Shah’s Rastriya Swatantra party secures thumping victory in first poll since gen Z protests that toppled government Balendra Shah, the rapper turned politician and popular figurehead of a gen Z ...

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

Amit Shah is the Union home minister of the current government. A close associate of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah was the party president before JP Nadda. Born on October 22 in 1964, Amit ...

Nepal’s centrist Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) of 35-year-old rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah has secured a majority in the direct parliamentary elections and is heading for a landslide, ...

A 35-year-old rapper and engineer who entered politics just four years ago has beaten a former prime minister in Nepal’s crucial parliamentary election, in a contest widely seen as a referendum on a ...

Ray Takeyh is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of “The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty.” They both ruled Iran for 37 years. They both ...

They both ruled Iran for 37 years. They both sought to refashion society in their own idealized images. They both believed that only rulers unencumbered by a prying public could do great things. They ...

As Iran navigates war, sanctions and domestic unrest, an old political spectre has resurfaced -- the Pahlavi dynasty. Across parts of the Iranian diaspora and in pockets of protest discourse, the name ...

Inside the Nepal Campaign That Could Vault Balendra Shah to Power KATHMANDU, March 7 (Reuters) - The campaign that swept aside Nepal's established political heavyweights and brought 35-year-old rapper ...

Balendra Shah trained as a civil engineer but first gained national attention through Nepal's underground hip-hop scene. In a political shock in 2022, he became the first independent candidate elected ...

The politician was 18 when she and her mum were hauled off to a police station for the killing of the man she’d considered an uncle. What happened next would shape her future. She talks Labour’s woes, ...

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