2008

VIEWS The first budget of Maoist led government presented by newly appointed Finance Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai and its decision to curtail funding for age-old Newah traditional festivals such as Indrajatra (Rain-god) festival in Kathmandu sparked off four day long continued street demonstration from Last Friday and subsequent protest launched by Newah organizations including the […]

NEWS-IN-BRIEF The Newah Jagaran Manch, an active forum of all political and non-political parties in Nepal formed to awaken Newah community at the changed political environment, has opened its first foreign branch in Tokyo last Satday the 13th September. The branch meeting attended by representatives of businessmen, employees, students and academics of Newah community resident

म्हीगया मंगलवाः कुन्हु, येँया नेपाल एकडमी हःले जूगु Miss Little Newah 2008 प्रतियोगिताय् कृपा मुनिकार (दथुई) सफल जुसे, थुगुसियाम्ह मिस् लिटल् नेवाः जूगु दु। प्रतियोगिताय् त्याये धुंका फस्ट् रनरअप व सेकन्ड रनरअप (खवे व जवे) नानिपिँ नापँ। किपा सुभाय् – nepalnews.com/NPA. झी नानिपिनिगु थ्व प्रतियोगिताया बारे, प्रतियोगिताय् ब्वतिकापिँ नानिपनिगु बारे छिसँ स्यूगु खँ दुसा, झीतः

News UML’s nominated leader in the Maoist led government, Bamdev Gautam (taking oath as Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, today) presided over an interaction programme on Sherpa autonomous region and Himalayan autonomous region organized in the capital by Nepal Loktantrik Sherpa Association yesterday. Among those opined on the subject of the need of creating

Views by Binod Saymi (Ala), Florida, USA Summary Many Newahs, as naturally as any one else living inside any capital of a country, boast of their habitation in and suburbs of Nepal’s capital city of Kathmandu inside the Nepal Mandala area where several Newah states existed before Prithvi Narayan Shah of Gorkha invaded and his

A special show of Bhintuna, a Nepal Bhasa comedy film subtitled in English－awarded “Critics, The Best film Award” in the Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival ’08－will be screened at Russian Culture Centre, Kamal Pukhu, Kathmandu this Saturday (23 Aug.2008) at 10:30 am, 12:30 pm & 2:30 pm. As seats are limited, the organisers request us

Nepal’s great comedian, Rajaram Poudyal will be in Maryland to perform in an evening presented by Team 8848 on September 07 (Sunday) at St. Joseph Parish, 8420, Belair Road, MD, 21236. The bound-to-be-hilarious evening will be joined by our multi-nationality artists – Prem Raja Mahat, Ratan Subedi, Rachana Singh, Rabi Lamichhane, Narayan Tripathi, Sreejan Tamrakar

Newah Forum Leader analyses the unattended Nepali indigenous problem The Ambassador stresses the need to address the problem in advance News in brief Presenting a paper on “Indigenous people’s rights” at the World Indigenous Peoples’ day gathering in Tokyo on Saturday, the chief guest speaker, former MP, Human rights activist and Newah National Forum President