist strongmen Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal to the centrist Sher Bahadur Deuba, the trio of leaders strategically took turns to guard the position

Oli, leader of the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), hopes to regain control of parliament in the March 5 elections

The general elections in Nepal were necessitated after Oli resigned as prime minister on September 9, following violent protests by the youth-led Gen Z group

Gagan Thapa, 49, was elected the president of Nepali Congress (NC) last week

Thousands of people gather and hold Bangladesh’s flag after the funeral ceremony of Sharif Osman Hadi, a student leader, in Dhaka

Cricket drama underscores the depth of the crisis, but Dhaka’s upcoming election offers a shot at a reset

Oli had previously said he would not appear before the commission, accusing it of lacking a “constitutional basis”