2009

Reverend Mother Satyaparami Gurumahn passed away

Reverend Mother Satyaparami Gurumahn, head of Panauti’s famed Kashivarna Buddha vihar passed away on 26 March at his son Sagar Man Bajracharya’s residence in Dallu, Kathmandu. Gurumahn who was on medication for her kidney malfucntion has been treated at several hospital including National Kidney Center and her son has attended to her for a long […]

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Naresh elected New President of Newah Dey Daboo

Dhankuta – The 5th national convention of Newah Dey Daboo, Nepal’s national Forum of Newah community held here last Monday elected Naresh Tamrakar to lead the Forum until the next convention. The convention first ever held outside Kathmandu of Nepal Mandala, was declared open by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda”. Naresh Tamrakar, a former

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Khas language alone not Nepali – Memorandum to Nepal’s premier against the unfair language policy

A delegation of Nepal’s native language advocacy group told Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” that referring to KHAS language alone as NEPALI was not fair. The delegation led by Prof. Prem Shanti Tuladhar, the head of Nepal Bhasa Dept of Tribhuwan University, told so in a 17 point demand memorandum handed over to the

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Nepal Script Unicode Project – Update

Update Announcement As we have announced Universal Encoding of Nepal scripts last year, we are pleased to inform you that finally, necessary initiatives have been taken to encode Prachalit and Ranjana while two Unicode fonts are being nearly completed. The Newah is happy to announce that it will be launching its website and release the

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How to use Nepal Era calendar in scientific way?

Kathmandu, Nepal Mandala – At a time most of us are finding perplexed how to use the recently nationally reinstated Nepal Era calendar, as many of us have got used to the Indian calendar of Vikram Era so far, two noted computer engineers from Kathmandu have developed the concept of scientific counting of days of

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Nepal Script 1 – Tenth Year of International Day of Mother Language – Time to reinstate Nepal’s own script to its former glory

(Scroll down to read Nepal Script 1 (Prachalit Lipi Lesson 1) Kathmandu, Nepal Mandala – Today marks the 10th year of the “International Day of Mother Languages” declared by the UNESCO in 1999 in order to preserve and promote mother languages of indigenous and ethnic communities in the world. In May 2007, The UN body

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Fall of the Newah Kingdoms – Some Excerpts from a German Account of Hidden History of Nepal

Hamburg, Germany – An account by Austrian journalist, Dr. Hans Georg Behr in his book titled “Nepal Geschenk der Götter (Nepal Gifts of the Gods)” written in German reveals an unknown part of our history how the Newah Kingdoms fallen giving rise to Gurkhas. The account by Dr. Behr, who was born in Vienna, Austria

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Time to come forward to contribute to preserve and promote our culture

Hon. Dr. Padma Ratna Tuladhar appealed to Newah brothers and sisters at home and abroad that it is time to come forward to contribute to preserve and promote our culture on our own. He said this at the felicitation programme held in his honour in Tokyo last month. “To the outside world, we are known

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Landmark WTC on wrong land – Reflects misuse of land overtaken

Yen (Kathmandu) – Nepal’s landmark World Trade Center building at Trripureswor in Kathmandu reflects the misusage of lands of local Newah community taken over by the government in the past. The WTC building stands on a land owned by Tribhuwan Universirsity had been taken over by the government for the purpose of building the TU,

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