{"id":102057,"date":"2026-09-25T13:03:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T07:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/?p=102057"},"modified":"2026-09-25T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T07:20:07","slug":"balens-goggles-made-headlines-in-the-new-york-times-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/102057","title":{"rendered":"Balen&#8217;s goggles made headlines in The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The American newspaper The New York Times has published a special article about the black glasses of Nepal&#8217;s Prime Minister Balendra Shah. <\/p>\n<p>In an article headlined &#8220;Why Nepal&#8217;s leaders wore black glasses to the United Nations General Assembly?&#8221; published on September 24, the New York Times stated that Balen did not take off his glasses when he addressed the UN General Assembly. <\/p>\n<p>According to the report, black glasses have been a part of his public attire since he was active as a rapper and now as the Prime Minister of Kathmandu. <\/p>\n<p>According to the New York Times, Balen&#8217;s glasses have become an important hallmark of his public image and are being sold in Nepal following his style. <\/p>\n<p>According to his office, the prime minister wears spectacles to protect his eyes from bright light as per the advice of doctors. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The American newspaper The New York Times has published a special article about the black glasses of Nepal&#8217;s Prime Minister Balendra Shah. In an article headlined &#8220;Why Nepal&#8217;s leaders wore black glasses to the United Nations General Assembly?&#8221; published on September 24, the New York Times stated that Balen did not take off his<a href=\"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/102057\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Balen&#8217;s goggles made headlines in The New York Times&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":102050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"acf":[],"publishedDateNp":"\u096f \u0906\u0936\u094d\u0935\u093f\u0928 \u0968\u0966\u096e\u0969, \u0936\u0941\u0915\u094d\u0930\u092c\u093e\u0930 \u0967\u0969:\u0966\u0969","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102058,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102057\/revisions\/102058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/102050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}