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Talks underway on Agnipath scheme between India and Nepal, says envoy
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 31 (ANI): Nepal's ambassador to India Shankar Prasad Sharma on Wednesday said talks are underway between India and Nepal over the recruitment process of Gorkhas under India's Agnipath scheme.
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Indian Army cautions against fake messages about recruitment of Gurkha sol
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 26 (ANI): The Indian Army on Friday said fake messages were circulating on social media on the issue of recruitment of Gorkhas from Nepal and cautioned citizens against falling for rumours.
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Civic group in Nepal protests against China's illegal fencing at no-man's
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], June 27 (ANI): A civic group, Rastriya Ekata Abhiyan has staged a protest against China for expanding the wire fence within no-man's land in Gorkha and encroaching into Nepali territory in the north.
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Nepal: Record-setting female climbers vow to continue scaling heights
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], May 30 (ANI): Photojournalist by profession turned mountaineer Purnima Shrestha from Gorkha, Nepal became the first in her profession to climb six mountains above 8,000 metres high in the Himalayan nation.
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Bimal Gurung to sit on indefinite hunger strike today against GTA polls, o
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Darjeeling (West Bengal) [India], May 25 (ANI): Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) president Bimal Gurung will sit on an indefinite hunger strike from Wednesday against the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) elections and other issues.
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CM Himanta Biswa Sarma attends 27th Triennial Adhiveshan of Assam Gorkha S
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Dispur (Assam) [India], May 18 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday attended the 27th Triennial Kendriya Adhiveshan of Assam Gorkha Sammelan held at Nikashi in Baksa district.
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The day people find alternative, BJP will be ousted from power: Mamata Ban
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], March 8 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee gave a clarion call to the Opposition to get united against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the 2024 Lok Sabha election and asserted that the day the people will find a
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Paralympian Sharad Kumar visits National War Memorial, reminisces bravery
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 28 (ANI): Paralympics bronze-medallist high jumper Sharad Kumar on Friday visited the National War Memorial to pay tribute to Param Vir Chakra recipient Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria.
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Chinese social media filled with uncontrolled fake news about Nepal
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], January 27 (ANI): A news article at weibo.com, China's own social media, has wrongly portrayed the five-year-long 'Sino-Gorkha war' about the trade dispute as an invasion of the Chinese Qing dynasty into the Kathmandu valley in 1792.
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Reconstruction drive transforms lives of rural Nepali women hit by earthqu
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Gorkha [Nepal], January 6 (ANI): The devastating earthquake of 2015 with its epicentre in the mountainous Gorkha district shook the Himalayan Nation of Nepal, claiming nearly 10,000 lives, injuring thousands and displacing over half a million people.
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Nepal tight-lipped over Chinese encroachment of its territory in border ar
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], January 3 (ANI): Kathmandu remains silent over China's expansionist designs in the Himalayan nation as several media reports indicate illegal encroachments by Beijing in bordering districts including Humla, Gorkha, Darchula, Dolakha and Sindhupalchowk.
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Reconstruction drive in Nepal's Gorkha district provide residence to vulne
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], December 22 (ANI): Under the assistance of the Indian Government, Nepal has been providing residence to the people of Gorkha and Nuwakot districts who have been hit by the 2015 earthquake.
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